Polish–English dictionary

sprężystość

(physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded

sprężysty

springy; bouncy; vivacious

sprint

A short run, flight.

sprinter

One who sprints.

sprinterka

One who sprints.

spróbować

(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.

sprofanować

(transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

sprone

(geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

sprośnik

A person who is filthy or vulgar in nature.

sprośny

Obscene; filthy; unchaste. [from 15th Century]

sprostować

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

sprostytuować

(transitive, derogatory) To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.

sprostytuować się

(transitive, reflexive) To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money. [from 16th c.]

sprowokować

(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

sprysnąć

(transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.

spryt

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

sprytny

Knowing, shrewd, astute.

sprzączka

A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.

sprzątać

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

sprzątacz

A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.

sprzątaczka

A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.

sprzątanie

(gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.

sprzeciw

(figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.

sprzeciwiać

To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.

sprzeciwiać się

(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.

sprzeciwić

To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.

sprzeczać się

(intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.

sprzeczka

(countable) A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).

sprzeczność

(archaic) A contradiction within a law, or between different laws; also, a contradiction between authorities.

sprzeczny

That contradicts something, such as an argument.

sprzedać

(transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

sprzedajność

The fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption.

sprzedajny

Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.

sprzedanie

The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.

sprzedawać

(transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

sprzedawca

A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.

sprzedawca ryb

(British) A person who sells fish.

sprzedawczyk

(informal, idiomatic) A person who sells out, who compromises their principles for financial gain or some other advantage.

sprzedawczyni

A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.

sprzedaż

A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.

sprzęg

Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.

sprzęgło

A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car. [from 19th c.]

sprzeniewierzać

(transitive) To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.

sprzeniewierzenie

(legal, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

sprzeniewierzyć

(legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.

sprzęt

(informal) Equipment.

sprzęt komputerowy

(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.

sprzęt kuchenny

Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food.

sprzęt stereo

(by extension) Any object or device equipped with audio components that reproduces sound in stereo, such as a stereo console in the home.

sprzężenie

(physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other

sprzężenie zwrotne

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

sprzyjający

Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.

sprzymierzać się

(ambitransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

sprzymierzyć się

(ambitransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

spuchnięty

protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

spudłować

(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

spuścić

(transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.

spuścić powietrze

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

spuścić się

(slang, vulgar, idiomatic) To ejaculate.

spuścizna

A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.

spust

(uncountable, slang, AAVE) The ejaculation of semen.

spustoszenie

Widespread devastation and destruction.

spuszczać

(transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.

spuszczać płyn

To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

spuszczać powietrze

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

spuszczać się

(slang, vulgar, idiomatic) To ejaculate.

sputnik

A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth. [from 20th c.]

spychacz

A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

spycharka

A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

squat

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

squatter

One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. [from 1788]

squaw

(now, offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.

srać się

(intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.

sracz

(US, Philippines, euphemism) A room containing a public toilet: a public lavatory.

sraczka

(slang, often with "the") Diarrhea/diarrhoea.

srajtaśma

(North America, informal, mildly, vulgar, offensive, or, derogatory) An annoying, contemptible, or worthless person.

srebrny

(tincture) : of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

srebro

(tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

średni

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

średnia

(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

średnica

(geometry) The length of such a line.

średnio

To a moderate extent or degree.

śród-

Denoting the middle part.

środa

The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.

śródczaszkowy

Of or pertaining to the brain or inside of the head; within the cranium.

środek

An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.

środek antykoncepcyjny

A mechanism or means by which conception as a result of sexual intercourse can be prevented or made less likely.

środek antyseptyczny

(pharmaceutical drug) Any substance that inhibits the growth and reproduction of microorganisms. Generally includes only those that are used on living objects (as opposed to disinfectants) and aren't transported by the lymphatic system to destroy bacteria in the body (as opposed to antibiotics).

środek czyszczący

A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.

środek konserwujący

Any agent, natural or artificial, that acts to preserve, especially when added to food.

środek nasenny

(pharmaceutical drug) A soporific substance.

środek owadobójczy

A substance used to kill insects.

środek płatniczy

(legal) Any form of currency that, by law, cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt equal to the amount offered.

środek przeciwbólowy

(pharmaceutical drug) A drug that numbs the pain in the body.

środek przeczyszczający

Any substance, such as a food or in the form of a medicine which has a laxative effect.

środek transportu

Any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo.

środek uspokajający

(pharmaceutical drug) An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

środki

An instrument or condition to achieve a result. [late 14th c.]

środki (finansowe)

Financial resources.

środki do życia

Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

środkowy

Located in the middle; in between.

środkowy palec

(with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

śródlecie

The middle of summer.

śródmieście

(chiefly, US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.

środowisko

The natural world or ecosystem.

środowisko przyrodnicze

The natural world or ecosystem.

środowiskowy

Pertaining to the environment.

śródziemnomorski

Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding region.

Śródziemnomorze

A region of Southern Europe and North Africa and Western Asia. The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

śródziemny

Within the land; relatively remote from the ocean or from open water; interior.

srogi

Stern, harsh and forbidding.

sroka

A well-known black-and-white corvid species, Pica pica, of Eurasian distribution.

srokaty

Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.

srom

(anatomy) The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening.

sromota

The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

srożypłatowate

Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). [from early 17th c.]

śruba

A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.

śrubokręt

A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.

śrut

A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.

śrut gruby

(chiefly, US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

śruta

Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.

śrutować

To grind coarsely.

ssak

An animal of the class Mammalia.

ssanie

A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.

ssawka

A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.

sss

(onomatopoeia) The hiss of a snake or other reptile.

stabilizować

(transitive) To make stable.

stabilność

The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.

stabilny

Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.

stać

(transitive) To be proper for; to beseem. [from 13th c.]

stać na czele

(transitive) To drive or campaign ardently for, as an effort, project, etc.; to direct.

stać się

To happen; to occur.

stać się religijnym katolikiem

(intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.

stać w kolejce

(intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

stacja

(US) A bus station or railway station.

stacja dysków

(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

stacja robocza

(computing) A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.

stacyjka

(automotive) Receptacle for a key used to start the engine in a vehicle.

stacz

Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.

staczka

Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.

stąd

From a place, hence.

stadion

A venue where sporting events are held.

stadko

A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)

stadło

Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

stado

(collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.

stagflacja

(economics) Prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, often with recession and high unemployment. [from 1965]

stągiew

A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.

stagnacja

Inactivity.

stajenny

A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.

stajnia

A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.