translator
Meanings
Plural: translators
Noun
- a person who translates written messages from one language to another
- someone who mediates between speakers of different languages
- a program that translates one programming language into another
- A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
- A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
- A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
- Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech.
- A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
- A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium.
- A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
- A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
- A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
- A relay station that retransmits incoming television signals after automatically adjusting their frequency to avoid interference.
- A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
- A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.
- Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.
- Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods.
- A used and repaired shoe, boot, or other item of clothing.
- Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.
- A thing that converts energy from one form to another.
- The retinaculum of asclepiads.
Origin / Etymology
Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.
Synonyms
carrier, dubash, interpreter, particularly of leather or cloth goods, repairer, repeater, transcriber, translating program
Scrabble Score: 10
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