Catalan–English dictionary

freelance

Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.

fregadora

A machine to mechanize the process of sanding.

fregir

(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.

frenesí

A state of wild activity or panic.

frenètic

Frenzied and frantic, harried; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.

frenèticament

In a frantic way.

freqüent

Done or occurring often; common.

freqüentar

(transitive) To visit often.

freqüentment

(informal) Often; frequently.

fresa

Eggs of fish.

fresar

(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

fresc

Of a mildly low temperature.

fresca

Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

frescament

(uncommon) In a rude or impertinent manner.

frescor

Moderate chilliness.

fresseta

Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.

fretura

A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.

freturós

Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).

freturosa

Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).

freudià

Relating to or influenced by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

fricatiu

(phonetics) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.

frígid

Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.

frigorífic

A household or commercial appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).

frita

A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.

frívol

Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a whim or caprice.

frivolitat

frivolous act

fronda

(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

front

The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.

front arrufat

The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

frontal

(computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is conceptually closest to the user; the user interface.

fronter

The highest part of an arch.

frontera

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

fronterer

Having a common boundary or border

frontissa

A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.

fructosa

(carbohydrate) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C6H12O6.

frugal

Of something which is consumed (such as money, goods, etc.): Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.

frugalitat

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.

fruita

(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]

frustrador

Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.

frustrant

Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.

frustrar

(transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.

fuet

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

fuetada

A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.

fuetejar

(transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

fuga

The act of fleeing.

fugaç

Passing quickly; of short duration.

fugida

The act of fleeing.

fugir

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

fugir d'estudi

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

fugitiu

Fleeing or running away; escaping.

fuita

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

ful

A language spoken in West Africa.

fulcre

(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.

full

A very thin sheet of metal.

full de mà

A loose printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.

fulla

The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

fulla de carnisser

A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.

fullatge

The leaves of plants.

fullejar

(transitive) To turn the pages of (a book) idly, reading short sections at random.

fullet

A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes.

fullola

A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.

fullós

resembling a leaf

fum

(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

fumador

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

fumadora

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

fumar

(intransitive) To give off smoke.

fumat

Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation.

fumejar

(intransitive) To give off smoke.

fumeral

A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).

funció

(grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.

funcionalitat

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

funcionar

(intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

funcionari

A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.

funda

A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. [from 19th c.]

fundador

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

fundadora

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

fundadores

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

fundadors

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

fundamento

(legal) Basis or justification for something.

funeral

A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

funerals

A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

fungible

(originally, finance, and, commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.

fúngic

Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi.

fura

An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.

furgar

(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.

furgoneta

A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

fúria

Extreme anger.

furibund

(formal, literary) Having a propensity to be furious; choleric, irate.

furientment

In an impetuous manner; with sudden force

fúries

(Greek god) Synonym of Erinyes; the goddesses of vengeance.

furiós

Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.

furiosament

In a furious manner; angrily.

furó

An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.

furro

(informal) Of or related to the furry fandom or subculture.

furry

Any member of the furry fandom or subculture (including those without fursonas).

furt

(legal, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently. [from mid-15th c.]

furtiu

Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

furtivament

In a furtive manner.

furtivitat

(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.

fus

(spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.

fusaiola

A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle. [from c. 1460]

fusible

(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

fusionar

(by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.

fusta

(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]

fustany

Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.

Fuster

A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.

fusteria

(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.

fútbal

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

futbol

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

futbolí

(chiefly, _, US, Canada) table soccer (US), table football (UK)

futbolista

(American football, US, uncommon, dated) One who plays American football.

fútil

Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.

futilesa

(uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless.

futilitat

(uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless.

futur

Having to do with or occurring in the future.

futurisme

(art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.

futurista

In the style of futurism.

gàbia

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

gablet

(architectural element) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).

gaèlic

A member of an ethnic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic.

gaèlic irlandès

(uncountable) The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.

gafarró

Serinus serinus, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

gaffer

(film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.

gai

(dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.

gaia

(dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.

gaiament

(dated) Merrily.

gaieta

The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

gaig

A widespread species of jay, usually crested and with pinkish-brown plumage and a harsh screech (Garrulus glandarius).

gaire

(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.

gairebé

Very nearly; everything short of. Most often precedes a verb or adjective.

gaita

A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

gaiter

One who plays the bagpipes.

gal

(historical) Of or related to Gaul or the Gauls.

gal·la

A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.

Gal·les

One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

gal·lesa

Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales. [from 16thc.]

gal·lesos

(collectively, in the plural) The people of Wales. [from 11th c.]

Gàl·lia

(chiefly, historic) A historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.

Gal·lípoli

A peninsula in Turkey, north of the Dardanelles, between the Aegean and Marmara seas.

gala

(uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.

galàctic

(astronomy, specifically, sometimes capitalized) Relating to the Milky Way galaxy.

galanteria

chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women.

galàxia

(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. [from 19th c.]

galda

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

galdós

(informal) Bad; poor.

Galè

An ancient Greek physician.

galera

(nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.

galerista

The owner or operator of an art gallery

galeta

(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

galeta d'aigua

A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).