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==English==
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===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*telh₂- (bear)}}
From {{inh|en|enm|translaten|t=to transport, translate, transform}}, from {{der|en|xno|translater}}, from {{der|en|la|trānslātus}}, perfect passive participle of {{m|la|trānsferō|t=to transport, carry across, translate}}.<ref name="OED">{{R:OED Online|pos=v|id=204841|date=March 2019|nodot=yes}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=v}}</ref>

In this sense, displaced {{ncog|ang|wendan}} (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/|/tɹænz-/|/tɹɑːns-/|/tɹæns-/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|En-uk-to translate.ogg|a=RP|text=to translate}}
* {{IPA|en|/tɹænzˈleɪt/|/tɹæns-/|/ˈtɹænzˌleɪt/|/ˈtɹæns-/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-translate.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈtɹɛnz.læɪt/|[ˈtʃɹʷɛ̃nzɫæe̯ʔ(t)]|a=NZ}}
* {{rhymes|en|eɪt|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|trans|late}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{non-gloss|Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.}}
## {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[change#Verb|change]] [[spoken#Adjective|spoken]] [[word#Noun|words]] or [[written#Adjective|written]] [[text#Noun|text]] (of a [[book#Noun|book]], [[document#Noun|document]], [[movie]], etc.) from one [[language]] to another.
##: {{ux|en|Hans '''translated''' my novel into Welsh.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:William Fulke|chapter=Hereticall Translation against {{smallcaps|Pvrgatorie, Limbvs Patrvm, Christs Descending Into Hel}}|title=A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong, against the Manifolde Cauils, Friuolous Quarels, and Impudent Slaunders of [[w:Gregory Martin (scholar)|Gregorie Martin]],{{nb...|One of the Readers of Popish Diuinitie in the Trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes. By William Fvlke D. in Diuinitie, and M[aster] of Pembroke haule, in Cambridge. Wherevnto is Added a Briefe Confutation of All Such Quarrels & Cauils, as haue bene of late Vttered by Diuerse Papistes in Their English Pamphlets, against the Writings of the Saide William Fvlke.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Imprinted by}} [[w:Henry Bynneman|Henrie Bynneman]] for George Bishop|year=1583|page=199|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9addAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA199|oclc=912645604|passage=[H]e &#91;{{w|Theodore Beza}}&#93; '''tranſlateth''' ''animam'', a ''Carcaſe'': (ſo calling our Sauiour Christes bodie, irreuerently, and wickedly) he '''tranſlateth''' ''infernum'', graue.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Augustus Granville|A[ugustus] B[ozzi] Granville]]|chapter=Picture of St. Petersburgh|title=St. Petersburgh. A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital;{{nb...|through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France. [...] In Two Volumes.}}|location=London|publisher={{w|Henry Colburn}},{{nb...|New Burlington Street.}}|year=1828|volume=II|pages=103–104|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYvLNsseoAgC&pg=RA2-PA104|oclc=1171966074|passage="Fool!" said the Tzar &#91;{{w|Peter the Great}}&#93;, turning to the monk, "what did I bid you do with the book?" "To '''translate''' it, Sire!" "Is this then a translation?" replied the Sovereign, pointing at the same time to a paragraph in the original, where the author had spoken harshly of Russia, and of the character of its inhabitants, but which the good-natured monk had in part omitted, and in part softened down in the most flattering manner to the nation. "Hence!" added the incensed monarch, "and be careful how thou '''translatest''' the work faithfully. It is not to flatter my subjects that I bade thee put the book into Russian and print it; but rather to correct them, by placing them under their eye the opinion which foreigners entertain of them, in order that they may at length know what they once were, and what they are now through my exertions."}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Matt Cyr|chapter=Saturday, September 13th [1997]|title=Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti|location=Coconut Creek, Fla.|publisher=Educa Vision|date=13 September 1997|year_published=2002|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=quEn9UyekEgC&pg=PA25|isbn=978-1-58432-138-5|passage=His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to '''translate''' some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless. [...] That kind of thing is very interesting to me. When I was learning Spanish, I would often take my favorite songs and try to '''translate''' them.}}
## {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[provide]] a [[translation]] of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be [[capable]] of being, [[render#Verb|rendered]] in another language.
