translating, vbl. n.
(trɑːnsˈleɪtɪŋ, træns-, -nz-)
[f. translate v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. translate; translation, in various senses.
| c 1460 Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xi. (1885) 137 With owt translatynge þeroff to any oþer vse. 1474 Churchw. Acc. St. Mich., Cornhill (Camden), Payde for translatyng of the meyres pue. 1535 in Archæologia IX. 246 For translating of a gowne of blacke veluette. 1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 63 The translating of the Imperiall seate, from Rome to Constantinople. 1683 Burnet tr. More's Utopia Pref. 1 The refining and polishing a Language,..the translating of Books into it. 1904 Q. Rev. July 7 Translating is a large industry, as any English reviewer of the last ten years can testify. |
b. attrib., as
translating-right,
translating-trade;
translating-relay (
Telegr.): see
relay n.1 4;
translating-roller,
-screw (
Mech.), a screw which moves a part of a mechanism in relation to the other parts;
translating-station (
Telegr.), a station at which an automatic repeater is introduced.
| 1905 Preece & Sivewright Telegr. xi. 235 *Translating relays are required for the intercommunication between stations. |
| 1911 Webster, *Translating-roller (Ordnance) a double-threaded screw for drawing a breech-block longitudinally from its place in the breech. |
| 1891 Cent. Dict., *Translating-screw,..spec., in breech-loading ordnance, a screw for moving in or out the wedge in the fermeture. |
| 1855 Patent Office Specif. No. 314 The instruments are used in pairs at the *translating station. |
| 1894 Sala London up to Date 263 The ‘Cobbler's Last’, that well-known organ of the boot and shoe ‘*translating’ trade. |