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English: "run off"

Spanish translation: se han corrido fuera de...







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English term or phrase:"run off"
Spanish translation:se han corrido fuera de...
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Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / molecular biology
English term or phrase: "run off"
I have a photo of an agarose gel in which the last two molecular size markers have "run off" the end of the gel because the migration was set for made for too long of a time. Could some translate this phrasal verb in this context. The usage derives from ink or paint that "runs off" or runs past the page or border.
jeff robson
Spain
se han corrido fuera de...
Explanation:
En español europeo creo que esto sería lo más inmediato, literal. Una mancha de pintura o tinta "se corre". Suerte.
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Miriam Garcia
Spain
Note from asker to answerer
asi me parece la mejor, gracias a todos
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1... se extienden más allá que (el borde) ...mediamatrix
4 +1se escurrieronhecdan
4se han corrido fuera de...
Miriam Garcia
4expandirse, se expandeMaria Rueda


  

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run off expandirse, se expande

Explanation:
If it is a gel then it is "expandirse" as the effect of water spreading

Maria Rueda
Spain
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se escurrieron

Explanation:
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hecdan
Argentina
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agree Cecilia Paris
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
... se extienden más allá que (el borde) ...

Explanation:
la idéa de 'más allá' es importante en esta frase

mediamatrix
Chile
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agree Spanish doc
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
run off se han corrido fuera de...

Explanation:
En español europeo creo que esto sería lo más inmediato, literal. Una mancha de pintura o tinta "se corre". Suerte.

Miriam Garcia
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
asi me parece la mejor, gracias a todos
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