##: {{ux|en|Hans '''translated''' for us while we were in Marrakesh.}}
##: {{ux|en|That idiom doesn’t really '''translate'''.}}
##: {{ux|en|‘Dog’ '''translates''' as ‘chien’ in French.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Ted Jones|chapter=3|title=The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers|location=London|publisher=[[w:I.B. Tauris|Tauris Parke Paperbacks]]|year=2004|year_published=2007|page=58|isbn=978-1-84511-455-8|passage=However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is {{w|Jacques Audiberti}}, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that '''translate''' as ''Slaughter'', or ''In Favour of Infanticide''.}}
## {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[express#Verb|express]] spoken words or written text in a [[different]] (often [[clear#Adjective|clearer]] or [[simple]]r) [[way]] in the same language; to [[paraphrase#Verb|paraphrase]], to [[rephrase]], to [[restate]].
##* {{RQ:Macaulay Goldsmith|page=368|passage=These works he &#91;{{w|Oliver Goldsmith}}&#93; produced without any elaborate research, by merely selecting, abridging, and '''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.}}
## {{senseid|en|broadly abstract}} {{lb|en|transitive}} To change (something) from one [[form#Noun|form]] or [[medium#Noun|medium]] to another.
##: {{ux|en|The director faithfully '''translated''' their experiences to film.}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It|act=II|scene=i|page=190|column=1|passage=[H]appy is your Grace / That can '''tranſlate''' the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=David [Walker] Gilbert|chapter=A New Musical Rhythm was Given to the People: Ragtime and Representation in Black Manhattan|title=The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Music Marketplace|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|publisher=w:University of North Carolina Press|year=2015|page=44|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wS5ZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|isbn=978-1-4696-2269-9|passage=Embracing slave spirituals as the foundation of the Negro music he hoped to develop, Cook sought to '''translate''' their sonic power and racial character into forms more readily accessible to American audiences of all races in the twentieth century.}}
### {{lb|en|transitive|music}} To [[rearrange]] (a [[song]] or music) in one [[genre]] into another.
###* {{quote-book|en|author=Jayson Beaster-Jones|chapter=Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the Emergence of ''Filmi'' Style|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=238ZBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT48|title=Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Music|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Oxford University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-19-999346-8|passage=If one were to chart the form of most film songs, '''translated''' into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: [...]}}
## {{lb|en|intransitive}} To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
##: {{ux|en|Excellent writing does not necessarily '''translate''' well into film.}}
##: {{ux|en|His sales experience '''translated''' well into his new job as a fund-raiser.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Karen L. Hero|chapter=Missed Opportunities: American Anthropological Studies of Micronesian Arts|editors=Robert C. Kiste; Mac Marshall|title=American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment|location=Honolulu, Hi.|publisher=[[w:University of Hawaii Press|University of Hawaiʻi Press]]|year=1999|page=257|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8Dr4fJxlkIC&pg=RA3-PA257|isbn=978-0-8248-2017-6|passage=When perfection is achieved, the thrill of recognition in the audience fulfills local sensibilities, but '''translates''' poorly into academic discourse.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Ross Hockrow|chapter=The Editing Process|title=Out of Order: Storytelling Techniques for Video and Cinema Editors|location=San Francisco, Calif.|publisher=[[w:Peachpit|Peachpit Press]]|year=2015|page=201|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cybnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA201|isbn=978-0-321-95160-1|passage=Sometimes, ideas don't end up '''translating''' well. That's the nature of art. You may have the greatest idea since sliced bread in your mind, but when you translate it into a film, it just may not work.}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|year=2024|month=June|title=A novel system for non-invasive measurement of blood levels of glucose|journal=w:Nature Reviews Endocrinology|volume=20|page=320|doi=10.1038/s41574-024-00988-8|passage=The authors believe that the results obtained in mice will '''translate''' well into clinical utility for patients.}}
## {{lb|en|transitive|genetics}} To [[generate]] a [[chain#Noun|chain]] of [[amino acid]]s [[base#Verb|based]] on the [[sequence#Noun|sequence]] of [[codon]]s in an [[mRNA]] [[molecule]].
