Portuguese–English dictionary

arranjo

A collection laid out to be viewed in full.

arranque

(computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.

arrás

A tapestry or wall hanging.

arrasa-quarteirão

(informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.

arrasador

That crushes; overwhelming.

arrasar

(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

arraso

(figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.

arrasta-pé

A noisy party or festivities.

arrastão

(fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.

arrastar

(transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

arrastar os pés

To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

arrastar-se

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

arraste

(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.

arrasto

(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.

array

(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.

arre!

(sometimes, vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.

arrear

(transitive) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.

arrebanhador

(now, rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.

arrebanhar

(transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.

arrebatamento

(Christianity) In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.

arrebatar

(transitive, usually, passive) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

arrebentar

(transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

arrecadar

To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.

arrecife

A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.

arredondado

In the shape of, or moving in a circle.

arredondar

(transitive, arithmetic) To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.

arredores

(computing) The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

arrefecer

To cause (something) to become cooler; to reduce the temperature of.

arrefecimento

(uncountable) Refrigeration.

arreganhar

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

arreio

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

arreios

(countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps, and especially one worn by a working animal such as a horse pulling a carriage or farm implement.

arreitar

(transitive) To sexually stimulate.

arrematar

(transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).

arremedar

To mimic, to simulate.

arremedo

The act of imitating.

arremessar

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

arremesso

(weightlifting) The act of lifting the barbell from the floor to a resting position across the front of the shoulders (the clean phase), pausing, and thrusting the barbell over the head to a stationary position in one movement (the jerk phase). The normal technique for both parts of this act involves propelling the barbell upwards, quickly lowering the torso, and then straightening the legs.

arremesso de disco

(uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of discus throw.

arrendador

(property law) The owner of property that is leased; the landlord to a lease.

arrepender

(transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

arrepender-se

To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.

arrependido

Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.

arrependimento

(archaic, or, dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.

arrepiante

Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.

arrepio

A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.

arriscado

(of an, act or product) Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.

arriscar

(transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

arrivista

(pejorative) New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.

arrogação

(legal) The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.

arrogância

The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.

arrogante

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

arrogar

(transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right. [from 1530s]

arroio

Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

arrojado

Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.

arrojar

To throw with a sling.

arrolhar

(transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.

arrombar

(archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

arrozal

(countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. [from 20th c.]

arruaceiro

One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

arruda

Ruta graveolens

arruela

(heraldiccharge) A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.

arruinado

Ruined, ravaged.

arruinar

(figurative) To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).

arrulhar

(ambitransitive) To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.

arrulho

The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.

arrumadeira

(chiefly, British) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.

arrumado

(of a person) Characterized by efficient organization.

arrumador

One who arranges.

arrumar

(transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.

arsenal

A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.

arsénico

(chemistry) Of or containing arsenic with a valence of 5.

arsênio

A toxic grey brittle nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.

arsfenamina

(pharmaceutical drug, organic compound) A phenolic amine derivative of arsenic that was used to treat syphilis (under the trade name of Salvarsan).

Artaxerxes

(historical) The name of several Achaemenid kings of Persia.

arte

(uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

artelho

The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.

Ártemis

(Greek god) The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo. (Compare Diana.)

Artemisa

(Greek god) The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo. (Compare Diana.)

arterial

Of or relating to an artery.

artesanal

Made by hand or using the hands, as opposed to by mass production or using machinery.

artesanato

The work of an artisan.

artesão

A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.

ártico

(geography) Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape. [from 16th c.]

articulado

(obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

articular

(anatomy) Of, at, or relating to the joints of the body.

articulável

(obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

artificial

(bridge) Conveying some meaning other than the actual contents of one's hand.

artificialmente

In an artificial manner.

artifício

A crafty but underhanded deception.

artigo

(legal) A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

artigo de consumo

(business) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. [from 15th c.]

artigo de segunda

(usually, in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

artilharia

An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.

artilheiro

(military) A soldier enlisted in an artillery unit or who uses artillery.

artimanha

A crafty but underhanded deception.

artiodáctilo

(zoology) Any ungulate mammal with an even number of toes and belonging to the Artiodactyla, including pigs, sheep, deer, cattle, and most grazing animals. In contrast, horses have an odd number of toes and as such are not Artiodactyla, but Perissodactyla. [from 19th c.]

artisticamente

In an artistic manner.

artisticidade

The quality of being artistic.

artístico

Exhibiting or using much art or skill; dexterous; skilful.

artrite

Inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders: any of several disease entities.

Artur

A en given name.

Aruba

An island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea.

arvião

A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

árvore frutífera

A tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis.

as

(archaic, dialectal) Used to form the second-person singular present tense and past tense of verbs. (if thou is the subject; not used with you)

às cavalitas

On somebody's back or shoulders.

às cavaluchas

On somebody's back or shoulders.

às moscas

(of a place) Abandoned, without people.

as quais

(relative, formal, _, outside certain phrases) Designates the one(s) previously mentioned.

às vezes

(idiomatic) On occasion, sometimes.

Asa

(biblical character) The third king of Judah mentioned in the Books of Kings who succeeded his father Abijah; the father of King Jehoshaphat. (Matthew calls him "Asaph" in Matthew 1:7.)

asana

A body position, typically associated with the practice of yoga.

asbesto

(mineral) Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc.

ascendência

Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.

ascendente

Moving upward; ascending, rising.

ascender

(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.

ascensão

The act of ascending; an ascent.

ascensor

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

asceta

One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.

ascética

The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.

asceticismo

The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.

ascético

Of or relating to ascetics.

ascetismo

The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.

asco

(mycology) A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores.

ascórbico

Of or pertaining to ascorbic acid or its derivatives.

Aser

(biblical character) The eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.

asfaltar

(transitive) To pave with asphalt.

asfalto

(loosely, UK, Ireland, Canada) Any bituminous road surfacing material.

asfixiar

(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

Asgard

(Norse mythology) The realm of the Æsir gods.

ashram

(Hinduism) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.

ashrama

(Hinduism) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.

Ashura

(Shi'ism) A holy day falling on the 10th day of Muharram, commemorating the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in 680 AD.

asiática

(US, Canada, Australia, NZ) A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia, occasionally South Asia.

asiático

Of, relating to or from Asia.

asilado

A person who has applied for asylum in a foreign country but has not yet been granted refugee status by that country.

asilo

A place of safety or refuge.

asinino

Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.

asma

(pathology) A long-term respiratory condition, in which the airways may unexpectedly and suddenly narrow, often in response to an allergen, cold air, exercise, or emotional stress. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.

asmático

Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".

asna

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

asnal

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.

asneira

(by extension, chiefly, Commonwealth) Nonsense.

asno

A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.

aspa

A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).

aspargo

The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.

aspas angulares

Either of the punctuation marks « or » (or ‹ or ›), used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language, such as “ and ”.

aspecto

(legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance

áspero

With a rough texture; not smooth.