Polish–English dictionary

eksperyment

A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

eksperymentalny

Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.

eksperymentować

(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

ekspiacja

An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.

eksplozja

An explosive charge for blasting.

eksponat

A public showing; an exhibition.

eksponować

(transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.

eksport

(countable) Something that is exported.

eksporter

One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.

eksportowy

Of or relating to exportation or exports.

ekspozycja

A large-scale public showing of objects or products.

ekspres do kawy

Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.

ekspresja

The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.

ekspresywny

Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

ekstatyczny

Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.

ekstaza

Intense pleasure.

ekstra

(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.

ekstra-

Outside of, beyond.

ekstradować

(transitive) To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.

ekstradycja

A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence.

ekstrahować

(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

ekstrawagancja

Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

ekstrawagancki

Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

ekstrema

Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.

ekstremalny

Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.

ekstremista

(political) A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.

ekstremistka

(political) A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.

ekstremistyczny

Holding extreme views, especially on a political or religious subject.

ekstremizm

Extreme ideas or actions, primarily in politics or religion.

ekstremum

Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.

ekstyrpacja

The act of extirpating or uprooting.

Ekwador

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Ecuador. Capital: Quito.

ekwinokcjum

One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.

ekwipaż

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

ekwipować

(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

ekwiwalentny

Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.

ekwiwokacja

(logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.

el

The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

elaborat

A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.

Elam

(historical) An ancient civilization and empire in modern southwestern Iran, existing between c. 3200 BCE and 539 BCE. Capital: Susa.

elastan

(uncountable) A type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre (spandex) used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes.

elastyczność

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

elastyczny

Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.

elegancik

(dated) A vain man; a dandy.

elegancja

High-class style; cultivation.

elegancki

Elegant, stylish.

elegancko

Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.

elegia

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]

elegiacki

Of or relating to an elegy.

elegijny

Of or relating to an elegy.

elekcyjność

The state, quality, or the fact of being eligible.

elektor

(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

elektro-

and electrical.

elektroda

The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.

elektromagnetyczny

Relating to electromagnetism.

elektromagnetyzm

A unified fundamental force that combines the aspects of electricity and magnetism and is one of the four fundamental forces. (technically it can be unified with weak nuclear to form electroweak) Its gauge boson is the photon.

elektroniczny

(physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.

elektronowy

(physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.

elektrowstrząs

The physical reaction or shock caused by the flow of electricity through the body.

elektryczka

A tradesperson who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment.

elektryczność

(physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. [from 18th c.]

elektryfikować

(transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.

elektryk

A car that uses electric motors and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine, the power coming from rechargeable batteries.

element

(grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause

elementarny

Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

elementarz

A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell.

Eleonora

A en given name.

eliksir

(alchemy) A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.

eliminacja

The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

eliminować

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

elipsa

(geometry) A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone.

eliptyczny

(mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.

elita

A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.

elitarny

Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.

elityzm

The belief that a society or system should be run by an elite.

elizejski

Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.

elizja

(linguistics) The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

Elizjum

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The home of the blessed after death.

elny

Able to be done; fit to be done.

Elohim

(Judaism) God; the name used for God in Hebrew scriptures, and used for the Father by Latter-day Saints.

elokwencja

The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.

elokwentny

Fluently persuasive and articulate.

Elżbieta

The mother of John the Baptist according to the Christian and Islamic scriptures

elżbietańczyk

A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.

elżbietanin

A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.

elżbietański

Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.

em

The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

emalia

The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.

emancypacja

The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).

emancypować

To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

emanować

(intransitive) To come from a source; issue from.

emblemat

A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.

emblematyczny

Serving as, or relating to a symbol, emblem or illustration of a type.

embrion

In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.

embrionalny

(embryology) Of or relating to an embryo.

emce

(ambitransitive) To act as the master of ceremonies (for).

emergencja

The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.

emeryt

(chiefly, UK, Canada) Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.

emerytka

(chiefly, UK, Canada) Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.

emerytowany

Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. [from 16th c.] (of people)

emerytura

(finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. [from 16th c.]

emfaza

(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).

emigrant

Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.

emigrantka

Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.

Emil

A en given name.

Emilia

A en given name.

eminentny

(of a person) Distinguished, important, noteworthy.

emir

A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.

emisariusz

An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.

emisariuszka

An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.

emisja

A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.

emiter

Anything which radiates or emits rays.

emitować

(intransitive) To be broadcast.

emo

Associated with youth subcultures which are associated with the above-mentioned musical genre(s) and with emotional sensitivity.

emocja

A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.

emocjonalny

Of or relating to the emotions.

emocjonujący

Refreshingly thrilling.

emoji

A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.

emotywny

Of or relating to emotion.

empanada

Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish, Filipino, and Latin American cuisine.

empirycznie

Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.

empiryczny

Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.

empiryk

(historical) A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.

emporium

(also, figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.

emu

A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. [from 18th c.]

emulator

(computing) A piece of software or hardware that simulates another system.

emulsja

A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.

emulsja oleju z wodą

(mechanics, informal) Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.

Enceladus

(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

enchilada

A Mexican dish made by wrapping a filling in a tortilla, then baking in a sauce.

encyklopedia

A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.

encyklopedysta

A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

endemiczny

(especially of diseases) Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.

endemit

An individual or species that is endemic to a region.

enema

To administer an enema.

energia

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

energia kinetyczna

(physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

energia potencjalna

The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).

energiczny

Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.

enigma

Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.

enigmatyczny

Pertaining to an enigma.

enklawa

A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.

ensemble

(collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.

entalpia

(thermodynamics, physical chemistry) A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.

entomolog

A scientist who studies insects.

entomolożka

A scientist who studies insects.

entuzjasta

An adherent or fan (of something).

entuzjastka

An ardent enthusiast or admirer.

entuzjastycznie

In an enthusiastic manner.

entuzjastyczny

Enthusiastic; high-spirited.