surface arcing

English translation: surface, arcing

09:19 May 14, 2002

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Marketing

English term or phrase: surface arcing

I suppose that this term is normally used in a pysical/technical context.

My text is a copy for a TV commercial. Can you rephrase the expression "surface arcing" for me? Thank you.

"The camera whips up a steep coral hill tracking the wake of bubbles as the F1 engine pitch, too, rises. We break the ** surface arcing ** across the sky but unable to catch up. Even little puffs of cloud seem to be sucked along in the awesome wake."

Csaba Ban KudoZ activity Questions: 661 (5 open) (8 closed without grading) Answers: 876 Hungary
Local time: 21:01

Selected answer:surface, arcing

Explanation:
Would it make it clearer if their was a comma after surface.

We break the surface .. (we come up above the hill)

arcing across the sky ... (describes the route taken by the camera)

HTH

Mary

Selected response from:

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:01

Grading comment

thanks! That missing comma made me think the expression was "surface arcing".
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +2

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Björn Houben

We break the surface, arcing across the sky

Attila Piróth

surface, arcing

Mary Worby

to break the surface

jerrie

Answers

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

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Explanation:
imo: we brake the surface, arcing across the sky...

-> we brake the surface and rise higher and higher, arcing across the sky, but we cannot keep up

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Note added at 2002-05-14 09:35:20 (GMT)
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and indeed : \'break\' instead of \'brake\'

Björn Houben
Belgium
Local time: 21:01
Native speaker of:

Flemish,

Dutch

11 mins confidence:

We break the surface, arcing across the sky

Explanation:
The comma is not necessary but shows where the separation is. We leave the surface (at a high speed), we move in an arc across the sky...

Attila Piróth
France
Local time: 21:01
Native speaker of:

Hungarian
PRO pts in pair: 184

11 mins confidence:

surface, arcing

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:01
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 164

Grading comment

thanks! That missing comma made me think the expression was "surface arcing".

13 mins confidence:

to break the surface

Explanation:
is to emerge (suddenly) from underwater

The narrator is presumably holding a camera, and as he 'breaks the surface' the camera is point upwards, tracing an arc across the sky.

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:01
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 773

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