Word Meanings - TRANSLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the

Additional info about word: TRANSLATE

To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay. 6. To change into another form; to transform. Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak. (more info) transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. Dryden. In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. Evelyn. 2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death. 3. To remove to heaven without a natural death. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim. Heb. xi. 5.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRANSLATE)

• Interpret
• Translate
• render
• construe
• explain
• expound
• expone
• represent
• declare
• understand
• elucidate
• decipher
• solve
• Transfer
• Convey
• transport
• remove
• sell
• assign
• remand
• make over
• transplant
• give
• alienate
• translate
• transmit
• forward
• exchange

Related words: (words related to TRANSLATE)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• TRANSMITTER
  One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• EXPONENT
  A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated; Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power,
• REMAND
  To recommit; to send back. Remand it to its former place. South. Then were they remanded to the cage again. Bunyan.
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• ASSIGNABILITY
  The quality of being assignable.
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• ASSIGN
  To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. (more info)
• ASSIGNATION
  1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• CONVEYER
  1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• TREMANDO
  Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.
• RECONVEY
  1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• MISASSIGN
  To assign wrongly.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.