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Portuguese translation: afetar


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English term or phrase:cut across
Portuguese translation:afetar
Entered by: Teresa Felix de Sousa
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19:52 Sep 6, 2007
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Advertising / Public Relations
English term or phrase: cut across
Perhaps the greatest obstacle to integration is that few providers of marketing communication services have the far-ranging skills to plan and execute programs that cut across all major forms of marketing communications.
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permear? afetar?
Teresa Felix de Sousa
Local time: 13:55
afetar
Explanation:
afetar / afectar

cut across sth
if a problem or subject cuts across different groups of people, all of those groups are affected by it or interested in it
Examples:
Support for environmental issues cuts across traditional party lines.
Sport has a way of cutting across social or racial differences.

(from Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs)
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Cristina Santos
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:55
Grading comment
Thank you
T.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2afetarCristina Santos
4 +2precedem/transcendem/estão acima
Roberto Cavalcanti
5atravessam
Erik Bry
4cortam transversalmenterhandler


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
afetar


Explanation:
afetar / afectar

cut across sth
if a problem or subject cuts across different groups of people, all of those groups are affected by it or interested in it
Examples:
Support for environmental issues cuts across traditional party lines.
Sport has a way of cutting across social or racial differences.

(from Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs)

Cristina Santos
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:55
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Thank you
T.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paula Vaz-Carreiro
1 min
  -> Obrigada Paula
agree  Humberto Ribas
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada Humberto
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
atravessam


Explanation:
ir de ponta a ponta

Erik Bry
Local time: 10:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
precedem/transcendem/estão acima


Explanation:
. cut across, to precede or go beyond considerations of; transcend: The new tax program cuts across party lines.

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Note added at 24 mins (2007-09-06 20:17:11 GMT)
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se contrapõe

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Note added at 25 mins (2007-09-06 20:18:50 GMT)
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todas são possibilidades, depende do contexto

Roberto Cavalcanti
Brazil
Local time: 13:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 63

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Beta Cummins: Me parece a opcao que mais faz sentido neste contexto. Estar acima das demais formas de comunicacao em marketing.
1 hr
agree  reginakersten: Acho que transceder é a melhor opção.
2 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cortam transversalmente


Explanation:
Diferentemente de "cortar longitudinalmente" (cut through). O significado é o de passar por todos os objetos cortados.

Veja estes exemplos:

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira - Heartrot in homogeneous stands ...
Ao cortar transversalmente árvores sintomáticas, observou-se apodrecimento do cerne, com textura fibrosa (Figura 2), típica de podridão-branca (Schwarze et ...
www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2...

Diário da Cozinha: Fevereiro 2007
Preparar os lombinhos retirando o excesso de gordura e cortar transversalmente cada lombinho em pedaços mais ou menos todos iguais. ...
http://diariodacozinha.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html -

dicatm01
Basta cortar tiras de 2 a 3 cm e formar um feixe, depois cortar transversalmente esse feixe, de tal maneira que as tiras forneçam pequenas plaquetas ...
www.pini.com.br/fortes/DICATM01.HTM


rhandler
Local time: 13:55
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 215
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