Polish–English dictionary

wieloraki

Having more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once, usually contrary to expectations (can be followed by a singular).

wielorazowy

Able to be used again; especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing

wieloryb

Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.

wielorybnictwo

The practice of hunting whales.

wieloświat

(physics, cosmology) The hypothetical group of all the possible universes in existence.

wielożeństwo

The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.

wieloznaczność

(countable) An instance of this state: words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from the context.

wieloznaczny

Open to multiple interpretations.

wieńcowy

(anatomy) Encircling something (like a crown), especially with regard to the arteries or veins of the heart.

wieńczyć

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

wieniec

A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

wieprz

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

wieprzowina

(mostly, uncountable) The meat of a pig.

Wiera

A en given name.

wierch

The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

wiercić

(intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

wiercić się

(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

wiercipięta

(informal) A person who fidgets, especially habitually.

wiernie

In a faithful manner.

wierność

Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

wierny

A person who believes; especially regarding religion.

wiersz

A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.

wiersz częstochowski

(poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.

wiersz kalwaryjski

(poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.

wiertarka

The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

wiertło

The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

wierutne kłamstwo

A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood.

wierzący

A person who believes; especially regarding religion.

wierzba

Any of a number of species of willow and sallow when their catkins are still young in spring.

wierzba iwa

A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

wierzch

The highest or uppermost part of something.

wierzchni

At a higher level, rank or position.

wierzchołek

(geometry) A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.

wierzyć

(intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

wierzyć w

To ascribe existence to.

wierzyciel

(finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.

wieś

(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]

wieść

(uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

wieśniaczka

A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.

wieśniak

(colloquial) An unsophisticated person from the rural area of a particular country.

wieszać

(transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

wieszak

A simple upright piece of furniture, such as a pole with pegs, for hanging clothes on.

wieszcz

One who attempts to predict the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.

wieszczek

A species of bird in the crow family (Corvidae) (Pyrrhocorax graculus), that breeds locally in the highest mountains of southern Europe, the Alps, across central Asia and India.

Wietnam

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.

wietnamski

Of or pertaining to Vietnam.

wietrzeć

To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.

wietrzenie

(geology) Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.

wietrzny

Accompanied by wind.

wietrzyk

A light, gentle wind.

wiewiór

(slang, usually with "the") Gonorrhea.

wiewiórka

(Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.

więź

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

wieża

(usually, _, intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.

wieża boga

The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.

wieża wiertnicza

A framework that is constructed over a mine or oil well for the purpose of boring or lowering pipes.

więzadło

(anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.

wieźć

(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

więzić

(transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.

więzień

One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.

więzienie

A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

więzienny

(formal, or, literary) Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison. [from late 16th c.]

więźniarka

One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.

wieżowiec

(architecture) A very tall building with a large number of floors. [from 1880s]

wigilia

The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

wigor

(informal, idiomatic) Of an enthusiastic or energetic drive or ambition.

wigwam

A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.

wihajster

(slang, originally, US) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)

Wii

(video games) A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.

wiki

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

wiking

(historical) Scandinavian/Northern European seafarers, most familiarly raiders and pirates during the Viking age.

Wikipedia

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikisłownik

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

wikkański

Of or pertaining to the neo-pagan religion of Wicca.

wiklina

A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.

wikłać

(transitive) To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.

wikt

(uncountable) Regular meals in a place of lodging; the price paid for them.

Wiktor

A en given name.

Wiktoria

A en given name.

wiktymologia

The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.

wilczy

Wolfish (all senses); wolflike.

wilczy bilet

(legal, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

wilgoć

That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.

wilgotność

The state of being moist.

wilgotny

In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.

Wilhelm

A en given name popular since the Norman Conquest.

Wilhelmina

A en given name.

Wilk

(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra.

wilk morski

(slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).

wilkołak

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.

willa

A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.

Wiltshire

An inland county of England bordered by Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire.

wiła

(mythological creature) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.

wimpel

A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

wina

(computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

Wincenty

(countable) A en given name.

winda

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic, _, elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

winiak

(uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.

winiarnia

A drinking establishment where only wine is served.

winić

(transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

winien

Responsible for a dishonest act.

winieta

(UK, AU) The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper or other periodical at the top of the front page; (by extension) the publication itself or the rights to it.

winkiel

A corner where two walls intersect.

winna

Responsible for a dishonest act.

winnica

A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.

winny

Of hunting dogs: unable to find the scent.

wino

(obsolete)

winobranie

The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.

winogronowy

Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.

winorośl

The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

winowajca

One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.

winowajczyni

One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.

winszować

To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for; to felicitate.

winyl

(dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

winylowy

(chemistry) Containing the vinyl radical.

wiola

A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.

Wioleta

A en given name.

Wioletta

A en given name.

wiolonczela

A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.

wiolonczelista

Someone who plays the cello.

wiolonczelistka

Someone who plays the cello.

wioska

A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

wioskowy

Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

wioślarstwo

The action of the verb to row.

wiosło

A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

wiosłować

(transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.

wiosłowanie

The action of the verb to row.

wiosna

(countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

wir

A circular current; a whirlpool.

wir wodny

A swirling body of water.

Wirgińczyk

A native or resident of the state of Virginia in the United States of America.

Wirginka

A native or resident of the state of Virginia in the United States of America.

wirnik

A rotating component of a device that accelerates fluid, increasing its pressure or flowrate.

wiropłat

Any aircraft that obtains its lift from rotors.

wirować

To spin or revolve repeatedly.

wirówka

By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)

wirowy

Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex. [from 17th c.]

wirtualny

In effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality; also, imitated, simulated.

wirtuoz

Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style. [from 18th c.]

wirtuozeria

The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.

wirtuozerstwo

The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.

wirtuozja

The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.

wirtuozka

Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style. [from 18th c.]

wirtuozostwo

The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.

wirujący

that proceeds in sequence or in turns

wirulencja

The state of being virulent.

wirus

(computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.

wirus komputerowy

(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.

Wisconsin

A state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

wisieć

(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.