Translation
noun
The act of changing words from one language to another.
The translation of this Spanish novel into English took two years.
Often appears as...
- word for word translation
- literal translation
noun
The act of moving something from one place to another.
The process of translation moves the object across the room.
Often appears as...
- mechanical translation
- physical translation
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Technical
noun
The process where a genetic sequence is used to create a protein.
Translation is crucial for body functions as it forms all kinds of proteins.
Often appears as...
- protein translation
- rna translation
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Academic
noun
The act of changing words from one language to another.
The translation of this Spanish novel into English took two years.
Often appears as...
- word for word translation
- literal translation
noun
The act of moving something from one place to another.
The process of translation moves the object across the room.
Often appears as...
- mechanical translation
- physical translation
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The process where a genetic sequence is used to create a protein.
Translation is crucial for body functions as it forms all kinds of proteins.
Often appears as...
- protein translation
- rna translation
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Nuances
Some translations may not capture cultural expressions or idioms accurately.
The translation missed the joke's cultural nuance.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Literal
Translations often require interpretation; they're not always word-for-word.
This poem needs a non-literal translation to make sense in English.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Matters
Context can drastically change translation choices.
Depending on context, 'bank' can translate to a financial institution or riverside.
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The freakonomics of...
Here's the translation you get from the gang member. They're talking about the decision of why they don't go shoot -- One thing that turns out to be a great business tactic in the if you go and just shoot guns in the air in the other gang's territory -- people are afraid to go buy drugs there, they're going to come into your neighborhood. Here's what he says about why they don't do
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Massive-scale online...
Normally, you have to pay people to do this. So how are we going to motivate them to do it for free? When we were starting to think about this, we were blocked by these two things. But then we realized, there's a way to solve both these problems with the same solution. To kill two birds with one stone. And that is to transform language translation
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How computers translate...
But this is no easy task, and the sheer number of languages in the world, as well as the increasing interaction between the people who speak them, will only continue to spur greater advances in automatic translation. Perhaps by the time we encounter intergalactic life forms, we'll be able to communicate with them through a tiny gizmo,
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My year reading a book...
stuck to their word, sent their translations back to me, and within six weeks, I had the entire book to read. In that case, as I found so often during my year of reading the world, my not knowing and being open about my limitations had become a big opportunity.
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Ethan Zuckerman: How to...
We need to look at ways of creating serendipity, of making translation pervasive, and we need to find ways to embrace and celebrate these bridge figures. And we need to figure out how to cultivate xenophiles. That's what I'm trying to do. I need your help.
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Adam Nicolson: The King...
great book is that the people who did this who made these translations were not tucked away in the ivory tower of the University in their gravy necks and their gold rimmed spectacles they were deeply involved with the world politics
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Fact-checking the Bible...
sent out a message that all the world should be taxed and/or a census taken depends on the translation and that everyone had to travel to their ancestral homeland to be counted scholars have a couple questions about
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How One Penguin Started...
That is why you called Pedral, big area with stones it would be the translation. So when we got to the waterfront immediately I could see that the nests, just one nest is really important is a big decision.
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Three ideas. Three...
and as for the written word, I'm OK at it but it's a tortuous process of translation, and I don't feel it does the job. And as far as speaking my own mind, like I said, I'm not great at it.
Video examples
Don't fear intelligent...
better interfaces to help us coach our machines towards more useful intelligence. Human plus machine isn't the future, it's the present. Everybody that's used online translation
Video examples
The freakonomics of...
Here's the translation you get from the gang member. They're talking about the decision of why they don't go shoot -- One thing that turns out to be a great business tactic in the if you go and just shoot guns in the air in the other gang's territory -- people are afraid to go buy drugs there, they're going to come into your neighborhood. Here's what he says about why they don't do
Video examples
Massive-scale online...
Normally, you have to pay people to do this. So how are we going to motivate them to do it for free? When we were starting to think about this, we were blocked by these two things. But then we realized, there's a way to solve both these problems with the same solution. To kill two birds with one stone. And that is to transform language translation
Video examples
How computers translate...
But this is no easy task, and the sheer number of languages in the world, as well as the increasing interaction between the people who speak them, will only continue to spur greater advances in automatic translation. Perhaps by the time we encounter intergalactic life forms, we'll be able to communicate with them through a tiny gizmo,
Video examples
My year reading a book...
stuck to their word, sent their translations back to me, and within six weeks, I had the entire book to read. In that case, as I found so often during my year of reading the world, my not knowing and being open about my limitations had become a big opportunity.
Video examples
Ethan Zuckerman: How to...
We need to look at ways of creating serendipity, of making translation pervasive, and we need to find ways to embrace and celebrate these bridge figures. And we need to figure out how to cultivate xenophiles. That's what I'm trying to do. I need your help.
Video examples
Adam Nicolson: The King...
great book is that the people who did this who made these translations were not tucked away in the ivory tower of the University in their gravy necks and their gold rimmed spectacles they were deeply involved with the world politics
Video examples
Fact-checking the Bible...
sent out a message that all the world should be taxed and/or a census taken depends on the translation and that everyone had to travel to their ancestral homeland to be counted scholars have a couple questions about
Video examples
How One Penguin Started...
That is why you called Pedral, big area with stones it would be the translation. So when we got to the waterfront immediately I could see that the nests, just one nest is really important is a big decision.
Video examples
Three ideas. Three...
and as for the written word, I'm OK at it but it's a tortuous process of translation, and I don't feel it does the job. And as far as speaking my own mind, like I said, I'm not great at it.
Video examples
Don't fear intelligent...
better interfaces to help us coach our machines towards more useful intelligence. Human plus machine isn't the future, it's the present. Everybody that's used online translation
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Kate Grenville
Australian Author
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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Story Musgrave
American Astronaut
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
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Edward Sapir
American Scientist
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.
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Jonathan Miller
British Entertainer
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
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Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
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Sofia Boutella
Algerian Actress
As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.
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John Millington Synge
Irish Poet
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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Rene Magritte
Belgian Artist
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
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Gillian Tans
American Businesswoman
Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.
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Kate Grenville
Australian Author
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
Quote examples
Story Musgrave
American Astronaut
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
Quote examples
Edward Sapir
American Scientist
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.
Quote examples
Jonathan Miller
British Entertainer
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
Quote examples
Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
Quote examples
Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
Quote examples
Sofia Boutella
Algerian Actress
As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.
Quote examples
John Millington Synge
Irish Poet
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
Quote examples
Rene Magritte
Belgian Artist
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Quote examples
Gillian Tans
American Businesswoman
Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.
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