translation
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Noun (7)translations
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first languageSynonyms: interlingual renditionrenderingversionType of written record, written accountKinds supertitle, subtitle, retroversion, pony, mistranslation
- a uniform movement without rotationType of change of location, travelKinds shift, displacement
- the act of changing in form or shape or appearance“a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface”Synonyms: transformationType of change of integrityKinds revision, transfiguration, permutation, transmogrification, metamorphosis
- (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the sameType of transformation
- (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasmType of organic process, biological process
- rewording something in less technical terminologyType of paraphrase, paraphrasis
- the act of uniform movementSynonyms: displacement
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Translations
Noun act of translating between languages
- Spanish
- traducción
- French
- traduction
- German
- Übersetzung
- Italian
- traduzione
- Portuguese
- tradução
- Turkish
- tercüme
- Russian
- перево́д perevód
- Arabic
- تَرْجَمَة tarjama
- Chinese
- 翻译 fānyì
- Japanese
- 翻訳 hon'yaku
32 more languages
- Dutch
- vertaling
- Polish
- tłumaczenie
- Swedish
- översättning
- Greek
- μετάφραση metáfrasi
- Korean
- 번역 beonyeok
- Indonesian
- alih bahasa
- Vietnamese
- bản dịch
- Hungarian
- fordítás
- Portuguese (PT)
- tradução
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 翻譯 fānyì
- Albanian
- përkthim
- Catalan
- traducció
- Czech
- překlad
- Danish
- oversættelse
- Esperanto
- traduko
- Estonian
- tõlge
- Finnish
- käännös
- Georgian
- თარგმანი targmani
- Hebrew
- תַּרְגּוּם tirgúm
- Icelandic
- þýðing
- Kurdish
- werger
- Latvian
- tulkojums
- Lithuanian
- vertimas
- Norwegian
- oversettelse
- Romanian
- traducere
- Scottish Gaelic
- eadar-theangachadh
- Serbo-Croatian
- prijevod
- Slovenian
- prevod
- Swahili
- tafsiri
- Walloon
- ratournaedje
- Welsh
- cyfieithiad
- Yiddish
- איבערזעצונג iberzetsung
Noun math, physics
- Spanish
- traslación
- French
- translation
- German
- Translation
- Italian
- traslazione
- Portuguese
- translação
- Russian
- паралле́льный перено́с parallélʹnyj perenós
- Dutch
- translatie
- Polish
- translacja
- Swedish
- translation
- Hungarian
- eltolás
5 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- translação
- Finnish
- translaatio
- Icelandic
- hliðrun
- Romanian
- translație
- Swahili
- fasiri
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation.
1. 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.
2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.
3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
4. Rhetoric A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. obsolete Ben Jonson
5. Metaphysics Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. Abraham Tucker
6. 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54