German words sometimes end up with a whole lot of English "equivalents". Today's is Band, which can mean, well, "band", but also "volume (of a book)" or, in my special case today, "door or gate hinge". No, really.
I got all the way through to the drawing explanations in a patent about gate hinges today before I thought, you know, translating this as "band" just isn't all that felicitous.
It's amazing I get any repeat business at all. Fortunately I usually twig to this stuff before delivering.
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