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translation

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Poetry is what is lost in translation. Robert Frost

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. Rumi

Translation is at best an echo. George Borrow

Translation and He gives twice, who gives in a trice. French Proverb

Translation 2: He who sows the wind shall reap the storm. French Proverb

Translation and If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. French Proverb

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