translate
Definitions
General English
- verb to put written or spoken words into another language
Accounting
- verb to put something which is said or written in one language into another language
Banking
- verb to change something into another form
Computing
- verb to convert data from one form into another
Electronics
- To convert one language, such as a computer language, into another.
- In computers, to convert from one format, such as that of data or a file, into another.
- To convert from one format, function, system, or level, to another.
- In computer graphics, to change the position of an image or object on the screen without rotating said image or object.
- verb to change information from one language or format to another
- verb to convert ideas into action
Origin & History of “translate”
To
translate something is etymologically to ‘carry it across’
from one language into another. The
word was acquired from
trānslātus, the
past participle of Latin
trānsferre ‘carry
across,
transfer, translate’ (
source of
English transfer).
