Google-translate
See also: Google Translate, Google-Translate, Google translate, google translate, and google-translate
English
Verb
Google-translate (third-person singular simple present Google-translates, present participle Google-translating, simple past and past participle Google-translated)
- Alternative form of Google Translate.
- 2012, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Uman”, in A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 266:
- There was a letter inside, a Google-translated message in Ukrainian asking Slava L. to provide me and my party with pot in Uman. I had not asked the stoned guy to do this, but it had seemed impolite to refuse the note. He’d gone to the trouble of Google-translating it back and forth several times, as if by this process the translation of the pot request might be incrementally refined.
- 2017, Raquel Rivera, chapter 8, in Show Mode (Orca Limelights), Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 49:
- I Google-translated the lyrics, thinking maybe the story would help me remember, but there’s no story at all.
- 2017, Rick Bailey, “What’s New”, in American English, Italian Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 191:
- Probably every old city in Italy has a Via del Corso. Without Google-translating it, I’d just call it Main Street, a principal artery through the city center, often with limited or no auto traffic.