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. Wardr. Acc. Hen. VIII., in Archaeologia, 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.
