Definition of Translation

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Translation

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.

A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.

Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

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 Quotations

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Jorge Luis Borges

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
Marilyn Hacker

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
Marilyn Hacker

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Henry Ellis

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Boris Pasternak

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Rene Magritte

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly

Translation Translations

translation in Afrikaans is vertaling
translation in Dutch is translatie, translaat, overzetting
translation in French is traduction
translation in Italian is traduzione, traduzione

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