Catalan–English dictionary

càtering

(uncountable, UK, Philippines) The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

catèter

(medicine) A small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug, create an opening, distend a passageway, or remove fluid.

catifa

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

càtode

(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage with respect to anode of the same polarized device (depending on whether the device is a load or a source, respectively).

catòlic

A member of a Catholic church.

catolicisme

The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.

catorze

The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.

catúfol

Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

catxap

(informal, childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.

cau

A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.

caucasià

Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.

caucàsic

Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.

caució

(countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

caure

(intransitive, also, figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid. [from 14th c.]

caure, amb un so com d'aigua

(ambitransitive) To land heavily or loosely.

causa

(legal) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.

causa major

(law) An unavoidable circumstance, especially one that prevents someone from fulfilling a legal (usually contractual) obligation.

causar

(transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.

càustic

Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.

cautela

A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.

cautelós

Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent

cautelosament

In a cautious manner.

cauteritzar

To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.

cautxú

(obsolete) Latex; natural rubber.

cava

A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.

cavalcada

(collective) A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.

cavalcar

(ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]

cavall

(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

cavall àrab

An Arabian horse.

cavall de serp

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.

cavall de Troia

(computer security) A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.

cavall de vapor

Metric horsepower, a metric unit approximately equal to 735.5 watts.

cavalla

Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,

cavalleria

(military, usually, _, historical, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.

cavallerís

A person who looks after horses.

cavallerissa

A person who looks after horses.

cavallet

Coracias garrulus, a European species of roller.

cavalló

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

cavar

(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

cavernícola

An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.

caviar

Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.

ce

The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

cebollí

A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

Cebrià

A surname from Spanish.

cec

(not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.

Cecília

A en given name.

cedir

To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.

cegar

(transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.

ceguesa

The condition of being blind; unable to see.

ceguetat

The condition of being blind; unable to see.

CEI

Initialism of Commonwealth of Independent States.

cel·la

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. [from 14th c.]

cel·lofana

Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.

cel·lular

Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.

cel·lulitis

The dimpled appearance of skin caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous adipose tissue, especially on a woman's hips and thighs.

cel·luloide

Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

cel·lulosa

A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.

celadament

In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.

celar

(pejorative, intransitive, transitive) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly; sometimes extended sarcastically even to those not paid but strongly biased in favor.

celebració

A social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party.

cèlebre

In the public eye.

celesta

(musical instruments) A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.

celeste

Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.

celestial

of or related to Heaven and the divine.

celestina

(mineral) A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO4, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.

Cèlia

A en given name.

celiandre

(UK, Irish) The annual herb Coriandrum sativum, used in many cuisines.

celístia

Light emitted from stars other than the Sun.

cella

The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.

celler

A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.

celta

(historical) A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.

cèltic

A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era.

cementiri

A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

cena

(Christianity) The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before his death.

cendra

A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.

cendre

A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.

cendrer

A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars.

cenotafi

A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.

cens

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

cens de població

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

censor

(obsolete) One who censures or condemns.

censora

(obsolete) One who censures or condemns.

censura

The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.

censurar

To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).

cent

A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.

centau

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

Centaure

(constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky (and autumn of the southern sky) with the outline of a centaur. It includes the stars Alpha Centauri (Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman), Proxima Centauri, and Hadar.

centè

The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

centella

A short or small burst of electrical discharge.

centellejar

(intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.

centenari

The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.

centèsim

The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

cèntim

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

centímetre

(metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10−2 metres. Symbol: cm

centpeus

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

central

The center of an organization's operations or administration.

centralisme

A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.

centre

(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).

centre comercial

An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]

centre del camp

(sports) The middle of the field of play.

centrífuga

By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)

centrifugadora

By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)

centrista

A person who advocates centrism.

centúria

A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

centurió

(historical) An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.

cep

An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized for its flavor.

ceptre

An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.

cera

Made of wax.

cera d'abella

A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.

ceràmic

Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

ceràmica

(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.

ceramista

A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.

Cèrber

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

cerca

An attempt to find something.

cerca-raons

One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.

cercador

One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

cercadora

One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

cercapersones

(telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

cercar

(transitive) To seek.

cercle

(UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

cèrcol

(sports) The hoop, holding a string net, through which the basketball must be placed to score

cercopitec

A member of the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys, of sub-Saharan Africa, principally forests.

cereal

(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.

cereals

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

cerebel

(neuroanatomy) Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the back of the cerebrum and is formed of two lateral lobes and a median lobe. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture.

cerimonial

Of, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony.

cerimoniós

According to the required or usual ceremonies, formalities, or rituals; specifically (Christianity, obsolete) , to ceremonial laws in the Bible.

cerndre

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

cerós

Made of wax.

cert

Having been determined but not specified.

certament

Without doubt, surely.

certesa

The state of being certain.

certificable

(of a document) That can or must be certified.

certificació

The act of certifying.

certificat

A document containing a certified statement.

ceruli

Sky-blue.

cervatell

A young deer.

cervell

(idiomatic) A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.

cervesa

(uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor.

Cerví

An iconic pyramidal mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy.

cèrvix

(now, specifically) The cervix uteri, or lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.

cérvol

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, shad and kangaroo.

Cèsar

An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.

cetaci

An animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.

cian

An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.

cianur

(inorganic compound, organic compound, countable) Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN− anion.

ciàtica

(pathology, neurology) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, characterised by pain radiating down through the buttocks and the back of the thigh.

ciber-

(Internet) Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally.

ciberatac

An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.

ciberespai

A world of information accessed through the Internet.