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/trænzlˈeɪʃən/ /trænslˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Translation n.

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

(Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. (Obs.)

(Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

(Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; opposed to rotation.

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"Translation" Quotes from Famous Books

... confidence. This vice creeps on by very slow degrees, till, at last, it becomes an ungovernable passion, swallowing up every good and kind feeling of the heart. The gambler, as pourtrayed by REGNARD, in a comedy the translation of which into English resembles the original much about as nearly as Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S plagiarisms resembled the Registers on which they had been committed, is a fine instance of the contempt and scorn to which gaming at last reduces ...

— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett

... resignation than his prospects in London. It was the week when he would have been canvassing for the appointment, and he was glad to linger abroad out of reach of Sir Matthew's remonstrances, and his father's compunction, while he was engaged in arranging for a French translation of Dr. Spencer's book, and likewise in watching an interesting case, esteemed a great medical curiosity, ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... rise again to the level whence he fell. For it has glimpses of the divine Image within or behind the material veil; and its constant impulse is to tear aside the veil and grasp the image. The world, let us say, is a gross and finite translation of an infinite and perfect Word; and imagination is the intuition of that perfection, born in the human heart, and destined forever to draw mankind into ...

— Confessions and Criticisms • Julian Hawthorne

... flowers, played with the child and the dogs and the pony, and as they were coming back to the house for dinner, Charles suggested that they might like to come up to his dressing-room and wash their hands before dinner—to which one of them replied, "Grazie, non mi sporco facilmente" (literal translation, "Thanks, I don't dirty myself easily"), and declined the offer of ...

— Chateau and Country Life in France • Mary King Waddington

... undertaking was his translation of "Faust," which was accepted abroad as a monument of his scholarship, and remains to-day one of the best translations into English of the great Goethe's ...

— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody

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