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Computational Linguistics Group, 2008
University of Vigo

English-Portuguese CLUVI Dictionary

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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- thin, thing, think, thorough, thoughtfully, throat, thrust, tide, tie, tight, time, tiny, tired, tomorrow, tone, tongue, tonight, too, tooth


tight


- adjective
- apertado

EN Kino's lips were thin and his jaws tight, and the people say that he carried fear with him, that he was as dangerous as a rising storm.
PT Kino tinha os lábios cerrados e as mandíbulas apertadas, e as pessoas dizem que ele metia medo, que parecia tão perigoso como uma tempestade iminente.
- Fonte: APE (1596)
- cerrado

EN Out in the estuary a tight woven school of small fishes glittered and broke water to escape a school of great fishes that drove in to eat them.
PT No estuário, um cerrado cardume de pequenos peixes brilhou ao luar e cortou velozmente a água para fugir a um cardume de grandes peixes que pretendiam devorá-los.
- Fonte: APE (546)
- justo

EN Then he put on this very tight black evening dress.
PT Por fim, vestiu um fato negro, de cocktail, muito justo.
- Fonte: AGU (2043)
- compacto

EN The great breast and heavy fore legs were no more than in proportion with the rest of the body, where the muscles showed in tight rolls underneath the skin.
PT O peito amplo e as poderosas mãos estavam em proporção com o resto do corpo, onde os músculos se salientavam em rolos compactos debaixo da pele.
- Fonte: SEL (1354)
- tenso

EN His legs were as tight as wound springs.
PT Tinha as pernas tão tensas como molas comprimidas.
- Fonte: APE (1554)