· restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."

Synonym(s): interpret, render

Hypernym(s): repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell

· change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"

Synonym(s): transform

Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify

· make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

Synonym(s): understand, read, interpret

Hypernym(s): understand

· bring to a certain spiritual state

Hypernym(s): transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise

· change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation

Hypernym(s): move, displace

· be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

Hypernym(s): equal, be

· be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

Hypernym(s): be

· subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body

Hypernym(s): move, displace

· express, as in simple and less technical language; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"

Hypernym(s): paraphrase, rephrase, reword

· determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Hypernym(s): determine, find, find_out, ascertain