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Word Meanings - METAPHRASED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Translated literally.

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  • LITERALLY
    1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
  • TRANSLATRESS
    A woman who translates.
  • TRANSLATITIOUS
    Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. Evelyn.
  • TRANSLATORSHIP
    The office or dignity of a translator.
  • TRANSLATIVE
    tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. Puttenham.
  • TRANSLATION
    A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. B. Jonson. (more info) transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. 1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of
  • TRANSLATABLE
    Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.
  • TRANSLATOR
    A repeating instrument. (more info) 1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.
  • TRANSLATE
    To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
  • TRANSLATORY
    Serving to translate; transferring. Arbuthnot.
  • MISTRANSLATE
    To translate erroneously.
  • MISTRANSLATION
    Wrong translation.
  • RETRANSLATE
    To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.

 

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