Spanish–English dictionary

respetuoso

Marked or characterized by respect

respingo

A sudden involuntary movement.

respingón

Standing upright; firm.

respiración

(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.

respirador

Something or someone that breathes.

respiratorio

(relational) Relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.

respiro

(countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.

resplandecer

To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.

resplandeciente

In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion. [17th century.]

resplandesciente

(figurative) Showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc.

resplandor

The light given off by a glowing object.

respondedor

Answering, replying or responding

respondencia

(set theory, countable) A relation.

responder

To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.

respondiente

Answering, replying or responding

respondón

(informal) Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.

responsabilidad

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.

responsabilización

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.

responsable

Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.

responsablemente

In an accountable manner.

responsión

The quality or state of being responsive.

responsividad

The quality or state of being responsive.

responsivo

Answering, replying or responding

respuesta

A solution to a problem.

resquebrajadura

A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

resquebrajar

(transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.

resquicio

An opening allowing passage or entrance.

resquicio esperanzador

(figurative) A favorable aspect or prospect of a mostly unfavorable event or situation.

resquilar

(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

resta

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

restablecer

(transitive) To establish again.

restablecimiento

A return to health or well-being; a recovery.

restante

A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.

restar

(mathematics) To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

restauración

The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

restaurador

Something or someone that restores.

restaurante

(informal) A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

restaurante de carretera

(chiefly, US) An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city. In the centuries before motor vehicles, such inns were places for travellers to stop at night during multi-day journeys, besides being public houses for their local countryfolk.

restaurante de manducatoria para recoger

(chiefly, UK, Australia, South Africa, and, New Zealand) A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere.

restaurar

(transitive) To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance.

restituir

(transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition.

resto

Something left behind; an excess or remainder.

restorán

(informal) A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

restos

(mostly, in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.

restregar

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

restreñimiento

(countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures

restreñir

(transitive) To control or keep in check.

restricción

Something that constrains; a restriction.

restricciones

(by extension) Not restricted.

restrictivo

Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.

restricto

Limited within bounds.

restringido

Confined or restricted to a certain place.

restringir

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

resucitación

The act of resuscitating.

resucitada

A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.

resucitado

A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.

resucitar

(intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.

resuello

(uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.

resueltamente

In a decided or final manner; resolutely.

resuelto

Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.

resulta

That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.

resultado

(probability theory) The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.

resultado global

(sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.

resultados

That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

resultante

Refers to the actions, consequences, and repercussions which result from some prior stimulus or event.

resultar

(obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. [15th–17th c.]

resultar en

To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.

resumen

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

resumir

(transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense. [First attested in 1384] [First attested around 1350–1470]

resurar

(intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

resurgimiento

An instance of something resurging; a renewal of vigor or vitality.

resurrección

(Christianity) The resurrection of Jesus Christ.

resurrecionar

(intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.

resurrecto

(intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.

retablo

A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects.

retacear

(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

retaco

(derogatory, offensive) A short person. [from later 19th c.]

retaguardia

(chiefly, humorous) Bottom, bum, backside.

retahíla

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

retail

(business) The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.

retal

The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.

retalear

(intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.

retaliación

Violent or otherwise punitive response to an act of harm or perceived injustice; a hitting back; revenge.

retaliar

(intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.

retama

Spartium junceum, a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mediterranean, with many flexible rush-like twigs.

retante

One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.

retar

(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

retardado

(philosophy) A hypothetical particle whose existence and configuration can make a moral judgment true.

retardar

To put off until a later time; to defer.

retardo

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

retazar

(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

retazo

A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.

retén

A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

retenedor

(dentistry) A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.

retener

(transitive, obsolete) Hinder; keep back; withhold. [Attested from the early 16th century until the mid 17th century.]

retenerse

(intransitive) To control oneself when provoked.

retentar

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

retentiva

The act or power of remembering things.

reticencia

(rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).

reticente

Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. Always followed by a verbal phrase.

retícula

Reticle.

retículo

Reticle.

retina

(ophthalmology) The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that contains rods and cones sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.

retinal

(ophthalmology, relational) Of or pertaining to the retina.

retiniano

(ophthalmology, relational) Of or pertaining to the retina.

retínico

(ophthalmology, relational) Of or pertaining to the retina.

retiñir

To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.

retinol

(organic compound, biochemistry) A fat-soluble carotenoid vitamin (vitamin A), present in fish oils and green vegetables, essential to normal vision and to bone development.

retintín

The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.

retirada

Request of the return of a faulty product.

retirado

Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.

retirar

(transitive) To separate; to disengage. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

retirarse

(intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable; to abandon (something).

retiro

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

reto

A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.

retocar

To portray someone to advantage.

retomar

(intransitive) To restart or resume.

retoñar

(intransitive) To form buds.

retoño

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

retoque

A final addition, change, or embellishment that serves to complete something.

retorcer

(transitive) To pull or twist violently.

retorcerse

(intransitive) To twist one's body with snakelike motions.

retorcido

mentally disturbed or unsound

retórico

(archaic) Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.

retornar en sí

(transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.

retorno

A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.

retorta

(chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.

retozar

(intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

retozo

A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. [from 18th c.]

retozón

Characterised or marked by frolicking; playful.

retractar

To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.

retractarse

(intransitive) To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.

retraher

A proverb or maxim.

retraído

(originally, US, informal, derogatory) A person of meek or timid disposition; a person who lacks character or effectiveness.

retransmisión

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

retransmitir

(intransitive) To be broadcast.

retrasado

(psychology, dated, originally) A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.

retrasar

(idiomatic, transitive) To delay (someone or something) temporarily; to keep at bay.

retraso

(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay. [Attested from (1150 to 1350) to the early 17th century.]

retratar

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.]

retratería

(photography) A dark room, where photographs are developed.

retrato

(countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.

retreta

(nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).

retrete

A toilet that uses water to flush urine and feces through a pipe to another location, typically a sewer main in urban settings or a septic tank elsewhere.

retribución

A reward.

retriever

A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter.

retro-

Back or backward.

retroacción

(electronics, cybernetics, control theory, ) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.

retroalimentación

(electronics, cybernetics, control theory, ) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.

retroalimentación acústica

(amplification) The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.