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Erich Grotewold; Joseph Chappell; [[w:Elizabeth Anne Kellogg|Elizabeth A[nne] Kellogg]]|chapter=Translation of RNA|title=Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics|location=Chichester, West Sussex|publisher=w:Wiley-Blackwell|year=2015|section=section 15.1 (Translation: A Key Aspect of Gene Expression)|page=207|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QSrWBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA207|column=2|isbn=978-1-119-99888-4|passage=All mRNAs are '''translated''' on the basis of consecutive groups of three bases, codons, being interpreted by the translational machinery [...]. Many diverse proteins and RNAs are involved in the translation of mRNA. First is the mRNA itself, which is the template "read" and '''translated''' into a protein product.}}
# {{non-gloss|Senses relating to a change of position.}}
## {{lb|en|transitive|archaic}} To [[move#Verb|move]] (something) from one [[place#Noun|place]] or [[position#Noun|position]] to another; to [[transfer#Verb|transfer]].
##* {{quote-book|en|compiler=[[w:Anthony Sparrow|Anth[ony] Sparrow]]|chapter=Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty, Concerning both the Clergy and Laity, of This Realm, Published ''Anno Domini'' {{smallcaps|Mdlix}}. being the First Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lady Queen ''[[w:Elizabeth I|Elizabeth]]''|title=A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England,{{nb...|Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI., Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles I. Published to Vindicate the Church of England, and to Promote Uniformity and Peace in the Same. The Fourth Impression with Additions. Also Two Tables of the Principal Matters, the One to the English, the Other to the Latine.}}|edition=4th|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed for}} Blanch Rawlet{{nb...|at the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleetstreet.}}|year=1559|year_published=1684|section=paragraph 19|page=73|pageurl=https://books.google.comg/books?id=U6lEAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA73|oclc=1019619859|passage=Curſed be he which '''tranſlateth''' the bounds and [[dole|dolles]] of his Neighbor.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Matthew Poole|chapter=I. Samuel. Chap. XXVI.|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUwjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA40|editors=Sam[uel] Clark; Edward Veale|title=Annotations upon the Holy Bible.{{nb...|Wherein the Sacred Text is Inserted, and Various Readings Annex’d, together with the Parallel Scriptures. The More Difficult Terms in Each Verse are Explained. Seeming Contradictions Reconciled. Questions and Doubts Resolved. And the Whole Text Opened. [...] The Third Edition. With the Addition of a New Concordance and Tables, by Mr. Sam. Clark. The Whole Corrected and Amended by the Said Mr. Sam. Clark, and Mr. Edward Veale. With Large Contents to Each Chapter.}}|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed for}} Thomas Parkhurst,{{nb...|Jonathan Robinson, Thomas Cockerill Senr and Junr, Brabazon Aylmer, John Lawrence, and John Taylor.}}|year=1696|volume=I|section=note z|column=1|oclc=49980837|passage=[H]e &#91;{{w|David}}&#93; Accuſeth not the King &#91;{{w|Saul}}&#93;, but '''tranſlateth''' the fault wholly upon his Evil Miniſters; as the ''Iſraelites'' do in the like Caſe, [[w:Book of Exodus|''Exod''[''us'']]] 5. 16.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Edmund Flagg|[Edmund Flagg]]]|chapter=XXV|title=The Far West: Or, A Tour beyond the Mountains. {{...|Embracing Outlines of Western Life and Scenery; Sketches of the Prairies, Rivers, Ancient Mounds, Early Settlements of the French, etc., etc. [...] In Two Volumes.}}|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]],{{nb...|No. 82, Cliff-Street.}}|year=1838|volume=II|page=32|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=suwMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA32|oclc=1067122218|passage=To find one's self suddenly '''translated''' from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality.}}
### {{lb|en|transitive}} To transfer the [[remains]] of a [[deceased#Adjective|deceased]] [[person]] (such as a [[monarch]] or other [[important]] person) from one place to another; {{lb|en|specifically|Christianity}} to transfer a [[holy]] [[relic]] from one [[shrine]] to another.
###* {{RQ:Evelyn Diary|volume=I|entrydate=25 October 1644|page=86|passage=Not far from hence is the Church and Convent of the Dominicans, where in the Chapel of St. [[w:Catherine of Siena|Catherine of Sienna]], they shew her head, the rest of her body being '''translated''' to Rome.}}
### {{lb|en|transitive|Christianity}} To transfer a [[bishop]] or other [[cleric]] from one [[post#Noun|post]] to another.
