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A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. B. Jonson. (more info) transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. 1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of

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A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. B. Jonson. (more info) transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. 1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop. 2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult. 3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • METAPHORIST
    One who makes metaphors.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • TRANSLATE
    To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
  • TRANSLATRESS
    A woman who translates.
  • TRANSLATITIOUS
    Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. Evelyn.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • TRANSFEREE
    The person to whom a transfer in made.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • STATEDLY
    At stated times; regularly.
  • MEAN
    menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
  • TRANSFEROGRAPHY
    The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.
  • TRANSLATORSHIP
    The office or dignity of a translator.
  • REMOVER
    One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
  • MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
    Winding; flexuous.
  • TRANSFERRIBLE
    Capable of being transferred; transferable.
  • STATELESS
    Without state or pomp.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • MISDEMEAN
    To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • DEMEANURE
    Behavior. Spenser.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • REVERSION
    The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
  • REMEANT
    Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • IRREMOVABLE
    Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • SUBVERSION
    The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.

 

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