translator
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænzleɪtɚ/
The English word “translator” has 12 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
- Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech.
- A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium.
- A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
- A relay station that retransmits incoming television signals after automatically adjusting their frequency to avoid interference.
- 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.
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.
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