translator

3 definitions found

translator - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Translator \Trans*lat"or\, n. [L. translator: cf. F.
     translateur.]
     1. 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Teleg.) A repeating instrument. [Eng.]
        [1913 Webster]

translator - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  translator
      n 1: a person who translates written messages from one language
           to another [syn: translator, transcriber]
      2: someone who mediates between speakers of different languages
         [syn: interpreter, translator]
      3: a program that translates one programming language into
         another [syn: translator, translating program]

translator - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "translator":
     allegorist, annotator, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic,
     cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer,
     demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor,
     emendator, emender, euhemerist, exegesist, exegete, exegetist,
     explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, go-between,
     guide, hermeneut, interpreter, lexicographer, metaphrast,
     oneirocritic, paraphrast, scholiast, textual critic