Portuguese–English dictionary

dicionário de sinónimos

A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.

dicotomia

A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.

didática

The art and science of teaching.

didático

Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

diesel

A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed.

diet

(of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

dieta

(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

dietético

Of, or relating to diet.

difamação

The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.

difamador

Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.

difamar

(transitive) To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.

difamatório

Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.

diferença

(countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

diferenciação

The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.

diferencial

(mathematics) Of or pertaining to differentiation or the differential calculus.

diferenciar

(obsolete, transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

diferente

Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.

diferentemente

(manner) In a different way.

diferir

(intransitive) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.

difícil

Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

dificilmente

(modal) Probably not.

dificuldade

Difficulty in doing something.

dificultar

(obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

difteria

(pathology) A serious infectious disease leading to inflammation of mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

difundido

Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

difundir

(transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area.

difusão

A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.

difuso

Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

diga-se de passagem

(conjunctive, idiomatic) Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.

dígamo

(WWI, _, military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.

digamos

(impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.

digerir

(ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.

digerível

Capable of being digested.

digestão

The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.

digestivo

Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.

digitação

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

digital

Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).

digitalina

(medicine) A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.

digitalizador

A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]

digitalizar

(transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.

digitar

(computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.

dígito

(mathematics) A distinct symbol representing a natural number in a positional number system.

diglota

A person who is able to use two languages.

dignar-se a

(transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.

dignatário

An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.

dignidade

The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.

dignitário

An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.

digno

Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.

digressão

(generally, _, uncountable) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.

Dijon

The capital city of Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

dilacerante

(formal) Causing pain or distress; harrying.

dilapidado

Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.

dilapidar-se

(intransitive, archaic) To fall into ruin or disuse.

dilatar

(transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.

dilema

A difficult choice or decision that must be made.

diletante

(sometimes, derogatory) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.

diligente

Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.

diligentemente

In a diligent manner, with appropriate effort, carefully.

diluição

The process of making something dilute.

diluido

That has had something added in order to dilute it.

diluir

To dilute.

diluir-se

(physical chemistry) (transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.

Dilúvio

(biblical) The flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.

dimensão

(transitive) To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.

dimensional

(mathematics) Appended to cardinal numbers or algebraic symbols to form adjectives meaning "having the stated number of dimensions".

diminuição

An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.

diminuidor

One who, or that which, abates. [From 16th century.]

diminuir

To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status. [14th–17th c.]

diminutivo

(obsolete) Serving to diminish.

diminuto

Very small.

Dimitri

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij).

Dinamarca

A country in Northern Europe. Capital and largest city: Copenhagen; the metropole of the sovereign nation of the same name.

dinamarquês

A person of Danish descent.

dinamarquesa

A person of Danish descent.

dinâmica

(physics) The branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.

dinamicamente

Of a dynamic nature; variable or constantly changing nature.

dinamitar

To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.

dinamite

A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.

dínamo

(electromagnetism) An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.

dinar

(currency) The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, Tunisia and (as denar) North Macedonia.

dinastia

A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.

diner

(US) A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.

dingo

A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo).

dinheiro

(slang, dated) Money.

Dinis

A en given name.

Diniz

A en given name.

dinossauro

(proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon.

dintel

(architectural element) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.

diocesano

Pertaining to a diocese.

diocese

A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.

Diogo

A en given name.

Dionísia

A en given name.

Dionísio

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Dioniso

(Greek god) The god of wine, ivy and grapes, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".

diorama

A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape.

diospireiro

The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.

dióspiro

The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

dióxido

(chemistry) Any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule.

diploma

(education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) [from 14th c.]

diplomada

A female graduate.

diplomado

A male graduate.

diplomar

(transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

diplópode

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]

dipolar

(physics) Having north and south magnetic poles.

díptero

(non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).

dique

a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.

dire

(intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

direção

In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.

direccionar

(transitive) To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].

direcionar

To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.

directiva

An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.

directo

Proceeding without deviation or interruption.

director

A headdress; a covering for the head.

directora

A headdress; a covering for the head.

direita

The right side or direction.

direitista

(politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.

direito

Something that one is entitled to.

direito autoral

(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.

direito de retenção

(legal) A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.

direito de voto

(US) The right of women to vote.

direitos autorais

(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.

direitos humanos

(international law) The set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

diretamente

Directly; flatly.

diretiva

(European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the member states. The directive binds the member state to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.

direto

Proceeding without deviation or interruption.

diretor

(management) The group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.

diretor (de presídio)

A chief administrative officer of a prison.

diretor de circo

The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.

diretor executivo

(countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.

diretora

One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).

diretoria

A group of people elected by stockholders to establish corporate policies and make management decisions.

diretório

A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.

diretório raiz

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

diretriz

A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.

dirigir

(transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

dirigir-se

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.

dirigível

(aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.

diruptivo

Causing disruption or unrest.

dis-

reversal, undoing

discar

(transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone, regardless of whether a physical dial is present.

discernir

(transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.

disciplina

(education) A learning programme

discípulo

An ardent enthusiast or admirer.

disco

A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.

disco flexível

(computing, dated) A floppy disk.

discordante

Contrary to something; discordant. [Mid 17th century.]

discordar

(intransitive) To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).

discórdia

Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.

discordianismo

A minor new religious movement with absurdist elements, often seen as a parody, based on the worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and confusion.

discoteca

An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.