Spanish–English dictionary

sponsor

A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.

sport

(of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.

spot

(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

spray

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

spring

An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.

sputnik

(historical) Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.

SQL

(computer language, databases) Initialism of Structured Query Language.

Sra.

Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.

ss.

and the following (pages, paragraphs etc.)

ssfgd

The 105th sura (chapter) of the Quran.

SST

Initialism of occupational health and safety.

Sta.

Abbreviation of Saint.

staff

(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

Stalin

A surname from Russian; usually referring to the Georgian revolutionary and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Joseph Stalin.

Stalingrado

(historical) Former name of Volgograd: a city, the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, and site of a famous World War II battle; used from 1925–1961.

stámina

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

stán

Used in the names of regions in the Middle East and Central Asia which were historically influenced by Persian and Turkic cultures.

stand

A small stall for the display and sale of goods.

stándar

Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

stándard

Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

standardización

The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.

standarización

The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.

standing

(figurative) Position or reputation in society or a profession.

standupero

An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

stanear

(slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).

Staré

A village and municipality in okres Michalovce, Košice kraj, eastern Slovakia, first mentioned in 1273.

starlet

A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.

stático

used in adjectives relating to nouns with the suffix -stasis

statu quo

The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.

status

A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

stock

(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

Stonehenge

An ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Amesbury parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1242).

stoppie

(cycling) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the bike is ridden on the front wheel.

stradivarius

(musical instruments) A stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari.

streamer

(Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.

streaming

(computing) The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.

stress

(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

strike

(baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.

striptease

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

su

A surname from Swiss.

suajelí

An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.

suajili

An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.

suasorio

Able to persuade; convincing.

suástica

(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.

suave

Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.

suavemente

In a gentle manner; to a gentle degree.

suavidad

The state of being gentle.

suavizado

(computer graphics) any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.

suavizar

(figurative) To absorb or deaden the impact of.

sub-

Deficient, below what is correct, insufficient

suba

An abrupt increase.

subacuático

(not comparable) Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.

subarrendar

(transitive, property law) To grant a sublease out of property held under a lease.

subasta

A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

subastado

(of a property) Offered for sale after foreclosure.

subastador

An individual who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, accepting bids to find the best price for the vendor.

subastar

To sell at an auction.

subatómico

(physics) Relating to particles that are constituents of the atom, or are smaller than an atom; such as proton, neutron, electron, etc.

subclavio

(anatomy) Relating to or denoting an artery or vein which serves the neck and arm on the left or right side of the body.

subclínico

(medicine, of a disease or injury) Without signs and symptoms that are detectable by physical examination or laboratory test; not clinically manifest.

subcomité

A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.

subconjunto

(set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.

subconsciencia

(psychology) That part of mind that is not consciously perceived.

subconsciente

(psychology) Without directed thought or awareness.

subcontratación

The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.

subcontratar

(chiefly, US, business, management, transitive) To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.

subcutáneo

Pertaining to the fatty layer under the skin.

subdesarrollado

Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.

subdividir

(ambitransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions.

subdivisión

(countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.

subdominante

(music) The fourth tone of a scale.

subducción

(geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

subdural

(anatomy) Located beneath the dura mater and above the arachnoid mater.

subempleo

The condition of being underemployed.

subentenderse

It is understood without being said (but will be or was said anyway).

subespacio

(countable, mathematics) A subset of a space which is a space in its own right.

subestación

A site where electricity supplied by long-distance (high-voltage) transmission lines is transformed or regulated for local (low-voltage) distribution.

subestimado

Not given enough recognition for its quality.

subestimar

(transitive) To estimate too low; to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.

subestructura

The supporting part of a structure (either physical or organizational; the foundation).

subglacial

Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.

subglaciar

Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.

subibaja

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

subida

An act of climbing.

subida de la luna

The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.

subidito

Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.

subido de tono

Egregiously; beyond compare.

subidón

(countable) A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.

subimago

(zoology) A stage in the development of certain insects, intermediate between pupa and imago, during which the insect can fly but must shed a skin before becoming mature.

subir

(intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position). [from 18th c.]

subir el síper

(intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.

súbitamente

Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.

subitáneamente

Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.

subitáneo

Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.

súbito

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

subjectar

(wrestling) To hold the opponent back-first so both his or her shoulders touch the mat or ground.

subjetividad

(singulare tantum) The state of being subjective.

subjetivo

Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.

sublevar

(now, rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify. [from 16th c.]

sublevarse

To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.

sublime

High, tall, having great height or stature.

sublimidad

(uncountable) The quality or state of being sublime.

sublogrador

One who underachieves, i.e. performs less well than expected. [from 1950s]

submarinismo

The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.

submarinista

Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

submarino

Abbreviation of submarine.

subministración

(uncountable) The act of supplying.

subministrador

One who supplies; a provider.

subministrar

(transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

submundo

That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice, and particularly those involved in organized crime.

subnormal

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

subordinada

Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.

subordinado

(archaic) An auxiliary.

subpar

Of less than a traditional or accepted standard.

subproceso

(computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

subrayar

(transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).

subrepticiamente

In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.

subrepticio

Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

subrogación

The practice of being a surrogate mother.

subrogante

A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

subrogar

(legal, transitive) To replace one person or thing with another.

subrutina

(computer science) A section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task.

subsanar

(transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.

subscribir

To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.

subscribirse

To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.

subscriptor

A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

subsecretario

An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet

subsecuente

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

subseguir

(transitive) To take the place of.

subseyente

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

subsidencia

(geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.

subsidiar

(transitive) To assist (someone or something) by granting a subsidy.

subsidiaria

A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.

subsidio

Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

subsiguiente

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

substancia

Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

substancial

Having a substance; actually existing.

substancioso

Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.

substantivo

(grammar, narrowly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

substituir

To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

substituto

A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

substracción

(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.

substraer

(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.

subte

(North America, Scotland, South Africa) A train that runs on such an underground railway.

subterfugio

(countable) An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and diplomatics.

subterráneo

Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

subtexto

(literature) The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.

subtitulado

(of a film) in which the dialogue is translated into another language, and displayed, in text, at the bottom of the screen.

subtitular

To add captions to a film or broadcast.

subtítulo

(cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.