translator
/ˈtɹænzleɪtɚ/ noun
Forms translators tr. trans. transl. translater translatour translatoure traunslatour translacttor translature translatar translatare
- noun A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
- noun (inexact, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech.
- noun (figuratively) A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium.
- noun (computing, chiefly historical) A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
- noun (chiefly US) A relay station that retransmits incoming television signals after automatically adjusting their frequency to avoid interference.
- noun (computing) A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.
- noun (chiefly obsolete) Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.
- noun (historical) Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods.
Synonyms
interpreter carrier repairer particularly of leather or cloth goods repeater dubash transcriber translating program
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.
- noun A repeating instrument. [Eng.]
Etymology [L. translator: cf. F. translateur.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “translator”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details