Czech–English dictionary

tažení

A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.

tažnost

(materials science) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.

Tchaj-pej

The capital city of and a special municipality of Taiwan, located in the northern part of the island of Taiwan. [from late 19th c.]

Tchaj-wan

A partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei. [from 20th c.]

Tchajwanec

(in the plural, chiefly, collective) People from Taiwan.

tchajwanský

Of or pertaining to Taiwan or its people, culture, language/s, etc.

Tchien-ťin

A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.

té

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

teak

(countable) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona.

teakové dřevo

(uncountable, countable) An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).

teatrální

Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

tebe

(now, chiefly, archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]

tebou

(now, chiefly, archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]

technička

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

technický

(securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.

technik

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

technika

(uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]

techno

(music genre) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.

techno-

Relating to technology.

technolog

A scientist, engineer, or technician who specializes in a particular technology, or who uses technology in a particular field.

technologický

Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.

technologie

(uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.

téci

To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.

tečka

Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

tečna

(music) A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.

tečnový

Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.

téct

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

téct čůrkem

(intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

teď

At the present time.

tedy

(conjunctive) As a result.

teenager

A person between thirteen and nineteen years old.

tehdy

Back then, at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past.

Teherán

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

těhotenství

The period of time this condition prevails.

těhotný

(of egglaying animals, now, chiefly, metaphorically) Pregnant.

teka obrovská

(countable) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona.

těkat

To move quickly from one location to another.

těkavý

(physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.

tektonický

(geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.

tekutina

Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.

tekutost

(uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.

tekutý

(not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.

tekutý písek

Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.

telecí

The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

telefon

(games, mostly, UK) A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbor, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.

telefonovat

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

telegraf

(chiefly, _, historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.

telegram

A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

telemetrie

(spaceflight, telecommunications) The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.

telepat

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.

telepatický

(parapsychology) Of, relating to, or using telepathy.

telepatie

(parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

teleport

(science fiction) A device used for teleporting.

teleportovat

(intransitive) To travel, often instantaneously, from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.

teleskop

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

tělesná stráž

A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone.

tělesná výchova

Physical education class (PE class).

tělesně

Pertaining to the whole body or mass; wholly.

tělesný

Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind; tangible, concrete; real. Having to do with the material world. [from 16th c.]

těleso

A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]

televize

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

televizní přijímač

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

televizor

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

tělo

(countable) Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]

tělocvična

(especially, weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).

tělocvik

Physical education class (PE class).

tělovýchova

Physical education class (PE class).

telugština

A Dravidian language of India.

téma

A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.

tematický

Relating to or having a or a topic.

témbr

The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

témě

(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

temeno

(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

téměř

Very close to, but not quite.

téměř vůbec

(not comparable, degree) Almost not at all.

temná komora

(photography) A dark room, where photographs are developed.

temnět

(intransitive) To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

temno

Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

temnota

A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.

temný

Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.

temperament

A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.

temperatura

(music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.

templář

A Knight Templar, one of the Knights Templar.

tempo

A flow, repetition or regularity.

Temže

(with the) A river in the U.S. State of Connecticut flowing 24 km (15 mi.) past New London to Long Island Sound.

ten, kdo jde příkladem

A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others. [from 16th c.]

tendence

An inclination in a particular direction.

tendenční

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

tendr

(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

tenis

(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

tenisky

(US, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.

Tennessee

A state of the United States.

tenor

(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.

tento

(abstract) This time, the present situation.

tentononc

(informal) Something that one does not know the name of.

tentýž

Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.

teo-

(religion) god; deity

Teodor

A en given name; the name of a saint, pope, several emperors, etc.

teokracie

Government under the control of a state religion.

teolog

One who studies theology.

teologický

Of or relating to theology.

teologie

(uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general. [from mid-14th c.]

teoložka

One who studies theology.

teorém

(mathematics) A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.

teoréma

(mathematics, colloquial, nonstandard) A mathematical statement that is expected to be true.

teoretička

Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.

teoretický

Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.

teoretik

Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.

tep

A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.

tepat

(intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.

tepláková souprava

(clothing) A garment, usually consisting of a top and trousers (commonly known as tracksuit bottoms) worn as an outer layer by participants in sporting events such as athletics. The tracksuit is usually designed to be easily removed or replaced, before or after competing. Tracksuits have also been adopted in some cultures as leisurewear.

teple

In a manner that maintains warm temperature.

teplo

(uncountable) Thermal energy.

teploměr

An apparatus used to measure temperature.

teplota

(symptom) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

teplouš

(Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.

teplý

Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.

teprve

As recently as.

terapeut

Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.

terapeutický

Of, or relating to therapy.

terapeutka

Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.

terapie

Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

terasa

A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.

terč

The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.

tercie

(music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

terej

Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.

terén

An area of land or the particular features of it.

Tereza

A en given name, the Spanish and Italian form of Theresa.

terezín

(cycling) A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.

teriér

A dog from a group of small, lively breeds, originally bred for the hunting of burrowing prey such as rats, rabbits, foxes, and even otters; this original function is reflected in some of their names (e.g. rat terrier).

terijaki

A cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade.

teritoriální

Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.

teritorium

(Australia) One of three of Australia's federal entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.

těrka

(printing) A tool used to force the ink through the stencil in silk-screen printing.

termín

(rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.

terminologický

Of, or relating to terminology.

terminologie

A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.

termit

A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.

termodynamika

(physics) The science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

termoláhev

A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents

termonukleární

Of, or relating to the fusion of atomic nuclei at high temperatures.

termoska

A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents

termostat

A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting.

terno

(informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.

terorismus

(historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

terorista

A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.

teroristický

Of or relating to terrorism.

teroristka

A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.

terpentýn

A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.

Terpsichoré

(Greek god) The goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne.