deslizamiento sobre rieles

English translation: running on rails

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Spanish term or phrase:deslizamiento sobre rieles
English translation:running on rails
Entered by: Maria Eugenia Roca Rodriguez

13:45 Nov 2, 2003
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: deslizamiento sobre rieles
Los equipos tendrán ruedas desmontables con pestañas para su deslizamiento sobre rieles, orientales en el sentido longitudinal y transversal y con una trocha de 1,67 m.
Maria Eugenia Roca Rodriguez
Argentina
Local time: 15:37
running on rails
Explanation:
this is the meaning, maybe there is a more poetic way of saying it,
regards
Lesley

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Note added at 53 mins (2003-11-02 14:38:50 GMT)
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or running over rails
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Lesley Clarke
Mexico
Local time: 12:37
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Summary of answers provided
4running on rails
Lesley Clarke
4rolling on rails
Edward Lum
4sliding on rails
Nikki Graham


  

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running on rails


Explanation:
this is the meaning, maybe there is a more poetic way of saying it,
regards
Lesley

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Note added at 53 mins (2003-11-02 14:38:50 GMT)
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or running over rails

Lesley Clarke
Mexico
Local time: 12:37
Native speaker of: English
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
rolling on rails


Explanation:
"Crane industry
... LOAD-OUT OPERATION: Loading, roll-on (rolling-on rails using two trailers for pushing).Discharging, roll-off (rolling-on rails using two winches for pulling)..."

www.dockwise.com/projects/crane/reggiane_cranes.html - 9k - Cached -

"###Case Studies###
...The rail vehicles are interconnected by hinge joints and pulled by a locomotive in a train. The rail wheelset is primarily a double cone rolling on rails..."

www.symbols2000.com/casestudy.htm - 32k - Cached - Similar pages

"Hill Trains of India, Hill Railways of India, Indian Railways, of Calcutta. Rolling on rails only 0.6096 m apart, these Tom Thumb
carriages trail precariously behind Stephenson's Rocket. One..."

www.touristplacesinindia.com/luxury-trains/ hill-trains.html


Edward Lum
Local time: 13:37
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sliding on rails


Explanation:
it does say deslizamiento rather than rodamiento, so although rolling would be good for wheels, perhaps they do actually mean sliding here (which is what deslizamiento means)

See Google refs, it's not impossible.


    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT...
Nikki Graham
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:37
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