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TRANSLATIONS

"TRANSLATIONS" is a plural of: translation.

Date "TRANSLATIONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definition: TRANSLATIONS

DomainDefinition

Health

Products resulting from the conversion of one language to another. (references)

Post & Telecom

The messages generated by subscriber number analysis process(SNAP)software as a result of analysing dialled digits. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TRANSLATIONS

English words defined with "TRANSLATIONS": Benjamin JowettJowettphrase book. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TRANSLATIONS": Address Resolution ProtocolChoriambic MetreHamiltonian Systemmail gatewayopen chain mechanismPCF. (references)

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Commercial Usage: TRANSLATIONS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aeschylus: The Complete Plays: Four Plays (Great Translations for Actors Series.) (reference)

  • Aias(Ajax): Ajax (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) (reference)

  • Claire D'Albe (Mla Texts and Translations, 13) (reference)

  • The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels: With Annotations and Translations, a Discussion of the Plates and Their Background, (reference)

  • The Anatomical Drawings of Andreas Vesalius: With Annotations and Translations, a Discussion of the Plates and Their Background, Authorship, and Infl (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: TRANSLATIONS

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

We sat together four hours, in which time I wrote down a great number of words in columns, with the translations over against them.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TRANSLATIONS

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

English translations of standards are available from Beuth Verlag GmbH (Beuth Publishing), at the same address. (references)

Growth in U.S. publishers' revenues from the sales of rights and translations in Taiwan has been most impressive. (references)

ANSI is the official U.S. depository for all ISO member-countries and has English translations of foreign standards. (references)

Civil Liberties

Laos

However, translations of foreign press reports generally are without bias, and access to Thai radio and television and foreign-based Internet servers generally is unhindered. (references)

Malaysia

The Government discouraged, and in practical terms forbade, the circulation in the peninsular region of the country of Malay-language translations of the Bible and distribution of Christian tapes and printed materials in Malay. (references)

Macedonia

In August the Government ordered that only translations of programs prepared by ethnic-Macedonian editors could be broadcast on state television; the ethnic-Albanian language bureau rejected the order, resulting in a 3-week interruption of Albanian-language television broadcasts. (references)

Economic History

Syria

However, instances of copyright infringement have occurred, especially of Arabic translations of English texts. (references)

Lithuania

If translations into Lithuanian are necessary, these must be done through an official translation bureau in Lithuania. (references)

Korea

Once all the documents have been submitted, along with Korean translations, the authorization process should be completed within three hours. (references)

Trade

China

In addition, a number of commercial entities now offer databases and translations of many regulations. (references)

Pakistan

Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references)

Travel

Guatemala

Catalogs and technical literature should be provided in careful translations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TRANSLATIONS

"TRANSLATIONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TRANSLATIONS" is used about 283 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%28317,340

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: TRANSLATIONS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TRANSLATIONS": back-translations, mis-translations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRANSLATIONS

Language Translations for "TRANSLATIONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

nummeranalysemeddelelse. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

translatie (translation), vertaling (translation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

käännökset. (various references)

   

French

  

messages convertis. (various references)

   

German

  

Übersetzungen (transmissions). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεταφράσεις. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Progetto pilota di sovvenzione alle traduzioni di opere letterarie contemporanee (Pilot scheme to provide financial aid for translations of contemporary literary works). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anslationstray

   

Portuguese

  

traduções. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

синхронный перевод (simultaneous translation, simultaneous translations), профессиональный перевод (professional translation, professional translations), перевод с набором значений (multiple translation, multiple translations), дословный перевод (literal translation, literal translations, metaphrase). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

translaciones, traducciones. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TRANSLATIONS

