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4 VERB If you say that a remark, a gesture, or an action translates as something, or that you translate it as something, you decide that this is what its significance is. □ [V + as ] 'I love him' often translates as 'He's better than nothing'. □ [V n + as ] Your body translates this physical sensation as the onset of panic.

5 → see also translation

trans|la|tion /trænzle I ʃ ^ə n/ (translations ) N‑COUNT [oft in N ] A translation is a piece of writing or speech that has been translated from a different language. □ [+ of ] …MacNiece's excellent English translation of 'Faust'. □  I've only read Solzhenitsyn in translation.

trans|la|tor /trænzle I tə ^r / (translators ) N‑COUNT A translator is a person whose job is translating writing or speech from one language to another.

trans|lu|cent /trænzluː s ^ə nt/

1 ADJ If a material is translucent , some light can pass through it. □  The building is roofed entirely with translucent corrugated plastic.

2 ADJ You use translucent to describe something that has a glowing appearance, as if light is passing through it. □  She had fair hair, blue eyes and translucent skin.

trans|mis|sion /trænzm I ʃ ^ə n/ (transmissions )

1 N‑UNCOUNT [n N ] The transmission of something is the passing or sending of it to a different person or place. □  …the possible risk for blood-borne disease transmission. □ [+ of ] …the transmission of knowledge and skills.

2 N‑UNCOUNT The transmission of television or radio programmes is the broadcasting of them.

3 N‑COUNT A transmission is a broadcast.

4 N‑VAR The transmission on a car or other vehicle is the system of gears and shafts by which the power from the engine reaches and turns the wheels. □  The car was fitted with automatic transmission. □  …a four-speed manual transmission.

trans|mit /trænzm I t/ (transmits , transmitting , transmitted )

1 VERB When radio and television programmes, computer data, or other electronic messages are transmitted , they are sent from one place to another, using wires, radio waves, or satellites. □ [be V -ed] The game was transmitted live in Spain and Italy. □ [V n] This is currently the most efficient way to transmit certain types of data. □ [V + to ] The device is not designed to transmit to satellites.

2 VERB If one person or animal transmits a disease to another, they have the disease and cause the other person or animal to have it. [FORMAL ] □ [V n + to ] …mosquitoes that transmit disease to humans. □ [V n] There was no danger of transmitting the infection through operations.

3 VERB If you transmit an idea or feeling to someone else, you make them understand and share the idea or feeling. [LITERARY ] □ [V n + to ] He transmitted his keen enjoyment of singing to the audience.

4 VERB If an object or substance transmits something such as sound or electrical signals, the sound or signals are able to pass through it. □ [V n] These thin crystals transmit much of the power.

trans|mit|ter /trænzm I tə ^r / (transmitters ) N‑COUNT A transmitter is a piece of equipment that is used for broadcasting television or radio programmes.

trans|mute /trænzmjuː t/ (transmutes , transmuting , transmuted ) VERB If something transmutes or is transmuted into a different form, it is changed into that form. [FORMAL ] □ [V + into ] She ceased to think, as anger transmuted into passion. □ [V n + into ] Scientists transmuted matter into pure energy and exploded the first atomic bomb. [Also V n] ●  trans|mu|ta|tion (transmutations ) N‑VAR □ [+ of ] …the transmutation of food into energy.