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tranz layt

  • v  restate (words) from one language into another language
    I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S.
    He translates for the U.N.
  • v  change from one form or medium into another
    Braque translated collage into oil
  • v  make sense of a language
  • v  bring to a certain spiritual state
  • v  change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
  • v  be equivalent in effect
    the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power
  • v  be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
    poetry often does not translate
    Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
  • v  subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
  • v  express, as in simple and less technical language
    Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?
    Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?
  • v  determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

  • A Lutheran turned Catholic priest, he can translate conservative Protestant arguments couched tightly in Scripture into Catholicism's broader language of moral reasoning, more .
  • Iron plays a very important part in the reactions in our cells that produce damaging free radicals, which glom onto cell membranes and DNA, and may translate into aging the cell.
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News & Articles

  • 15 Myths About Car Insurance
    Did you know driving a red sports car doesn't automatically translate to higher insurance rates, or avoiding tickets and accidents to lower rates? Did you know that only a comprehensive policy will cover your stolen car, or that thieves are...
    June 23, 2013 - Cars.com
  • Task Force Gives Insight on U.N. Nominee
    When Samantha Power traded academia for a human rights post in the Obama administration in 2009, the question was how she would translate her moral outrage into policy.
    June 22, 2013 - New York Times
  • Work on Task Force Gives Insight on U.N. Nominee
    When Samantha Power traded academia for a human rights post in the Obama administration in 2009, the question was how she would translate her moral outrage into policy.
    June 22, 2013 - New York Times
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in ABC News
    Our government has already spent a good deal of money, but we haven't yet seen that translate into more jobs or higher incomes or renewed confidence in our economy,Obama said.
  • Gen Peter Pace in CTV.ca
    I believe we can find common ground to get something done that's big enough, effective enough so that an economy that is inherently strong gets a boost - to make sure that this uncertainty doesn't translate into more economic woes for our workers... President Bush http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFh0u2JMmcpgHHAEOKNoPb27FyIcg Guardian Unlimited http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7247168,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGdFu-OKhNvp85wF1gwU9TZvMYCEA Jan 22, 2008 101544 134705 translate That does not translate that the Iranian government per se, for sure, is directly involved in doing this," Pace told reporters in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. "What it does say is that things made in Iran are being used in Iraq to kill...

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