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translator
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She worked in Geneva as a translator . ▪ Speaking through a translator , Li told of his early life. ▪ The publishers are looking for an American translator for his novels. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A year later, it focused ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French translator (12c.) or directly from Latin translator "one who transfers or interprets, one who carries over," agent noun from transferre (see transfer (v.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who translates written messages from one language to another [syn: transcriber ] someone who mediates between speakers of different languages [syn: interpreter ] a program that translates one programming language into another [syn: translating ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Translator may refer to:
Usage examples of translator.
This river of noise is routed through translators in Pakistan and, in some cases, the United States, appraising ears whose job is to know a direct hit when they hear one.
She was involved with a Federation program intended to develop a universal translator, and Sarek was happy to have his linguistics department assist her: such an instrument could only be a tremendous breakthrough, in a world where until now wars might be caused or averted by the mistranslation of a term.
The translator tapes, incidentally, are approximately the same size, but this is no help, since the tapes represent pairings of approximate equivelants, and there are several English morphemes not translatable into the language of Priest-Kings, and, as I learned, morphemes in their language for which no English equivelants exist.
On our own part, we beg to add, that we understand the style of the translator is more paraphrastic than can be approved by those who are acquainted with the singularly curious original.
Yahya bin Khalid, the Barmekide, 99, 100 Yahya bin Maseweih, the physician and translator, 74, 75, 91,98 Yakut, the penman, 113, 114 Yazid I.
The translator was an old, gnarled Scrow gentleman who, despite his tribal appurtenances, had been trained in the university environs of Shiz.
Then a translator box built somewhere into the fabric of the flitter hissed into life, and Parz knew that the Spline had established a tight laser link.
On the so-called translator is forced the job of taking unrelated syllables and grouping them into what looks to him to be intelligible words, substituting then such of the Chinese ideographs necessary to pin it down, and then going ahead with the translation, which is a much more difficult job than simple translation.
Older than Adams by nearly fifteen years, he served faithfully as a translator and expert source of information.
Edmund Charles Genet, the audacious new envoy from Jacobin France, was the son of Edme Genet, the French foreign office translator, with whom Adams had once worked in Paris, turning out propaganda for the American Revolution.
The translator, the adaptor, is information-rich, determined, locked in.
Two Cathayans were assigned me as translators while Bactrian cavalry and foot soldiers acted as military escort.
This boy, born in Moss Side in 1916, was to be -- by a twist if not genetic then purely coincidental, since family interest in Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli was born and apparently died with the founder of the family -- the translator into English of the great Roman poet.
In the present attempt to render into English this portion of the works of Clausewitz, the translator is sensible of many deficiencies, but he hopes at all events to succeed in making this celebrated treatise better known in England, believing, as he does, that so far as the work concerns the interests of this country, it has lost none of the importance it possessed at the time of its first publication.
Russian Space Agency, through a Sword translator, its purpose having been to keep him abreast of unfolding developments and strongly advise that security around the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan-and other RKS complexes in his directorate-be placed on heightened alert.