###* {{RQ:Camden Remaines|chapter=Grave Speeches, and Wittie Apothegms of Woorthie Personages of This Realme in Former Times|page=220|passage=''[[w:John Fisher|Iohn Fiſher]]'' Biſhop of ''Rocheſter'', when the King &#91;{{w|Henry VII of England}}&#93; would have '''tranſlated''' him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: ''He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.''}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Anthony Wood|Anthony à Wood]]|title=The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford,{{nb...|In Two Books}}|volume=I|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher={{...|Printed for the editor}} {{w|John Gutch}}|year=1792|page=661|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=eOxEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA661|oclc=642441055|passage=One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. [[w:William Warham|Will[iam] Warham]] Principal or Moderator thereof; which he leaving this year (having before had ſeveral Deputies therein) becauſe of his preferment to the [[w:Diocese of London|ſee of London]], became void for ſome time. The year following the ſaid Warham was '''tranſlated''' to [[w:Diocese of Canterbury|Canterbury]], [...]}}
### {{lb|en|transitive|Christianity}} Of a holy [[person]] or [[saint]]: to be [[assume#Verb|assumed]] into or to [[rise#Verb|rise]] to [[Heaven]] without [[bodily]] [[death]]; also {{lb|en|figurative}} to [[die#Verb|die]] and go to Heaven.
###* {{RQ:King James Version|Hebrews|11|5|url=https://archive.org/stream/Bible1611/Binder1#page/n1466/mode/1up|column=2|passage=By faith [[w:Enoch (ancestor of Noah)|Enoch]] was '''tranſlated''', that he ſhould not ſee death; and was not found, becauſe God had '''tranſlated''' him: For before his tranſlation he had this teſtimonie, that he pleaſed God.}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Samuel Clarke (minister)|Samuel Clark[e]]]|chapter=The Life of ''Vitus Theodorus'', who Dyed ''Anno Christi'' 1549|title=The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History,{{nb...|Contained in the Lives of One Hundred Forty Eight Fathers, Schoolmen, First Reformers, and Modern Divines which Have Flourished in the Church since Christ’s Time to this Present Age: Faithfully Collected, and Orderly Disposed according to the Centuries wherein They Lived: Together with the Lively Effigies of Most of the Eminentest of Them Cut in Copper. The Second Edition Enlarged in Most of the Lives, with the Addition of Nine Lives which were Not in the Former.}}|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed for}} T. V. and are to be sold by William Roybould{{nb...|at the Unicorn in Pauls-Church-yard.}}|year=1654|page=323|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_A8bAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA323|oclc=1118052517|passage=He [Vitus Theodorus] was called to be a Paſtor at ''Norinberg'', his own country, [...] till it pleaſed God to put an end to his labors, by '''tranſlating''' him out of this vale of tears into his Everlaſting Kingdom, ''Anno Chriſti'' 1549.}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=Thomas Wimberley Mossman|quotee={{w|Pope Clement I}} (in translation)|chapter=The Genuine and Supposititious Writings of St. Clement|title=A History of the Catholic Church of Jesus Christ: From the Death of [[w:John the Evangelist|Saint John]] to the Middle of the Second Century:{{nb...|Including an Account of the Original Organisation of the Christian Ministry and the Growth of Episcopacy.}}|location=London|publisher=[[w:Longman|Longmans, Green, and Co.]]|year=1873|page=58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xZMvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58|oclc=59217512|passage=And afterwards Thou [God] receivedst {{w|Seth}} and [[w:Enoch (ancestor of Noah)|Enoch]], and Enoch Thou '''translatedst'''; for Thou art the Creator of men, the Fountain of Life, the Supplier of Want, the Giver of Laws, the Rewarder of them that keep them, the Avenger of them that transgress them.}}
### {{lb|en|transitive|mathematics}} In [[Euclidean geometry]]: to [[transform#Verb|transform]] (a [[geometric]] [[figure#Noun|figure]] or [[space#Noun|space]]) by moving every [[point#Noun|point]] by the same [[distance#Noun|distance]] in a [[given#Adjective|given]] [[direction]].
###* {{quote-book|en|author=S[amuel] Edward Warren|chapter=Removal of Practical Difficulties Arising from the Confusion of Projections and Perspectives|title=A Manual of Elementary Problems in the Linear Perspective of Form and Shadow;{{nb...|or The Representation of Objects as They Appear, Made from the Representation of Objects as They Are. In Two Parts. Part I.—Primitive Methods; with an Introduction. Part II.—Derivative Methods; with Some Notes on Aerial Perspective.}}|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley]],{{nb...|535 Broadway.}}|year=1868|section=§&nbsp;II (Second Method. Use of Three Planes.), paragraph 74|page=40|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tk2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA40|oclc=941796281|passage=After '''translating''' this plane, parallel to the ground line, to the position <math>n_1L_1r_1</math>, these points appear at <math>n_1</math> and <math>r_1</math>.}}
### {{lb|en|transitive|mathematics}} To [[map#Verb|map]] (the [[axis|axes]] in a [[coordinate system]]) to [[parallel#Adjective|parallel]] axes in another coordinate system some distance away.
