Polish–English dictionary

saszetka

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

satanistyczny

Alternative letter-case form of Satanic (of, pertaining to or resembling Satan).

satelita

A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. [from 17th c.]

satori

(Japanese mythology) A yokai having the form of a mind-reading monkey-like creature said to dwell in the mountains of the historical Japanese provinces of Hida and Mino (present-day Gifu Prefecture).

saturacja

(chemistry) The state of a saturated solution.

satyna

A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.

satyra

(uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.

satyryczny

Of, pertaining to, or connected with satire.

satysfakcjonować

(ambitransitive) To be enough (for)

satysfakcjonujący

Satisfactory.

Saudyjczyk

A person from Saudi Arabia or of Saudi Arabian descent.

Saudyjka

A person from Saudi Arabia or of Saudi Arabian descent.

saudyjski

From, or pertaining to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian people or language, or the House of Saud.

Savannah

The name of a river and several cities in the United States:.

Sawa

A river in southern Europe, a right side tributary of the Danube at Belgrade.

sawanna

A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

sawina

The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.

sążeń

(chiefly, nautical, historical, US) A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.

scalać

(mathematics, science, transitive) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.

scalak

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.

scałkować

(mathematics, science, transitive) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of an equation.

scedować

(transitive) To give up; yield to another. [with to]

scenariusz

(authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.

scenarzysta

One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.

scenarzystka

One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.

sceptyczka

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

sceptyczny

Unenthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

sceptyk

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

Schadenfreude

Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.

schadzka

A pre-arranged meeting.

schemat

(architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

schiza

(informal, figurative) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options. [from 20th c.]

schizofrenia

(now, deprecated) A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder. [from 20th c.]

schizofreniczny

Of or relating to schizophrenia.

schizol

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Schizophrenic.

schizolka

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Schizophrenic.

schludny

Arranged neatly and in order.

schładzać

(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

schładzacz

Anything which cools.

schłodzić

(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

schnąć

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

schody

A flight of stairs; a stairway.

schody ruchome

A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

schodzić

(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.

schorowany

Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly.

schować

(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

schowek

(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

schron

(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.

schronienie

A state of safety, protection or shelter.

schronisko

An organization that provides temporary homes for stray pet animals.

schrupać

(transitive, US, informal, chiefly, of children or pets) To find something to be very cute.

schwytać

(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13thc.]

schwytany

Caught in a trap.

schylać się

To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

schylić się

(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

ściąć głowę

(transitive) To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.

ściąga

A sheet of paper (or a digital analogue thereof) containing notes used to assist (with or without permission) on a test; especially, such a sheet used secretly and improperly.

ściągać

(transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.

ściągawka

A sheet of paper (or a digital analogue thereof) containing notes used to assist (with or without permission) on a test; especially, such a sheet used secretly and improperly.

ściągnąć

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

ściana

(geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.

ściana ogniowa

(architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.

ścięcie

An instance of a person being beheaded.

ścieg

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

ścięgno

(anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

ścieki

A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.

ściemniać

(transitive) To make something less bright.

ściemnieć

(intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).

ścierać

(intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).

ścierka

A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.

ścierń

(countable, and, uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

ścierny

Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface. [First attested in 1805.]

ścierwo

The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.

ścieżka

Any set path or trail to be used by people walking.

ścigać

(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.

ścinać

(physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.

ścinać się

(ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)

ścinanie

The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.

ścisk

A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.

ściskać

(transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.

ściśle

(manner) Without approximation; precisely.

ścisnąć

(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.

ściszać

(transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.

ściszyć

(transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.

scjentolog

A follower of Scientology, whether belonging to the "official" Church of Scientology or being outside in the so-called Free Zone.

scjentologia

A belief system with certain religious aspects, developed in 1952, focused on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

scjentolożka

A follower of Scientology, whether belonging to the "official" Church of Scientology or being outside in the so-called Free Zone.

scoria

(geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. [from 18th c.]

Scrabble

A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.

scrashować

(computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.

scrollować

(ambitransitive, computing, GUI) To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen.

Scylla

A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.

scyzoryk

A compact folding knife.

sczernieć

(intransitive, ergative) To become black.

sczerwienieć

(intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.

seans

A period of time devoted to a particular activity.

Sebastian

A en given name.

seder

(Judaism) The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover.

sedes

(euphemism) A toilet.

sedno

(figurative) A crux or pivot; a central point.

sędzia

A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

sędzina

A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

sędziować

(intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

sędziwy

Ancient, antiquated or archaic.

segment

(mathematics) A portion.

segregator

A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages, etc.

sejf

A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.

Sejm Rzeszy

(historical) The lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945; the building that housed it.

sejsmiczny

Related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth.

sęk

Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

sekans

(trigonometry) In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec

sękaty

Knotty and misshapen.

sekcja

A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

sekret

(countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from late 14th c.]

sekretariat

The office or department of a government secretary.

sekretarka

(telephony) A device that automatically records voice mail from unanswered telephone calls.

sekretarz

A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.

sekretnie

In a secret or covert manner.

sekretny

Being or kept hidden. [from late 14th c.]

seks

(uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier. [from 1899]

seksapil

(informal, uncountable) Sex appeal.

seksbomba

(by extension) Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.

seksista

A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism.

seksistka

A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism.

seksistowski

Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.

seksizm

Discrimination or different treatment based on sex or gender, especially discrimination against women.

seksować

(zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of (an animal).

seksowność

The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal.

seksta

(music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.

seksualny

Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes. [from 17th c.]

sekta

(chiefly, derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.

sektor

(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.

sekularyzm

Neutrality towards all religions.

sekunda

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

sekundant

One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.

sekundomierz

A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.

sekutnica

A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.

Sekwana

A former department of France, the capital city of which was Paris.

sekwencja

(music) A pattern of two or more chords, often chords diatonic to a particular key.

sekwestr

sequestration; separation

sekwestracja

sequestration; separation

sekwoja wieczniezielona

(uncountable) Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

selekcja

The process or act of selecting.

selekcja naturalna

(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

selekcjonować

To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.

selektywny

Of or relating to the process of selection.

selen

A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.

Selena

A en given name.

selenologia

(chiefly) The scientific study of the Moon’s movements in the heavens and the kinetic influences it has upon and it receives from other astronomical bodies.

seler

A form of celery, Apium graveolens, having an aromatic taproot eaten as a vegetable. [from mid 18th century]