Catalan–English dictionary

escalamera

(nautical) A usually U-shaped device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.

escalar

(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

escaldar

(transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).

escàlem

(nautical, chiefly, British) A usually U-shaped pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock.

escalfabraguetes

(slang, vulgar, chiefly, derogatory) A person, usually a woman, who teases a man but then withdraws an implied promise of sexual intercourse.

escalfament

The act of making something hot.

escalfar

(transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").

escama

Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.

escambell

A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.

escamós

Covered or abounding with scales.

escamot

(cycle racing) A group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders; the pack.

escampar

(transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.

escandalitzar

(transitive) To cause great offense to (someone).

escandall

(countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.

escandalós

Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

escandinau

(of a language) Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.

Escandinàvia

A geographic region of Northern Europe, consisting of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, Åland and the Faroe Islands.

escandir

(poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre. [from 14th C.]

escàndol

An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.

escanejar

(computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

escanista

One who scans. [from 16th c.]

escanyar

(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

escapador

(figurative) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.

escapar

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

escapar-se

(transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.

escaparat

A case for displaying merchandise or valuable items.

escàpol

(idiomatic) On the loose; roaming freely; not confined.

escapolir-se

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

escaquer

(chess) The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.

escarabat

(UK, Australia, NZ) A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).

escarabat de Sant Joan

Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.

escarabat piloter

Any of the beetle of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles), especially of the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae, noted for rolling dung into balls for use as food or as brooding chambers.

escarabeu

A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle.

escaramussar

To engage in a minor battle or dispute.

escarceller

One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.

escarlata

A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.

escarnir

(intransitive, with at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.

escarolat

A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).

escarpat

Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

escarransit

Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak. [from 16th c.]

escartejar

(ambitransitive) To put in a random order.

escàs

Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

escassedat

(uncountable) The condition of something being scarce or deficient.

escasser

Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.

escassesa

(uncountable) The condition of something being scarce or deficient.

escassetat

(uncountable) The condition of something being scarce or deficient.

escata

Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.

escataineig

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

escatar

(transitive) To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper.

escaure

(transitive, figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.

escena

The location of an event that attracts attention.

escenari

A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.

escènic

having beautiful scenery; picturesque

escèptic

Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.

escintil·lar

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

esclafar

To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.

esclafidor

(musical instruments, chiefly, in the plural) A single handheld percussion instrument consisting of a pair of concave shells or shell-shaped parts joined on one edge by string.

esclat

(uncountable) An intense, blinding light.

esclatar

(intransitive) To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.

esclau

(literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) Slave; one under the control of another.

esclavatge

An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.

esclavitud

The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.

esclavització

The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage

esclavitzar

(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

esclerosi

(pathology) The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.

escleròtic

(anatomy, or, pathology) Having or relating to sclerosis; hardened.

escletxa

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

esclop

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

escó

(figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

escocès

A person born in or native to Scotland.

escocesa

A person born in or native to Scotland.

escocesos

(dated) The people of Scotland.

Escòcia

A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England.

escolà

A boy serving as an acolyte in certain forms of Christianity.

escola bressol

(North America, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school. [from 1852]

escolar-se

To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

escoliosi

(pathology) The abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

escollir

To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

escolta

A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.

escoltisme

The Scout Movement.

escombra

(countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.

escombracarrers

One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. One who walks to observe and enjoy rather than to get somewhere.

escombrada

A quick, light sweeping motion.

escombrar

(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

escombraries

Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

escombriaire

(US, Canada) A worker who removes refuse.

escondir

(intransitive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

escopeta

A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

escopina

(uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.

escopinada

Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.

escopinar

(ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.

escopinyada

(uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.

escopir

(ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.

escorbut

(uncountable, disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes; (countable, obsolete) an occurrence of this disease.

escorça

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

escorcollar

(transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly. [from 19th C.]

escòria

(uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).

escorpí

Someone with a Scorpio star sign

escorpió

Someone with a Scorpio star sign

escorredora

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

escorreguda

(uncountable, chiefly, UK, vulgar, slang) Semen.

escórrer

(intransitive) To leak slowly.

escórrer-se

(intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

escorta

A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.

escortar

To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to

escorxador

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]

escot

A person born in or native to Scotland.

escota

A person born in or native to Scotland.

escotilla

A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.

escriba

(archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

escriny

A little box, e.g. for jewellery.

escriptor

A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".

escriptora

A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".

escriptura

(legal) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.

escrit

Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

escrivà

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

escrot

(anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.

escrupolosament

In a careful manner, with scruple; done with careful attention to detail.

escrutar

(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.

escudeller

(UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.

escuder

An esquire, originally carrying the armour of a knight; (hence, later) a man of the gentry ranking below a knight. [from 16th c.]

escull

(figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.

escullera

A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.

esculpir

(transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.

esculpit

Of an object, made by carving.

escultor

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

escultora

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

escuma

Foam.

escumar

(intransitive) To form or emit foam.

escurabutxaques

One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

escurada

Dishwashing

escuradents

A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.

escurar

(intransitive) To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons).

escurçar

(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.

escurçar-se

(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.

escurçó

(by extension) An obnoxious person or troublemaker.

escut

(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

escúter

A motorscooter; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.

esdeveniment

An occurrence; something that happens.

esdevenir

(transitive) To be proper for; to beseem. [from 13th c.]

esència

A distinctive smell.

esfèn

(mineral) A mixed calcium and titanium neosilicate, CaTiSiO5, once known as sphene.

esfilagarsar

(also, figuratively) To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.

esforç

The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.

esforçar-se

To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

esfumí

(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.

esgaripar

To make a hoo, the cry of an owl.

esgarrap

A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.

esgarrapada

A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.

esgarrapar

To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.