Portuguese–English dictionary

escasso

Very little, very few.

escavação

An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.

escavadeira

A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.Excavator

escavador

A person who excavates.

escavadora

A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.Excavator

escer

When attached to certain adjectives, it forms a transitive verb whose meaning is, to make (adjective). Usually, the verb is ergative, sometimes not. The same construction could also be done to certain (fewer) nouns, as, strengthen, in which case the verb means roughly, "to give (noun) to", or "to become like (noun)".

esclarecer

(figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.

esclarecimento

The act or process of making or becoming clear.

esclera

(anatomy) The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.

esclerose

(pathology) The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.

esclerótica

(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.

escoamento

(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.

escoar

(transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

escocês

A person born in or native to Scotland.

escocesa

A person born in or native to Scotland.

escoceses

(collective, with definite article, i. e. the Scottish) the people of Scotland.

Escócia

A constituent country of the United Kingdom, located in northwest Europe to the north of England.

escol

A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.

escola

An abstract structure, such as a school of thought, an argument, a theoretical position, etc.

escolarização

Institutional education; attendance of school.

escolarizar

(transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

escolástico

(philosophy) A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.

escolha

A choice; ability to choose.

escolher

(idiomatic) To decide; to reach a conclusion.

escolhido

picked; selected

escolhido a dedo

(figurative) Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.

escoliose

(pathology) The abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

escolta

A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.

escoltar

To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to

escombros

The ruins of a broken-down structure.

esconder

(intransitive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

esconder o jogo

(figurative, intransitive, originally, US) To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage; (originally, poker) to pretend to have a weak hand, as a strategy.

esconder-se

(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.]

esconderijo

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

escondido

Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.

escopeta

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

escopo

The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.

escora

An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.

escorar

(transitive, often, figuratively) To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).

escorar-se

(Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.

escorbuto

(uncountable, disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes; (countable, obsolete) an occurrence of this disease.

escória

Slag from a metal furnace.

escoriar

(transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe.

escorpiano

Someone with a Scorpio star sign

escorpião

Someone with a Scorpio star sign

escorpião-vinagre

A whip scorpion (arachnid of order Thelyphonida), which when threatened may eject a liquid containing acetic acid.

escorredor

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

escorrega

An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

escorregadeira

An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

escorregadio

Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.

escorregador

An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

escorregar

(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.

escorrer

(transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.

escorrimento

A flow of liquid; a leak.

escota

(nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

escoteiro

A male member of the Scout Movement.

escotilha

A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

escova

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

escova de cabelo

A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair

escova de dentes

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.

escovada

The act of brushing something.

escovadela

The act of brushing something.

escovamento

The act of brushing something.

escovar

(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

escrava

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class. [from early 16th c.]

escravidão

The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.

escravista

An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.

escravizar

(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

escravo

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class. [from early 16th c.]

escrevedeira

A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.

escrevente

A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.

escrever

(transitive) To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

escrever a ata

(transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

escrevinhar

To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.

escriba

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

escrito

(countable) A writing; a written document.

escritor

A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".

escritora

A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".

escritório

An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).

escritura

(legal) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.

escrituração

(accounting) The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.

escriturário

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

Escrituras

The foundational text of a given religion, or a text considered especially holy.

escrivaninha

(chiefly, British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.

escrivão

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.

escrópulo

(pharmacy) A weight of 1⁄288 of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).

escroto

(anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.

escrúpulo

(now, negative polarity) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. [from 17th c.]

escrupulosidade

(uncountable) The property of being scrupulous.

escrupuloso

Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

escrutinador

A person who counts the votes in an election.

escrutinar

(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.

escrutinizar

(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.

escudeiro

A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

escudete

A decorative and/or protective plate or bezel to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.

escudo

Anything employed to oppose attack(s).

esculapiano

(literally) Of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.

esculpir

To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

Escultor

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

escuna

(watercraft) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.

escurecer

(intransitive) To become darker.

escuridão

A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.

escuro

(of a location or setting) Without light.

escusar

(transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.

escuso

(informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.

escuta

(slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.

escutar

(intransitive, _, except in archaic usage) To use one's sense of hearing and auditory cognition in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.

escutar atentamente

(intransitive) To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

escutar sem querer

(ambitransitive) To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.

ESE

Initialism of east-southeast.

eses

(of adjectives from roots of proper nouns denoting names of nations or regions) Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).

esfaqueamento

An incident in which a person is stabbed.

esfaquear

(transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.

esfarelar

(transitive) To break into crumbs.

esfarrapado

(now, _, rare) An ill-fitting garment.

esfera

The area or sphere of control and influence of something.

esferal

(not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.

esférico

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

esferovite

Expanded polystyrene foam, such as is used in cups and packaging.

esfolamento

Injury or wear caused by friction.

esfolar

To strip the skin off; to skin.

esfomeado

(colloquial) A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.

esfomear

(transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

esforçado

Hard-working and persistent.

esforçar

(reflexive) To put in vigorous action.

esforçar-se

(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To put effort into something.

esforço

The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.

esfregaço

(biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.

esfregão

An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

esfregar

(transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.

esfriar

(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

esfumaçamento

The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.

esfumaçante

Giving off smoke.

esfuminho

(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.

esganar

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

esgar

A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.

esgotado

Very tired; zonked (out).

esgotamento

A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.

esgotante

Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.

esgotar

(ambitransitive) To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

esgotável

Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.

esgoto

Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter. [from 20th c.]

esgravatar

(transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.

esgrima

The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).

esgrimir

(intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.

esgrimista

A participant in the sport of fencing.

esgueirar

To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

esguichar

(intransitive, also, figurative) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.

esguicho

A sudden rapid outflow.

esguio

(informal, pejorative) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.