Portuguese–English dictionary

solvente

(finance) Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.

som

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

soma

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

somali

Of, from, or pertaining to Somalia, the Somali people or language.

Somália

A country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital and largest city: Mogadishu.

somaliano

Of, from, or pertaining to Somalia, the Somali people or language.

somar

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

somatória

(mathematics) summing; summing up; adding (adding up) of a series of items.

somatório

Total; the result of adding a set of figures or counting a number of items.

sombra

Makeup that is applied to the eyelids and below the eyes to give a darker complexion there.

sombras

Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.

sombreado

(typography) A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.

sombrear

(transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.

sombreiro

A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical crown and a saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered, made of plush felt.

sombrinha

A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.

sombrio

Bad; evil; ill-omened.

sombroso

Abounding in shades.

somente

Only, simply, merely.

sommelier

The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.

sonâmbula

Walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.

sonambulismo

The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.

sonâmbulo

Walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.

sonar

(nautical, countable) A device that provides such echolocation.

sonata

(music) A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.

sonda

(medicine) A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.

sonda exploradora

Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.

sondagem

(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.

sondar

(also, figurative) To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound.

soneca

A brief, light sleep, usually during the daytime. [from 1820s]

sonecar

To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.

soneto

A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

sonhador

One who daydreams.

sonhadora

One who daydreams.

sonhar

(intransitive) To hope, to wish.

sonhar acordado

(intransitive) To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

sonho

A doughnut (donut) with a sweet filling.

Sónia

A en given name.

sónico

Of or relating to sound.

sonífero

(pharmaceutical effect) Inducing sleep; soporific.

sono

(astronomy, countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

sonolento

Drowsy or sleepy.

sonoplastia

(uncountable, US) The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.

sonoro

(phonetics) Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.

sonsa

A cheat; a con artist.

sonso

A cheat; a con artist.

Sony

(trademark) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.

soporífero

(pharmaceutical effect) Tending to induce sleep.

soporífico

(pharmaceutical effect) Tending to induce sleep.

soprador

A person who blows.

soprar

(intransitive) To produce an air current.

soprar com forte rugido

To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.

sopro

(cardiology, medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces a noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.

soquete

A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. [from 17th c.]

sorbet

A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.

sórdido

Morally degrading.

sorgo

A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).

soro

Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals (human or nonhuman), containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual (human or nonhuman).

soro de manteiga

The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.

soror

A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informally) a nun.

sororidade

A group of girls or women associated for a common purpose; a sisterhood.

sorrateiro

(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.

sorridente

That smiles or has a smile.

sorrir

(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.

sorrir abertamente

(intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.

sorriso

A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.

sorriso aberto

A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.

sorte

Good luck.

sortear

(cricket, archaic) Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. [from 19th c.]

sorteio

The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

sortido

Composed of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.

sortilégio

Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.

sortílego

(mythology, folklore, fantasy) A magician or wizard. Sometimes specifically male.

sortimento

A collection of varying but related items.

sortudo

Favored by fortune.

sorvedouro

A swirling body of water.

sorveira

Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.

sorver

(transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.

sorvete

(uncountable) A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured.

sorvete napolitano

(dated) Describing a variety of ice cream made with eggs as well as cream.

sósia

One who or that which resembles another.

sossegado

(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

sossego

(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.

sotaina

An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations. [from 17th c.]

sótão

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

sotaque

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

sotavento

On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

soterrar

To place in the ground.

soturna

(comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy

soturno

Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.

soul

(music) Soul music.

souto

Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.

sova

The pulsation of the heart.

sovaco

The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

sovar

(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

sovela

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

soviete

(historical) A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.

soviética

A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

soviético

A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

sovina

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

Soyuz

Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

sozinho

By oneself, solitary.

spa

A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.

spaghetti

(countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

spam

(uncountable, rarely, countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

spamear

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.

spammar

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.

spaniel

Any of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.

spawnar

(ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

speedbrake

(aeronautics) A device to reduce lift and increase drag.

spin

(quantum mechanics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.

spin-off

(fiction) A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.

Split

A port city in Croatia.

spoiler

A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc. [from 1970s]

spray

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

sprint

A short race at top speed.

sprintar

(ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.

sputnik

(historical) Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.

spyware

(Internet) Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user. [from 1990s]

Sra

Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.

Sta.

Abbreviation of Saint.

stafe

(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

staff

(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

Stalin

A surname from Russian; usually referring to the Georgian revolutionary and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Joseph Stalin.

stalinismo

The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

stalkear

(transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp

stalker

A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.

standard

In the format of a broadsheet.

standardizar

To make to conform to a standard.

Starbucks

A widespread chain of coffee shops.

Staré

A village and municipality in okres Michalovce, Košice kraj, eastern Slovakia, first mentioned in 1273.

start-up

A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.

startup

A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.

stático

used in adjectives relating to nouns with the suffix -stasis

statu quo

The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.

status

personal status or standing.

status quo

The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.

stent

A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

stique

A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.

Sto.

Abbreviation of Saint.

Stonehenge

An ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Amesbury parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1242).

storytelling

The act and skills of presenting stories and tales. [1709]

straight

(poker) Five cards in sequence.

strass

A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

Strauss

A surname from German.

stream

(internet) A real-time broadcast of audio or video over the Internet.

streamer

(Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.

streaming

(computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.

stress

(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

stressado

Suffering stress (either physical or mental).

stressante

Irritating; causing stress.