Portuguese–English dictionary

Burgúndia

A historical region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

burlar

(transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

burocracia

The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.

burocrata

An official who is part of a bureaucracy.

burocrático

Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats.

burrego

A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.

burrice

Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.

burrico

A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.

burrinho

A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.

burrito

A Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc.

burro

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

bursa

(anatomy) Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.

Busan

A metropolitan city of South Korea. It is the second largest city and the largest port city in Korea. It is also well known for its beaches and port.

busca

(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

buscador

One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

buscadora

One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

buscante

One who seeks.

buscar

(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.

buscas

An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.

Bush

A surname from Middle English.

bushido

An ethical code of the samurai that was prevalent in feudal Japan that advocated unquestioning loyalty to the master at all costs and obedience in all deeds, valuing honor above life.

bússola

A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

busto

A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.

butano

(organic compound) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C4H10, n-butane and 2-methylpropane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.

Butão

A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.

butim

The spoils of war.

butique

A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.

buxinho

(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

buxo

(botany) Any of several trees, of the genus Buxus, often used as a hedge, for topiary, and as a source of boxwood

buxo anão

(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

buzina

The harsh note produced by a typical car horn.

buzinar

(transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.

buzinote

(architecture) A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.

bypass

(medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

CA

(electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).

caama

A type of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts of Africa.

cabaça

The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

cabaceira

Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

cabaceiro

The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

cabaço

(slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.

cabala

(Judaism) A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.

cabana

(North American, AU) A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.

cabaré

Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.

cabaret

Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.

cabeça

(plurale tantum) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.

cabeça de ponte

(military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.

cabeça de vento

(originally, US, informal, derogatory) A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.

cabeça oca

Silly and lacking sense or discretion; featherbrained or scatterbrained.

cabeça-dura

Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.

cabeçada

A strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement.

cabeçalho

(cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.

cabecear

(intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.

cabeceira

A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.

cabeçudo

Stubborn; wilful.

cabeleira

(uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.

cabeleireira

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

cabeleireiro

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

cabelo

The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.

caber

(intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.

caber (em)

(transitive) To conform to in size and shape.

cabide

A device used to hang up coats, shirts, etc, consisting of a hook with sloping "arms" in the approximate shape of human shoulders.

cabidela

The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

cabina

The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.

cabine

A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.

cabine de pilotagem

The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled. [from 20th c.]

cabisbaixo

Sad because of a disappointment.

cabível

Appropriate; suitable.

cabo

The handle of a broom (sweeping tool); (sometimes) the entire broom.

caboclo

(informal, chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _) A male person.

cabra

Clipping of bicycle.

cabra-de-leque

A small, fast antelope native to southern Africa, Antidorcas marsupialis.

cabrão

(childish) A male goat.

cabresto

A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.

cabria

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

cabriolé

(historical, originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

cabrito

(slang, US) A prostitute's client.

cabrito-das-pedras

A small antelope native to eastern and southern Africa having a dense, brown, speckled coat (Oreotragus oreotragus).

cabueta

telltale; giveaway

Cabul

The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

cabular aula

(ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.

cabum

A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

cabúqui

(often, capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

caca

(slang) Excrement.

caça furtiva

Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.

caça-dotes

(figuratively, pejorative) A person who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain wealth.

caçada

A hunting expedition.

caçadeira

(firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

caçador

(by extension) Someone who seeks something.

caçador de cabeças

(anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.

caçador de talentos

(business) One who recruits skilled personnel, especially executive-level ones, for a company.

caçador furtivo

A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.

caçadora

(literary) A female hunter.

caçamba

(US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.

caçamba de lixo

(Canada, US) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.

caçapa

(sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.

caçapo

(informal, childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.

caçar

(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.

cacarejar

(intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.

cacarejo

The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.

caçarola

(countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.

cacatua

A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot. [from 1610s]

cacau

A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

cacaueiro

A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

cachaço

Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

cache

(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

cacheado

Having curls.

cachecol

A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.

Cachinhos dourados

The protagonist of a traditional fairy tale. She is a golden-haired young girl who inquisitively enters the house of three bears and tries their three bowls of porridge, three chairs, and three beds, in each case finding only one that suits her.

cacho

A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

cachoeira

A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

cachola

(countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

cachorra

(vulgar, derogatory, offensive, slang) A sexually promiscuous person, usually a woman or bottom, who has sexual relations with men who often ejaculate in their body cavities.

cachorrinho

A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming.

cachorro

A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

cacique

(historical) A tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies.

caco

(often, archaeology) A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.

caçoada

Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.

caçoar

(transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.

cacodemónio

An evil or malevolent spirit.

cacoete

A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the human body.

cacofonia

A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.

cacologia

(grammar) An error in the use of language.

cacto

(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

cáctus

(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

caçula

Born last in a family; youngest in a the family.

cada

For one; apiece; per.

cada vez mais

Increasing in amount or intensity.

cadafalso

A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. [from 1300s]

cadarço

A lace used for fastening a shoe.

cadastrado

(mail service) Having a mailed item recorded in a register to enable its location to be tracked, sometimes with added insurance to cover loss.

cadáver

(literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. [from late 14th c.]

cadavérico

Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

cadeado

Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.

cadear

To lock using a padlock.

cadeia

A series of related items.

cadeia alimentar

The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.

cadeia de caracteres

(countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

cadeia trófica

The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.

cadeira

An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.

cadeirante

A person who is injured or disabled and uses a wheelchair for mobility, usually long-term.

cadeirão

A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

cadência

Balanced, rhythmic flow.

caderno

A booklet for students, containing either problems or exercises, and blank, often lined pages for writing answers.

cadete

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

cadinho

A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc.

Cádis

A port city and municipality, the capital of the province of Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain.

caducifólio

(botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.

caduco

(biology, anatomy) Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.

cafajeste

(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor. [from 14th c.]

cafarnaum

A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.