Catalan–English dictionary

tartamudejar

(transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

Tartan

(historical) The commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria.

tartana

(US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.

Tàrtar

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.

tartera

(uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope. [from early 18th c.]

tartrà

A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.

tascó

Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

tasconar

(transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.

tasques de la llar

The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.

tassa

A customary unit of measure

tast

(cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

tastar

(transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.

tastet

(cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

tàtar

An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

tatuar

(transitive) To apply a tattoo to (someone).

tatuatge

An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.

tatxa

A small nail with a flat head.

tau

The letter Τ//τ in the Greek alphabet; being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, and the twenty-first letter of the Old and Ancient Greek alphabets.

taujà

A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

taulell

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted

tauler

(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.

taules

A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists.

tauleta

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

tauleta de nit

(US) A small table or cabinet, often with one or more drawers or shelves, placed beside the head of a bed.

tauló

A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

taumaturg

A performer of thaumaturgy; a performer of miracles; a magician.

taumaturga

A performer of thaumaturgy; a performer of miracles; a magician.

taumatúrgia

The working of miracles, wonderworking; magic, witchcraft, wizardry.

taur

(loosely, or, informal) Any member of the species Bos taurus that is not of a bucking breed or fighting breed, regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.

taure

Someone with a Taurus star sign.

taüt

A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

tautològic

Of, relating to, or using tautology.

tàvega

An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.

tavella

(botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

taverna

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

taverner

(chiefly, UK, Irish) The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house.

tavernera

(chiefly, UK, Irish) The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house.

taxa

(countable) A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.

taxador

One who performs appraisals.

taxi

A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

taxidèrmia

The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

taxidermista

One who practices taxidermy, the stuffing of animals.

TDAH

(informal) as of or relating to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

te

The bush Camellia sinensis, the leaves of which are picked, dried and used to make the beverage tea.

teatre

A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof. [from 10th c.]

techno

(music genre) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.

teckel

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

tecla

(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

teclat

A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

teclejar

(intransitive) To type on a computer keyboard.

tècnic

(securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.

tècnica

(uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]

tecno

(music genre) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.

tecno-

Relating to technology.

tecnocràtic

Of, or relating to a technocrat or technocracy.

tecnològic

Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.

tecnològicament

In a technological manner.

tectònic

(geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.

tedi

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

tediós

Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.

Teheran

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

teista

One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.

teix

(uncountable) The wood of the such trees.

teixeda

(uncountable) The wood of the such trees.

teixidor

An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.

teixidura

(uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.

teixir

To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

teixit texà

A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.

teixó

Any mammal belonging to the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora and Taxidea.

tela

A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.

teleapuntador

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.

teleespectador

Someone who watches television.

telèfon

(games, mostly, UK) A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbor, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.

telèfon intel·ligent

(cell phone) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

telèfon públic

A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.

telefonada

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

telefonar

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

telefonia fixa

A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.

telègraf

(chiefly, _, historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.

telegrafiar

To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.

telegrama

A message transmitted by telegraph.

telenotícies

Information about current events disseminated by the media.

telepatia

(parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

telepàtic

(parapsychology) Of, relating to, or using telepathy.

telepàticament

(parapsychology) By means of telepathy.

teleprompter

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.

teler

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

telescopi

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

telescòpic

Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope. [from 17th c.]

teletransportar

(transitive) To move (an object) in this fashion, as by telekinesis.

teletransportar-se

(intransitive) To travel, often instantaneously, from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.

televident

Someone who watches television.

televisió

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

televisor

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

tell

The soft wood of such trees.

tellina

(zoology) A marine bivalve mollusc, of the genus Tellina, that burrows in the sand, from where it siphons detritus.

teló

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

telugu

A Dravidian language of India.

tema

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

temàtic

Relating to or having a or a topic.

témer

(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.

temerari

Recklessly bold; adventurous. [from 1832]

temeràriament

In a rash or reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence

temeritat

The state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.

temible

frightening, especially in appearance.

temor

A feeling of fear and reverence.

temorós

(archaic) Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.

temperament

Temperament, temperamental makeup or habitual mood.

temperança

(obsolete) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

temperar

(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

tempesta

A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.

tempestat

Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.

tempestejar

(intransitive, rare) To storm.

tempestuós

Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.

templa

(anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.

temple

A house of worship, especially:

templer

A Knight Templar, one of the Knights Templar.

temporada

(North America, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

temporal

Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.

temporalment

For a limited period of time; not permanently.

temporani

Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

temporitzador

A device used to measure amounts of time.

temps

For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).

temps de l'any

(North America, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

temptador

That entices; alluring; attractive; charming

temptar

(transitive) To entice; to attract.

temptar (de)

(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.

temptativa

Trial, attempt.

tenaç

Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.

tenalles

A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.

tenca d'hora

A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

tenda

An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

tendència

An inclination in a particular direction.

tendenciós

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

tendir

(followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. [from mid-14th c.]

tendó

(anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

tendrament

In a tender manner; gently; sweetly.

tendresa

An expression of affection.

tenebres

(uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.

tenebrós

(literary, also, figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure. [from 15th c.]

tènia

(countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.

tenir

(rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]

tenir calor

(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

tenir cura

(intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.

tenir de

Ought to; expressing expectation.

tenir fred

(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

tenir por de

(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.

tenir set

(informal, uncommon) Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.

tennis

(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

tens

(also, figuratively) Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.