###* {{quote-journal|en|author=Leo Marcus|title=A Mathematical Tool in Industry: An Algorithm for Curve Fitting by the Method of Least Squares|editor=John Bryant|journal=General Motors Engineering Journal|location=Detroit, Mich.|publisher=Educational Relations Section, Public Relations Staff,{{w|General Motors|General Motors Corporation}}|month=April–June|year=1957|volume=4|issue=2|page=17|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ai3WAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA17|column=1|oclc=733982339|passage=It is convenient at this point to '''translate''' the axis of the <math>n</math> dimensional space so that the origin of each axis occurs at its arithmetical mean.}}
### {{lb|en|transitive|medicine|obsolete}} To [[cause#Verb|cause]] (a [[disease]] or something [[give rise to|giving rise to]] a disease) to move from one [[body part]] to another, or {{lb|en|rare}} between persons.
###* {{quote-book|en|chapter=Medicine—Surgery|editors=[[w:William Chambers (publisher)|William]]; [[w:Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)|Robert Chambers]]|title=[[w:Chambers's Encyclopaedia#Chambers's Information for the People|Chambers’s Information for the People]]|edition=new|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=[[w:J. B. Lippincott & Co.|J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.]]|year=1857|page=768|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pynUNwFM5QIC&pg=PA768|column=1|oclc=490074|passage=He [John Mackintosh] considers all the eruptions, even erysipelas, in the light of natural blisters, established by powers inherent in the constitution, which enable it to '''translate''' disease from the internal organs to the skin; [...]}}
### {{lb|en|transitive|physics}} To [[subject#Verb|subject]] (a [[body]]) to [[linear]] [[motion]] with no [[rotation]].
###* {{quote-book|en|author=Stephen Webb|chapter=Symmetry|title=Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Copernicus Books, [[w:Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]], in association with Praxis Publishing|year=2004|page=19|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AJdTYu3m5sC&pg=PA19|isbn=978-0-387-02930-6|passage=Consider a collection of objects&nbsp;– perfectly elastic pool balls, perhaps&nbsp;– rattling around inside a closed, isolated container. We can '''translate''' the container and its contents through space, and the physics inside the container is unchanged.}}
### {{lb|en|intransitive|physics}} Of a body: to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation.
###* {{quote-book|en|author=Howard Brody|chapter=The Sweet Spots of a Tennis Racket|title=Tennis Science for Tennis Players|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=w:University of Pennsylvania Press|year=1987|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTadg2mJRF0C&pg=PA25|isbn=978-0-8122-1238-9|passage=If the ball were to hit the racket at its center of mass (CM) or balance point (which is usually in the throat of the racket), the racket recoil would be pure translation and there would be no rotation of the racket. Instead, if the ball were to hit in the center of the strung area, the racket would both '''translate''' (to conserve linear momentum) and rotate (to conserve angular momentum), [...]}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=Ethirajan Rathakrishnan|chapter=High-temperature Flows|title=High Enthalpy Gas Dynamics|location=Singapore|publisher=[[w:Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons Singapore]]|year=2015|section=section 4.10 (Kinetic Theory of Gases)|page=109|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxgIBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|isbn=978-1-118-82189-3|passage=Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," '''translating''' in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To {{l|en|entrance|t=place in a [[trance]]}}, to cause to [[lose]] [[recollection]] or [[sense#Noun|sense]].
#: {{ux|en|William was '''translated''' by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.}}

====Usage notes====
* ''Translation (sense 1.1)'' is often used loosely to describe any act of conversion from one language into another, although formal usage typically distinguishes {{m|en|interpretation}} as the proper term for conversion of [[speech]].
* While translation attempts to establish equivalent [[meaning#Noun|meaning]] between different texts, the conversion of text from one [[orthography]] to another (attempting to roughly establish equivalent [[sound#Noun|sound]]) is distinguished as {{m|en|transliteration}}.
