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Definition of Translate

Translate

  1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
  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.
  4. To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
  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.
  6. To change into another form; to transform.
  7. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
  8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
  9. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Translate Quotations

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
Jim Fowler

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
David Byrne
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Translate Translations

translate in Afrikaans is vertaal
translate in Dutch is translateren, overzetten, vertalen
translate in French is traduire, traduisons, traduisent, traduis
translate in Italian is tradurre, tradurre
translate in Latin is reddo
translate in Norwegian is oversette
translate in Portuguese is traduza
translate in Spanish is traducir, trasladar

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