Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
burned enough
English answer:
bricks are fired in a kiln ( not burned )
English term
burned enough
1. hard-burned or
2. thoroughly burned
are they the same?
Thanks
Jun 22, 2005 20:39: luskie changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
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Native in: Slovak
Works in: English to Slovak, English to Czech, Slovak to English, and 2 more.
bricks are fired in a kiln ( not burned )
find more at:
www.web-innards.co.uk/architecture/house_features/bricks
"...bricks, which were fired evenly were used ..."
you can say: burned enough, well burnt,
There are other factors as well, like additives, pre-drying, but it is not really important to talk about those in this case.
A properly, well-burnt brick is good, there is no other alternative.
If it is not burned properly, it is either under-burned, in which case it is too soft, or overburned, in which case it gets deformed. Neither of them are really useful.
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Refugio
: well-burnt or well-burned, not "burned enough"
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Thanks, yes, depends on the sentence, but well-burned is the expression for the brick itself.
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India
Fast, accurate, elegant translation
Native in: Hindi 
Works in: English to Hindi, Hindi
optimally fired
To say they were fired to the correct level, you could say "optimally fired".
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Note added at 5 hrs 47 mins (2005-06-20 02:13:08 GMT)
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fired means baked or roasted, which exactly described the process of making bricks.
\"optimally\" conveys the sense that the bricks were neither over-baked nor under-baked. There were baked just to the correct level.
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