Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
manzana
English translation:
block
Added to glossary by
Antonio Castillo González
Feb 24, 2004 19:19
21 yrs ago
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Spanish term
Best on the Legal Aspects of Business
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
manzana
Homework / test
Spanish to English
Other
Architecture
town planning; real estate development
CONTEXTO: "Adjunto les remitimos folletos de los tres primeros hoteles, actualmente en construcción, concretamente los situados en las manzanas 3, 4 y 10 (ya alquilados y de los que dos de ellos (4 y 10) se entregarán el próximo mes de Abril)."
Creo que el sentido pertinente es el de la segunda acepción del DRAE:
manzana
2. f. Espacio urbano, edificado o destinado a la edificación, generalmente cuadrangular, delimitado por calles por todos sus lados.
No es exactamente un bloque (block), aunque puede coincidir con un bloque. Normalmente un polígono (polygon) se refiere a un espacio mayor. Podría ser una parcela (plot, parcel) que formará una unidad urbanística o constructiva. Puede ser una fase (phase) dentro de un polígono urbanizable.
¿Encontraremos un equivalente idóneo para este contexto?
Gracias de antemano.
Creo que el sentido pertinente es el de la segunda acepción del DRAE:
manzana
2. f. Espacio urbano, edificado o destinado a la edificación, generalmente cuadrangular, delimitado por calles por todos sus lados.
No es exactamente un bloque (block), aunque puede coincidir con un bloque. Normalmente un polígono (polygon) se refiere a un espacio mayor. Podría ser una parcela (plot, parcel) que formará una unidad urbanística o constructiva. Puede ser una fase (phase) dentro de un polígono urbanizable.
¿Encontraremos un equivalente idóneo para este contexto?
Gracias de antemano.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +19 | blocks |
Ltemes
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| 5 | square |
Alicia Jordá
|
| 5 | square block |
Gabo Pena
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| 5 | section |
Duckster
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| 5 | Manzana - a group of buildings with roads on all 4 sides. Block |
SMLS
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Proposed translations
+19
1 min
Selected
blocks
Manzana is a city block.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Ernesto Samper Nieto
2 mins
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| agree |
JudyK
2 mins
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| agree |
Sue Horn
4 mins
|
| agree |
Sandra Alboum
5 mins
|
| agree |
Carlos Diaz de Leon
8 mins
|
| agree |
María T. Vargas
11 mins
|
| agree |
Marian Greenfield
17 mins
|
| agree |
margaret caulfield
18 mins
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| agree |
mbc
21 mins
|
| agree |
Alicia Jordá
: for US English
25 mins
|
| agree |
Maria Campo
25 mins
|
| agree |
Eugenia Rodriguez
27 mins
|
| agree |
Gabo Pena
32 mins
|
| agree |
Sol
35 mins
|
| agree |
Cecilia Della Croce
1 hr
|
| agree |
Gabriel Aramburo Siegert
2 hrs
|
| agree |
John Speese
: Tambien diria "block"
2 hrs
|
| agree |
Fanny_C
4 hrs
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| agree |
Valeria Verona
6 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much. The point that made me doubt was that teh Spanish "manzana" is usually, but not necessarily, built, but the same goes for "block", according to Webster's:
15. a small section of a city, town, etc., enclosed by neighboring and intersecting streets.
I had previously thought of "block" only as a block of flats or an apartment building."
25 mins
Alicia Jordá
Native in Spanish
TURN TO THE REAL TRANSLATION
Native in: Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
12
square
another option for BR English
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Sol
: pero no para EEUU, donde "the square" es "la plaza" ya sea o no cuadrada
14 mins
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claro Sol, por eso he puesto "agree" en block...
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34 mins
Gabo Pena
Native in Spanish
&
English
'meaning, intent, demeanor'
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian) , Spanish (Variants: Mexican, US, Cuban, Canarian, Latin American, Puerto Rican, Costa Rican, Salvadoran, Argentine, Venezuelan, Dominican)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English to French, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
8
square block
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Note added at 2004-02-24 19:53:54 (GMT)
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in the US
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Note added at 2004-02-24 19:53:54 (GMT)
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in the US
1 hr
section
"Manzana" también se refiere a una sección de varias medidas, que no siempre corresponde a un "city block". En centroamerica, por ejemplo, corrresponde a una medida de 1.75 acres.
Reference:
1 day 4 hrs
Manzana - a group of buildings with roads on all 4 sides. Block
Block puede corresponder a un edificio o a un grupo de edeficios.
See: Chambers Combined Dictionary and Thesaurus
See: Chambers Combined Dictionary and Thesaurus
Discussion
15. a small section of a city, town, etc., enclosed by neighboring and intersecting streets.