* [[literal|Literal]], [[verbatim]], or [[word-for-word]] translation ([[metaphrase]]) aims to capture as much of the exact expression as possible, while [[loose]] or free translation, or [[paraphrase]], aims to capture the general sense or artistic affect of the original text. At a certain point, text which has been too freely translated may be considered an [[adaptation]] instead.

====Conjugation====
{{en-conj|stem=translat|old=1}}

====Derived terms====
{{col3|en
|back-translate
|mistranslate
|translatese
|retranslate
|translatable
|translatability
|sight-translate
|machine-translate
|cotranslate
|backtranslate
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====Translations====
{{trans-top|to change spoken words or written text from one language to another}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|vertaal}}
* Aghwan: {{t|xag|𐔸𐔰𐕙𐔲𐕒𐕡𐕌𐔰𐕎}}
* Alabama: {{qualifier|oral}} {{t|akz|ayitika}}, {{qualifier|written}} {{t|akz|paahossochi}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|përkthej}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|تَرْجَمَ}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{t|arz|ترجم|tr=targim}}
*: Moroccan Arabic: {{t|ary|ترْجم|tr=tərjəm}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|թարգմանել}}
* Assamese: {{t|as|ভাঙনি কৰ}}
* Asturian: {{t+|ast|traducir}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|çevirmək}}, {{t|az|tərcümə etmək}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|itzuli}}
* Belarusian: {{qualifier|пісьмо́ва}} {{t+|be|пераклада́ць|impf}}, {{t+|be|перакла́сці|pf}}, {{t|be|пераво́дзіць|impf}}, {{t|be|перавесці́|pf}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|অনুবাদ করা}}, {{t+|bn|তর্জমা করা}}
* Breton: {{t+|br|treiñ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|преве́ждам|impf}}, {{t+|bg|преведа́|pf}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|ယောဇနာ}}, {{t+|my|ပြန်}}
* Buryat: {{t|bua|оршуулха}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|traduir}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|翻譯|tr=faan1 jik6}}, {{t|yue|譯|tr=jik6}}
*: Dungan: {{t|dng|фанйи}}
*: Eastern Min: {{t|cdo|翻譯|tr=huăng-ĭk}}
*: Hakka: {{t|hak|翻譯|tr=fân-yi̍t}}
*: Hokkien: {{t+|nan-hbl|翻譯|tr=hoan-ia̍k / hoan-e̍k}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|翻譯|tr=fānyì}}, {{t+|cmn|譯|tr=yì}}
*: Wu: {{t|wuu|翻譯}}
* Chukchi: {{t|ckt|йиԓыԓьэтык|tr=jiḷyḷʹėtyk}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|překládat|impf}}, {{t+|cs|přeložit|pf}}
* Danish: {{t|da|oversætte}}
* Dolgan: {{t|dlg|тулмаастаа|tr=tulmaastaa}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|vertalen}}, {{qualifier|archaic}} {{t+|nl|overzetten}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|traduki}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|tõlkima}}
* Faroese: {{t|fo|týða}}, {{t|fo|umseta}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kääntää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|traduire}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|traducir}}
* Ge'ez: {{t|gez|ተርጐመ}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|გადათარგმნის}}, {{t|ka|თარგმნა}}
* German: {{t+|de|übersetzen}}, {{t+|de|übertragen}}, {{t+|de|verdolmetschen}}, {{t+|de|dolmetschen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μεταφράζω}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|μεταφράζω}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|tradui}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|תִּרְגֵּם|tr=tirgem}}
* Hiligaynon: {{t|hil|badbad}}
* Hindi: {{t|hi|अनुवाद करना}}, {{t|hi|भाषान्तर करना}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|fordít}}, {{t+|hu|lefordít}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|þýða}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|tradukar}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|terjemah}}, {{t+|id|menerjemahkan}}, {{t+|id|alih bahasa}}, {{t|id|mengalihbahasakan}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|aistrigh}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|tradurre}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|訳す|tr=やくす, yakusu}}, {{t+|ja|翻訳|tr=ほんやくする, hon'yaku suru|alt=翻訳する}}
* Javanese: {{t|jv|arti}}, {{t+|jv|pertal}}, {{t+|jv|mertal}}
* Kazakh: {{t+|kk|аудару}}
* Khakas: {{t|kjh|тілбестирге}}
* Khmer: {{t|km|បកប្រែ}}, {{t+|km|ប្រែ}}
* Khün: {{t|kkh|ᨸᩖᩯ}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|번역하다}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|которуу}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ແປ}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|trādūcō}}, {{t|la|interpreto}}, {{t|la|interpretor}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|tulkot}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|išversti}}
* Lü: {{t|khb|ᦔᦶᦜ}}, {{t|khb|ᦔᦊᦱᧃᧈ}}, {{t|khb|ᦝᦱᧃᧈ}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|преведува|impf}}, {{t|mk|преведе|pf}}
* Malay: {{t|ms|menterjemahkan}}
* Malayalam: {{t|ml|തര്‍ജ്ജമ}}, {{t+|ml|മൊഴിമാറ്റം}}, {{t+|ml|പരിഭാഷ}}
* Maltese: {{t|mt|ittraduċa}}
* Manchu: {{t|mnc|ᡠᠪᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠮᠪᡠᠮᠪᡳ}}
* Mansi:
*: Northern Mansi: {{t|mns-nor|толмасьлаӈкве}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakamāori}}
* Marathi: {{t|mr|भाषांतर करणे}}, {{t|mr|अनुवाद करणे}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|translaten}}
