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TRANSLATION. The copy made in one language of what has been written, or
spoken in another.
2. In pleading, when a libel or an agreement, written in a foreign
language, must be averred, it is necessary that a translation of it should
also be given.
3. In evidence, when a witness is unable to speak the English language
so as to convey his ideas, a translation of his testimony must be made. In
that case, an interpreter should be sworn to translate to him, on oath, the
questions propounded to him, and to translate to the court and jury his
answers. 4 Mass. 81; 5 Mass. 219; 2 Caines' Rep. 155; Louis. Code of Pr.
784, 5.
4. It has been determined that a copyright may exist in a translation,
as a literary work. 3 Ves. & Bea. 77; 2 Meriv. 441, n.
5. In the ecclesiastical law, translation denotes the removal from one
place to another.; as, the bishop was translated from the diocese of A, to
that of B. In the civil law, translation signifies the transfer of property.
Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.
6. Swinburne applies the term translation to the bestowing of a legacy
which had been given to one, on another; this is a species of ademption,
(q.v.) but it differs from it in this, that there may be an ademption
without a translation, but there can be no translation without an ademption.
Bac. Ab. Legacies, C.
7. By translation is also meant the transfer of property, but in this
sense it is seldom used. 2 Bl. Com. 294. Vide Interpreter.
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category
n 1: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there
are two classes of detergents" [syn: {class}, {family}]
2: a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a
conceptual scheme
translating
Translate \Trans*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Translated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Translating}.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of
transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See
{Trans-}, and {Tolerate}, and cf. {Translation}.]
1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to
transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden.
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In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show
her head- the rest of her body being translated to
Rome. --Evelyn.
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2. To change to another condition, position, place, or
office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
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By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not
see death; and was not found, because God had
translatedhim. --Heb. xi. 5.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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5. To render into another language; to express the sense of
in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to
explain or recapitulate in other words.
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Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing
language, what he found in books well known to the
world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.
--Macaulay.
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6. To change into another form; to transform.
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Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. --Shak.
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7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to
another; as, to translate a disease.
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8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
[Obs.] --J. Fletcher.
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