Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

"Flag"

Portuguese translation:

ladrilho

Added to glossary by Susana Valdez
Oct 16, 2009 16:43
14 yrs ago
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English term

"Flag"

English to Portuguese Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Sentence goes: "She ... waited to hear him raise the window while he emptied the peach-tin contents on to the *FLAG* outside.

Any ideas, please? Thanks
Change log

Oct 30, 2009 11:18: Susana Valdez Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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English term (edited): flag
Selected

ladrilho

Sug.
Peer comment(s):

agree Adriana Maciel : ou simplesmente "chão"
12 mins
Obrigada, Adriana.
agree Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
32 mins
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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pedra

pedra do piso/assoalho

noun: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
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açoro

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+1
4 hrs

no piso externo

:)
Peer comment(s):

agree Priscila Diniz : ou laje
20 hrs
obrigado
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Flag n. 2

b. The slice of earth turned over by the plough-share; also, the ground thus made ready for sowing. dial. (E. Anglian) only.


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Another reference:

A flat slab of any fine-grained rock which may be split into flagstones; a flagstone.

Example sentences:

1839 E. D. CLARKE Trav. 33/1 The new promenade..is paved with large flags.

1871 TYNDALL Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. xii. 308 With a hammer and chisel I can cleave them into flags.

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Reference 3:

1. a. One of various endogenous plants, with a bladed or ensiform leaf, mostly growing in moist places. Now regarded as properly denoting a member of the genus Iris (esp. I. pseudacorus) but sometimes (as in early use) applied to any reed or rush.

c. In pl. or collect. sing. A kind of coarse grass.

Example sentences:

1847 HALLIWELL, Flag..also applied to the small pieces of coarse grass common in some meadows.

1878-86 BRITTEN & HOLLAND Plant-n., Flag (3)..Probably Aira cæspitosa L.
Example sentence:

1845 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. V. II. 340 Nothing rose to cover the ground after the first mowing, so as to make a flag for the wheat.

1823 MOOR Suffolk Words, Flag..the portion of clover land turned at once by the plough.

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