Spanish–English dictionary

estratega

A person who devises strategies.

estrategia

A tactic, strategy, or scheme.

estrategia militar

The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.

estratégicamente

In a strategic manner.

estratégico

Of or relating to tactics.

estratificado

Arranged in a sequence of layers or strata.

estrato

A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.

estratosfera

(meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone.

estrechadura de manos

The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement.

estrechamente

In a tight manner.

estrechamiento de manos

The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement.

estrechar

(transitive) To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.

estrecharse

(intransitive) To get narrower.

estrecheces

(Extreme) poverty.

estrechez

The state of being friends

estrecho

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

estrecho de Øresund

The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.

estrechura

The state of being friends

estregar

(transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.

Estrella

A en given name.

estrella de mar

Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

estrella enana

(now, sometimes, _, offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.

estrella polar

A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.

estrellado

Having stars visible.

estrellar

(intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.

estrellarse

(intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

estrellato

The status or position of a performer acknowledged to be a star; fame; celebrity.

estrellita

A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.

estremecedor

Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.

estremecer

(intransitive) To spasm or shake violently.

estremecerse

(intransitive) To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.

estremecimiento

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

estremezón

The act of shivering.

estrenar

(ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.

estreñido

Unable to defecate; costive.

estreñir

(ambitransitive) To cause constipation in, render costive.

estreno

(countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

estrenuo

Having great vigour or energy; forceful.

estrépido

A loud sound.

estrepitez

the perceptual strength or amplitude of sound pressure, measured in sones or phons

estrépito

(uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.

estrepitoso

(of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.

estrés

(medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.

estresado

Suffering stress (either physical or mental).

estresante

Irritating; causing stress.

estresar

(transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).

estresoso

Irritating; causing stress.

estría

(architectural element, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.

estriación

The action of marking with a stria.

estribadero

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

estribar

(intransitive) To be placed or situated.

estribillo

A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.

estribo

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

estribor

The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.

estricnina

(organic compound) A very toxic, colorless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide.

estricto

(idiomatic, of rules, etc) strictly maintained; not subject to variation

estridente

Extremely or shockingly ugly.

estridulación

A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.

estridular

To make such a sound.

estriladera

A formal objection, especially one by a group.

estringa

A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag or garment, allowing the item to be closed (as with a bag) or tightened (as with sweatpants or a bathing suit).

estriptis

The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.

estriptisera

Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.

estriptista

Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.

estro

(uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.

estróbilo

The fruit of a conifer.

estroboscopio

Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.

estrofa

(poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

estrógeno

(steroid hormone) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.

estropeado

Non-functional; not functioning properly.

estropear

(transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

estropearse

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

estructura

A frame or framework.

estructura conceptual

(figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.

estructurado

Having structure; organized.

estructural

Of, relating to, or having structure.

estructuralmente

In terms of structure.

estructurar

To apply a pattern.

estruendo

A sudden percussive noise.

estruendoso

(archaic) Bellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

estrujar

Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.

estuario

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

estucado

Work made of stucco; stuccowork.

estucar

(transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

estuco

(uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; render, stucco.

estudiante

A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).

estudiante de postgrado

A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.

estudiante de pregrado

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

estudiante universitario no licenciado

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

estudiantón

(informal, derogatory) A person usually of little talent who tries hard to succeed, especially through imitation, usually to gain fame or popularity.

estudiar

To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

estudiar el terreno

(transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

estudio

(music) A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.

estudioso

Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result.

estufa

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.

estufa de cultivo

A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.

estuoso

(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

estupefacción

The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise.

estupefaccionar

(transitive, especially, law) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.

estupefacer

(metaphorical, especially as "be reeling") To be in shock.

estupefaciente

(pharmaceutical drug) Any substance or drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour; in some contexts, especially in reference to the opiates-and-opioids class, especially in reference to illegal drugs, and often both.

estupefacto

Astonished or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised (often with ensuing adpositions e.g. at, with, or by).

estupendamente

In a fabulous manner.

estupendo

(informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.

estúpida

A stupid person; a fool.

estúpidamente

In a stupid manner.

estupidez

(dated, psychology, now, , pejorative) The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation; intellectual disability.

estúpido

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

estupor

(psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.

esturión

Any marine or freshwater fish of the family Acipenseridae that are prized for their roe and are endemic to temperate seas and rivers of the northern hemisphere, especially central Eurasia.

esvástica

(countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.

et

The symbol "&".

eta

Forming diminutive nouns.

etanol

(organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.

etapa

A stage of a journey, race etc.

etapa final

(by extension) The final stage of any game.

etc.

And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known.

Éter

(Greek god) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.

etéreo

Strange or otherworldly.

eternal

Lasting forever; unending.

eternamente

For eternity; forever.

eternidad

Eternity, the duration of the universe.

eterno

(relative to future) Continuing infinitely or indefinitely.

ethos

(art) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than emotional situations or individual character traits in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.

éticamente

In an ethical manner.

ético

Used to form adjectives, meaning "pertaining to", derived from nouns, most of which end in -esis

étimo

(linguistics, philology) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

etimología

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

etino

(organic compound, official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula HC≡CH or C2H2.

etíope

Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.

Etiopía

A country in East Africa.

etiqueta

The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.

etiqueta adhesiva

An adhesive label or decal.

etiquetado

A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

etiquetaje

A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

etiquetar

(transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).

etiquetear

(transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).

Etna

An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, between Messina and Catania.

etnia

A group of people who identify with one another, especially on the basis of ancestral, national, linguistic, cultural, historical or religious grounds.

etnicidad

The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.

etnología

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.

etología

(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.

etólogo

A person who studies ethology.

EU

Initialism of the United States: a country in North America.

eucalipto

Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.

Euclides

Euclid of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, fl. 300 BC.

Eufemia

A en given name.

euforia

Perfect happiness.

eufórico

Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.

euforizante

Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria