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snippen

English translation: tip or corner

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Danish term or phrase:snippen
English translation:tip or corner
Entered by: Diarmuid Kennan

15:23 Dec 18, 2006
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Casting of blades for wind turbine
Danish term or phrase: snippen
Vend snippen indad i formen
Diarmuid Kennan
Ireland
Local time: 03:00
tip or corner
Explanation:
This is typically something you can fold over or tuck in.

Thisis what Vinterberg & Bodelsen suggest:

snip en -per
corner (fx a corner of her handkerchief);
end (fx of a scarf);
point (fx he pulled down the points of his waistcoat);
(fx på konvolut) flap;
(lap på skosål) patch;
...

There are lots of examples in paper-folding exercises for making Christmas decorations where you tuck in in a corner or glue down a flap, which is a 'snip' in this sense.

I don't know if there is some layer that has to be folded or tucked in on a wind turbine blade, but it would not surprise me.
Everything does have to be neatened and smoothed off to reduce air resistance.
Selected response from:

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 04:00
Grading comment
Thank you
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3 +1tip or corner
Christine Andersen


  

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tip or corner


Explanation:
This is typically something you can fold over or tuck in.

Thisis what Vinterberg & Bodelsen suggest:

snip en -per
corner (fx a corner of her handkerchief);
end (fx of a scarf);
point (fx he pulled down the points of his waistcoat);
(fx på konvolut) flap;
(lap på skosål) patch;
...

There are lots of examples in paper-folding exercises for making Christmas decorations where you tuck in in a corner or glue down a flap, which is a 'snip' in this sense.

I don't know if there is some layer that has to be folded or tucked in on a wind turbine blade, but it would not surprise me.
Everything does have to be neatened and smoothed off to reduce air resistance.


Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 04:00
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
Thank you

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