Word Meanings - TRANSLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 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.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• TRANSLATRESS
  A woman who translates.
• 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
• TRANSLATITIOUS
  Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. Evelyn.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• TRANSFEREE
  The person to whom a transfer in made.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• STATESMANLY
  Becoming a statesman.
• STATESMAN
  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
• STATEDLY
  At stated times; regularly.
• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• TRANSFEROGRAPHY
  The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.
• TRANSLATORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a translator.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• TRANSFERRIBLE
  Capable of being transferred; transferable.
• STATELESS
  Without state or pomp.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• SUBVERSION
  The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The
• TRIPLICOSTATE
  Three-ribbed.