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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

tracciato stradale

English translation:

road

Added to glossary by Tom in London
Aug 15, 2014 09:26
9 yrs ago
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Italian term

tracciato stradale

Italian to English Art/Literary Architecture
Part of an specialised article on architecture.

The phrase reads:

"...apre con la fotografia aerea dell’area (...), ove sullo sfondo del tracciato stradale della prima sezione dell’urbanizzazione..."

Does it refer to a blueprint? Design? If is a drawing it cannot be a picture?

Thank you!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 road
Change log

Aug 15, 2014 17:50: Emanuela Galdelli changed "Term asked" from "\"tracciato stradale\"" to "tracciato stradale"

Aug 16, 2014 16:33: Tom in London Created KOG entry

Discussion

James (Jim) Davis Aug 15, 2014:
The surveying term is alignment another one is quite simply route. The tracciato is the line that the road, or railway line follows, which is neither a plan nor a layout. If there are more than one then they are "tracciati".
philgoddard Aug 15, 2014:
It could be "road plan/layout" if there are more than one.
James (Jim) Davis Aug 15, 2014:
I can think of three different translations each would be accurate in the right context. "... apre" what opens? "(..." what goes here) which would tell me were "ove" is. What are we looking at here, a surveyor's plan? An aerial photo? An ordinary photo?
Angela Guisci Aug 15, 2014:
stretch of road.... I agree with Dasein

Proposed translations

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13 mins
Italian term (edited): "tracciato stradale"
Selected

road

in the absence of more context, this is what I assume it to mean.

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Note added at 13 mins (2014-08-15 09:40:11 GMT)
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..the text is describing an aerial photograph.
Peer comment(s):
agree William Murphy : 'stretch of road' is what I would call it
4 mins
agree Cristina Gonzalez
6 hrs
agree James (Jim) Davis : Road is one possibility in the "absence of more context" "stretch of road" "tratto di strada" is certainly not the tracciato.
9 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I have gone with "stretch of road". Thank you!"
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