Polish–English dictionary

kraniec

(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.

krasa

(uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

kraść

(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

kraska

Coracias garrulus, a European species of roller.

krasnolud

(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

krasnoludek

(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

krasomówca

One who uses words skilfully. [from late 19th c.]

krasomówczyni

One who uses words skilfully. [from late 19th c.]

krasota

(uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

krata

(sports) Any event in gymnastics using the bars.

kratka

(textiles, usually, pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.

kraul

A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.

krawat

(sailing) A length of rope or canvas band used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place.

krawcowa

A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.

krawczka

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

krawczyni

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

krawędź

(printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).

krawężnik

(US, slang) A police officer who patrols the streets on foot (walks the beat).

krawiec

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

krawiectwo

Work done by a tailor.

krążyć

(intransitive) To travel in circles.

kreacja

(uncountable) The act of creating something.

kreator

(computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.

kreatura

A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.

kreatywność

The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.

kreatywny

(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.

kręcenie

(photography, film) A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames.

kręcić

(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).

kręcić się

To spin or revolve repeatedly.

kręciek

The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.

kręconowłosy

a person or animal with curly hair.

kręcony

Having curls.

kreda

(geology) The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 66 million years ago.

kredens

A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.

kredka

(, American spelling) A pencil with a wax-like colored core.

kredka do oczu

Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.

kredka świecowa

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

kredka woskowa

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

kredo

A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.

kredyt

(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

kredytodawca

A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.

kręg

(skeleton) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.

kręgarz

A health-care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic.

kręgiel

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

kręglarz

(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.

kręgle

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling

kręgosłup

(countable) The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.

kręgowy

(anatomy) Of or relating to a vertebra or the spine.

krem

A yellowish white color; the color of cream.

krem do opalania

A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.

kremacja

A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.

krematorium

A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.

kreml

(architecture, Slavic architecture) A fortified, central complex found in various Russian cities.

kremować

(transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

kremowy

Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

krenelaż

In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.

Kreol

A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country. [from 17th c.]

Kreolka

A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country. [from 17th c.]

kreować się

To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

krępujący

Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.

krępy

(of a person or an animal) Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.

kreska

(by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.

kreskowany

(of a, line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

kreskówka

(animation) A cartoon series.

kreskówkarz

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

kresy

Land near a border; marches.

Kreta

An island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece.

krętactwo

(uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

krętacz

One who prevaricates.

krętaczka

One who prevaricates.

Kreteńczyk

An inhabitant or a resident of Crete.

kreteński

Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants.

kretowisko

A small mound of earth created by a mole's burrowing underneath the surface of the ground.

kretyn

(medicine, archaic) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]

kretynka

(by extension, pejorative) An idiot.

krew

A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

krewetka

(Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.

krewna

A female relative.

krewny

A male relative.

kreza

A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).

Kri

An aboriginal nation of North America.

krnąbrność

The state of being recalcitrant.

krnąbrny

Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.

kroć

Used to make adverbs meaning times.

krochmal

(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.

krochmalić

To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

króciec

A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

krocionóg

Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments. [from 1601]

krocze

The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.

kroczek

(countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.

kroczyć

(intransitive) To walk casually, showily, or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce.

kroić

(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

kroić (na kawałki)

(transitive) To cut into slices.

kroić w kostkę

(transitive) To cut into small cubes.

krój

The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.

krój pisma

(typography) The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.

krój pługa

A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.

krój siewnika

(British) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

krojenie

(card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

krok

The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.

krok po kroku

A small amount at a time

krok spacerowy

An easy gait, especially that of a horse.

krokiew

(heraldiccharge) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.

krokodyl

Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.

krokoit

(mineral) A rare red mineral; lead chromate, PbCrO4.

krokosz

A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.

kroksztyn

(architectural element) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

krokus

A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.

król

A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

królak

A rabbit of any of various species in genus Sylvilagus.

królestwo

(archaic, or, legal, &, rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom. [from ca. 1300]

królewna

The heiress apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy.

królewski

Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.

królewsko

In a royal manner.

królewskość

The dignity, rank, or office of a king; the state of being a king.

królica

A female rabbit.

królik

A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).

królik angorski

A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus).

królowa

A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

królować

(of a king or other high-ranking aristocrat) To preside in a formal manner over an official assembly of courtiers and others in which entertainment is presented or affairs of state are considered.

królówka

(chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

kronika

A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

kropić

(impersonal) To rain lightly.

kropierz

The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.

kropka

Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

kropka środkowa

(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨·⟩.

kropkowany

(of a line) Made up of a series of dots.

kropla

A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16thc.]

kropla deszczu

A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.

krople

(pharmacology, chiefly, in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).

kroplówka

(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

krosna malarskie

A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.

krosno

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

krosta

(dermatology) An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.

krótka kołdra

An instance of falling short, of not meeting a quota, an obligation, or more generally any expected target.

krótki

Of short duration; happening quickly. [from 15th c.]

krótki okres

(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance. [from 18th c.]

krótki opad

A light, brief snowfall.

krótkoczasowy

Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

krótkotrwały

Alive or existent for only a short period of time.

krótkowzroczność

The property of being nearsighted, myopia.

krotnie

Used to make adverbs meaning times.

krotny

Used to make adjectives meaning times.

krówka

(chiefly, _, uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

krtań

(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, as it houses the vocal cords, sound production.

krtaniowy

(phonetics) Articulated with the glottis.

kruche ciasteczko maślane

A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

kruche ciasto z owocami

A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.

kruchy

Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.

krucjata

Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.