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English translation: fire lines, firebreaks


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GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
Portuguese term or phrase:aceiros
English translation:fire lines, firebreaks
Entered by: marina hennies
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16:38 Feb 24, 2009
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Agriculture
Portuguese term or phrase: aceiros
Formação de aceiros em divisas de áreas orgânicas com convencionais e identificação disto nos mapas
marina hennies
Local time: 21:39
fire lines, firebreaks
Explanation:
RHUD: a strip of plowed or cleared land made to check the spread of a prairie or forest fire.

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Note added at 9 mins (2009-02-24 16:48:35 GMT)
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Houaiss: aceiro -

Acepção 2 -
1 Faixa de terreno que se limpou ou arroteou através ou em torno de herdades, matas, coivaras etc., para evitar a propagação de incêndios
2 Regionalismo: Rio de Janeiro, Goiás.
desbaste de terreno próximo a cerca de arame para salvaguardá-la das queimadas.
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Henrique Serra
Local time: 21:39
Grading comment
thanks, Henrique
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3fire lines, firebreaks
Henrique Serra
3 -1steel
Andreas Nieckele


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
steel


Explanation:
http://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/aceiro

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aceiro

Andreas Nieckele
Brazil
Local time: 21:39
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Henrique Serra: not in this context, no.
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
fire lines, firebreaks


Explanation:
RHUD: a strip of plowed or cleared land made to check the spread of a prairie or forest fire.

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Note added at 9 mins (2009-02-24 16:48:35 GMT)
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Houaiss: aceiro -

Acepção 2 -
1 Faixa de terreno que se limpou ou arroteou através ou em torno de herdades, matas, coivaras etc., para evitar a propagação de incêndios
2 Regionalismo: Rio de Janeiro, Goiás.
desbaste de terreno próximo a cerca de arame para salvaguardá-la das queimadas.


Henrique Serra
Local time: 21:39
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 87
Grading comment
thanks, Henrique

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bentevi: :)
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agree  Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
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agree  Marlene Curtis
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