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

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