HOW TO PRONOUNCE
translation
/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
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What does translation mean?
noun
- The conversion of text from one language to another.
- The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
- The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
- A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
- The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
- A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
- The automatic retransmission of a telegraph message.
- An ascension to Heaven without death.
- A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
- A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
- A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
- The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
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IPA pronunciation
/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
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See this word in context.
The vision of translation from poverty and obscurity to such a splendid post as this--truly it was too dazzling for tranquil nerves.
Having finished my glass of “summut” and my translation, I called to the woman and asked her what I had to pay.
More book examples (3)
"Make haste slowly" is the translation of a Latin motto, which parents and teachers ought to observe in the education of children.
As the poem relates our troubles in somewhat quaint and biblical language, I have given a translation of it in the appendix.
Alexandre Dumas, who recently wrote a short romance upon the same subject, only made a translation of an English work by that author.