English translation of "rundum eng anliegen" - "close fitting"

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232 months ago

Christina Seiler (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Difficult / demanding
Word or term in question:	rundum eng anliegen
Context:	Die Flasche hat ein rundum eng
Keywords:	-

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232 months ago

wrote:

all-around close fitting shrink-fit label

My comment:

all-around = rundum
close fitting = eng anliegend
shrink-fit label = aufgeschrumpftes Etikett

My references:

dict.leo.org

232 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

an all-round tight-shrunk label

232 months ago

Murad AWAD wrote:

Roundly narrow plant, or Roundly close construction

My comment:

G�tz Schregle - London

232 months ago

Murad AWAD wrote:

all around tight-fitting

My comment:

The bottle has an all around tight-fitting, shrunk-on label.

232 months ago

Charles Warcup wrote:

close fitting

My comment:

I would tend to leave "rundum" untranslated - how else would an aufgeschrumpftes Etikett look? An einer Stelle eng, an anderer Stelle lose anliegend??

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232 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

I agree with this one

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