Portuguese | English |
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conto noun {m} | short story [short stories](work of fiction) story [stories](account of events) tale [tales](type of story) |
conto da carochinha noun {m} | tall tale(a greatly exaggerated, fantastic story) |
conto de fadas noun {m} | fairy tale [fairy tales](folktale) |
conto popular noun {m} | folktale [folktales](story that is part of the oral tradition of a people) |
contorcer verb | contort [contorted, contorting, contorts](To twist in a violent manner) squirm [squirmed, squirming, squirms](twist one’s body with snakelike motion) wriggle [wriggled, wriggling, wriggles](to make or cause to wriggle) |
contorcer-se verb | contort [contorted, contorting, contorts](To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression) wriggle [wriggled, wriggling, wriggles](to twist one's body and move the limbs) writhe [writhed, writhing, writhes](to twist or contort the body) |
contorcionista noun {m} {f} | contortionist [contortionists](acrobat) |
contornar verb | bypass [bypassed, bypassing, bypasses](to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass) circumvent [circumvented, circumventing, circumvents](to avoid or get around something) override [overrode, overridden, overriding, overrides](to counteract the normal operation of something) skirt [skirted, skirting, skirts](to be on or from the border of) surround [surrounded, surrounding, surrounds](to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) |
contornar noun | workaround(a temporary means of overcoming some obstacle) |
contorno noun {m} | bypass [bypasses](road) circuit [circuits](that which encircles) contour [contours](outline, boundary or border) line [lines](exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline) outline [outlines](line marking the boundary of an object figure) ring road(highway) silhouette [silhouettes](representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color) |
arcontologia noun | archontology(study of historical offices and their occupants) |
desconto noun {m} | discount [discounts](reduction in price) injury time(additional time played straight after each of the two halves) rebate [rebates](A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement) |
Holoconto proper noun {m} | Holohoax(the Holocaust viewed as a fabricated event) |
incontornável adjective | unavoidable(impossible to avoid) |
incontornável adjective {m} {f} | inescapable(impossible (unable) to avoid or escape) |
um passarinho me contou phrase | a little bird told me(idiomatic) |