Google-Translate

Google-Translate (third-person singular simple present Google-Translates, present participle Google-Translating, simple past and past participle Google-Translated)

1. Alternative form of Google Translate.
   • 2013 December 8, Gene Weingarten, “Repenting sins”, in Ray Rivera, editor, The Santa Fe New Mexican, 164th year, number 342, Santa Fe, N.M.: Ginny Sohn, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C-8, column 5:

     A few weeks ago, I wrote a column in which I complained about being forced to write fewer words than usual. As a protest, I then petulantly switched to more concise languages, including teenage Twitterspeak, aboriginal Australian and also, in some places where my column was published, Hebrew. How did I obtain the Hebrew? I Google-Translated my own lines.

   • 2015, Marianne C. Bohr, “La France Profonde”, in Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     Before heading into the camera shop, I Google-Translated the appropriate photography-related vocabulary and figured out how to describe what we needed.

   • 2022, Katie Kirby, “Monday 15 August”, in The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks; 3), London: Puffin Books, →ISBN:

     I had no clue what he was talking about, but as we were by the Wi-Fi Wall I Google-Translated it on my phone and it turned out he was asking me to go to the teenage disco on Friday night!