translate

verb

1. restate (words) from one language into another language"I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."
2. change from one form or medium into another"Braque translated collage into oil"
3. make sense of a language"She understands French"
4. bring to a certain spiritual state
5. change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
6. be equivalent in effect"the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
7. be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way"poetry often does not translate"
8. subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
9. express, as in simple and less technical language"Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"
10. determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA