Portuguese–English dictionary

considerando que

Taking into account.

considerar

(transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

considerável

Fairly large.

consideravelmente

Significantly; to a degree worth considering.

consignação

The sale of one's own goods (clothing, furniture, etc.) through a third-party vendor, in exchange for a portion of the sale price, and with the consigner retaining ownership of the goods until they are sold or abandoned.

consistentemente

(manner) In a consistent manner.

consistir

(transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts). [from the earlier 15th c.]

consoante

Consistent, harmonious, compatible, or in agreement.

consola

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

consolação

The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.

consolador

A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

consolar

(transitive) To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.

console

The keyboard and screen of a computer or other electronic device.

consolidação

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.

consolidar

(figuratively) To make permanent.

consolo

The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.

consonância

(chiefly, music) Harmony; agreement; absence of discordance.

consórcio

An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.

conspicuamente

In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.

conspícuo

Obvious or easy to notice.

conspiração

(uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.

conspirador

One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

conspiradora

One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

conspirar

(intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.

conspurcar

To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.

Constância

A en given name.

constante

Without great variation.

constantemente

Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally).

Constantino

A en given name.

Constantinopla

(historical) The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that.

constatar

(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.

consternação

Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

consternado

Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.

consternar

(intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.

constipação

(countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

constipado

Unable to defecate; costive.

constituir

(transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.

constrangedor

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.

constranger

(transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.

constrangido

Uneasy or anxious.

constrangimento

The quality of an embarrassing situation.

constringir

(ambitransitive) To narrow, especially by application of pressure.

construção

(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.

construção civil

The trade of building structures.

constructo

A concept or model.

construir

(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

construtivamente

In a constructive manner.

construtor

One who builds or constructs things.

construtora

One who builds or constructs things.

consuetudinário

Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.

consulta

(government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.

consultar

(computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

consultivo

That gives advice or consultation; advisory.

consultor jurídico

In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs barristers to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.

consultório

A room or department where surgery is performed.

consumar

(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

consumidor

(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

consumir

(intransitive) To leave tea temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase; to infuse, to steep; also, of a teapot: to cause tea to infuse.

consumismo

An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.

consumista

Of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.

consumível

The act of ingesting food.

conta

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]

contabilidade

(uncountable, British, NZ, often, _, Philippines, accounting) The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.

contabilista

(accounting) A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.

contabilização

The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.

contação de história

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

contactar

(transitive) To establish communication with (something or someone).

contador

A device that measures things.

contador de histórias

A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.

contagem

The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

contagem final

The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.

contagem regressiva

(astronautics) A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially the launch of a space vehicle.

contagiante

(of a tune or phrase) Instantly appealing and memorable.

contagiar

(transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.

contagioso

(pathology, typically, of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.

contaminação

The act or process of contaminating.

contaminar

(transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.

contanto que

(idiomatic) Provided that, if, assuming (depending upon some condition or requirement).

contar

(intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.

contar piada

(intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

contatar

(transitive) To establish communication with (something or someone).

contato

(electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.

contável

Capable of being counted; having a quantity.

contêiner

(transportation) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

contemplação

thought, meditation, contemplation

contemplai

(archaic, _, except in the phrase lo and behold) look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).

contemplar

(intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.

contemporâneo

Of the same age or era; contemporary.

contempto

(uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.

contenção

(uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.

contenda

Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.

contender

(transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

contentamento

The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.

contentar

(transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.

contente

(dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.

contentor

(transportation) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

conter

(patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.

contestar

(transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

contestável

Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.

conteúdo

(usually, in the plural) That which is contained.

contido

Contained; held within a container.

contiguidade

A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.

continente

Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.

contingência

That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.

continuação

The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession

continuamente

(sometimes, proscribed) In a continuous manner; non-stop.

continuar

(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).

contínuo

Uninterrupted.

continuum

A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.

conto

(idiomatic) A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity.

contorção

The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.

contorcer

(transitive) To twist in a violent manner.

contorcer-se

(intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.

contorcionismo

A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

contorcionista

An acrobat who is capable of twisting their body into unusual positions.

contornar

(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass

contorno

A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).

contra

Close to, alongside.

contra-

In opposition to.

contrabalancear

(transitive) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.

contrabandear

(obsolete) To import illegally; to smuggle.

contrabandista

One who smuggles things.

contrabando

An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.

contração

(biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

contraceção

The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity.

contraceptivo

That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.

contracetivo

That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.

contracorrente

A current that flows against the prevailing one.

contradizer

(transitive, formal) To say something in contradiction to.

contradomínio

(mathematics, analysis) The target set into which a function is formally defined to map elements of its domain; the set denoted Y in the notation f : X → Y.

contrafatual

Contrary to known or agreed facts; untrue.

contrafazer

(transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.

contraforte

(architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

contrair

(intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.

contrair-se

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

contralto

(music) The lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to the same musical pitch range, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody.

contramedida

Any action taken to counteract or correct another.

contramestre

(nautical) The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.

contranatura

Not natural.

contranatural

Not natural.

contrapartida

Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

contrapedalar

(intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.

contrapesar

(transitive) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.

contrapeso

A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).

contrapiso

A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.

contraplacado

(countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.

contraprestação

(law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.

contraproducente

More of a hindrance than a help.

contraprodutivo

More of a hindrance than a help.

contrariamente

In a contrary manner; in opposite ways or directions.