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starorzecze

English translation: oxbow lake

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Polish term or phrase:starorzecze
English translation:oxbow lake
Entered by: Michal Labedzki

06:35 Oct 12, 2004
Polish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geography
Polish term or phrase: starorzecze
ponowne wykopywanie starorzeczy i zakoli
Michal Labedzki
Local time: 21:14
oxbow lake
Explanation:
Longman Dict. of Environmental Science
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Jakub Szacki
Poland
Local time: 21:14
Grading comment
dzieki
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2oxbow lake
Jakub Szacki
4oxbow / oxbow lake/ cutoff.
bartek
3 +1old river-bed
Marek Daroszewski (MrMarDar)


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
oxbow lake


Explanation:
Longman Dict. of Environmental Science

Jakub Szacki
Poland
Local time: 21:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 23
Grading comment
dzieki

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  bartek: Oj, nie odświeżyłam strony. Przepraszam Cię serdecznie :-((( Jest za co, bo pewnych rzeczy się po prostu nie robi. :-)
3 mins
  -> dziekuje. Nie ma za co przepraszac, cos Ty
agree  KathyAnna O
5 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
oxbow / oxbow lake/ cutoff.


Explanation:
Kosciuszko

bartek
Local time: 21:14
Native speaker of: Polish
PRO pts in category: 52
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
old river-bed


Explanation:
Moi przedpiscy maja oczywiscie racje (oxbow lake http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/lakes/oxbow.htm) przy czym oxbow (np. wg PWN/Ox) to rowniez "zakole":
Collins:
oxbow
1. a U-shaped piece of wood fitted under and around the neck of a harnessed ox and attached to the yoke
2. Also called: oxbow lake, cutoff. a small curved lake lying on the flood plain of a river and constituting the remnant of a former meander

Webster:
oxbow (aksbo)
n.
1 either of the U-shaped parts of an ox yoke: an oxbow passes under and around the neck of a yoked ox: see yoke, illus.
2 a) something shaped like this, as a bend in a river b) the land within such a bend

nie wiem czy w tym przypadku nie bedzie pasowac to co podaje Stanislawski (jesli mamy kontrast "starorzecze" vs. "zakole"):
old river-bed

HTH


Marek Daroszewski (MrMarDar)
Local time: 21:14
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Irena Daniluk
667 days
  -> dzięki
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