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Pantógrafo

English translation: pantograph


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Portuguese term or phrase:Pantógrafo
English translation:pantograph
Entered by: Nick Taylor
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21:02 Nov 22, 2011
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Marketing - Education / Pedagogy
Portuguese term or phrase: Pantógrafo
I am quite aware that the term pantograph exists in English.

However

What I am translating is a text for young children.
Growing up in ther UK I never heard the term pantograph (or catenary for that matter) , so what did we call the big springy thing on the top of the train that touched the over-head cable?

NO techy answers, just kids stuff please
Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 05:59
pantograph
Explanation:
pantograph - sorry mate thats what we called them as kids on the Hornby Dublo train-sets!
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Nick Taylor
Local time: 05:59
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1pantograph
Nick Taylor
4 +1bow collector, or trolley pole
airmailrpl


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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
pantograph


Explanation:
pantograph - sorry mate thats what we called them as kids on the Hornby Dublo train-sets!

Nick Taylor
Local time: 05:59
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

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agree  itineuropa
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bow collector, or trolley pole


Explanation:
Pantógrafo => bow collector, or trolley pole or pantograph

Electric trains that collect their current from an overhead line system use a device such as a pantograph, bow collector, or trolley pole.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_lines

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 01:59
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 46

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  itineuropa
9 hrs
  -> agradeço
neutral  Nick Taylor: a pantograph is neither of these, they are quite different
13 hrs
  -> http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_lines
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Nov 27, 2011 - Changes made by Nick Taylor:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term


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