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How to use translation in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Translation means the conversion of text from one language to another. Example: “This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.”

Examples of translation by meaning

nounThe conversion of text from one language to another.

  • This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.

More sentences with translation

  • The companion guide gives an in-depth analysis of this particular translation.From the entry companion
  • He pulled out a well-thumbed dictionary and began searching for a translation.From the entry well-thumbed
  • The missa was printed in the original Latin with the English translation en face.From the entry en face
  • Intralingual translation involves adapting a text to a new purpose in the same language.From the entry intralingual
  • Wiktionary is meant to be both an explanatory dictionary and a translation dictionary.From the entry translation dictionary
  • I tried reading the instruction manual but many of the steps were unfortunately lost in translation.From the entry lost in translation
  • The message of the Japanese Prime Minister's speech was lost in translation.From the entry lost in translation
  • Go your gang, a literal translation of Dutch ga uw gang which means "please go ahead".From the entry Batavism
  • Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.From the entry lend
  • The translation does violence to the original novel.From the entry violence
  • The literal translation of Spanish irse al otro barrio is "to go to the other neighbourhood" but it means "to die".From the entry literal
  • Examples of affine transformations include translation, scaling, homothety, similarity, reflection, rotation, shear and compositions of them in any combination and sequence.From the entry affine transformation
  • Translations to all five languages were done in parallel.From the entry in parallel
  • Given an affine space X, every affine transformation on X can be represented as the composition of a linear transformation on X and a translation of X.From the entry affine transformation
  • Lapp Gold - translation of the Finnish beer brand Lapin Kulta which can also be variously translated as "Gold from Lapland", "Lapland Gold" and hence "Lapp Gold"From the entry Lapp
  • The novel includes a glossary of ayʔaǰuθɛm words, aided by their English translation and pronunciation guide.2024 December 5, Brendan Jure, “New graphic novel a love letter to Homalco First Nation culture and language”, in Nanaimo Bulletin. From the entry ayʔaǰuθɛm
  • In Aldrich Street’s translation story, English and Cantonese are creatively intertwined.2022 December 25, Diana Pang, “Foreign influence Part 1: Lost in translation, Hong Kong’s weird and wonderful street names”, in Hong Kong…. From the entry Aldrich Bay
  • Albinos, a nonalbino Tanzanian explained in voiceover translation, don't die if you kill them; they vanish.2021, Lucy Corin, The Swank Hotel. From the entry nonalbino
  • It has long been known that "backward translation" works very well in algesiometry.2020, Professor John N. Wood, The Oxford Handbook of the Neurobiology of Pain, page 45. From the entry algesiometry
  • The second method of translation is dynamic equivalence (aka functional equivalence).2019, Longy O. Anyanwu, The Color of God in the Crossroads of War, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry dynamic equivalence
  • Therefore, fan translations of "Ddaeng" provide detailed rules of seotda alongside the English lyrics.2019, Jeeheng Lee, translated by Oul Han, Solbee Park, BTS and ARMY Culture, 커뮤니케이션북스(주), →ISBN. From the entry seotda
  • Many diverse proteins and RNAs are involved in the translation of mRNA.2015, Erich Grotewold, Joseph Chappell, Elizabeth A[nne] Kellogg, “Translation of RNA”, in Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics, Chichester…. From the entry translate
  • The "isomorphic" PPTL formulas can be obtained by first an equisatisfiable translation and then an isomorphic mapping.2015, Xu Lu, Zhenhua Duan, Cong Tian, “Extending PPTL for Verifying Heap Evolution Properties”, in arXiv. From the entry equisatisfiable
  • "No good . . . translation," he managed, then flipped her onto her back.2013, Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction, →ISBN. From the entry fast-handed
  • Translation from Disney-speak: Merida is about to get her glam on.2013 May 7, Beth Kassab, “Disney’s glam makeovers send wrong message”, in Orlando Sentinel, page B1. From the entry Kardashianization
  • But he managed to catch the side of her head, ripping out Dak’s gross, earwaxy translation device.2013, James Dashner, “The Kick that Ended a Friendship”, in A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring; 1), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN. From the entry earwaxy
  • Therefore, Bézier curves are invariant under affine transformations like rotation, translation or scaling.2012, Frank Klawonn, Introduction to Computer Graphics: Using Java 2D and 3D, 2nd edition, Springer, page 151. From the entry Bézier curve
  • When I received the recipes, there was still some translation work to be done.2011, Bridget Asher, The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, London: Allison & Busby, published 2012, →ISBN, page 403. From the entry French-esque
  • I was a BAP (translation: a Black American Princess instead of a Jewish American Princess.2010 April, B.J.Ray, Porgies Are Best: A Fishmonger’s Daughter, page 42. From the entry map
  • We match translation more to mouth than to what words really mean.2009, Shawn Klomparens, Two Years, No Rain, page 49. From the entry lip flap
  • After our tour through the translation components we can now make our Python code “i18n-aware”.2008, Philipp Weitershausen, Web Component Development with Zope 3, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry i18n
  • Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet.2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry blank verse
  • Attention to orthotypographical rules is generrally underestimated in literary translations, despite its main importance.2006, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, volume 40, number 2, page 544. From the entry orthotypographical
  • Pitchers have a greater amount of glenohumeral translation in the dominant arm compared with nonpitching players.2005, Roy J. Shephard, The Year Book of Sports Medicine. From the entry nonpitching
  • Translation pedagogy is still in its infancy, and is in need of substantial theorisation.2004, Silvia Bernardini, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 23. From the entry theorisation
  • The act of translation requires the stepwise decoding of the mRNA one codon at a time.2003, Steven Scott Phelps, tRNA interactions in the ribosomal A-site […] , page 48. From the entry stepwise
  • But, the Greeks had to at least do translations from x (Hebrew?) to Greek.1996 September 4, //, “Creationists prohibit GOD from using HIS method !?”, in alt.catastrophism (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry bibliophile
  • The problem here was the translation of "period" by German "Periode".1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training the Translator, Benjamins Translation Library, page 17. From the entry collocation
  • Thus the translation attempts to render the lacunose text as accurately as possible.1995, Iain Gardner, “Comments on the Translation”, in The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with…. From the entry lacunose

Meaning of translation

  1. noun The conversion of text from one language to another.
  2. noun The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
  3. noun The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.

Full definition of translation

Questions about translation in a sentence

How do you use translation in a sentence?
Translation is used as a noun. For example: “This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.”
What is a short sentence with translation?
“Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.”
What does translation mean?
Translation means the conversion of text from one language to another.

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