Definition of translate

• v. t. - To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
• v. t. - To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
• v. t. - To remove to heaven without a natural death.
• v. t. - To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To change into another form; to transform.
• v. t. - To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
• v. t. - To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
• v. i. - To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.