vbl. sb. [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, trans. 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, -trade; translating-relay (Telegr.): see RELAY sb. 4; translating-roller, -screw (Mech.), a screw that 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, Telegraphy, 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.
