Glossary entry

Romanian term or phrase:

traseu

English translation:

linie, directie,

Added to glossary by Mihaela Brooks
Jul 14, 2005 12:23
18 yrs ago
Romanian term

traseu

Romanian to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Does "traseu" mean a railway station track (two metal lines along which trains travel)? Or can it be translated to romanian in a different, more appropriate way? Thank you very much in advance.

Proposed translations

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line / direction

Romanian-English Dictionary, Grammar Publisher, 2003

"linie ferata" - railway track
Peer comment(s):

agree Bogdan Honciuc : "traseu" means the direction of a train between two stations (bucharest-contanta line = traseul bucuresti-constanta)
26 mins
Thanks Bogdan! You are right
agree Sinziana Paltineanu (X)
2 hrs
Multumesc Dragaica
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+5
1 min

itinerary

It depends on the context. Itinerary is a possibility.
Peer comment(s):

agree eVerbum (X)
39 mins
Mulţumesc
agree elenus
47 mins
Mulţumesc
agree Magdalena Talaban : indeed, it depends on the context; another option could be "route"
58 mins
Mulţumesc
agree Paula Dana Szabados
22 hrs
Mulţumesc
agree Cristina Moldovan do Amaral
2 days 13 hrs
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+7
4 mins

route

track / railway track
is for trains

route (EN) - traseu, ruta (RO)

railway station track - linie de cale ferata
Peer comment(s):

agree Valentin Alupoaie : traseu=route (the regular course of a bus/train)
5 mins
agree elenus
44 mins
agree Cristina Butas
50 mins
agree Sinziana Paltineanu (X)
1 hr
agree MonicaBi
19 hrs
agree Paula Dana Szabados
22 hrs
agree Marcella Magda
1 day 5 hrs
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+1
46 mins

trace

if you need to preserve the sound of the word

trace1 (tras)
n.
1 orig., a way followed or path taken
2 a mark, footprint, etc. left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing
3 a beaten path or trail left by the repeated passage of persons, vehicles, etc.
4 any perceptible mark left by a past person, thing, or event; sign; evidence; vestige [the traces of war]
5 a barely perceptible amount; very small quantity [a trace of anger]
6 something drawn or traced, as a mark, sketch, etc.
7 the traced record of a recording instrument
8 a) the visible line or spot that moves across the face of a cathode-ray tube b) the path followed by this line or spot

vt.
traced, tracing [ME tracen < OFr tracier: see the n.]
1 [Now Rare] to move along, follow, or traverse (a path, route, etc.)
2 to follow the trail or footprints of; track
3 a) to follow the development, process, or history of, esp. by proceeding from the latest to the earliest evidence, etc. b) to determine (a source, date, etc.) by this procedure
4 to discover or ascertain by investigating traces or vestiges of (something prehistoric, etc.)
8 to form (letters, etc.) carefully or laboriously
9 to make or copy with a tracer
10 to record by means of a curved, broken, or wavy line, as in a seismograph
vi.
1 to follow a path, route, development, etc.; make one's way
2 to go back or date back (to something past)
traceability or traceableness
n.
traceable
adj.
traceably
adv.

Etymology
[ME < OFr < tracier < VL *tractiare < L tractus, a drawing along, track < pp. of trahere, to draw]

(C)1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. (C)1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Peer comment(s):

agree Cristina Moldovan do Amaral
2 days 12 hrs
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