BLEED

English translation: full-page printed, borderless

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English term or phrase:BLEED
Selected answer:full-page printed, borderless
Entered by: John Alphonse (X)

19:26 Mar 14, 2014
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Computers: Software / Pegasus
English term or phrase: BLEED
Hi there -

I am translating a medical report where the headings at the top read as follows:
PROTOCOL: PEGASUS
SITE# 3333 PAT# B12345
EVENT ID: BLEED PAGE#: 5

Would anyone be able to tell me what BLEED might mean in this context? I of course realize that it is an English word, but there is always the question of how it is being used in a document that is otherwise 100% in French.

Thanks so much!
Michael Meskers
United States
Local time: 08:44
full-page printed, borderless
Explanation:
Generally the bleed pages for a magazine, report, trade show program, etc., are the first and last several pages (same sheets of paper through the press/layout etc.) printed fully to the paper's edge, no border, thus called "bleed" pages. They're normally reserved for advertising but not always - and generally used with graphics to improve graphic presentation.
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John Alphonse (X)
United States
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4an instance of printing an illustration or design so as to leave no margin after the page has been trimmed.
acetran
3 +1EVENT ID: BLEED // PAGE#: 5
Victoria Britten
4full-page printed, borderless
John Alphonse (X)
3loss of blood
Piyush Ojha
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Taña Dalglish

  

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
bleed
loss of blood


Explanation:
It would be 'bleeding' in plain English but perhaps 'bleed' is used in medicine.

Given that this is a medical report, 'bleed' and 'page' don't go together as suggested in the reference comment.

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Note added at 4 hrs (2014-03-15 00:02:08 GMT)
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The event would be 'bleeding'; 'bleed' is perhaps fine as an 'Event ID'.

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Note added at 4 hrs (2014-03-15 00:13:57 GMT)
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In computer software it is common to use small integers or short character strings as IDs. These don't necessarily mean something (a description of the event is stored somewhere) but it helps if the ID suggests the description. I suspect 'bleed' suggests bleeding or loss of blood.

Piyush Ojha
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in HindiHindi
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
bleed
an instance of printing an illustration or design so as to leave no margin after the page has been trimmed.


Explanation:
This appears to be the meaning og bleed here.

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Note added at 6 hrs (2014-03-15 02:04:30 GMT)
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of, not og

acetran
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in HindiHindi, Native in EnglishEnglish
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bleed
EVENT ID: BLEED // PAGE#: 5


Explanation:
I first observed that "EVENT ID" is English, so even if the report is in FR I'm happy to start with the hypothesis that this line is EN.
Next observation: the previous line bears two references; what if it was the same here?
And all of a sudden it became clear to me that this was very probably saying that the type of event was a bleed, and this is page 5.

If I'm right, this is obviously not one you're going to be adding to the KudoZ glossary!

Victoria Britten
France
Local time: 14:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Piyush Ojha: This is clearly the way to read line 3. I went slightly off-track initially because I didn't notice that the item was 'Event ID' and NOT 'Event'.
2 days 2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Piyush!
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
bleed
full-page printed, borderless


Explanation:
Generally the bleed pages for a magazine, report, trade show program, etc., are the first and last several pages (same sheets of paper through the press/layout etc.) printed fully to the paper's edge, no border, thus called "bleed" pages. They're normally reserved for advertising but not always - and generally used with graphics to improve graphic presentation.

John Alphonse (X)
United States
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Native speaker of: English
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Reference information:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/advertising_pub...
Spanish term or phrase: página al corte
English translation: bleed page
bleed page definitionbleed page - definition of bleed page from BusinessDictionary.com: Printing industry term for a page on which the printed (inked) area does not have the ...

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bleed page
Definition
Printing industry term for a page on which the printed (inked) area does not have the usual blank (inkless) margins. In all printing processes, a narrow space must be left along the paper's edges for it to be gripped, and to prevent printing ink/toner from going on the ink-free/toner-free parts of the machine. Bleed printing is more expensive where it requires oversized printing plates and/or paper (from which inkless margins are trimmed off to leave only the inked part).


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Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Native speaker of: English

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neutral  Victoria Britten: Don't really see how this fits with the context.
9 hrs
  -> The heading is medical/software-computers. A "bleed page" is a printing industry term. It was the one reference I could find to explain "BLEED". The asker will have to consult the client, but I don´t think it has anything to do with "loss of blood"!
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