translateth

Verb

translate (third-person singular simple present translates, present participle translating, simple past and past participle translated)

1. (transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
   • Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
2. (intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
   • Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.
3. (transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
   • These works he [Oliver Goldsmith] produced without any elaborate research, by merely selecting, abridging, and translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “[Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica.] Oliver Goldsmith.”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord...
4. (transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
   • The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
5. (transitive) To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
   • If one were to chart the form of most film songs, translated into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: […]2015, Jayson Beaster-Jones, “Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the Emergence of Filmi Style”, in Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Music, Oxford, Oxfordshire...
6. (intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
   • Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.

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