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Alagamento ou inundação

English translation: Inundation or flooding


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Portuguese term or phrase:Alagamento ou inundação
English translation:Inundation or flooding
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17:15 Mar 14, 2011
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Insurance
Portuguese term or phrase: Alagamento ou inundação
Alagamento – é a invasão do local de risco ou do canteiro de obras por água de chuva, de tubulações próprias ou de cursos de água não navegáveis
Inundação– é a invasão do local do risco ou do canteiro de obras por água de cursos d’água navegáveis

I used waterlogging for alagamento and flooding for inundação but I'm still not convinced...

CLÁUSULA PARTICULAR DE MEDIDAS DE SEGURANÇA QUANTO A ALAGAMENTOS E INUNDAÇÕES
ingridleeman
United States
Local time: 07:03
Inundation or flooding
Explanation:
I would turn them round- inundation is what happens when waterlevels rise due to constant rain which then cause rivers to burst their banks and inundate the areas close by with storm water, causing flooding.

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Note added at 16 hrs (2011-03-15 09:49:38 GMT)
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Seepage is the gradual intrusion of water from one area to another caused by erosion of banks and restraints, or leaking,etc.Inundation is the act of being flooded out by something- flooding is really the end result of inundation.Even metaphorically:"We have been inundated with enquiries for tickets.The original trickle has now become a flood"(London 2012 Olympics administrator in the London Evening Standard 14/3/11, as the official 500 day countdown began with firemworks and a countdown clock in Trafalgar Square.)
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3Inundation or flooding
Oliver Toogood
4 +1overflowing/waterlogging and flooding
Marlene Curtis


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
overflowing/waterlogging and flooding


Explanation:


http://en.bab.la/dictionary/portuguese-english/alagamento

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 07:03
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 111

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agree  Lais Leite
18 hrs
  -> Grata!
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Inundation or flooding


Explanation:
I would turn them round- inundation is what happens when waterlevels rise due to constant rain which then cause rivers to burst their banks and inundate the areas close by with storm water, causing flooding.

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Note added at 16 hrs (2011-03-15 09:49:38 GMT)
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Seepage is the gradual intrusion of water from one area to another caused by erosion of banks and restraints, or leaking,etc.Inundation is the act of being flooded out by something- flooding is really the end result of inundation.Even metaphorically:"We have been inundated with enquiries for tickets.The original trickle has now become a flood"(London 2012 Olympics administrator in the London Evening Standard 14/3/11, as the official 500 day countdown began with firemworks and a countdown clock in Trafalgar Square.)

Oliver Toogood
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Asker: I am still a litle unsured. The key point one is by - água de chuva, de tubulações próprias ou de cursos de água não navegáveis and the other invasão do local do risco ou do canteiro de obras por água de cursos d’água navegáveis So what you say is that inundation comes from "stale"water and flood from flowing water? What does the word seepage entails ? Maybe just a little vazamento? I am still stuck...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nick Taylor
51 mins
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agree  connie leite
4 hrs
  -> obrigado
agree  Ana Rodrigues
22 hrs
  -> Muito obrigado Ana
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