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English translation: turn-off

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Spanish term or phrase:	desvío
English translation:	turn-off
Entered by:	Sherry Godfrey

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09:23 Apr 28, 2009

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Tourism & Travel

Spanish term or phrase: desvío

Tomar la carretera N-II, dirección Lleida. Tomar el desvío hacia Balaguer y de allí dirección Tremp.

I don't think it's a turn or exit. What would we call this in Brit. English?

TIA!

Sherry Godfrey KudoZ activity Questions: 1296 (8 open) (62 closed without grading) Answers: 32
Local time: 21:12

turn-off

Explanation:
a road or other way branching off from the main thoroughfare
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/turn-off

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Take the turn-off to Balaguer...

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Just found an example of this use:
Site: Turn off the 147 no more than 6 km north-east of Balaguer onto the road which leads westwards to Sant Llorenc de Montgai. ...
www.freewebs.com/richbonser/spainjunejuly1999.htm

Selected response from:

darwinista
Local time: 21:12

Grading comment

Thanks darwinsita and everyone! This works perfectly in my context.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +6

turn-off

darwinista

4 +5

turning

James A. Walsh

4 +3

detour

Eileen Banks

4 +2

(obras) diversion; (salida, carretera) road

Michael Powers (PhD)

by-pass

liz askew

exit

cgowar

Summary of reference entries provided

I had this term in a text from Huelva...

Deborah Lockett

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

(obras) diversion; (salida, carretera) road

Explanation:
Depending on whether there is contruction, one of these two in British English.

Mike :)

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 15:12
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 115

8 mins confidence:

by-pass

Explanation:
?

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or

ring-road

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:12
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 40

19 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

turning

Explanation:
Take the turning for Balaguer... is how I'd put it.

:)

James A. Walsh
Spain
Local time: 21:12
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 31

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

turn-off

darwinista
Local time: 21:12
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

Thanks darwinsita and everyone! This works perfectly in my context.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Noni Gilbert: Yes, turn-off. As in "take the Heathrow turn-off from the M4"

0 min

-> Thanks!

agree

Ian Jones

21 mins

-> Thanks Ian.

agree

Deborah Lockett

24 mins

-> Thanks Debs.

agree

Tracie Shannon Houlihan

5 hrs

-> Thanks Tracie.

agree

Brock Cochran (M.A.): This seems like the best default translation. I believe I would need to see the place to adequately label it.

5 hrs

-> Thanks Brock.

agree

Carol Gullidge: although google takes several pages to find turn-off in this sense, and to me a turn-off is something unappealing... nevertheless...

10 hrs

-> No Carol, I'm using the noun, here's another example from Cambridge:a road which leaves another road to go in a different direction. See also turn off (ROAD). http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=85492&dict=CA...

1 hr confidence:

exit

Explanation:
I believe that is the meaning: the exit towards Balaguer.
What Deborah says confirms it...

cgowar
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 28

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

detour

Explanation:
Take a detour around this 'Witch Mountain'. Updated | Review | Recommend, E-mail | Save | Print |. Otherworldly AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig climb ...
www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2009-03-12-race-to-wit... - 45k

Eileen Banks
Argentina
Local time: 16:12
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 20

Reference comments

38 mins

Reference: I had this term in a text from Huelva...

Reference information:
for the website of the travel agency visithuelva.com. For instance, they directed you along the coast road, and then told you where you had to come off the coast road to reach a particular beach: the road leading to the beach would be called a "desvío". In that case, like a B road that comes off an A road. You can translate "Tomar el desvío hacia..." as "Turn off towards...".

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As an example, here is a paragraph of directions where "desvío" appears 3 times, with a meaning as described above, i.e. a place where one or more road(s) come(s) off another -- a B road coming off an A road or another B road, for instance. The etymology of "desvío" would be "the place where you come off the road".

Tras alrededor de 8 minutos aparece un ***desvío*** a la ciudad de Almancil. Tomarla y seguir siempre dirección Almancil, tomando los ***desvíos*** pertinentes. Continuar por la carretera en dirección a la ciudad. Después de pasar tres semáforos, subir la colina y girar a la izquierda en el ***desvío*** que muestra numerosas indicaciones, entre ellas una para Vale do Lobo.
http://bookings.visithuelva.com/Customer/Availability/GolfPr...

Deborah Lockett
Spain
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 155

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