Spanish–English dictionary

croquis

(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

croscitar

The harsh cry of a crow.

crossover

(sometimes, derogatory) An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.

CRT

(electronics, computing, becoming, _, dated) A display device using a cathode ray tube, such as early televisions or monitors.

cruasán

A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.

cruce

(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

cruce peatonal

A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.

crucero

A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground.

crucial

Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.

crucificado

that has been subject to crucifixion

crucificar

To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.

crucifijo

An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church.

crucigrama

(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.

cruda

Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.

crudo

In a natural, untreated state.

cruel

(figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.

cruelmente

In a cruel manner.

cruento

Covered in blood.

crujido

A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.

crujiente

Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.

crujir

(transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.

crumble

A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

crumiro

A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

crúor

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

crup

(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

crupier

The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.

crustáceo

Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice, traditionally excluding hexapods.

cruz

(Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.

cruz gamada

(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.

cruz maltesa

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.

cruzada

Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

cruzado

(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

cruzando

(Southern US, AAVE) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).

cruzar

(football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.

cruzazulear

(intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.

CTIM

(uncountable, education) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.

ctónico

Dwelling within the underworld. [from late 18th c.]

cu

The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.

cua

The sound made by a duck.

cuac

The sound made by a duck.

cuaderna

(architectural element) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

cuaderno

A booklet for students, containing either problems or exercises, and blank, often lined pages for writing answers.

cuaderno de bitácora

(nautical) A book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.

cuadra

The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets.

cuadradamente

(geometry) In the shape of a square; at right angles.

cuadrado

(slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.

cuadragenario

(countable, colloquial) A person between 40 and 49 years old.

cuadrangular

(pesäpallo) A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on earlier bases, scoring one run immediately.

cuadraplégico

One who suffers from quadriplegia.

cuadrar

(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

cuadratín

(typography) A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.

cuádriceps

(anatomy) A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.

cuadricicleta

A four-wheeled pedal cycle.

cuadriciclo

(transportation) Initialism of all-terrain vehicle (an astride-seated quad or tri-wheeled off-road recreational vehicle).

cuadriciclo motorizado

A four-wheeled motorcycle, often resembling a small car (microcar).

cuadrícula

A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.

cuadriculado

Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas.

cuadricular

To mark with a grid.

cuadriga

A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.

cuadril

(anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.

cuadrilátero

Having four sides.

cuadrilla

(bullfighting) The team which supports the matador.

cuadrilla armada

(US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang. [from 20th c.]

cuadrillé

The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. [from 19thc.]

cuadripléjico

One who suffers from quadriplegia.

cuadro

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

cuadro de distribución

(telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

cuadro vivo

A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.

cuadros escoceses

The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. [from 19thc.]

cuádruple

Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

cuadruplicar

(transitive) To multiply by four.

cuajada

The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

cuajar

(intransitive, idiomatic) To become popular; to become commonplace; to become the standard.

cuajarón

A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

cuajarse

(intransitive) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.

cuajo

The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

cual

(formal, somewhat, dated) For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)

cuáles

(interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.

cualidad

An important or main item.

cualificado

One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

cualificar

To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.

cualquier

A/an, each or some, no matter its/their identity or nature.

cualquier cosa

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.

cualquier hijo de vecino

Anybody or everybody; random or unknown people.

cualquiera

A/an, each or some, no matter its/their identity or nature.

cuan

In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.

cuando

To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.

cuando quiera

At any time that.

cuando sea

At any time.

cuandoquier

At any time that.

cuandoquiera

At any time that.

cuantía

A quantity or volume.

cuantiar

(intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.

cuántico

(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.

cuantificador

(linguistics) A word or morpheme used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns, used especially in Asian languages.

cuantificar

(logic) To relate a statement (called a predicate) to a given set using a quantifier—either for all (denoted ∀) or there exists (denoted ∃).

cuantioso

Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

cuanto

what number

cuanto + comp., comp.

With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

cuanto antes

Initialism of as soon as possible.

cuanto sea

(degree) To whatever degree or extent.

cuantoquiera que

(degree) To whatever degree or extent.

cuáquero

A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.

cuarenta

The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

cuarentenar

(intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.

cuarentón

(countable, colloquial) A person between 40 and 49 years old.

Cuaresma

(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

cuark

(particle) In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.

cuarta

A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.

cuartago

A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.

cuartear

(transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

cuartel

(military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

cuartel general

The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.

cuartelado

(heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.

cuarteles generales

The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.

cuarteto

(slang) An act of group sex between four people; a foursome.

cuartil

(statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.

cuarto

A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

cuarto de baño

A building or area where bathing occurs.

cuarto de galón

A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.

cuarto de lavado

A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

cuarto oscuro

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

cuartos

(slang) Money.

cuartucho

(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.

cuarzo

(mineral) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO2. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.

cuásar

(galaxy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.

cuasi

Very close to, but not quite.

cuasi-

Approximate, almost.

cuasitraumar

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

cuate

An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior or someone one dislikes.

Cuaternario

(geology) The geological period of the Cenozoic Era immediately following the Tertiary. It is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Epochs.

cuaternión

(mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.

cuático

Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.

cuatiquero

Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.

cuatrero

(archaic) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.

cuatrillón

(US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,0004): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015.

cuatro

(countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

cuatro cuartos

(informal, figurative) Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.

cuatro duros

(informal, figurative) Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.

Cuba

A country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean. Capital and largest city: Havana.

cubana

Of, from, or pertaining to Cuba, the Cuban people or the Cuban dialect.

cubanita

A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

cubano

Of, from, or pertaining to Cuba, the Cuban people or the Cuban dialect.

cubertería

(chiefly, UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

cubertura

A lid.

cubi

A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.

cubicaje

A volume; especially the volume of a cylinder head when the piston is at its lower dead centre.

cubículo

An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.

cubierta

(countable) A covering of material, such as paint.

cubierta exterior

(electrical engineering) The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.