Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the transfer or movement of a person or thing to another place.
- adjective Relating to or used in the translation of a language.
- adjective Linguistics Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating the state into which one passes in certain languages, as in Finnish (Tule) terveeksi! “(Get) well!”
- noun The translative case.
- noun A word or form in the translative case.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to translation; especially, involving transference of meaning; metaphorical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare tropical; figurative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to the
movement of a person or thing from one place to another - adjective of, or relating to the
translation oflanguage - adjective linguistics of, or relating to the
translative case - adjective In the form of a
trope ;figurative . - noun the translative case
- noun a
word in the translative case
Etymologies
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Examples
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
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The four: the tension between externalist and internalist views of the causes of human suffering; translative or transformative approaches to the nature of change; the role given to individual versus community or collective; and something called altitude.
Beyond Liberal, Left, and Progressive: An Inclusive and Revolutionary Politics for Tomorrow 2007
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For us, most giving is translative in that it involves the giver's surrender of every connection to the gift, making it natural for us to suppose that God renounces His authority over what He gives us.
John Wyclif's Political Philosophy Lahey, Stephen 2006
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This _translative action_, as it is technically called, commences ordinarily in about three fathoms water, and is most violent in six or eight feet depths, within which the sea breaks.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Which suiting the case so well, you’ll forgive me, Sir, for ‘popping down’ in ‘English metre,’ as the ‘translative impulse’ (pardon a new word, and yet we ‘scholars’ are not fond of ‘authenticating new’ words) came upon me ‘uncalled for’:
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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