traductor
traductor noun: translator.
Noun
traductor (plural traductors)
- translator.
- This early use of the words is most decisive of their meaning : when the two languages reflect the same meaning, the evidence overflows. Both are consecrated to one religious idea. Who could be so well qualified as the Alexandrine traductors to construe Mosaic phrase, — not only by a knowledge of...1847, Richard Winter Hamilton, The Revealed Doctrine of Rewards and Punishments, page 369
- There are doctors, traductors, advocates, doctors in law, bookkeepers notaries, etc., amongst women.1910, Alberto B. Martínez, General Census of the Population, Buildings, Trades and Industries of the City of Buenos Aires
- Anything that translates information from one format into a different format.
- An information traductor carries information from some source (such as an expression) to some destination (such as a register, or module port).1980, Journal of Digital Systems, page 44
- The determinant factors are in connection with: the nature of the molecular biorecognition layer of the biological traductor, the enzymatic activity of the whole system or even of the isolated enzymes (in a well-defined biosensor area or fixed on a polymeric membrane) and the concentration of the...2000, Romanian Journal of Biochemistry - Volumes 37-44, page 11
- A long arm that is used to suspend a bag to be dropped onto a passing train and which retracts automatically be means of a spring when the bag is dropped.
- As soon as the bag is removed, the lever returns to its normal position by the action of the spring in the column, the traductor striking the rubber disc already referred to.1896, Lawrence Saunders, S. R. Blundstone, The Railway Engineer - Volume 17, page 325
- Six pouches were to be put out at Warrington, and preparations were being made to use the traductors on the leading Aberdeen sorting carriage, as well as the four in the stowage van. […] from Moore station we counted five overbridges, and then, swiftly, with one man at each door the four bags in...1948 March and April, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 76
Examples of traductor in a sentence
- Thus, at the Virgin's side may he seen a piece of stone; beside a crucifix a cutting of wood." (And, in a case witnessed by the traductor, human skulls beside the altar.)1934 June, C.S. Brown, “The Friendly Endeavor”, in George Fox University Archives:
- Nearing Coatbridge, with five pouches to be set down, all four traductors on the stowage van were loaded ready, and there was yet another on the sorting carriage next in rear.1961, Oswald Stevens Nock, British steam railways, page 56:
- The ground apparatus consists of one or more standards from which the bags to be picked up by the train are hung, and a net to collect the bags from the traductors.2002, Ian Harrison, Pat Hammond, Hornby: The Official Illustrated History, page 72:
Forms of traductor
| plural | traductors |
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Origin of traductor
From Latin trāductiō, from trādūcō (“lead across, bring across”), from trans (“across, beyond”) + dūcō (“bear, carry”).
Questions about traductor
- What does traductor mean?
- Traductor means translator.
- How do you use traductor in a sentence?
- Thus, at the Virgin's side may he seen a piece of stone; beside a crucifix a cutting of wood." (And, in a case witnessed by the traductor, human skulls beside the altar.)
- What part of speech is traductor?
- Traductor is a noun.
- What is the plural of traductor?
- The plural of traductor is traductors.
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