Translation vs Dictionary - What's the difference?
translation | dictionary |
(label) The act or (label) an act of translating, in its various senses:
# The conversion of text from one language to another.
# The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
# (label) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
# (label) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
# A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
# The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
## (label) An ascension to Heaven without death.
## (label) A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
## (label) A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
## (label) A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
(label) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically and explaining each word's meaning and sometimes containing information on its etymology, usage, translations and other data.
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By extension, any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g. biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
(label) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a physical dictionary.
* 2011 , Jon Galloway, ?Phil Haack, ?Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3
(label) To look up in a dictionary.
(label) To add to a dictionary.
* 1866 , William Henry Ward, The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph (page 12)
* 2001 , The Michigan Alumnus (page 25)
To compile a dictionary.
* 1864 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 96, page 334)
(label) To appear in a dictionary.
As nouns the difference between translation and dictionary
is that translation is translation parallel displacement (motion without deformation or rotation) while dictionary is a reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically and explaining each word's meaning and sometimes containing information on its etymology, usage, translations and other data.As a verb dictionary is
(label) to look up in a dictionary.translation
English
Alternative forms
* translatioun (obsolete) * (abbreviations)Noun
Derived terms
* fan translation * machine translation * translationless * translation studiesSee also
* interpretation ----dictionary
English
Noun
(dictionaries)- But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries' such as Hornby's (1974) ''Oxford Advanced Learner's '''Dictionary of Current English'' include not only ''categorial'' information in their entries, but also information about the range of ''Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
- User calls
RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in aRequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.
Synonyms
* wordbookDerived terms
* encyclopedic dictionary * explanatory dictionary * fictionary * pedagogical dictionary * Pictionary * pronunciation dictionary * subdictionary * translating dictionary * translationarySee also
* lexicon * encyclopedia * vocabularyAnagrams
*Verb
(en-verb)- By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
- Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn't dictionaried .
- They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying ; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?