descuelga

English translation: connects

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Spanish term or phrase:descuelga
English translation:connects
Entered by: Henry Hinds

14:03 Mar 18, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications)
Spanish term or phrase: descuelga
Context: Remote Support Protocol

Cuando se desencadena una alarma el terminal descuelga y marca el número de teléfono del centro.

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Ana
A. Deb
Spain
Local time: 17:00
connects
Explanation:
Ya
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Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 10:00
Grading comment
Thanks
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3opens the line/makes a connection/establishes connection with
Rafael Bordabehere (X)
5 +1connects
Henry Hinds
5goes off-hook OR seizes an open line
Deborah Workman
5 -1hang up
Sally Barclay
4is activated/answers/ picks up the call/phone
patricia scott
4omit word from sentence altogether
trans4u
4picks up
patinba


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
hang up


Explanation:
descolgar - to hang up

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Note added at 7 mins (2009-03-18 14:11:17 GMT)
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or hangs up ...

Sally Barclay
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: But how can it hang up and then dial a number?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  patricia scott: Descolgar means picking up the phone.
9 mins
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
is activated/answers/ picks up the call/phone


Explanation:
I'd go for is activated maybe in this case.

patricia scott
Spain
Local time: 17:00
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
connects


Explanation:
Ya

Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 10:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 94
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  De Novi
5 mins
  -> Gracias, Zanne.
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
opens the line/makes a connection/establishes connection with


Explanation:
Luck.

Rafael Bordabehere (X)
Uruguay
Local time: 13:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  De Novi: 'makes a connection' or 'establishes connection with'
4 mins
  -> Thanks Zanne.

agree  Mirtha Grotewold
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Mirtha.

agree  Alex Lago
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Alex.
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
omit word from sentence altogether


Explanation:
descolgar is 'to pick up' a telephone. Since this is done via remote computer, I would just say: Whenever an alarm goes off the terminal automatically places a call to the central terminal. (something like that)

trans4u
Local time: 10:00
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
picks up


Explanation:
descolgar un teléfono= levantar = to pick up. Si el texto indica que el sistema realiza un llamado, no puede ser "hang up" o colgar.

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Note added at 27 mins (2009-03-18 14:30:51 GMT)
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I think picks up or connects works with terminal. They are becoming more human every day :)

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 13:00
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 112
Notes to answerer
Asker: But "pick Up" is transitive and that doesn't work with terminal. This is my dilemma! :-)

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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
goes off-hook OR seizes an open line


Explanation:
See the following example from https://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4993059/description.html:

"Whenever an alarm status is generated, the alarm panel 18 seizes the line such that the local telephone 34 is disconnected and goes off-hook for a short period of time to insure that any previous call was disconnected. The alarm panel then goes off-hook to effect a connection with the central office."

You can find many references to "go off-hook" or "goes off-hook" or "seize the line" or "seizes a line" in connection with remote alarms.

Here is another, found at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0566242.html:

Currently there are many applications wherein customer premises equipment of an end user of telemetry service initiates a remote telemetry telecommunications call to some centralized service bureau. Such arrangements are used, for example, to transmit a meter reading, report energy and appliance usage, report alarm or maintenance conditions or to forward burglar alarm signals or fire alarm signals from homes to service bureaus or directly to police or fire stations. In such systems when an alarm indication is detected, a call is automatically set up to the service bureau and some identification of the caller is transmitted over the connection to the service bureau. ... With today's inbound techniques, the Meter Interface Communications Circuit (MICC) (FIG. 1, block 46) dials directly through the central office switch 21 to a central office service unit connected to the utility or third party service provider. ... Calls to the utility, from the central office service unit, can be delivered by a circuit switched network, packet network, or can be further directed by switch based Multiline Hunt Groups or by an Automatic Call Distributor (ACD). The MICC goes off-hook and dials an access code. The switch recognizes the access code and gives a second dial tone.

Deborah Workman
United States
Local time: 12:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 100
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