Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term
a olho
Medi a quantidade a olho, não li o manual de instruções.
Does anyone know the expression or word in English for "a olho"?
Thank you
| 4 +3 | by eye |
Flavia Martins dos Santos
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| 4 +3 | by sight |
Katarina Peters
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| 3 +3 | eyeball, to |
Fernando Domeniconi
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| 4 +1 | estimate |
David Alexandre (X)
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| 4 +1 | roughly (roughly mesured, it's around 70 kms.) |
Gustavo Silva
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| 4 | by rule of thumb |
Isabel Peck
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| 4 | without measuring |
Elvira Alves Barry
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| 4 | with the eye. |
Marcos Antonio
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Proposed translations
Brazil
Commitment, Quality and Respect!
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
by eye
estimate
Portugal
15 yrs - engineering to art criticism
Native in: Portuguese 
, English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, French to Portuguese, and 3 more.
by rule of thumb
United States
Chemical Engineer. Fast, reliable work
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Portuguese
eyeball, to
To measure or estimate roughly by sight: eyeballed the area of the wall that needed paint
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eyeball
There are at least three different ways of estimating unknown quantities:
Eyeball Estimates
An "eyeball estimate" is an educated guess about a quantity based on sight and using some known benchmarks as guides
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/pro-dev/estimation/48941.ht...
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Carla Queiro (X)
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Obrigado, Carla!
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Catarina Aleixo
: I agree provided the wants US English
38 mins
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True. I should've added that. Thank you, Catarina!
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Nitin Goyal
1 hr
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Thanks, Nitin!
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without measuring
Canada
Accuracy and A1 presentation
Native in: Hungarian , English (Variant: US)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Hungarian to English, and 13 more.
by sight
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Abigail Elvins
: "once you measure it once or twice you will be able to quickly judge it by sight" from www.aquaripure.com/flowrate.htm and "...water level is too small to accurately measure by sight" at www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Crown/CrownIntro.html
57 mins
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Thanks, Abigail, also for the references! :)
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Enza Longo
2 hrs
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Thank you, Enza!
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Fiona Stephenson
: That's the phrase - to estimate something just by looking
2 days 3 hrs
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Portugal
The best value for your money
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: French to Portuguese, English to Portuguese
roughly (roughly mesured, it's around 70 kms.)
Roughly mesured, it's around 70 kms.
I measured it roughly, I didn´t read the instruction manual.
What I need to do is to roughly measure the real height of each foreground object to see if it is lower or higher than 1m.
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Cipriana Leme
: roughly measured. The others are not used.
1 day 19 hrs
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Yes, I also think so! Thanks Cipriana! :-)
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Electric Engineer/Military
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
with the eye.
- with the naked eye = a olho nú
- with the aided eye = a olho armado.
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