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translating

Variant of translate

transitive verb translated, translating

  1. to move from one place or condition to another; transfer; specif.,
    1. Theol. to convey directly to heaven without death
    2. Eccles. to transfer (a bishop) from one see to another; also, to move (a saint's body or remains) from one place of interment to another
  2. to put into the words of a different language
  3. to change into another medium or form: to translate ideas into action
  4. to put into different words; rephrase or paraphrase in explanation
  5. to transmit (a telegraphic message) again by means of an automatic relay
  6. Archaic to enrapture; entrance
  7. Cytology to convert into a chain of amino acids forming a specific protein: said of genetic information in the form of messenger RNA
  8. Mech. to impart translation to

intransitive verb

  1. to make a translation into another language
  2. to be capable of being translated

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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