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Botón
This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for June 6, 2008
botón -masculine noun (el), button. Look up botón in the dictionary Los botónes se encuentran en todas partes- en la ropa, en las máquinas y en las páginas web. Buttons are everywhere- on clothes, machines and web pages. |
Algo relacionado a botón: La palabra zipper.
En el diccionario dice que la palabra es cremallera en español. Yo siempre usé zipper. ¿Que es la palabra común para zipper? |
In Spain we say cremallera.
An anecdote: When my eldest son was little he would call my husband when he went to the toilet and say: "Papá, límpiame el botón"... |
¿Le vas a decir a tu hijo lo que había escrito? Sabes que ahora esta pequeña historia se conoce en varios continentes. Ojalá que él tenga un buen sentido de humor como lo de su mamá :pelota:
Please inform me if I wrote that last sentence correctly. I am trying to vary the way I express myself in Spanish. Thanks. |
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Isn't the word botones also used to mean a hotel clerk? Or the employee that carries the luggage up to your hotel room? Elaina:thinking: |
Yes, it is. A bellboy.
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En Centroamérica, se dicen cierre o zíper por cremallera. Jamás he oido cremallera antes de hoy.
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As Rusty says, cierre means zipper (among other things) in México.
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Another observation: I've noticed that Spanish speakers sometimes use botón for a knob that can be turned.
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What do you mean by knob?
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El pomo de una puerta, but it could mean other things...that I'm not going to explain here.
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What do you call these in Spanish. These are all knobs in English.
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An observation, a button in my country, we don´t say button to the zipper, button here is only a bottun or a bellboy.
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Mixer = mesa/unidad de mezcla
I found all these words used for the knobs, controls, buttons (all synonyms), in no particular order: control de volumen/tono/etc. botón de ... interruptor de ... mando de ... regulador de ... perilla de ... tornillo de ... potenciómetro de ... dial de ... |
Good research Rusty. A mixer can also be a mezcladora or consola. A note concerning potenciómetro, it doesn't refer to any knob; it refers specifically to a potentiometer also known as a pot to electronics people. Thanks for the great options!
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If you do a search on potenciómetro de volumen/tono, you'll see that they're talking about the knob that controls the device, not the device itself. Here are a couple of sentences from some of the sites: -El manejo del equipo se realiza utilizando una pantalla táctil y el clásico potenciómetro de volumen. -... tiene un potenciómetro de tono y otro de volumen ... (guitarra Yamaha) |
I have usually heard of potenciómetro to refer to what you mean, the knob. Even I use this term for my guitar. I'm not an expert at all, but I think this is the most common term in Spanish for this.
I have also heard of interruptor for a radio knob, especially if it's got and on/off item, but I think this is imprecise, although some people use it. |
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