Catalan–English dictionary

cantinera

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

cantó

A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).

cantonada

A corner where two walls intersect.

cantonès

(uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.

cantonesa

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.

cantor

A person who sings, often professionally.

canvi

(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.

canvi climàtic

Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.

canviaformes

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

canviament

(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.

canviar

(intransitive) To become something different.

canviar la ruta

(transitive) To change the route taken by something.

canya

A long tube (usually made out of plastic or paper) through which a beverage is drunk via suction.

canya de pescar

A rod, often made in sections, which carries a line used for angling and is used to support both the line and the reel and to cast the line.

canya del pulmó

The trachea.

canyella

(mostly, uncountable) A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.

canyeller

Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).

caolí

A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.

cap

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

cap a

Into.

cap aquí

(location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.

cap cosa

Not any thing; no thing.

cap de feina

(obsolete) Leaven; an agent that makes dough rise.

cap de setmana

The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.

cap objecte

(informal) Nothing; absence of anything.

capa

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

capaç

Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.

capacitància

(physics, uncountable) The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F).

capacitat

(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

capacitisme

(uncountable) Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of those without. [from late 20th c.]

capar

(transitive) To castrate (a male calf).

caparra

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

caparrut

Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.

capatàs

(management) The leader of a work crew.

capbaix

Sad and dispirited.

capbussada

A headfirst fall or jump.

capbussar

(intransitive, of aircraft) To dive down in a steep angle.

capbussar-se

(intransitive) To swim under water.

capbussó

A headfirst fall or jump.

capça

A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.

capçada

(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.

capçal

(computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

capçalera

The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.

capcinada

A light, short sleep or nap.

capcinejar

(intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.

capdavanter

At the highest level of development at a particular time; cutting-edge.

capejada

An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.

capejar

(ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.

capelina

A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.

capell

(headwear) A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

capella

(UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.

capellà fosc

A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus.

capficar-se

(intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.

capfoguer

(usually, in plural) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side

capgròs

A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

capialt

A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

capital

(slang, dated) used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.

capitalisme

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

capitalista

Supporting or endorsing capitalism.

capitanejar

(intransitive) To act as captain

capitell

(countable, architectural element) The uppermost part of a column.

capítol

A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.

Capitoli

The building in Washington, D.C., in which both houses of the Congress of the United States meet.

capitulació

An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.

caplletra

(typesetting, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

capó

(Australia, British, NZ, South Africa, Commonwealth, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car, also known as a hood in chiefly Canada and the US.

capoll

The silky case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, protecting the pupa within.

caporal

(military) A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.

caprici

An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion.

capricorn

Someone with a Capricorn star sign.

capritx

An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion.

capsa

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

captaire

A person who begs.

captenir-se

(intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.

captiu

Held prisoner; not free; confined.

captivador

Very beautiful or attractive.

captivar

(transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.

captiveri

The state of being captive.

captivitat

The state of being captive.

captura

The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.

capturar

(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.

caputxa

A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

capvespre

The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

capvuitada

(Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.

caqui

A persimmon, specifically a Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).

caquier

The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.

car

Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).

cara

(anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.

carabassa

Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

carabassera

The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.

carabassera vinatera

The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

carabassó

(British, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.

Caracas

The capital city of Venezuela.

caràcter

(countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

característic

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

característica

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

caragol

A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.

caragolar

(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.

carambola

(countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.

caramel

(countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

caramell

A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

caramels

Confectionery, candy.

carbassa

The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.

carbassa vinera

A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.

carbassera

The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.

carbassera vinera

The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

carbassó

(British, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.

carbó

A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.

carbó de coc

(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

carbó vegetal

(countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.

carbonado

(mineral) A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling.

carbonat

Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.

carbonatat

Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral water or man-made drinks.

carboncle

(archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.

carboni

(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.

carbonitzar

To turn something to carbon, especially by heating it; to scorch or blacken.

carbur

(chemistry) Any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element

carburador

(US, Canada) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition. [from 1890s]

carburant

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

carca

(1950s, _, slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends.

carcaix

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

càrcer

A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

carculla

The shell of this sea animal.

card

This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.

card comestible

Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.

card comú

Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.

card vermell

(colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.

cardar

(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

cardenal

Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.

càrdigan

A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool.

cardinal

Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.

cardiòleg

A physician who specializes in medical problems related to the heart.

cardiologia

(medicine) The study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.

cardiomiopatia

(pathology) The deterioration of the myocardium.

cardiovascular

Relating to the circulatory system, that is the heart and blood vessels.

Carena

(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

carenar

(nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.

careta

A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.

carga

A heavy load.

cargol

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

cargol de banc

(US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

cargola

Any plant of genus Erodium.

cargolet

Troglodytes troglodytes

cària

(countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.

Carib

A continental region centered on the Caribbean Sea, consisting of those countries located in the sea and in bordering areas of South America and Central America.

caribeny

Pertaining to the sea and region of the western Atlantic bounded by South America, Central America, and the islands of the West Indies (such as Cuba and Hispaniola).

caribú

Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.

caricatura

Having the characteristics of a caricature, grotesque.

caricaturar

To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

caricaturitzar

To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.