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Definition of "calquing" []

  • Present participle of calque. (verb)
  • Loan translation (noun)

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Use "calquing" in a sentence
  • "Spells of Germanic chauvinism have left us with unseemly agglutinations like boldriehoeksmeting ` ball three-corner measuring, 'i.e. spherical trigonometry, and uncritical calquing made us adopt a few misnomers holus-bolus: buik-spreker"
  • "But it is only in the mass that one can feel the depth of this unconscious calquing."