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/tɹænzˈleɪt/
verbnoun

Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

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Verb 2 meanings

  1. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

    “Hans translated my novel into Welsh.”

  2. Senses relating to a change of position.

Noun 1 meaning

  1. In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

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Etymology

From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix).

TRANSLATE at a glance

TRANSLATE has 9 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + N 1 + S 1 + L 1 + A 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,869 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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