translate-v; 6 Senses

Sense Number 1: render one language in another language

Examples:
We were asked to translate a list of sentences.
She works for the EU, translating from English into French.
How does it translate the program into machine code?
Occasionally, I translated French and German poems.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3

Sense Number 2: express or transform in a new form or language

Examples:
Here are three poems in English, but no most poetry doesn't translate well.
The idiom doesn't translate well.
So how does this theory translate into practical policy?
Braque translated collage into oil.
What I held back was too sacred and personal to translate into words.
Not everything we learned in college translates well to the world of business.
Today's steady growth in household income translate into more purchasing power.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 6, 7

Sense Number 3: transfer to a place or into a state

Examples:
She was translated from her small country home to a high-rise city apartment.
Oh, the sweetness of being translated into a state of complete purity and perfection!

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 4: say or interpret something in understandable terms

Examples:
Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?
Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?
I translated his silence as approval.
You'll have to translate the attendant's vague mumbling for us.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 9

Sense Number 5: PHYSICS-move a body sideways through space in a stright line without rotation

Examples:
Thirdly, the rotated object is translated to the new target position.
The target is then translated to desired position and orientation.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5, 8

Sense Number 6: BIOLOGY-determine amino acid sequence during a protein synthesis

Examples:
This service transcribes DNA into mRNA and translates mRNA into Amino Acid sequences.
The information carried by the DNA bases translates into proteins.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10