Catalan–English dictionary

quissa

(slang) A dog.

quissoiar

(ambitransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.

quist

A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

quístic

Of or pertaining to a cyst.

quitrà

Coal tar.

quitrà de carbó

Coal tar.

quòndam

(formal) Former; once; at one time.

quòrum

The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority.

quota

(banking, finance) Any of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equal in amount (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), and payment of which takes place at regular intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.

quotidià

That occurs every day, or at least every working day.

rabassut

(of a person or an animal) Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.

rabasta

A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.

rabí

A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.

ràbia

A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to yell, say curse words, and/or physically harm or cause damage or destruction to things or attack or assault living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, or unfair or unjust treatment, or a situation not going the way one had desired or planned.

rabiola

An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

rabiüt

Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.

rabosa

(in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.

raça

All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

racial

Of or relating to a race (or a people).

raciocinació

Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.

racionalisme

(philosophy) The theory that the reason is a source of knowledge independent of and superior to sense perception.

racionalitat

The quality or state of being rational; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

racionalment

In a rational manner

racisme

Prejudice or discrimination based upon race or ethnicity; (countable) an action of such discrimination.

racista

Constituting, exhibiting, advocating, or pertaining to racism.

racó

A corner where two walls intersect.

radar

(uncountable) A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces.

radi

The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal.

radiant

(geometry) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angle: the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle.

radical

(also, attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.

radicalment

In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.

radioactiu

Exhibiting radioactivity.

radiodifusió

(business) The business or profession of radio and television.

radiòleg

A person who is skilled in or practices radiology.

radiologia

(medicine) The specialty of medical imaging and its interpretation, originally and especially radiography#Noun but now including all imaging modalities, including ones that use no radiation#Noun (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging).

radó

The chemical element (symbol Rn, formerly Ro) with atomic number 86. It is an odorless, colorless, chemically inert but radioactive noble gas.

ràfega

A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).

rai

(watercraft) A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.

raig

(botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.

raig de llamp

A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

raïm

A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

raima

A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

raja

A Hindu prince or ruler in India.

rajada

Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.

rajar

(intransitive, also, figurative) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.

rajola

A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.

ral·li

(motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.

rallar

(intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.

ram

A bunch of cut flowers.

ramadà

(Islam) The holy ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which Muslims fast between the break of dawn until sunset; they also refrain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sexual relations.

ramal

(railroads) A non-through line which joins a mainline (or another branch or secondary line) and ends at a terminus.

ramat

A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.

ramell

A bunch of cut flowers.

Ramon

A en given name.

rampa

A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.

rampí

(agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

ranc

(especially, of an, animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

ranci

(of oily or fatty food) Rank in taste or smell.

rancificació

The decomposition of fats and other lipids by hydrolysis or oxidation; the process of becoming rancid.

rancor

(countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.

rancúnia

(countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.

rancuniós

Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.

randa

(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.

ranera

(medicine, now, chiefly, in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.

rang

An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

raní

The wife of a rajah.

rànquing

One’s relative placement in a list.

ranuncle

Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.

ranura

A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.

ranxo

A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.

raó

(legal) Basis or justification for something.

raonable

Just; fair; agreeable to reason.

raonament

(uncountable) The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises, abstract thought, ratiocination; (countable) any instance of this, especially as a process leading to an action, motive.

raonar

(intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.

raonat

Profound; careful.

raor

A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.

rap

An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.

rapar

(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

rapè

A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.

raper

(music) A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.

rapera

(music) A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.

ràpid

Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid. [from 14th c.]

ràpidament

Quickly, with great speed; within a short time [from 13th c.].

rapidesa

The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.

rapsòdia

(music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation.

raptar

(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17th century.]

rapte

(Christianity) In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.

raptor

One who abducts; a kidnapper. [mid 19th century]

raptora

One who abducts; a kidnapper. [mid 19th century]

raqueta

(countable, sports) An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.

raquis

Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate.

raquitisme

(pathology) A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones.

rar

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

rarament

Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often. [from 16th c.]

raresa

A measure of the scarcity of an object.

raritat

A measure of the scarcity of an object.

ras

A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).

rasa

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

rascar

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

rasclar

(transitive) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.

rascle

A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.

rasclet

(agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.

raspall de dents

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.

raspallar

The act of brushing something.

raspallet

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.

raspallet de les dents

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.

rasta

A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.

rastell

(British spelling) .

rastre

A mark left by something that has passed along.

rastrejador

A hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision.

rastrejar

(transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.

rasurar

(intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

rat

(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.

rata

(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.

rata mesquera

A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.

rata penada

(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.

ratador

A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

ratapinyada

(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.

ratatolha

A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant.

rater

A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

ratera

(countable) A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.

ratlla

(by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.

ratllador

a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump

ratllat

Having printed lines.

ratlles

A short informal letter; a billet.

ratpenat

(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.

ratxa

A strong, abrupt rush of wind.

ratxós

Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.

rauc

The call of a frog or toad.

Raül

A en given name.

rave

A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.

rave blanc

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.

rave japonès

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.

rave picant

(countable) A plant of the mustard family, Armoracia rusticana, cultivated for its edible root.

rave rusticà

(countable) A plant of the mustard family, Armoracia rusticana, cultivated for its edible root.

rave xinès

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.

ravenera

A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.

re

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.

re-

again, anew

reaccionari

(politics) Extremely conservative; opposing revolution (such as the French Revolution); favoring a return to a golden age of the past.

reactiu

(chemistry) That readily takes part in reactions.

real

True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

realimentació

(electronics, cybernetics, control theory, ) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.

realisme

A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

realització

That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.

realitzar

To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.

realment

(modal) Actually; in fact; in reality.

reanomenar

(transitive) To give a new name to.

reaparèixer

To appear again.

rebaixa

A reduction in price.