Catalan–English dictionary

rebatejar

(transitive) To give a new name to.

rebeca

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

rebel

A person who resists an established authority, often violently.

rebel·lió

An act of revolting.

rebenta-

(chiefly, colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.

rebentar

(transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

rebequeria

An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

rebequeta

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

reble

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

rebló

A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.

rebombori

A stir; a fuss or uproar.

rebost

A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.

rebot

An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.

rebotir

(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

rebre

(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.

rebroll

Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.

rebrot

Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.

rebrotar

(intransitive) To grow or expand.

rebuig

(soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.

rebut

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.

rebutjar

(transitive, intransitive, sports) To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.

recaiguda

The act or situation of relapsing.

recapitulació

(theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.

recapitular

(ambitransitive) To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.

recaptador

A person who is employed to collect payments.

recar

To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). [from 16th c.]

recaragolar-se

(intransitive) To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.

recàrrec

An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.

recarregar

(intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.

recebre

(transitive, dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept.

recebut

(radio, _, telecommunications, procedure word) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)

recebuts

(radio, _, telecommunications, procedure word) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)

recent

Having happened a short while ago.

recentment

Recently, newly.

recepció

The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

recepcionista

An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.

recepta

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.

receptar

(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

receptivitat

(uncountable) The state of being receptive.

receptor

(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

receptora

(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

recer

A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

recerca

(uncountable, countable, _, in some dialects) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc. (that are currently available, or that are familiar to one's self).

recercar

(transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

recessió

(economics) A period of reduced economic activity

recessiu

(genetics) Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.

reciclar

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

reciclatge

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

recidiva

Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.

recipient

A person as a container of qualities or feelings. [From 1382]

recíproc

Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.

recíprocament

(idiomatic) In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.

reciprocitat

(grammar) A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.

recital

The act of telling the order of events of something in detail the order of events; narration.

recitar

(transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.

recloure

(transitive) To put into a hamper.

recluta

A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

reclutament

A person who has been drafted; a conscript or draftee.

reclutament forçós

Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

reclutar

(transitive) To recruit the aid or membership of others.

recobrir

(transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.

recol·lectar

Especially, to harvest food.

recol·lecte

A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.

recol·lectora

A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.

recollidor

A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.

recollir

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

recolsar-se

To press against.

recolzar

(Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.

recomanar

To spur on, strongly recommend.

recompensa

(law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.

recompensar

(transitive) To give a reward to or for.

recòndit

Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.

reconeixement

The act of acknowledging

reconèixer

(transitive, or, intransitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).

reconquerir

(transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.

reconsiderar

(idiomatic) To change one's opinion, or be uneasy about a previous decision.

reconstruir

To assemble again.

reconstruït

(of, buildings, infrastructure, financing, management, etc) Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.

record

A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

recordar

To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

recordar-se

To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.

recordatori

A reminder to oneself to do something important.

records

A greeting to pass on to another person.

recorregut

The itinerary of a race.

recórrer

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

recrear

(sometimes, proscribed) .

recreatiu

For, or relating to, recreation.

recta

(geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

rectangle

(geometry) Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

rectangular

Having a shape like a rectangle.

recte

(anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.

rectificació

The action or process of rectifying.

rectilini

In a straight line.

rector

(countable, Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.

rectoria

The residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church.

recular

(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

recuperació

(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

recuperar

(transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).

recuperar-se

(intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.

recurrent

Recurring; happening time after time.

recurs

Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.

recusació

(obsolete) A refusal.

recusar

To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).

redacció

(publishing) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.

redactar

(transitive) To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan.

redall

(obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; lattermath.

redefinir

(transitive) To give a new or different definition to (a word).

redempció

(theology, often with capitalized initial) The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.

redemptor

One who redeems; one who provides redemption.

redescobrir

(transitive) To discover again; especially something previously lost or forgotten.

redimir

To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.

redirecció

(computing) The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.

rèdit

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

redreçar

(transitive) To cause to become straight.

reducció

The act, process, or result of reducing.

reducte

A small, temporary, military fortification.

reductible

Capable of being reduced.

reduir

(transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

redundància

Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.

reeixir

(intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).

reeixit

Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.

reelecció

The fact of being reelected.

reelegir

To elect for a second or subsequent time.

reemborsament

(business, management, accounting) The act of compensating someone for an expense.

reemborsar

To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.

reemplaçable

Capable of being replaced.#: The machine uses a replaceable filter.

reemplaçament

The act of replacing something.

reemplaçar

(intransitive) To act as a replacement or substitute.

reencarnació

A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body.

reescalfar

(transitive) To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses).

reescollir

To elect for a second or subsequent time.

reestructuració

A reorganization; an alteration of structure.

reestructurar

(finance) To modify the terms of a loan, providing relief to a debtor who would otherwise be forced to default.

refer

To do again.

referenciar

(sometimes, proscribed) To mention, to refer to.

referèndum

(politics) A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment.

referir

(intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.

refiat

Too confident.

refineria

A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.

reflectant

That reflects, or redirects back to the source.

reflector

That reflects, or redirects back to the source.

reflex

Something, such as an image, that is reflected.

reflexionar

(intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.

reflexiu

(grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.

refluir

(intransitive) to fall away or decline

reflux

The receding movement of the tide.

reforç

(uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.

reforçament

(uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.

reforçar

(transitive) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.

reforma

A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.