translator

noun

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.

1. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
2. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

   “"You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked. Premier Chou didn't wait for the translator to finish. "Never, never, never," he replied in perfect English.”

3. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

   “Mr. C. Blair Leighton... lithographer... was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process.”

4. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
5. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
6. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly
7. Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.

   “... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk.”

8. Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods.

   “Boots and Shoes are not to be had, I am told, in sufficient quantity for the demand from the slop-shops, the "translators," and the second-hand dealers. Great quantities of second-hand boots and shoes are sent to Ireland to be "translated" there.”

9. A used and repaired shoe, boot, or other item of clothing.
10. Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.
11. A thing that converts energy from one form to another.
12. The retinaculum of asclepiads.