(~s, translating, ~d)
1.
If something that someone has said or written is ~d from one language into another, it is said or written again in the second language.
Only a small number of Kadare’s books have been ~d into English...
Martin Luther ~d the Bible into German...
The Celtic word ‘geis’ is usually ~d as ‘taboo’...
The girls waited for Mr Esch to ~.
...Mr Mani by Yehoshua, ~d from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
VERB: be V-ed into/from n, V n into/from n, be V-ed as n, V, V-ed, also V n, V n as n
translation
The papers have been sent to Saudi Arabia for translation.
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2.
If a name, a word, or an expression ~s as something in a different language, that is what it means in that language.
His family’s Cantonese nickname for him ~s as Never Sits Still.
VERB: V as n
3.
If one thing ~s or is ~d into another, the second happens or is done as a result of the first.
Reforming Warsaw’s stagnant economy requires harsh measures that would ~ into job losses...
Your decision must be ~d into specific, concrete actions.
VERB: V into n, be V-ed into n
4.
If you say that a remark, a gesture, or an action ~s as something, or that you ~ it as something, you decide that this is what its significance is.
‘I love him’ often ~s as ‘He’s better than nothing’...
I ~d this as a mad desire to lock up every single person with HIV.
VERB: V as n, V n as n
5.
see also translation