Czech–English dictionary

řídit se

(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.

řiditelný

Capable of being managed or controlled.

řídký

Not frequent; not happening frequently.

Riga

The capital city of Latvia.

rigidní

Stiff, rather than flexible.

říje

(uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.

říjen

The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.

říjet

(intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.

říkanka

A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore

říkat

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

rikša

A rickshaw, mostly used as taxi, with two wheels in the back for the carriage and one wheel for steering in the front (or sometimes vice versa), propelled by the action of a driver’s feet upon pedals.

Říman

(historical) A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.

Římanka

A native or resident of Rome.

řinčet

(intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

ring

A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.

řinout

(intransitive, also, figurative) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.

řinout se

(intransitive) To be forcibly ejected.

říše

A German empire, kingdom or nation; its territory or government.

riskantní

Uncertain; risky; hazardous.

riskovat

(transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to.

říšský

Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.

říšský sněm

(historical) The lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945; the building that housed it.

řiť

(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

řítit se

(intransitive, chiefly, US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. [from at least early 20th c.]

řitní otvor

(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

rituál

A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts.

rituální

Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.

ritus

A religious practice or ritual prescribed by a church.

rival

A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

rivalita

Any competition between two or more things or factors.

rivalka

A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

říz

A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.

řízek

A thin slice of meat, usually fried.

řízení

Skillful guidance or management.

riziko

The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]

říznout

To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

říznutí

(card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

řízný

(informal) Rapid and without delay.

rob

A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

Robert

(rare, _, compared to given name) A French surname originating as a patronymic.

robotický

Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

robotika

The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application

robustní

Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong.

ročenka

An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication.

rocheta

A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees, usually featuring lace decoration and embroidered bordures.

rochnění se

An instance of wallowing.

rochnit se

(intransitive, British) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.

rochovat

(usually, _, intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.

rock

(music genre) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.

ročně

For a year.

roční

Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.

roční období

(North America, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

roční renta

(insurance, pensions) A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.

ročník

A level or grade in school or college.

Rod

The god of the family, ancestors and fate in Slavic mythology.

rod střední

(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

rodák

Somebody from a certain country.

rodeo

(sports) A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.

rodící se

Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.

rodičovský

Of or relating to a parent.

rodičovství

The state of being a parent

rodina

A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

rodina písma

(typography) The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.

rodinka

A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).

rodinný

Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.

rodinný krb

(figurative) Home or family life.

rodinný stav

One of several discrete options describing a person's relationship with a significant other, such as single, married, divorced, widowed, civil union, domestic partnership, etc.

rodiště

The location where a person was born.

rodit

To go through the labor of childbirth.

rodné město

An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.

rodný

Belonging to one by birth.

rodokmen

(horticulture) A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.

roh

An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.

roh hojnosti

(Greek mythology) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.

rohatinka

(nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.

rohatý

Having horns.

rohovec

(geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.

rohovina

(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

rohovitý

Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.

rohovka

(anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.

rohož

A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.

rohožka

A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.

roj

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

rojník

(soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

rok

A level or grade in school or college.

rokle

(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

roklina

A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.

Roland

A en given name.

role

Position or role (especially in a play).

rolnice

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.

rolnictví

The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.

rolník

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.

rolovat

To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.

Rom

A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

rómadži

A representation of Japanese in Latin script.

Roman

A en given name recently borrowed from continental Europe.

romanopisec

An author of novels.

romanopiskyně

An author of novels.

románský

Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.

romantik

A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).

romantismus

A romantic quality, spirit or action.

Romové

A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.

romský

Of or belonging to the Roma people.

romština

The Indo-Aryan lect of the Roma people, or one of its sublects (such as Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc), closely related to Hindi and Rajasthani.

root

(computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.

ropa

(dated) Naturally occurring liquid petroleum.

ropucha

An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.

rorýs

A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

rosa

(uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.

rošáda

(chess) A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.

rosolovitý

Jelly-like.

rosomák

A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.

rošťáctví

Mischief.

rošťák

(archaic, countable) A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.

rošťárna

An act of such mischief, wickedness, cruelty, or witchcraft.

rošťárny

Mischievous play, especially by children. [from mid 19th c.]

roštěnka

(UK, slang, dated, countable, uncountable) A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.

Rostov

A city in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.

rota

(military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.

rotační

Capable of rotation.

rotační číselnice

A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.

roti

A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean.

rotunda

(architecture) A round building, usually small, often with a dome.

rotvajler

A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings.

rotyka

trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion

roub

(horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

roubík

A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

roubování

(horticulture) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts.

roubovat

(transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

roucho

(archaic, or, literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.

rouhač

One who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God.

rouhačský

Lacking piety or respect for the sacred; resembling blasphemy.

rouhání

An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.

rouhat

(intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.

rouhavý

Lacking piety or respect for the sacred; resembling blasphemy.

rouno

(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal

roura

A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.]

rous

Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.

rouška

A misleading appearance; a cover, a cloak.

routa

(shapes, heraldiccharge) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.

router

(Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.

rovina

An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.

rovinka

Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.

rovinný

Of or pertaining to a plane.

rovnající se

Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

rovnat se

(mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.

rovnátka

(orthodontics) A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.

rovnice

(mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; in mathematical problems, equations describe various essential aspects of the problem, each of which contributes to the resolution of the problem in part.

rovník

(geography, often, _, “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.

rovníkový

(geography) Of, near, or relating to the equator.