09:10 Feb 6, 2007 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Metallurgy / Casting | |||||
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| Selected response from: Ken Cox Local time: 07:43 | ||||
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long, tall Explanation: long length, tall height |
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length, height(see below) Explanation: Personally, I'd change the wording as follows: "Preferably, the heating ducts are of a length (up to 25 metres) sufficient to..." "Thus, the height of the fire-resistant chamber..." In the second sentence, "tall" is redundant - the use of "height" on its own conveys the desired meaning. |
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maximum length, height Explanation: You're right, it doesn't make sense. maximum would aoply to the first term, whereas you might use the second on its own dropping the "large". |
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reword Explanation: It appears to me that the intended meaning is that the ducts or chamber must be sufficiently long or sufficiently high to achieve the intended objective. Here I would suggest 'the heating ducts are preferably made long enough (preferably 25 m)...' and 'the height of the chamber,...'. For the second part, it would be better to say 'The high chamber... thus ensures...'. The original wording of the first part (with the ducts) suggests that the ducts are to be made from long sections of pipe or whatever, which IMO is not the intended meaning. Length is an abstract quantity in English, so it sounds unnatural to say that something is 'made of a large length' when what you mean is that it is made to be relatively long. This is further confusing because 'length' can also be used in a concrete sense, such as 'a length of pipe', which means a piece of pipe of certain (unstated) length. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 27 mins (2007-02-06 09:38:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Oops, make that 'the heating ducts are preferably made long enough (up to 25 m) or 'are preferably made relatively long'. |
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