TRANSLATION

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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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.
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The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

3.
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That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

4.
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A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

5.
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Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker.

6.
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Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.