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agenciar

English translation: to tackle

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Spanish term or phrase:agenciar
English translation:to tackle
Entered by: Graham Allen-Rawlings

22:39 Sep 24, 2010
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: agenciar
We're in Greco-Roman Egypt. Dictionary and Kudos are telling me 'wangle'... just doesn't work in this context:
Por otra parte, que el término ciudad no sea el adecuado para indagar en las formas que adoptan los núcleos de población egipcios no obsta para que se hubiera desarrollado una experiencia en la organización de los espacios con principios originales sobre la forma de *agenciar* las construcciones.
any suggestions will be more than welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Graham Allen-Rawlings
Spain
Local time: 02:38
to tackle
Explanation:
http://www.answers.com/topic/tackle
Saludos:)
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Rosa Paredes
Canada
Local time: 20:38
Grading comment
thanks to all for your help
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2to tackle
Rosa Paredes
4 +1to realize /realise
Jenni Lukac (X)
4manage to procure or manage to get or manage to build
Rodolfo Peña
4regulating
Henry Hinds
4to manipulate or falsify
emilia cervera (X)
4to assembly
Anne Smith Campbell
4best construction practices
James A. Walsh
4to engineer
Evans (X)
3with original principles governing structural design
Bubo Coroman (X)
3layout
Wendy Streitparth
3make use of/ administer
Electra Voulgari
2take control of / borrow
Noni Gilbert Riley


Discussion entries: 5





  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
manage to procure or manage to get or manage to build


Explanation:
It is softer than wangling, somewhere between that and managing o get

Rodolfo Peña
Mexico
Local time: 18:38
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to tackle


Explanation:
http://www.answers.com/topic/tackle
Saludos:)

Rosa Paredes
Canada
Local time: 20:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
thanks to all for your help

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Walsh
21 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Richard Boulter: I perceive some idiomatic influence in the source. To 'lay out' (2 words) is also possible and, less-slangy, 'realize/realise. Also: 'put together/set up' construction of...'
1 day 15 hrs
  -> Thanks.
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
regulating


Explanation:
Ya

Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 18:38
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 52
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to manipulate or falsify


Explanation:
(a situation, action, etc.)

emilia cervera (X)
Spain
Local time: 02:38
Native speaker of: Valencia, Native in SpanishSpanish
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to assembly


Explanation:


I am understanding this from and architectural/urbanist point of view, so said that, from this point of view I'm sure of my answer, but kept myself lower because I may not be understanding the concept in an historical point of view.

http://diccionario.reverso.net/informatica-ingles-espanol/as...

http://www.archdaily.com/26721/cargotecture-hybrid-architect...

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Note added at 6 horas (2010-09-25 05:13:01 GMT)
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assemble the constructions,

Lo cierto es que no hay muchas opciones vía Internet para estas frases en referencia a la organización de la construcción, arquitectura, etc... pero sería mi opción sin duda.

Anne Smith Campbell
Spain
Local time: 02:38
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
with original principles governing structural design


Explanation:
according to the context

Bubo Coroman (X)
Works in field
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PRO pts in category: 82
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to realize /realise


Explanation:
I think the writer meant "to realize", as in: Kazakhstan to realize largest project on construction of Western Europe?Western China transcontinental corridor. ASTANA. February 6. ...
kazinform.kz/eng/article/2160202 - En caché; Pyramid Giza Egypt Construction Theory Ramp Carlos Colette Dowell
The construction of the model is realized by means of the following procedure: ... JPG)*** Colette Dowell Carlos Theory Pyramid in Egypt Construction ramp ...
circulartimes.org/Great%20Pyramid%20Egypt%20Construction%20... - En caché - Similares

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 02:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 111

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Walsh: Or possibly 'undertake'. Saludos
13 hrs
  -> Cheers and thanks, Christine. "undertake" is a wonderful suggestion.
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
layout


Explanation:
building layout or planning

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 02:38
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
make use of/ administer


Explanation:
This is a general introduction to the use and distribution of "urban" space in ancient Egypt. I think it has nothing to do with wangling/falsifying/manipulating, the meaning of the verb here is neutral.

Example sentence(s):
  • ” from human concerns, and from the way people react to and make use of buildings and the urban built environment. ...

    Reference: http://books.google.es/books?id=I3mVUEzm8xMC&pg=PA4&dq=admin...
Electra Voulgari
Spain
Local time: 02:38
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(la forma de) agenciar (las construcciones)
best construction practices


Explanation:
Another way of putting it, perhaps.


    Reference: http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&tab=nw#hl=en&biw=784&bih...
James A. Walsh
Spain
Local time: 02:38
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to engineer


Explanation:
about the way to engineer constructions

I read it as an elaborate way of saying "do"...

Evans (X)
Local time: 01:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
take control of / borrow


Explanation:
Not sure if it fits in here, but this is how I normally think of the word ("vamos a agenciar esa mesa de allí"... "¿te importa si agencio a tu hija un momento para que me explique lo que es Hello Kitty?"

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Note added at 9 mins (2010-09-24 22:49:07 GMT)
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*make use of* perhaps wd do you better

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Note added at 23 hrs (2010-09-25 22:17:45 GMT)
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I've tried working on the whole sentence and this is what I've come up with so far.

"...the fact that the term "city" really isn't the right one to use in delving into the forms which the Egyptian centres of population take on doesn't mean to say that experience had not been acquired in the organization of spaces with original principles on how to make use of the buildings"

A couple of agrees have trickled in since you last posted G, and I note that Electra obviously agrees with me since she also suggests "make use of" ;-)

Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 02:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 39
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