poorly plugged

Portuguese translation: mal tapado..

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English term or phrase:poorly plugged
Portuguese translation:mal tapado..
Entered by: airmailrpl

16:57 Nov 19, 2006
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mining & Minerals / Gems
English term or phrase: poorly plugged
• leaking or blown out collar plugs, caused by poorly plugged collars or undersized breather tubes, grout much wetter than design consistency; and no grout flow from the breather tube due to loss of grout into a badly fractured rockmass, an undersized breather tube for the design grout consistency, or inadequate pumping time
Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa
Brazil
Local time: 13:26
mal tapado
Explanation:
v., plugged, plug·ging, plugs.

v.tr.

1. To fill (a hole) tightly with or as if with a plug; stop up.
2. To insert (something) as a plug: plugged a cork in the bottle.

v.intr.

1. To become stopped up or obstructed: a gutter that plugged up with leaves.

verb

1. To plug up something, as a hole, space, or container: block, choke, clog, close, congest, cork, fill, stop.
http://www.answers.com/plugged&r=67

Figueira da Foz | O Palhetas
Ora, depois este tal rasgo foi tapado (perdão, muito mal tapado, e com uma imensa pobreza de inertes) pela empresa que executou a obra. ...
palhetas.blogspot.com/2006_05_14_palhetas_archive.htm

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A CCP declarou que o buraco estava mal tapado e por isso facilitou a ocorrência do final de semana. De acordo com a Assessoria de Imprensa da Polícia ...
www.ulbra-to.br/singular/viewmat.aspx?cm=379

Boomerang: Janeiro 2005
Aqui no meu sitiozinho as queixas sobre o urbanismo e os espaços verdes não são muitas: uma rotunda mal sinalizada ali, um esgoto mal tapado acolá, ...
boomerangue.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_boomerangue_archive.html
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5 +3mal tapado
airmailrpl
3conexão deficiente
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conexão deficiente


Explanation:
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Mariana Moreira
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Local time: 17:26
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mal tapado


Explanation:
v., plugged, plug·ging, plugs.

v.tr.

1. To fill (a hole) tightly with or as if with a plug; stop up.
2. To insert (something) as a plug: plugged a cork in the bottle.

v.intr.

1. To become stopped up or obstructed: a gutter that plugged up with leaves.

verb

1. To plug up something, as a hole, space, or container: block, choke, clog, close, congest, cork, fill, stop.
http://www.answers.com/plugged&r=67

Figueira da Foz | O Palhetas
Ora, depois este tal rasgo foi tapado (perdão, muito mal tapado, e com uma imensa pobreza de inertes) pela empresa que executou a obra. ...
palhetas.blogspot.com/2006_05_14_palhetas_archive.htm

Singular OnLine
- [ Translate this page ]
A CCP declarou que o buraco estava mal tapado e por isso facilitou a ocorrência do final de semana. De acordo com a Assessoria de Imprensa da Polícia ...
www.ulbra-to.br/singular/viewmat.aspx?cm=379

Boomerang: Janeiro 2005
Aqui no meu sitiozinho as queixas sobre o urbanismo e os espaços verdes não são muitas: uma rotunda mal sinalizada ali, um esgoto mal tapado acolá, ...
boomerangue.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_boomerangue_archive.html

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 13:26
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 176
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