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trans·la·tor

(trăns′lā′tər, trănz′-, trăns-lā′tər, trănz-)

1. One that translates, especially:

a. One employed to render written works into another language.

b. A computer program or application that renders one language or data format into another.

2. An interpreter.

trans′la·to′ri·al (-lə-tôr′ē-əl) adj.

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translator

(trænsˈleɪtə; trænz-)

1. a person or machine that translates speech or writing

2. (Broadcasting) radio a relay transmitter that retransmits a signal on a carrier frequency different from that on which it was received

3. (Computer Science) computing a computer program that converts a program from one language to another

ˌtranslaˈtorial adj

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Noun	1.	translator - a person who translates written messages from one language to another transcriber polyglot, linguist - a person who speaks more than one language
	2.	translator - someone who mediates between speakers of different languages interpreter go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator, mediator - a negotiator who acts as a link between parties dragoman - an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) symboliser, symbolizer, symbolist - someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols
	3.	translator - a program that translates one programming language into another translating program computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"

translator

noun interpreter, transcriber, paraphraser, decipherer, linguist, metaphrast, paraphrast, transliterator The translator has perfectly captured the style of the original.

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Translations

مُتَرْجِم

překladatel-ka

oversættertranslatør

Übersetzer Dolmetscher

μεταφραστής

traductor

tõlk

kääntäjäkielenkääntäjä

traducteur traductrice

अनुवादक

prevoditelj

fordító

penerjemah

òÿîandiþýðandi

traduttore traduttrice

翻訳者

번역사

traducător

переводчик переводчица

prekladateľ

prevajalec

prevodilacпреводилац

översättare

ผู้แปล

çevirmen tercüman

dịch giả

翻译者译员译者

translator

[trænzˈleɪtəʳ] N → traductor(a) m/f

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translator

[trænsˈleɪtə^r] n → traducteur/trice m/f
Anita's a translator → Anita est traductrice.

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translator

n → Übersetzer(in) m(f)

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translator

[trænzˈleɪtəʳ] n → traduttore/trice

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translate

(trӕnsˈleit) verb

to put (something said or written) into another language. He translated the book from French into English.

transˈlation noun

1. the act of translating. The translation of poetry is difficult.

2. a version of a book, something said etc, in another language. He gave me an Italian translation of the Bible.

transˈlator noun

a person who translates.

translator

→ مُتَرْجِم překladatel oversætter Übersetzer μεταφραστής traductor kielenkääntäjä traducteur prevoditelj traduttore 翻訳者 번역사 vertaler oversetter tłumacz tradutor переводчик översättare ผู้แปล tercüman dịch giả 译者

translator

n. traductor-a; intérprete.

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The following relation is so curious and entertaining, and the dissertations that accompany it so judicious and instructive, that the translator is confident his attempt stands in need of no apology, whatever censures may fall on the performance.

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The translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth chapter, says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho Panza speaks in a style unlike that which might have been expected from his limited intelligence, and says things so subtle that he does not think it possible he could have conceived them; however, desirous of doing what his task imposed upon him, he was unwilling to leave it untranslated, and therefore he went on to say:

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In this case, indeed, the work is not wholly one of self-effacement, for the accomplished translator has prefaced Amiel's Journal by an able and interesting essay of seventy pages on Amiel's life and intellectual position.

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He has been translator to a publishing house--declared incapable by envious newspapers and reviews.

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The boy's were shining with the impersonal zeal of the translator.

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Farce" in France correspond with those drawn on the "Bank of Engraving" in England.-- Translator's Note.

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As a tutor, whose attainments made the student's way unusually pleasant and profitable, and as an elegant translator who brought something to his work besides mere dictionary knowledge, young Mr.

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The great Goethe himself wrote a kind letter to his translator. It came to him, said Carlyle, "like a message from fairyland." And thus encouraged, after drifting here and there, trying first one thing and then another, Carlyle gave himself up to literature.

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As translator and editor his style is careless and uncertain, but like Malory's it is sincere and manly, and vital with energy and enthusiasm.

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They found a most worthy editor in the late distinguished Sir George Cornewall Lewis, and a translator equally qualified for his task, in the Reverend James Davies, M.A., sometime a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, and himself a relation of their English editor.

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Perhaps the translator found it a difficult matter to be sentimental in a language in which a sob is known as a gukcziojimas and a smile as a nusiszypsojimas.

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One of the noble peers, who was familiar with the Arabic language, having studied it during the famous Egyptian campaign, followed with his eye as the translator read aloud: --