Una lámina - What is the English translation? English translators help English translators with the translation of Una lámina

Conges terminology question

247 months ago

Fran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Una lámina
Context:	habia rompido una lámina y qu
Keywords:	Name for part of buiding, used

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246 months ago

Spanish-English wrote:

ceilings and walls made of zinc or stainless steel

My comment:

For the construction of the ceilings and walls, zinc or stainless steel are used with the objective to facilitate the tasks of hygiene and health.

In many Latin American countries like Guatemala, the people of low resources construct houses of concrete with ceilings of zinc, called LAMINAS

My references:

See this picture for reference.
http://www.habitat.org/how/whatlikeintl-7.jpg

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246 months ago

Cath Murray wrote:

'panel' is probably a better translation into English, in the context

My comment:

You could use 'steel panel' or 'corrugated iron panel' if you feel the audience needs to know. The problem here, of course, is that in expanding the word to a phrase you may give it more importance than was intended.

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246 months ago

Cath Murray wrote:

a sheet (of metal, steel)

My comment:

meaning una hoja or una plancha

My references:

Gran Diccionario Oxford

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246 months ago

Cath Murray wrote:

She had broken a window and trough there she had gone out

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247 months ago

Cath Murray wrote:

corrugated metal

My comment:

corrugated metal sheet or plate or panel....

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247 months ago

Teresita García Ruy Sanchez wrote:

sheet of metal

My comment:

at least in Mexico (Guatemala's neighbor) we say it like that

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247 months ago

Teresita García Ruy Sanchez wrote:

the laminate flooring (roofing or siding) had been ripped and from there, they (it) had exited

My comment:

Since I don't have the whole sentence, I'm not too sure what content the phrase was used in. I hope this helps. I think lamina is what my father and his co-workers and employees use for anything that is laminated (in the construction business that could be flooring, glue-lams (big beams), siding, etc.).

My references:

my head

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247 months ago

Teresita García Ruy Sanchez wrote:

A plate

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247 months ago

Teresita García Ruy Sanchez wrote:

slat

My comment:

as part of a stockade or of a wall for example