convoluut

English translation: convolute

08:02 Sep 21, 2007
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Dutch term or phrase: convoluut
This seems to refer to a portfolio of designs for religious art-objects, submitted to an art exhibition. It has been translated as "convolute" by someone else, but I have not found any English dictionary that has this meaning.
Stratton Bull
Local time: 06:31
English translation:convolute
Explanation:
Found a reference on iate: http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do?method=searc... and also in the VanDale dictionary (search from EN-DU).
The Free Dictionary gives the following explanation: Rolled or coiled together in overlapping whorls, as certain leaves, petals, or shells. To me this sounds very Flemish, by the way!
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Alice Saunders (X)
France
Local time: 06:31
Grading comment
The reference on the website comes from chemistry etc. Not applicable in my situation.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4assortment / miscellany / 'mixed bag'
jarry (X)
3convolute
Alice Saunders (X)


Discussion entries: 8





  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
assortment / miscellany / 'mixed bag'


Explanation:
could be what is meant here.

jarry (X)
South Africa
Local time: 07:31
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Margreet Logmans (X): Is my conclusion from various Google-hits, too
12 mins
  -> Thank you

agree  writeaway: certainly fits in with the context. but would use the word 'collection' is this case, to fit the register of the text./I had mixed bag in mind, which won't fit here at all. actually sounds like a bundle now.
1 hr
  -> Hi P. Thanks for your grading. A collection (verzameling) would suggest some commonality (theme, features, etc.) Nothing in the Dutch text seems to indicate that this is the case.

agree  Sabine Piens: "Convoluut" is a term used in codicology for a collection of (medieval) manuscripts that have nothing in common (e.g. the Comburg Manuscript) as opposed to "verzamelhandschrift" (e.g. the Van Hulthem Manuscript). I would not use the term here.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, and for the info.

agree  Deborah do Carmo: "diverse collection of" may also be an option and resolve the issue you rightly pointed out to P.//yeah, if it can go that far in context, that's a good option.
7 hrs
  -> Thank you. Or 'motley' collection?
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1 day 28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
convolute


Explanation:
Found a reference on iate: http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do?method=searc... and also in the VanDale dictionary (search from EN-DU).
The Free Dictionary gives the following explanation: Rolled or coiled together in overlapping whorls, as certain leaves, petals, or shells. To me this sounds very Flemish, by the way!

Alice Saunders (X)
France
Local time: 06:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 1
Grading comment
The reference on the website comes from chemistry etc. Not applicable in my situation.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: Asker is in Belgium, so it is fairly logical that the Dutch is from Belgium./Flemish is hardly ever used any more because no one answers there. And it's not a language anyway. People are Flemish, the language is Dutch.
3 hrs
  -> Should put Flemish then!
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