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Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death..

Basanite :: Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal..

Tail :: Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile..

Mistranslate :: Mistranslate (v. t.) To translate erroneously.

Interpret :: Interpret (v. t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech..

Ribbed :: Ribbed (a.) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.

Keramographic :: Keramographic (a.) Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe..

Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century..

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..

Overlap :: Overlap (n.) The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof..

Sea Slater :: Sea slater () Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.

Interpreter :: Interpreter (n.) One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties..

Translated :: Translated (imp. & p. p.) of Translat.

Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To change into another form; to transform.

Shindle :: Shindle (n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing..

Sarking :: Sarking (n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes..

Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment..

Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text..

Zax :: Zax (n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.

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