Czech–English dictionary

savana

A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

savčí

Of, or pertaining to, mammals.

savec

An animal of the class Mammalia.

Šavel

(Christianity) The Hebrew name of Apostle Paul in the New Testament.

šavle

A sword of Persian origin that features a curved blade.

savý

Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

saxofon

A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

saz

The baglama.

saze

Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

sazeč

(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

sázecí kolík

A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds.

sázecí rýč

A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc. [from 1660s]

sázet

(ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

sázka

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

sázkař

(Scotland) A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.

sbalit

(transitive, slang) To flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.

sbaštit i s navijákem

(transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe

sběr

The activity of collecting.

sběrač

A person who gathers things.

sběratel

A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

sběratelství

A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

sběrnice

An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.

sbíječka

A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.

sbírání

The activity of collecting.

sbírat

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

sblížit

(intransitive) (said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.

sbližovat

(intransitive) (said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.

sbohem

A wish of happiness or safety at parting, especially a permanent departure.

sbor

A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.

scénář

(authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.

scenárista

One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.

scestný

(sometimes, figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]

schéma

An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).

schizofrenik

A person suffering from schizophrenia.

schizofrenní

(of a person) Afflicted with schizophrenia; having difficulty with perception of reality.

schnout

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

schod

A step, as in a stair.

schodiště

A series of steps; a staircase.

schody

A series of steps; a staircase.

schopnost

(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

schopnost odlišit

The ability to distinguish between things.

schopný

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

schopný vnímat

Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.

schoulit se

(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

schovat

(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

schovávat

(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

schránka

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

schrastit

(transitive) To obtain through deceitful or manipulative methods.

schrupnout si

(informal, chiefly, UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

schůze

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

schůzka

(government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.

schválení

An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that a person, thing, or event meets requirements.

schválit

(intransitive) To agree to a proposal.

schválně

(idiomatic) By design, as opposed to by accident; intentionally; deliberately. [from 16th c.]

schvalování

Favour; support; encouragement.

scientolog

A follower of Scientology, whether belonging to the "official" Church of Scientology or being outside in the so-called Free Zone.

scientologie

A belief system with certain religious aspects, developed in 1952, focused on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

sčítač

(now, rare, chiefly, historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. [from 17th c.]

sčítání

(uncountable, arithmetic) The arithmetic operation of adding.

sčítání lidu

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

sčítat

(transitive) To reckon, calculate.

scvrklý

Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

scvrknout

(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.

scvrknout se

(intransitive) To collapse inward; to crumble.

sdělit

To communicate; to make known; to portray.

sdílený

Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

sdílet

To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

sdružení

A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.

se

(computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.

se štěstím

By good chance; fortunately, successfully.

se zavázanýma očima

Wearing a blindfold

se znaménkem

(mathematics, computer science) Having both positive and negative varieties.

sebe

(reflexive pronoun) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject

sebe-

of, by, in or with oneself or itself

sebedůvěra

Self-confidence; poise; composure.

sebeláska

Regard for oneself; love of oneself.

sebeovládání

The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.

Šebestián

A en given name.

sebestředný

Egotistical.

sebeúcta

Confidence in one's own worth; self-respect.

sebeuspokojení

A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.

sebevědomí

Self-assurance.

sebevrah

(countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.

sebevražedkyně

(countable) A person who has intentionally killed themself.

sebezdokonalování

The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.

sebranka

(informal, somewhat, derogatory) The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.

sebrat

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

sebrat odvahu

To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.

sečíst

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

sečna

(trigonometry) In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec

Sečuán

A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.

Sečuánsko

A province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.

šedá

An achromatic colour between black and white.

sedace

The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.

sedadlo

A place in which to sit.

sedativní

(pharmaceutical effect) Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing

sedativum

(pharmaceutical drug) An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

sedavý

(medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around.

šedesát

The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

šedesátiletý

Of or related to sixtysomethings.

sedět

(colloquial) To spend time in prison (as a prisoner) or in the military (as a servicemember).

sedět na vejcích

(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

sedimentace

The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.

šedivý

Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

sedlá krev

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

sedlačka

A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.

Sedlák

A placename in the United States:

sedlina

The sediment that remains after ground coffee beans have been extracted with hot water.

sedlo

(geography) A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.

sedm

A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.

sedmá

The ordinal form of the number seven.

sedmdesát

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

sedmiboj

(athletics) An athletic contest comprising seven events; contested mostly by women, for whom this is an Olympic sport.

Sedmihradsko

A historical region in western Romania.

sedmikráska

A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals

sedmikráska chudobka

A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals

sedmina

One of seven equal parts of a whole.

sedmnáct

The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

sedmnáctý

The ordinal form of the number seventeen.

sedmý

The ordinal form of the number seven.

sednout

(transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.

sednout si

(reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony.

šedohnědá barva

A brownish grey colour.

šedohnědý

Of a brownish grey colour.

sedřít

(transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe.

šedý

Of a colour between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

šedý zákal

A (large) waterfall, specifically one flowing over the edge of a cliff.

šéf

A person in charge of a business or company.

šéfe

(UK, Irish, chiefly, London, informal) A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.

šéfíku

(UK, Irish, chiefly, London, informal) A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.

šéfka

A person in charge of a business or company.

šéfkuchař

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

Šeherezáda

A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.

sehnat

To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

sehnout

(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

sehnout se

(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

Seina

A former department of France, the capital city of which was Paris.

seismický

Related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth.

seizmický

Related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth.

šejch

The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

šejdíř

Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.

sejf

A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.

sejít se

(intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.

šejk

The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

sejmout

(transitive, card games) To be dealt or to take (a playing card) from the deck; also, to have (a particular hand) as a result of this. [from 16th c.]

šek

(UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) A written order directing a bank to pay money to a person or entity.

sekáč

A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.

sekáček

A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.

sekačka

A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.

sekačka na trávu

A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.