* Mokilese: {{t|mkj|kawoahwoa}}
* Mon: {{t|mnw|ကၠဲာ}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t+|mn|орчуулах}}, {{t|mn|хөрвүүлэх}}
*: Mongolian: {{t|mn|ᠣᠷᠴᠢᠭᠤᠯᠬᠤ}}, {{t|mn|ᠬᠥᠷᠪᠡᢉᠦᠯᠬᠦ}}
* Neapolitan: {{t|nap|tradùcere}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|oversette}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|omsetja}}, {{t|nn|setja om}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|traduire}}, {{t+|oc|revirar}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|wendan}}
* Oromo: {{t|om|hiikuu}}
* Pashto: {{t|ps|ترجمه کول|tr=tarǰomá kawǝ́l}}, {{t|ps|ژباړل|tr=žbāṛᶕl}}
* Pennsylvania German: {{t|pdc|iwwersetze}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|ترجمه کردن|tr=tarjome kardan}}, {{t|fa|ترجمیدن}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|tłumaczyć|impf}}, {{t+|pl|przetłumaczyć|pf}}, {{t+|pl|przekładać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|przełożyć|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|traduzir}}, {{t+|pt|verter}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|traduce|alt=a traduce}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|переводи́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|перевести́|pf}}
* Samogitian: {{t|sgs|pargoldītė}}
* Scots: {{t|sco|pit ower}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|eadar-theangaich}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|прево̀дити|impf}}, {{t|sh|прѐвести|pf}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|prevòditi|impf}}, {{t+|sh|prèvesti|pf}}
* Shan: {{t|shn|ပိၼ်ႇၽၢႆႇ}}
* Sinhalese: {{t|si|පෙරළනවා}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|prekladať|impf}}, {{t|sk|preložiť|pf}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|prevajati|impf}}, {{t+|sl|prevesti|pf}}
* Sotho: {{t+|st|fetola}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|traducir}}, {{t+|es|trasladar}}, {{t+|es|verter}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|tafsiri}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|översätta}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|magsalin}}
* Tahitian: {{t|ty|ʻauvaha}}, {{t|ty|ʻiriti}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|тарҷума кардан}}
* Tatar: {{t|tt|күчерергә}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|แปล}}
* Tibetan: {{t|bo|བསྒྱུར}}
* Tigrinya: {{t|ti|ተርጐመ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|tercüme etmek}}, {{t+|tr|terceme}}, {{t+|tr|çevirmek}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|terjime etmek}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|переклада́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|перекла́сти|pf}}, {{t|uk|переводи́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|перевести́|pf}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|ترجمہ کرنا|tr=tarjama karnā}}, {{t|ur|انواد کرنا|tr=anuvād karnā}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|تەرجىمە قىلماق}}
* Uzbek: {{t|uz|tarjima qilmoq}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|dịch}} ({{t|vi|譯}}), {{t+|vi|phiên dịch}} ({{t|vi|翻譯}})
* Volapük: {{t+|vo|tradutön}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|ratourner}}, {{t+|wa|tradure}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|cyfieithu}}
* West Frisian: {{t|fy|oersette}}
* Yakut: {{t|sah|тылбаастаа}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|איבערזעצן}}
* Yup'ik: {{t|esu|mumigluni}}
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{{trans-top|to provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kääntyä}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|fordítható}}, {{t+|hu|lefordítható}}, {{t+|hu|kifejezhető}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|aistrigh}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|översätts}} {{qualifier|passive voice of översätta}}
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{{trans-top|to express spoken words or written text in a different way in the same language}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|перифразирам}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|hertalen}}
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{{trans-top|to change (something) from one form or medium to another}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|traduir}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|siirtää}}
* German: {{t+|de|übertragen}}
* Hiligaynon: {{t|hil|badbad}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|átültet}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|trasferire}}, {{t+|it|riversare}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|transfero}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|пренесува|impf}}
* Scots: {{t|sco|pit ower}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|traducir}}, {{t+|es|trasladar}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|trosi}}, {{t+|cy|troi}}
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{{trans-top|to rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|sovittaa}}
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{{trans-top|to change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|soveltua}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|megmutatkozik}}, {{t+|hu|kifejeződik}}, {{t+|hu|kifejezhető}}
