Portugál | Angol |
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meia numeral | half a dozen(six) |
meia noun {f} | half-hour [half-hours](time) sock [socks](covering for the foot) stocking [stockings](garment (for translations of "sock", see sock)) |
meia noun {m} {f} | midfielder [midfielders](player) |
meia arrastão noun {f} | fishnet [fishnets](fishnet stockings) |
meia boca adjective | half-assed(poorly or incompetently done) |
meia-boca adjective | botched(clumsily made or repaired) half-ass(produced in an incompetent manner) |
meia-calça noun {f} | pantyhose [pantyhose]noun tights [tights](women's garment) |
meia de Natal noun {f} | Christmas stocking(stocking hung up on Christmas Eve to be filled with gifts) |
meia dúzia numeral | half a dozen(six) |
meia dúzia noun {f} | half dozen(6) |
meia-escuridão noun {f} | semidarkness(partial or near darkness, dimness, twilight.) |
meia-final noun {f} | semifinal [semifinals](competition) |
meia hora noun {f} | half-hour [half-hours](period) |
meia-irmã noun {f} | half sister(a female half sibling) |
meia-leca noun {m} {f} | shorty(a short person) |
meia-lua noun {f} | half-moon [half-moons](the moon in its first or last quarter) |
meia-luz noun {f} | half-light(the soft, greyish light characteristic of dawn or dusk) twilight [twilights](faint light; dubious medium) |
meia-noite noun {f} | midnight(12 o'clock at night exactly, see also: twelve o'clock) |
meia-nove noun | sixty-nine(sex position) |
meia palavra basta phrase | a nod is as good as a wink(the hint, suggestion etc can be understood without further explaining) |
meia pipa noun {f} | hogshead(measure of capacity for liquids) |
meia-risca noun {f} | en dash(typographical symbol –) |
meia verdade noun {f} | half-truth(A deceptive statement) |
meia-verdade noun {f} | half-truth(A deceptive statement) |
meia-vida noun {f} | half-life(time in physics) |
meia-volta noun {f} | about-face [about-faces](military: abrupt turn to face the opposite direction) about-turn(turn of 180 degrees) |
a meia-nau adverb | amidships(in the middle of a ship) |
ameia noun | battlement(indented parapet formed by a series of rising members) |
ameia noun {f} | crenel(space between merlons) |
colmeia noun {f} | beehive [beehives](home of bees) |
Crimeia proper noun {f} | Crimea(peninsula, see also: Crimean peninsula) |
crise da meia-idade noun {f} | mid-life crisis(emotional period of doubt) |
de meia-idade adjective | middle-aged(of, or relating to middle age) |
fantoche de meia noun {m} | sock puppet(simple puppet made from a sock) |