Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Oct 16, 2009 16:43
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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
Any ideas, please? Thanks
Proposed translations
(Portuguese)
3 +2 | ladrilho | Susana Valdez |
4 +1 | no piso externo | Clauwolf |
4 | pedra | Roberto Cavalcanti |
4 | açoro | Marlene Curtis |
References
Flag n. 2 | Transperts |
Change log
Oct 30, 2009 11:18: Susana Valdez Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
+2
3 mins
English term (edited):
flag
Selected
ladrilho
Sug.
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Adriana Maciel
: ou simplesmente "chão"
12 mins
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Obrigada, Adriana.
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agree |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
32 mins
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Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
22 mins
pedra
pedra do piso/assoalho
noun: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
noun: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
29 mins
açoro
De acordo com as referências abaixo trata-de uma planta aquática que se assemelha a um prado.
http://books.google.com/books?id=1rMCAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA176&l...
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Açoro
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1R2SKPB_enUS335&q=aço...
http://books.google.com/books?id=1rMCAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA176&l...
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Açoro
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1R2SKPB_enUS335&q=aço...
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4 hrs
Reference comments
27 mins
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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Note added at 31 mins (2009-10-16 17:14:18 GMT)
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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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Note added at 33 mins (2009-10-16 17:17:03 GMT)
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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.
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Note added at 31 mins (2009-10-16 17:14:18 GMT)
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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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Note added at 33 mins (2009-10-16 17:17:03 GMT)
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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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