Exchange vs Translation - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between exchange and translation is that exchange is an act of exchanging or trading while translation is translation parallel displacement (motion without deformation or rotation). As a verb exchange is to trade or barter.
exchange Etymology 1
From (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschange (whence modern French ). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex- in English.
Noun
( en noun)
An act of exchanging or trading.
- All in all, it was an even exchange .
- an exchange of cattle for grain
A place for conducting trading.
- The stock exchange is open for trading.
A telephone exchange.
(telephony, US only? ) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
- The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.
- NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange .
A conversation.
- After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
* 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.
(chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another
# The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook
(obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* bet exchange
* bill of exchange
* exchange rate
* foreign exchange
* foreign exchange market
* ion exchange
* ion exchange chromatography
* ion exchange resin
* key exchange
* link exchange
* local exchange carrier
* means of exchange
* medium of exchange
* private branch exchange
* stock exchange
* telephone exchange
Etymology 2
From (etyl) eschaungen, from (etyl) eschaungier, eschanger, from the (etyl) verb eschangier, ).
Verb
( exchang)
To trade or barter.
- I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.
To replace with, as a substitute.
- I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.
- Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.
Derived terms
* exchange flesh
* exchanger
* exchange vows
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translation English
Alternative forms
* translatioun (obsolete)
* (abbreviations)
Noun
(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.
Derived terms
* fan translation
* machine translation
* translationless
* translation studies
Related terms
{{rel3, translate
, translated
, translational
, translative
, translator
, translatory}}
See also
* interpretation
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