Spanish–English dictionary

trasero

(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).

trasfondo

A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.

trasformar

(transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.

trasgo

(fantasy) A malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid, often associated with orcs or trolls.

trashojar

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

traslación

(physics, mathematics) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.

trasladar

(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

trasladar en camilla

(transitive) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

trasladarse

(intransitive) to change one's domicile or place of business.

traslado

The act of moving from one place to another.

traslapar

To extend over and partly cover something.

traslaticio

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.

trasnochada

The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

trasnochado

(figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.

trasnochador

(idiomatic) One who goes to bed late, or stays up late at night or in the early hours of the morning.

trasoír

(ambitransitive) To hear wrongly.

trasojado

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

trasoñar

(intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.

traspalar

To move materials with a shovel.

traspapelar

(transitive) To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.

traspasación

unauthorized entry to private property

traspasamiento

unauthorized entry to private property

traspasando

(legal) The drawing of deeds etc. concerning transfer of property, and the legal execution of such transfers.

traspasar

(intransitive) To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.

traspasó

(legal) The drawing of deeds etc. concerning transfer of property, and the legal execution of such transfers.

traspatio

(AU, Canadian, NZ, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.

traspié

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

trasplantación

A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant.

trasplante

(medicine) An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.

traspunte

(theater) The person who does the prompting.

trastabillar

(intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.

traste

(music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.

trastear

(ambitransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.

trasteo

The event of changing one's residence.

trasterrar

(transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.

trasto

(slang) Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term.

trastocar

(transitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.

trastornado

Disturbed or upset, especially mentally.

trastornar

(transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.

trastorno

A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character. [Early 19th century.]

trastorno por desfase horario

(aviation) A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.

trastornoso

Causing upset; distressing, unsettling, hurtful.

trastos

(now usually, _, uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

trastrabillar

(intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.

trastrocamiento lingüístico

(linguistics) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.

trastrocar

(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.

trastronado

A man who is insane or mentally disturbed.

trasudar

(intransitive) To emit sweat.

trasudor

Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.

trasuntar

(transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.

trasunto

The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.

trasvasar

(transitive) To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment.

trata

(archaic) An order for money to be paid; the document that states it: a cheque, note, bond, bill of exchange, money order, or IOU.

tratado

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

tratamiento

A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.

tratar

(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.

tratar a la ligera

(intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.

tratar de

To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.

tratativa

The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

trato

(uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. [from 12th c.]

trator oruga

A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.

trauma

Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

traumático

Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.

traumatismo

Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

travelín

The act of one who travels; a journey.

travesaño

(nautical) One of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid, and acting as part of the support for keeping the sides of the vessel in shape — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones; cf. abeam, beam-ends.

travesar

(transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

travesura

A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

travesuras

Activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting. [from mid 19th c.]

Travieso

The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.

trayecto

Physical course; way.

trayectoria

(sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.

traza

A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.

trazar

(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

trazas

(figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.

trazo

A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.

trebejar

(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.

trebejo

(chess) Any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.

trébol

A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.

trece

The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.

treceavo

One of thirteen equal parts of a whole.

trecho

A segment of a journey or route.

tregua

In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).

tréider

One who earns a living by trading goods or securities.

treinta

The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.

treinta y pico

The decade of one's life from age 30 through age 39.

treinta y tantos

The decade of one's life from age 30 through age 39.

treintañero

The decade of one's life from age 30 through age 39.

treintas

A decade starting with the year xx30, most usually the decade from 1930 to 1939.

treintón

The decade of one's life from age 30 through age 39.

tremedal

A swampy, soggy area of ground.

tremendo

Greater in number, quantity, or extent.

trementina

A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.

tremolar

(intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.

tremolina

A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.

tren

A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession. [from 15th c.]

tren del mame

(figuratively) A current movement that attracts wide support. [from 1880]

trenecito

(sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape. [from 20th c.]

treno

a dirge or lamentation

trenza

A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.]

trenza africana

(chiefly, in plural) One of a set of rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp, forming a hairstyle, of African origin.

trenzada

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

trenzado

(of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).

trenzas africanas

A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.

trepador

Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).

trepadora

(botany) A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.

trepar

(ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.

tres

The digit/figure 3.

tres cubano

(musical instrument) A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.

Tres Reyes

(Christianity) Chiefly preceded by the (three): the wise men who visited and gave gifts to the baby Jesus at the Epiphany (traditionally considered to be three in number and sometimes named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior, but the Bible does not state how many there were or their names).

tres veces

(somewhat, dated, outside, Asia, Canada, Australia, &) Three times.

tresdoble

(dated) Threefold, triple.

tresillo

A furniture set consisting of one sofa with two matching chairs.

treta

(countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.

Tréveris

A city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the banks of the Moselle river.

trey

A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.

tri-

Three.

tríada

A grouping of three.

triade

A grouping of three.

triage

(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).

triaje

(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).

trial

(grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.)

triangular

To locate by means of triangulation.

triate

One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.

triatlón

An athletics event in which contestants compete in swimming, cycling and running in turn.

tribadismo

(sex) A sex act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

Tribilín

A Disney character: a slow-witted anthropomorphic dog with a goofy laugh.

tribu

A socially cohesive group of people within a society.

tribulación

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

tribulo

Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.

tribuna

(uncommon) Synonym of pulpit, a platform, a place or opportunity to express one's opinion

tribuna improvisada

(figuratively, often pejorative) A platform or outlet, such as a media platform, that a person uses to express his or her opinions.

tribunal

The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.

tributario

Related to the paying of tribute.

tributo

An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.

tricerátops

Common name of the extinct genus Triceratops; herbivorous ceratopsids from the late Cretaceous.

tricicleta

A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children.

triciclo

A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children.

tricotosa

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

trifecta

(betting) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.

trifulca

A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

trigo

(countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

trígono

(countable, geometry, rare) A triangle.

trigonometría

(geometry, analysis) The branch of mathematics that deals with the relationships between the sides and angles of (in particular) right-angled triangles, as represented by the trigonometric functions, and with calculations based on said relationships.

trigueño

Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.

trilby

narrow-brimmed type of felt hat, described as having a "shorter brim which is angled down at the front and slightly turned up at the back" in comparison to the fedora

tríler

(film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.

trilla

(loosely) Other fish with appearance like that of members of family Triglidae, such as certain of those in families Dactylopteridae, Peristediidae, and Scorpaenidae.

trillado

Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed. [from early 20th c.]

trillar

(transitive) To use too much of (something); to use (it) too often.