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швея-мотористка по изготовлению верхней одежды

English translation: Outerwear machinist

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Russian term or phrase:швея-мотористка по изготовлению верхней одежды
English translation:Outerwear machinist
Entered by: Samantha Payn

11:06 Jun 16, 2009
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Textiles / Clothing / Fashion
Russian term or phrase: швея-мотористка по изготовлению верхней одежды
швея-мотористка по изготовлению верхней одежды
Zoryana Dorak
Ukraine
Local time: 19:25
Outerwear machinist
Explanation:
Machinist, in this context, would be someone using a sewing machine.
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Samantha Payn
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:25
Grading comment
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3Outerwear machinist
Samantha Payn
4industrial sewing machine operator (outerwear)
crainny
3 +1seamstress (outerwear)
Rachel Douglas
3overclothes seamstress operating electric sewing machine
natalia gavrile
3Outerwear`s sewer
tschingite


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Outerwear machinist


Explanation:
Machinist, in this context, would be someone using a sewing machine.

Samantha Payn
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:25
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  The Misha: This saves us from the ambiguity of saying "sewer" with its other, more smelly meaning.
10 mins
  -> Thank you, Misha!
agree  Jack Doughty
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Jack!
agree  Velociraptor
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Velociraptor!
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
overclothes seamstress operating electric sewing machine


Explanation:
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natalia gavrile
Kazakhstan
Local time: 22:25
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Outerwear`s sewer


Explanation:
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tschingite
Russian Federation
Local time: 19:25
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in TatarTatar
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
industrial sewing machine operator (outerwear)


Explanation:
Here is a job ad posted:
http://manufacturing.thingamajob.com/jobs/Florida/Industrial...


crainny
United States
Local time: 12:25
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4
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50 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
seamstress (outerwear)


Explanation:
In AE, the person with these skills is a seamstress, if female. The particular type of clothing she sewed is not part of the profession description, though it characterizes the particular job she had. I think putting it in parentheses works better than in front of "seamstress" or coupled with a preposition.



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Note added at 52 mins (2009-06-16 11:58:47 GMT)
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And if you want a non-gender-specific description of this profession, it would be:

sewing machine operator (outerwear)

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-06-16 16:56:03 GMT)
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Example of "seamstress" meaning "sewing machine operator", from the famous Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

"The bodies of seamstresses, who jumped from the factory floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company to avoid being burned alive, lie outside the building."
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/triangle/tr...


Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 12:25
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tatiana Lammers
3 hrs
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neutral  Velociraptor: I think "seamstress" is someone who can makes clothes from scratch including their design etc. A person who operates an electric sewing machine may not even be capable of making clothes themselves, they are given cut out parts to put together.
4 hrs
  -> A "seamstress" is a female who sews, whether by hand or machine, at home or on an assembly line, whole items or just some parts. Maybe AE/BE diff? Like with "machinist", which in AE is rarely a machine operator, normally someone who makes/fixes machines.
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