Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
roda gigante
English translation:
Ferris wheel
Added to glossary by
Sormane Fitzgerald
Apr 20, 2005 00:47
19 yrs ago
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Portuguese term
roda gigante
Portuguese to English
Other
Tourism & Travel
It's placed in an amusement park
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +9 | Ferris wheel |
Sormane Fitzgerald
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| 5 +1 | big wheel |
Isabel Peck
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Proposed translations
+9
15 mins
Sormane Fitzgerald
United States
United States
Native in Portuguese
&
English
Works in field
United States
Fully bilingual; pharm/med, among others
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
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64
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Ferris wheel
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Note added at 22 mins (2005-04-20 01:09:08 GMT)
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... The Ferris Wheel was invented by the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridge-builder George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859-1896) . The first Ferris wheel was ...
www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexf.shtml - 33k
... \"Ride the Wonder Wheel, the highest Ferris wheel in the world! ... However, according to Coney Island USA, the new Sunwheel at Disney\'s California ...
history.amusement-parks.com/wonderwheel.htm - 13k -
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Note added at 23 mins (2005-04-20 01:10:08 GMT)
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... This same Ferris wheel was later used at the St. Louis exposition in ... Ferris wheels are now common at amusement parks around the world - most are ...
www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexf.shtml - 33k
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Note added at 22 mins (2005-04-20 01:09:08 GMT)
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... The Ferris Wheel was invented by the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridge-builder George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859-1896) . The first Ferris wheel was ...
www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexf.shtml - 33k
... \"Ride the Wonder Wheel, the highest Ferris wheel in the world! ... However, according to Coney Island USA, the new Sunwheel at Disney\'s California ...
history.amusement-parks.com/wonderwheel.htm - 13k -
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Note added at 23 mins (2005-04-20 01:10:08 GMT)
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... This same Ferris wheel was later used at the St. Louis exposition in ... Ferris wheels are now common at amusement parks around the world - most are ...
www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexf.shtml - 33k
Peer comment(s):
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Elizabeth Lyons
7 mins
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Thanks, Elizabeth. For a moment, it felt like I was riding on one of them LOL.
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Amy Duncan (X)
: ....just set the date and I'll be there with bells on! :o)
11 mins
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Thanks, Amy. Wanna ride with me? : )
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Eduardo Queiroz
48 mins
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Thanks, Eduardo.
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António Ribeiro
5 hrs
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Thanks, António.
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Margarita Palatnik (X)
7 hrs
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Thanks, Margarita.
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Henrique Magalhaes
10 hrs
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Thanks.
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Paul Dixon
: Yes, indeed. A very famous ferris wheel is of course the London Eye.
12 hrs
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Thanks.
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Claudia Andrade
: mas big wheel também pode.
1 day 2 hrs
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airmailrpl
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2 days 12 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+1
6 hrs
Isabel Peck
Portugal
Portugal
Native in Portuguese
&
English
Works in field
Portugal
15 yrs - engineering to art criticism
Native in: Portuguese , English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, French to Portuguese, and 3 more.
Related KudoZ points
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8
big wheel
Ferris wheel is perfectly correct, but in Britain it's better known colloquially as the "big wheel"
Peer comment(s):
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Solomon Wright
: Absolutely. Definitely better in some contexts I'd say
5 hrs
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