Derivations

Words ending with "TRANSLATIONS": mistranslations, retranslations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"TRANSLATIONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ranslation, transations, translacions, translaction, transnation, transplation, transtation, traslation, trenslation. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "TRANSLATIONS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TRANSLATIONS" (pronounced tranzlā"shunz)
6-l ā" sh u n zaccumulations, appellations, calculations, cancellations, circulations, compilations, congratulations, consolations, constellations, correlations, formulations, inoculations, installations, manipulations, miscalculations, mutilations, oscillations, populations, regulations, relations, revelations, simulations, speculations, stipulations, strangulations, tabulations, tribulations, violations.
5-ā" sh u n zabbreviations, aberrations, accommodations, accreditations, accusations, adaptations, administrations, affiliations, affirmations, allegations, allocations, alterations, altercations, amplifications, amputations, animations, annotations, anticipations, applications, appropriations, approximations, arbitrations, aspirations, assassinations, associations, authentications, authorizations, capitalizations, carnations, castrations, celebrations, certifications, characterizations, citations, civilizations, clarifications, classifications, collaborations, combinations, commemorations, communications, compensations, complications, computations, concentrations, condemnations, configurations, confirmations, confrontations, congregations, conjugations, connotations, consecrations, considerations, consolidations, consultations, conversations, cooperations, corporations, creations, crustaceans, dalmatians, decapitations, declarations, decorations, degradations, delegations, deliberations, demarcations, demonstrations, denationalizations, denominations, denunciations, deportations, depreciations, depredations, deprivations, desecrations, designations, destinations, determinations, detonations, devaluations, deviations, discolorations, dislocations, diversifications, donations, dramatizations, duplications, durations, educations, elevations, eliminations, emanations, emigrations, estimations, evacuations, evaluations, exacerbations, exaggerations, examinations, excavations, exclamations, exhortations, expectations, expirations, explanations, explorations, expropriations, fabrications, federations, flirtations, fluctuations, formations, fortifications, foundations, frustrations, generalizations, generations, gradations, graduations, gyrations, hallucinations, hesitations, hospitalizations, humiliations, identifications, illustrations, imaginations, imitations, immunizations, impatiens, implications, improvisations, inaugurations, incarnations, inclinations, incorporations, indications, infestations, informations, innovations, insinuations, inspirations, integrations, interpretations, interrogations, intimations, inundations, investigations, invitations, irritations, justifications, lacerations, liberalizations, limitations, liquidations, litigations, locations, machinations, magnifications, malformations, manifestations, medications, meditations, migrations, ministrations, miscreations, misrepresentations, mobilizations, modifications, motivations, mutations, nationalizations, nations, negotiations, nominations, notations, notifications, obligations, observations, occupations, operations, orations, orchestrations, organizations, orientations, originations, ovations, palpitations, participations, patients, perforations, permutations, perturbations, plantations, pontifications, preoccupations, preparations, presentations, privations, privatizations, proclamations, prognostications, pronunciations, protestations, provocations, publications, qualifications, quotations, ramifications, rationalizations, realizations, recapitalizations, recitations, recommendations, reconciliations, recriminations, registrations, rehabilitations, relocations, renegotiations, reorganizations, reparations, representations, reputations, reservations, resignations, restorations, revaluations, reverberations, revocations, rotations, ruminations, sensations, separations, situations, solicitations, specifications, stations, sterilizations, subluxations, summations, syndications, telecommunications, temptations, terminations, transformations, vacations, vaccinations, valuations, variations, vibrations, visitations, vocations.
4-sh u n zabductions, abortions, abstractions, academicians, acquisitions, actions, addictions, additions, admissions, admonitions, adoptions, affections, afflictions, aggressions, ambitions, ammunitions, apparitions, apprehensions, assertions, assumptions, attentions, attractions, auctions, auditions, captions, cautions, clinicians, coalitions, collections, commissions, competitions, completions, complexions, compositions, compulsions, conceptions, concessions, concoctions, concussions, conditions, confections, confessions, conjunctions, connections, constitutions, constrictions, constructions, contentions, contortions, contractions, contradictions, contraptions, contributions, conventions, convictions, convulsions, corrections, corruptions, cushions, deceptions, deductions, defections, definitions, deletions, demotions, depictions, depositions, depressions, descriptions, desertions, detentions, dietitians, digressions, dimensions, directions, discussions, dispositions, disruptions, dissections, distinctions, distortions, distractions, distributions, editions, egyptians, elections, electricians, electrocutions, elocutions, emissions, emotions, erections, eruptions, evictions, exactions, exceptions, executions, exemptions, exertions, exhibitions, expansions, expeditions, expositions, expressions, expulsions, extensions, extractions, factions, fashions, fictions, fractions, frictions, functions, geriatricians, imperfections, impressions, indiscretions, infections, inflections, infractions, inhibitions, injections, injunctions, inscriptions, inspections, institutions, instructions, interactions, interceptions, interconnections, interjections, intermissions, interruptions, intersections, introductions, inventions, jurisdictions, juxtapositions, lotions, magicians, malfunctions, martians, mathematicians, mentions, misconceptions, misperceptions, missions, motions, munitions, musicians, notions, objections, obsessions, obstetricians, obstructions, oceans, omissions, oppressions, opticians, options, partitions, passions, patricians, pediatricians, pensions, perceptions, permissions, petitions, physicians, politicians, portions, positions, possessions, potions, precautions, preconceptions, preconditions, predictions, predilections, predispositions, prescriptions, presumptions, pretensions, processions, productions, professions, prohibitions, projections, promotions, proportions, propositions, prosecutions, protections, rations, reactions, receptions, recessions, recollections, reconstructions, redemptions, reductions, reflections, regressions, rejections, remissions, renditions, renovations, repercussions, repetitions, repossessions, repressions, reproductions, resolutions, restrictions, revolutions, rhetoricians, sanctions, satisfactions, secretions, sections, selections, sessions, solutions, statisticians, submissions, subscriptions, substitutions, superstitions, suppositions, suspensions, suspicions, tacticians, technicians, theoreticians, traditions, transactions, transcriptions, transgressions, transitions, transmissions, tuitions, workstations.
3-u n zabandons, abrasions, abstentions, accordions, aliens, allergens, allusions, amphibians, antigens, antihistamines, antitoxins, aprons, arcadians, arsons, artisans, aspens, aspersions, assassins, Avions, awakens, badmintons, balbriggans, barbarians, bargains, barons, barrens, basins, bastions, battalions, beacons, beckons, bedouins, billions, blackens, bourbons, brackens, brightens, broadens, bruins, bulletins, burdens, buttons, cabins, cannons, canons, cantons, canyons, captains, carbons, carcinogens, cardigans, cartons, catamarans, catkins, caymans, centenarians, champions, chaplains, charlatans, chickens, chieftains, citizens, civilians, collegians, collisions, comedians, Commons, companions, comparisons, conclusions, confusions, congresspersons, contrarians, contusions, conversions, cottons, cousins, cravens, curtains, custodians, Daltons, dandelions, deacons, decisions, deepens, delicatessens, delusions, demons, denizens, determines, Dickens, dioxins, disciplinarians, disciplines, diversions, divisions, Dobsons, doctrines, dolphins, dozens, dragons, dungeons, elevens, endorphins, engines, environs, envisions, eons, equations, estrogens, evasions, evens, examines, exclusions, excursions, explosions, falcons, famines, felons, firmans, fluorocarbons, fortunes, fountains, frightens, galleons, gallons, Gammons, gardens, gascons, germans, Gibbons, givens, globulins, gluttons, gorgons, Gowans, grabens, gremlins, gryphons, guardians, happens, hardens, hastens, havens, heavens, heightens, heroines, herons, historians, hooligans, horizons, humanitarians, humans, hydrocarbons, hydrogens, illusions, imagines, incisions, inclusions, incursions, infusions, intentions, interventions, intestines, intrusions, invasions, ions, jillions, Jordans, kindergartens, kitchens, kittens, leavens, legions, lemans, lemons, lengthens, lesbians, lesions, lessens, lessons, libertarians, librarians, lichens, likens, linens, lions, lippens, listens, loosens, lubricants, luncheons, maidens, mandarins, mansions, margins, Marlins, martens, masons, matrons, mavens, medallions, medicines, melons, metropolitans, mignons, millions, minions, misfortunes, mittens, Morgans, mountains, muffins, mullens, myrmidons, neurosurgeons, newspersons, nonwovens, occasions, omens, onions, opens, opinions, organs, orphans, ovens, paeans, pardons, parliamentarians, Parsons, partisans, pathogens, patrons, pavilions, pedestrians, pelicans, penguins, penicillins, peons, persons, persuasions, pigeons, Pipkins, pistons, plantains, plebeians, poisons, pollens, polyhedrons, porcelains, prisons, prostaglandins, protozoans, provisions, pumpkins, puritans, questions, quickens, ravens, reasons, rebellions, recisions, reckons, regimens, regions, religions, reopens, republicans, rescissions, reunions, revisions, ribbons, Robins, romans, ruins, saddens, salmons, samaritans, sapiens, scallions, scorpions, seasons, seminarians, sermons, sevens, shamans, sharpens, shenanigans, shortens, Siemens, siphons, sirens, skeletons, slackens, slogans, smoothens, snapdragons, softens, sovereigns, sovrans, specimens, spokespersons, squadrons, stallions, stiffens, straightens, strengthens, sturgeons, subdivisions, suburbans, suggestions, sultans, summons, surgeons, sweetens, talons, tamarins, televisions, tendons, tensions, theologians, thickens, threatens, tightens, titans, toboggans, tokens, totalitarians, toughens, toxins, transfusions, trillions, truncheons, turbans, unions, unisons, urchins, utopians, vegetarians, versions, veterans, veterinarians, villains, virgins, visions, vitamins, wagons, wardens, warrens, watermelons, weakens, weapons, widens, woolens, worsens, yaupons, zillions.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: TRANSLATIONS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-1 letter: translation.

-2 letters: atonalists, nonartists, saltations, santolinas, tarnations.

-3 letters: annalists, antisolar, atonalist, natations, nationals, nonartist, orinasals, rationals, saltation, santolina, sonatinas, stational, strontias, tarnation.

-4 letters: alastors, alations, altoists, annalist, annattos, antlions, arnattos, arsonist, artisans, assonant, instants, intrants, natation, national, nostrils, notarial, onanists, oralists, orinasal, rational, rattails, satanist, solanins, sonantal, sonatina, stations, strontia, tonsilar, transits, tsarinas.

-5 letters: alanins.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: mistranslation, retranslations, strangulations, translocations.

 

+3 letters: mistranslations, reinstallations, transpositional, transvaluations, ultramontanisms.

 

+4 letters: antirationalisms, antirationalists, externalisations, gastrointestinal, supranationalist, transliterations, transnationalism, transplantations.

 

+5 letters: conversationalist, internationalises, internationalisms, internationalists, posttranslational, supranationalists, transilluminators, transnationalisms, ultranationalisms, ultranationalists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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