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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRANSLA'TION, n. [L. translatio.]
1. The act of removing or conveying from one place to another; removal; as the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast.
2. The removal of a bishop from one see to another.
3. The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death.
4. The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as the translation of Virgil or Homer.
5. That which is produced by turning into another language; a version. We have a good translation of the Scriptures.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language [syn: translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version]
2: a uniform movement without rotation
3: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: transformation, translation]
4: (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same
5: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
6: rewording something in less technical terminology
7: the act of uniform movement [syn: translation, displacement]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. an act, process, or instance of translating: as a. a rendering from one language into another; also the product of such a rendering b. a change to a different substance, form, or appearance ; conversion c. (1) a transformation of coordinates in which the new axes are parallel to the old ones (2) uniform motion of a body in a straight line 2. the process of forming a protein molecule at a ribosomal site of protein synthesis from information contained in messenger RNA — compare transcription 3 • translational adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of translating. 2 a written or spoken expression of the meaning of a word, speech, book, etc. in another language. Derivatives: translational adj. translationally adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Translation Trans*la"tion, n. [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. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. --A. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(translations) A translation is a piece of writing or speech that has been translated from a different language. ...MacNiece's excellent English translation of 'Faust'... I've only read Solzhenitsyn in translation. N-COUNT: also in N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

trans-la'-shun: The verb "translate" is found once in the Old Testament (2Sa 3:10 the King James Version, in the sense of "to transfer") and 3 times in the New Testament (Col 1:13, methistemi, where it means "to transfer"; twice in Heb 11:5, where it has the quasi-technical sense of removing one from the earthly to the heavenly state without the intervening experience of death).

The noun "translation" occurs only in Heb 11:5, metathesis, where it refers to the transition, the general nature of which has just been described in connection with the verb. With their customary reserve in regard to such matters, the Scriptures simply record the fact of Enoch's translation without commenting either upon the attendant circumstances, or upon the nature of the change involved in his experience. Doubtless what Paul says in 1Co 15:51,52 applied in the case of Enoch and also in that of Elijah (2Ki 2:11).

W. M. McPheeters

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Removal, transportation, conveyance, carriage. 2. Transfer, transferring, transferrence. 3. Interpretation, rendering. 4. Version. 5. (Med.) Metastasis, change in the seat of a disease.

Moby Thesaurus

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