Portuguese to English Dictionary (Dicionário Português-Inglês)

safeguard

A measure taken to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable.

saga

A long story of heroic achievement, or a long, involved series of events or a documentary film series.

samba

A Brazilian dance of African origin with a duple meter, or the music associated with it.

sanction

A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

sanitation

Conditions relating to public health, especially the provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal.

sapphire

A transparent precious stone of a rich blue variety of corundum.

saturation

The state or process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed, combined with, or added.

sedentary

Tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive.

seismology

The branch of science concerned with earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth.

sensationalism

The use of exciting or shocking stories and language at the expense of accuracy, in order to provoke public interest or excitement.

sensory

Relating to sensation or the physical senses; transmitted by the senses.

sequence

A particular order in which related things follow each other.