translate

verb

• 1express the sense of (words or text) in another language:several of his books were translated into English
• [no object] be expressed or be capable of being expressed in another language:shiatsu literally translates as ‘finger pressure’

• 2 (translate something into/translate into) convert something or be converted into (another form or medium): [with object]:few of Shakespeare’s other works have been translated into ballets [no object]:twenty years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim
• [with object] Biology convert (a sequence of nucleotides in messenger RNA) to an amino-acid sequence in a protein or polypeptide during synthesis.

• 3move from one place or condition to another:she had been translated from familiar surroundings to a foreign court
• formal move (a bishop or, in Scotland, a minister) to another see or pastoral charge: in 1228 he was translated from Salisbury to Durham
• formal remove (a saint’s relics) to another place.
• literary convey (someone who is not dead) to heaven.

• 4 Physics cause (a body) to move so that all its parts travel in the same direction, without rotation or change of shape.
• Mathematics transform (a geometrical figure) in an analogous way.