Jan 20, 2005 08:25
19 yrs ago
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French term
tenue du fruit
French to English
Science
Agriculture
botany
This has to do with apricot farming.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +7 | it could also be the "behaviour" of the fruit, for example during transport |
CMJ_Trans (X)
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| 3 | meatiness |
zaphod
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| 3 -1 | sstandard/quality |
suezen
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| 3 -1 | care of the fruit |
Gabrielle Lyons
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Proposed translations
+7
14 mins
Selected
it could also be the "behaviour" of the fruit, for example during transport
PLEASE GIVE MORE CONTEXT - if only the whole sentence
Peer comment(s):
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Céline Odo
: and how many time the fruit looks well. Don't know how to say that in English, but CMJ_Trans did find the meaning
20 mins
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| agree |
writeaway
: I have the impression your cries for more context have fallen on deaf ears
27 mins
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back to: garbage in, garbage out. I am totally beyond caring
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Connor
: well behaved fruit are much nicer to eat: polite pears won't bruise the bananas in the back of the lorry
1 hr
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Quite! I presume it means how well they hold up to being picked/packed/shipped
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| agree |
French Foodie
: yes, how well they "withstand" storage, transport, etc. Or perhaps simply how well they "keep"... oh, the joys of context-free guesses...
1 hr
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| agree |
Dr Sue Levy (X)
: as in "le fruit est de bonne tenue" = keeps well
2 hrs
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| agree |
Johanne Bouthillier
4 hrs
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| agree |
Veronique Domaratsky-Dujardin
: How it "keeps" or perhaps it's technical for how it is actually "dressed", i.e. packaged, like those little tissues of different colors in each little niche... " Petite tenue"if it's summertime!
5 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
-1
7 mins
sstandard/quality
Declined
I think
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Note added at 8 mins (2005-01-20 08:33:42 GMT)
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sorry, standard
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Note added at 8 mins (2005-01-20 08:33:42 GMT)
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sorry, standard
Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Céline Odo
: a fruit can have a good "tenue" and be of poor quality
28 mins
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-1
11 mins
Gabrielle Lyons
Native in English
The content matters.
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, German to English
Related KudoZ points
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4
care of the fruit
Declined
Not sure if this would be on the tree or in storage, but tenue = 'maniere de soignier' is well attested. I checked it in Kettridge's French-English dictionary of Technical Terms
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Note added at 15 mins (2005-01-20 08:41:16 GMT)
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Kettridge entry:
\'tenue (maniere de soigner) keeping; care;
tenue de carnet, keeping notes
tenue des chaudieres de locomotive, care of locomotive-boilers\'
If the fruit is still on the tree I\'d say \'care\'; if it\'s off the tree, I\'d say \'storage, \'keeping\' or \'care during storage\'.
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Note added at 15 mins (2005-01-20 08:41:16 GMT)
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Kettridge entry:
\'tenue (maniere de soigner) keeping; care;
tenue de carnet, keeping notes
tenue des chaudieres de locomotive, care of locomotive-boilers\'
If the fruit is still on the tree I\'d say \'care\'; if it\'s off the tree, I\'d say \'storage, \'keeping\' or \'care during storage\'.
14 hrs
meatiness
Does the fruit have enough?
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