Translation Trænzˈleɪʃn English Lost Noun Error Specializes Danish

• an error in translation
• he specializes in translation from danish into english.
• the request must have lost something in the translation from the french.
• several books are already in translation into other languages.

translation

1. the process of changing something that is written or spoken into another language
• an error in translation
• He specializes in translation from Danish into English.
• The request must have lost something in the translation from the French.
• Several books are already in translation into other languages.
• The poems do not survive the translation into English.
• The systems are used for the online translation of text.
• The book loses something in translation.
• The irony is lost in translation.
• There will be simultaneous translation in English and Chinese.
2. a text or word that has been changed from one language into another
• The usual translation of ‘glasnost’ is ‘openness’.
• a copy of Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid
• A full English translation of this speech is widely available on the internet.
• a rough translation (= not translating everything exactly)
• a literal translation (= following the original words exactly)
• a free translation (= not following the original words exactly)
• a word-for-word translation
• I have only read Tolstoy in translation.

Extra Examples

• I have a translation to do for Friday.
• She tried making her own translation of the contract.
• The translation of the Latin motto reads ‘Not for oneself, but for others’.
3. the process of changing something into a different form
• the translation of theory into practice
• the translation of sporting potential into Olympic gold medals

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin translatio(n-), from translat- ‘carried across’, past participle of transferre, from trans- ‘across’ + ferre ‘to bear’.