Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Whirlbank
English translation:
hot tub, jacuzzi
Added to glossary by
Orla Ryan
Jul 19, 2004 10:20
20 yrs ago
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German term
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Whirlbank
German to English
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Tourism & Travel
water feature
In a list of "Wasserattraktionen" in a hotel's swimming pool area and leisure area.
No further context, sorry.
No further context, sorry.
Proposed translations
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| 2 +3 | hot tub, jacuzzi |
Orla Ryan
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| 3 +3 | whirlbank |
Edith Kelly
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| 4 | (swimming pool with) integrated jacuzzi |
sylvie malich (X)
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Proposed translations
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hot tub, jacuzzi
thought of Whirlpool but that is a brand name, isn't it?
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Note added at 15 mins (2004-07-19 10:35:57 GMT)
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i know the suggestions I gave are not exact translations, but i have not seen any pics online of a \"whirlbank\" that could help me figure out what is meant by this term.
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Note added at 15 mins (2004-07-19 10:35:57 GMT)
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i know the suggestions I gave are not exact translations, but i have not seen any pics online of a \"whirlbank\" that could help me figure out what is meant by this term.
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6 mins
Edith Kelly
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whirlbank
though most sites are German-based-speaking, I'd leave it as the expression itself is an English one
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: saw a few howlers on the different sites-seems these texts never go to native anglos....
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Thanks, it's not really a jacuzzi as these are round, a bank is something elongated, more like a rectangle. But, why natives, if you have Germans who tho speek de Englisch länguasch.
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Jonathan MacKerron
: nearly all English mentions of Whirlbank in the Internet are back-translations from German
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True, I noted that, but it's something that's not round, but a multiplicity of adjacent whirlpools sounds crazy, and that's what it is.
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PB Trans
: used in English on this German site: http://www.hotel-theresia.co.at/englisch/pages/kurzinfo_apar...
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Thanks.
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Gábor Simon
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Thanks Gábor.
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Trudy Peters
: This Finnish site calls it a whirlbench: www.vtt.fi/virtual/try/Terak/csm2-99-4.htm
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Thanks Trudy.
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sylvie malich (X)
: I'm with Jonathan, why would you want to advocate using the wrong translation of a German term?
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Thanks Sylvie, do you have a better idea, then? It's not a jacuzzi.
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Heidi Stone-Schaller
: If anything I'd go with the Finnish translation of "whirl bench." (What could a whirlbank be? A place that I take my whirls to, and keep a whirl account?)ADD 1 German site for "whirl bench."
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Thanks, but whirlbench, in one word. 1 single hit on google for whirlbench, a Finnish one.
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(swimming pool with) integrated jacuzzi
From all the sites that I've visited featuring the "Whirlbank" they almost always speak of a "Hallenbad mit Whirlbank". I decifer that it is integrated into the swimming pool as a place to sit (Bank, eben) to take benefit of the jets of water. Our Schwimmhalle has this integrated into the outdoor pool and I am assuming they call it a "Whirlbank" as well.
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