Terminology

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Content type	The content type of an item defines the fields it includes. For example, a basic Page content type has title and body fields. In Drupal, you can create custom content types.
Drupal	A free and open-source content-management framework for building websites.
Content API V1 and Content API V2	A Lionbridge translation tracking portal.
Freeway	A Lionbridge translation portal and a translation provider.
Job	One or more items that Drupal TMGMT groups together into a single translation job. All items in the job have the same target language. If you request a quote for your translation job, you must log into Lionbridge Freeway to authorize the quote before the translation process starts.
Lionbridge	The publisher of the Freeway translation portal and a translation provider. Users connect to the Freeway translation and Content API V2 tracking portals to submit content to and retrieve content from the Lionbridge translation provider.
Lionbridge Connector for Drupal TMGMT (Connector)	The connector software that Lionbridge has developed and provides that plugs into your Drupal TMGMT installation to provide connectivity to the Lionbridge translation services. In this document it is referred to as the Connector. This is the software you are installing and configuring as you work through this document.
Source language	The original language of the content. Content is translated from the source language.
Target language	The translated language of the content. Content is translated into the target language.
TMGMT	The Translation Management Tool (TMGMT) module in Drupal provides a tool set for translating content from Drupal. It supports plug-ins from various translation providers, which it calls translators.
Translator	The term in the Drupal TMGMT module that describes a connector between the module and a translation provider. In the context of this help, the Lionbridge Connector for Drupal TMGMT is a translator in Drupal. It provides a direct connection to the Lionbridge translation services.