Polish–English dictionary

skarcenie

(obsolete) The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.

skarga

(legal) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based.

skarłowaciały

Inferior in size or quality.

skarmelizować

(transitive, cooking, dated) To caramelize.

skarp

Any of species Scophthalmus maximus (syn. Psetta maxima) of flatfish native to Europe.

skarpa

(geology) A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.

skarpeta

(clothing) A knitted or woven covering for the foot.

skarpetka

(clothing) A knitted or woven covering for the foot.

skarżyć

(intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.

skarżyć się

(intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

skarżypyta

One who tattles (reports others' wrongdoings), often a child seeking attention.

skasować

To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.

skasowanie

(archaic) Total destruction.

skateboarding

The act of riding on a skateboard.

skauci

A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society [1].

skaut

A male member of the Scout Movement.

skauting

A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society [1].

skautka

(US) A member of the Girl Scouts, a worldwide youth organization for girls, known as Girl Guides in Commonwealth countries.

skaza

A rather large spot or blotch of color.

skazać

(chiefly, religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).

skazaniec

(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

skażenie

The act or process of contaminating.

skazić

(transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.

skazywać

(chiefly, religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).

skecz

A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.

skeet

(uncountable) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.

skejt

A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains.

ski

Used to form nouns meaning the jargon or language used by a particular profession or being or in a particular context.

skiba

(UK, informal) A thick slice, especially of bread.

skierować

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

skierowanie

The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.

skin

(countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.

skinhead

A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

skinio

A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

skisić

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

skląć

(ambitransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.

skleić

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

sklejka

(countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.

sklep

An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

sklep ogólnospożywczy

A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.

sklep spożywczy

A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

sklepienie

The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.

sklepikarka

A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.

sklepikarz

A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.

sklepione przejście

A passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry.

skleroza

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

sklonować

(transitive) To create a clone of.

skład

The general makeup of a thing or person. [from 14th c.]

skład amunicji

(military) An ammunition storehouse.

składać

(transitive) To make something by merging parts. [from later 15th c.]

składać się

(transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.

składać się z

To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.

składać skargę

(intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.

składać w montaż

(transitive) To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

składacz

A machine or person that folds things.

składaczka

A machine or person that folds things.

składany

(biology) Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.

składka

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.

składnica

A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation.

składnik

(mathematics) Addendum, any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together.

składnik odżywczy

A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.

składowy

(linguistics) Being the sum of its parts.

składzik

(usually, countable) An object or place in which something is stored.

skłamać

(informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

skłaniać się

(copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

skłonić się

(copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

skłonność

A tendency.

skłonny

(figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.

skłot

A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.

sknera

(obsolete) A person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.

sknerus

(obsolete) A person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.

sknocić

(transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something

skoczek

Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.

skoczkini

Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.

skoczkowaty

Any of a number of species comprising the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs.

skoczyć

(ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.

skoczyć na główkę

(economics, etc.) A rapid fall, e.g. in price or value.

skojarzenie

(uncountable) The act of associating.

skojarzyć

(transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.

skok

A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

skok na główkę

A headfirst fall or jump.

skok w bok

(idiomatic) Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.

skoki do wody

The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.

skolioza

(pathology) The abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

skombinować

To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.

skomleć

To cry or sob softly and intermittently.

skompensować

To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.

skompilować

(transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.

skompilować się

(intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

skompletować

(transitive) To make whole or entire.

skomplikować

(transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.

skomplikowanie

In a complicated manner.

skomplikowany

Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.

skomponować

To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

skompromitować

(transitive) To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.

skoncentrować

(ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

skoncentrować się

(intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention on something; to have as one's central point of interest, concern, etc.

skoncentrowany

Not dilute; having a high concentration.

skonceptualizować

To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.

skończoności

(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.

skończony

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all over.

skończyć

(transitive) To finish, terminate.

skończyć się

(copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.

skonkretyzować

(transitive) To make concrete, substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example.

skonsternowany

Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.

skonstruować

(transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

skonsumować

(transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.

skontaktować

(transitive) To establish communication with (something or someone).

skontrolować

(transitive) To control, limit, or halt.

skoordynować

(ambitransitive) To synchronize (activities).

skop

Used to make terms denoting an instrument used for viewing or examination.

skóra

(slang, metonymic) Body; self.

skorek

Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.

skórka

(geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.

skórka cytrusów

The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.

skoro

(idiomatic) For the entire duration that; while; since.

skoroszyt

An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.

skorowidz

An alphabetical listing of items and their location.

Skorpion

(astrology) The zodiac sign for the scorpion, ruled by Mars and covering October 23 - November 22 (tropical astrology) or November 16 - December 15 (sidereal astrology).

skorumpowany

In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

skorupa

A piece of broken pottery, a shard.

skorupiak

Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice, traditionally excluding hexapods.

skorygować

(transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

skórzany

Made of leather.

skorzystać

(intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.

skos

(heraldiccharge) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.

skosem

(archaic, literary) At a slant.

skosić

(transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

skośnooki

(countable, slang, ethnic slur, pejorative) A Korean person.

skośny

(geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).

skostniały

in a state of fossilisation

skowronek

(idiomatic) A person who wakes early or arrives early, typically before most others.

skowronek polny

A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.

skracać

(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

skracać się

(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.

skracanie

(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

skradać

(transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

skradać się

(intransitive) To sneak about furtively.

skradziona rzecz

Something which has been filched or stolen.

skraj

(heraldiccharge) A contrasting border around a shield.

skrajność

The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.

skrajny

Drastic, or of great severity.

skraplacz

(process engineering) A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.

skraplanie

(physics, physical chemistry) The conversion of a gas to a liquid.

skrawek

(Britain, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.

skręcać

(transitive) To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.

skręcać ster w prawo

(nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.

skręcenie

The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining

skręcić

(transitive) To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.

skręcić ster w prawo

(nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.