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UK [trænsˈleɪt] / US verb
Word forms "translate":
present tense I/you/we/they translate he/she/it translates present participle translating past tense translated past participle translated
1) [intransitive/transitive] to change spoken or written words into another language

I don't speak Russian, so someone will have to translate.

translate something into something:

The Bible has been translated into more than 100 languages.

a) [intransitive] to be changed into a different language, or to be capable of being understood in a different language

Poetry doesn't always translate well.

something translates as something:

"Merci" in French translates as "thank you" in English.

b) [transitive] computing to change information in one computer program or language into a form that can be used by a different program or language

The software can translate files from most other word processing programs.

2) [intransitive] to cause a particular situation or result
translate into/to:

Recent economic problems are beginning to translate into a demand for reforms.

3) [intransitive/transitive] to change something into a different form, or to express something in a different way

These earnings, translated into pounds, represent half of our total profits.

an attempt to translate Marxist ideas into practice

4) [intransitive/transitive] if an idea or method translates, or if you translate it to a different situation, it is used in a different situation

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