Translate vs Explain - What's the difference?
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(label) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
(label) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
(label) To change from one form or medium to another.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
(label) To change from one form or medium to another.
To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
* Evelyn
To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
* Camden.
*'>citation
To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
* Heb. xi. 5.
To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
(label) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
A set of points obtained by'' adding a ''given'' fixed vector to each point ''of'' a ''given set.
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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, title= To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
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, title= (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
Translate is a related term of explain.
As verbs the difference between translate and explain
is that translate is while explain is to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.translate
English
Verb
(translat)Usage notes
"Translation" is often used loosely to describe any act of conversion from one language into another, although formal usage typically distinguishes "interpretation" as the proper term for conversion of speech. Conversion of text from one orthography to another (attempting to roughly establish equivalent sound) is distinguished as "transliteration", whereas translation attempts to establish equivalent meaning. "Literal", "verbatim", or "word-for-word translation" ("metaphrase") aims to capture as much of the exact expression as possible, while "loose" or "free translation" or "paraphrase" aims to capture the general sense or artistic affect of the original text. At a certain point, however, text which has been too freely translated may be considered an "adaptation" instead.Synonyms
*Derived terms
{{der3, translation , translator , translatory , translatable , translatability , translative , translatives , translational , translationally}}Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----explain
English
(Explanation)Verb
(en verb)- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained .
Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
- The horse-chestnut isready to explain its leaf.