servevolezza
English translation: durability / keeping quality / shelf-life
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| 21:14 Jul 26, 2010 |
| Italian to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Food & Drink / Fruit + vegetable industry | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Barbara Carrara Italy Local time: 01:33 | ||||||
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| 5 | shelf life |
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| 4 +1 | durability / keeping quality |
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| 4 | serviceableness / of adequate quality |
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| 3 | preservability |
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19 mins confidence: 
serviceableness / of adequate quality Explanation: some more adjectives you may want to consider: adequate, advantageous, applicable, at hand, available, commodious, conducive, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, gainful, good for, handy, in use, instrumental, intarrisable, proficuous, profitable, prolific, qua, remunerative, serviceable, subservient, subsidiary, tangible, useful, valuable. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 46 mins (2010-07-26 22:01:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Personal considerations: They are obviously trying to promote the product by saying how beautiful it is, so it wouldn't be just an average product, but it would be perfect fruit, like the ultimate one. You could say that it is at its sweetest, with its enhanced flavour. What they probably intend to highlight, demonstrate (and sell) is how much the product is usable. |
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9 hrs confidence:
preservability Explanation: See web reference, please -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-27 06:59:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preservability -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-27 07:01:35 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.wordnik.com/words/preservability Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/preservability |
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9 hrs confidence:
shelf life Explanation: I work a lot for the food service/vegetable breeding industry, yours was the right hunch, this is 'shelf life', in Italian 'conservabilità' -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day10 hrs (2010-07-28 07:50:48 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- My client (a food service 'giant') insists that conservabilità must always be translated with shelf life |
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8 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1durability / keeping quality Explanation: Your second option is right. The Italian term is more usually found as 'serbevolezza' or 'conservabilità'. 'Serbevole: che si serba, che si conserva bene e a lungo, spec. riferito a prodotti agricoli'. (source, Hoepli dictionary online) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-27 06:31:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- For fruit (storage) durability, see for instance, http://www.fao.org/Docrep/005/Y2515e/y2515e06.htm Here's a link discussing, among others, the keeping quality in kiwifruit, http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1426.html -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-27 07:09:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- If as Mr Murray you are interested in investigating shelf-life vs durability, here's another link for you, http://books.google.com/books?id=bdnfe_Q5UAMC&pg=PA340&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2010-07-27 07:11:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- If, as Mr Murray, you're interested in investigating shelf-life vs. durability, here's another useful link, http://books.google.com/books?id=bdnfe_Q5UAMC&pg=PA340&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day11 hrs (2010-07-28 08:59:43 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Thank you, Gary. |
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