Translate vs Munge - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between translate and munge

is that translate is to change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another while munge is to transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.

As a noun translate

is a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

translate

English

Verb

(translat)

(label) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.

(label) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.

(label) To change from one form or medium to another.

* Shakespeare

* Macaulay

(label) To change from one form or medium to another.

To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.

To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.

To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.

* Evelyn

To transfer a bishop from one see to another.

* Camden.

*'>citation

To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.

* Heb. xi. 5.

To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.

To rearrange a song from one genre to another.

(label) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.

Usage notes

"Translation" is often used loosely to describe any act of conversion from one language into another, although formal usage typically distinguishes "interpretation" as the proper term for conversion of speech. Conversion of text from one orthography to another (attempting to roughly establish equivalent sound) is distinguished as "transliteration", whereas translation attempts to establish equivalent meaning. "Literal", "verbatim", or "word-for-word translation" ("metaphrase") aims to capture as much of the exact expression as possible, while "loose" or "free translation" or "paraphrase" aims to capture the general sense or artistic affect of the original text. At a certain point, however, text which has been too freely translated may be considered an "adaptation" instead.

Synonyms

Derived terms

{{der3, translation , translator , translatory , translatable , translatability , translative , translatives , translational , translationally}}

Noun

(en noun)

A set of points obtained by'' adding a ''given'' fixed vector to each point ''of'' a ''given set.

Anagrams

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munge

English

Alternative forms

* mung

Verb

(transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.

* 2011 , Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration

As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.

(transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).

* 1998 , Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam

Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.

(transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.

It looks like this record is munged —it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date