Definition of "translates" []

• Plural form of translate. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of translate. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The man who translates, — not adopts, but _translates_, — _the problem_ as well as its solution: who deliberately asserts that it emanated from a Lady inhabiting the furthest extremity of Gaul, who nevertheless was demonstrably not its author: who goes on to propose as hers question after question _verbatim as he found them written in the pages of Eusebius_; and then resolves them one by one _in the very language of the same Father_: — such a writer has clearly conducted us into a region where his individual responsibility quite disappears from sight."
• "The title translates from the Italian Rimini dialect to "I remember.""
• "The term translates from the Latin as "god from a machine", a reference to ancient Greek theater, where an actor (a god) would descend from the skies (the top of the theatre) sitting on a device operated by a crude machine."