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(linguistics) Existing in multiple languages. quotations examples
The nose's comic potency is enhanced by the Indo-European rootedness of its own name, securing it a pivotal role in translingual games.
1994, Cordner, Holland & Kerrigan, editor, English Comedy
Having the same meaning in many languages. examples
(of a phrase) Containing words of multiple languages. quotations examples
Darien can make translingual jokes
1985, W. Redfern, Georges Darien: Robbery and Private Enterprise
(translation studies) Operating between different languages. quotations examples
This receiver, as translator, then performs a kind of "translingual transfer" to encode in a second language a new message that is intended to "mean the same" .
1986, James S. Holmes, Translated: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies
(medicine) Occurring or being measured across the tongue. quotations examples
Simultaneous recordings of the translingual potential and integrated neural response of the rat.
1985, Hech, Welter & DeSimone, Chemical Senses
plural translinguals
A person who can speak, or fluently switch between speaking, several languages. examples