tr
tr is the abbreviation of translator.
tr is the initialism of table row.
tr is the abbreviation of treble crochet or triple crochet.
tr is the abbreviation of transitive.
Meaning of translator
Noun
translator (plural translators)
- A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
- Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech.
- "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.1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 95
- Synonyms:
- interpreter
- "You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked.
- A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium.
- Mr. C. Blair Leighton... lithographer... was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process.1855 June, Gentleman's Magazine, number 657, page 1
- 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.
Meaning of transitive
Adjective
transitive (not comparable)
- Making a transit or passage.
- For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.1841-1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
- Affected by transference of signification.
- By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
- Taking a direct object or objects.
- The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
- Antonyms:
- intransitive
- Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
- "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
- Antonyms:
- intransitive, nontransitive
- Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
- Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
Proper noun capitalized: TR
TR
Noun capitalized: TR
TR (plural TRs)
- Initialism of technical report; a draft technical report (usage from ISO).
- Initialism of track record.
- Initialism of thioredoxin reductase.
- Synonyms:
- TrxR
- Initialism of tons of refrigeration.
Synonyms of tr
Forms of tr
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | T.R. |
| alternative form | T. R. |
| Noun | |
| plural | TRs |
Questions about tr
- What is tr the abbreviation of?
- Tr is the abbreviation of translator.
- What part of speech is tr?
- Tr can be a proper noun or a noun.
Words near tr in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tr (page history and authors); TR (page history and authors); translator (page history and authors); transitive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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