cunha

English translation: lever/leverage

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Portuguese term or phrase:	cunha
English translation:	lever/leverage
Entered by:	Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral

16:57 May 30, 2010

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: cunha

Contexto:
"... aquela franqueza construtiva (...) assinalaria, como um sopro liberador despertado pela subjetividade reformada de dentro, uma cunha nos rumos da sociedade contemporânea."

Isabel Peck KudoZ activity Questions: 45 (5 open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 638 Portugal
Local time: 01:00

leverage/lever

Explanation:
Outra intepretação

HTH

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-05-30 18:14:42 GMT)
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outra inteRpretação

Selected response from:

Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral

Grading comment

Thanks, although I didn't use your answer it was the most helpful. Isabel
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +2

wedge

coolbrowne

3 +1

leverage/lever

Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral

corner

kashew

strings/hook-up

Verginia Ophof

Answers

20 mins confidence:

corner

Explanation:
a corner (minority section) of society might be ok?

kashew
France
Local time: 02:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 23

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks a lot, Isabel

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

leverage/lever

Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 3

Grading comment

Thanks, although I didn't use your answer it was the most helpful. Isabel

9 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

wedge

Explanation:
A máquina elememtar "cunha" chanma-se "wedge" em inglês. Neste caso, acontece que também se aplica no sentido figurado, de algo que se interpõe aos rumos da sociedade contemporânea:

... a liberating breath, awakened by the subjectivity reformed from the inside, a wedge across the ways of contemporary society

coolbrowne
United States
Local time: 20:00
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks a lot for you help. Isabel

1 day 2 hrs confidence:

strings/hook-up

Explanation:
link...inside influence or as Antonia Lessa do Amaral put it : leverage

reformed from within, a hook up/strings in the direction of contemporary society."

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 18:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 18

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks a lot, Verginia, for you contribution. Isabel

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