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{{trans-top|to generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|transzlál}}
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{{trans-top|to move (something) from one place or position to another}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|транслирам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|siirtää}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|trasladar}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|áthelyez}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|transfero}}
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{{trans-top|to transfer the remains of a deceased person from one place to another}}
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{{trans-top|to transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|siirtää}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|áthelyez}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|translaten}}
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{{trans-top|to be assumed into or to rise to Heaven without bodily death}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[ottaa]] [[pois]]}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|translaten}}
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{{trans-top|to transform (a geometric figure or space) by moving every point by the same distance in a given direction}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|транслирам}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|verschuiven}}
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{{trans-top|to map (the axes in a coordinate system) to parallel axes in another coordinate system some distance away}}
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{{trans-top|to subject (a body) to linear motion with no rotation}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|平移|tr=píngyí}}
* Danish: {{t|da|forskyde}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|translatoida}}
* French: {{t+|fr|translater}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|eltol}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|transfero}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|[[przesuwać]] po prostej}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|trasladar}}, {{t+|pt|transladar}}
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{{trans-top|to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation}}
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===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|analysis}} In [[Euclidean space]]s: a [[set#Noun|set]] of [[point#Noun|points]] [[obtain]]ed by [[add]]ing a [[given#Adjective|given]] [[fixed#Adjective|fixed]] [[vector]] to each point of a given set.
#* {{quote-book|en|author=A. S. Hedayat; [[w:Neil Sloane|N[eil] J[ames] A[lexander] Sloane]]; John Stufken|chapter=Statistical Application of Orthogonal Arrays|title=Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications|series=Springer Series in Statistics|location=New York, N.Y.; Berlin|publisher=[[w:Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]|year=1999|section=section 11.5 (Two-level Fractional Factorials with a Defining Relation)|page=272|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrUYlIbI2mEC&pg=PA272|isbn=978-0-387-98766-8|passage=[F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their '''translates'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Helmut H. Schaefer|H[elmut] H[einrich] Schaefer]]; with M. P. Wolff|chapter=I|title=Topological Vector Spaces|series=Graduate Texts in Mathematics|seriesvolume=3|edition=2nd|location=New York, N.Y.; Berlin|publisher=[[w:Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]|year=1999|section=section 4 (Linear Manifolds and Hyperplanes)|page=24|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9kXY742pABoC&pg=PA24|isbn=978-0-387-98726-2|passage=If <math>L</math> is a vector space, a ''linear manifold'' (or ''affine subspace'') in <math>L</math> is a subset which is a '''translate''' of a subspace <math>M \subset L</math>, that is, a set <math>F</math> of the form <math>x_0+M</math> for some <math>x_0 \in L</math>. [...] The ''dimension'' of a linear manifold is the dimension of the subspace of which it is a '''translate'''.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set}}
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===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{pedia|translation}}
* {{pedia|translation of axes}}
* {{pedia|translation (biology)}}
* {{pedia|translation (ecclesiastical)}}
* {{pedia|translation (geometry)}}
* {{pedia|translation (physics)}}
* {{pedia|translation (relic)}}
* {{pedia|translation (disambiguation)}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aaelnrstt|alterants|tarletans}}

==French==

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA|pos=v}}
* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-translate.wav}}

===Verb===
{{head|fr|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|fr|translater||1//3|s|pres|ind//sub|;|2|s|impr}}

==Latin==

===Participle===
{{head|la|participle form|head=trānslāte}}

# {{inflection of|la|trānslātus||voc|m|s}}

==Middle English==

===Verb===
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|translaten}}