Czech–English dictionary

upřednostňování

(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.

upřednostňovat

To look upon fondly; to prefer.

upřesnit

(transitive) To bring about a specific result.

upřímně

(manner) In an honest manner.

upřímnost

The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

upřímný

Impartial and free from prejudice.

úprk

The act of fleeing.

upustit

(ambitransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).

upustit (+ od)

(intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew [from 15th c.]

uráčit se

(transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.

úřad

(mostly, NNES) an office

uragán

(in particular, meteorology) A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes. [20th c.]

uran

The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U. A radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.

úraz

The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

uražená pýcha

(uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.

uraženost

A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

urážet

(slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.

urazit

(transitive) To insult intentionally, especially openly.

urážka

Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies. [from mid-16th c.]

urážlivý

Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation.

Urban

(uncommon) A en given name.

určení

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

určenost

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

určit

(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.

určit kmen slova

A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.

určitě

Without doubt, surely.

určitý

Having been determined but not specified.

určující

Conclusive; decisive; positive.

urdsky

Modern Standard Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language with native speakers mainly in Pakistan and North India. It is a standardized and Persianized version of Hindustani.

urdština

Modern Standard Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language with native speakers mainly in Pakistan and North India. It is a standardized and Persianized version of Hindustani.

úřednice

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

úřednický

Of or relating to clerks or their work.

úředník

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

urgence

An urgent request.

urgentní

Requiring immediate attention.

urgovat

(transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.

Uriáš

(biblical character) The husband of Bathsheba whom David sent to death.

Urijáš

(biblical character) The husband of Bathsheba whom David sent to death.

urijština

Odia, the language spoken in the state of Odisha, India.

urna

A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.

úroda

The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

úrodný

Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.

úrok

(uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]

urolog

(medicine) A doctor of urology.

úroveň

A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.

urovnat

(transitive) To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.

urputný

Resolute or strenuously active.

Uršula

A en given name.

Uruguay

A country in South America. Official name: Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Capital and largest city: Montevideo.

urychlit

(transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

urychlovač

A device for causing acceleration.

úryvek

A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.

usadit

To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.

usadit se

To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.

usazenina

A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.

usazování

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

úschova

(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.

uschovat

To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

úschovna

A place where things are stowed.

úschovné

A charge for stowing and storage.

úsečka

(geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

usedlý

Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

ušeň

(North America, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. [mid 19th c.]

úsilí

The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.

usilovat

To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

usilovat o

(intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. [from 16th c.]

usilovný

(of a task) Requiring great exertion; very laborious.

Usir

(Egyptian god) The Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld.

uskakovat

(intransitive) To jump back in fear.

uskladnění

The act or practice of stowing.

úšklebek

An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.

ušklíbat se

(intransitive) To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.

ušklíbnout se

To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous.

uskočit

(transitive) To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.

úskočnost

Skill in deception, slyness.

úskok

(countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.

uskupení

(political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.

uskutečnit

To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.

uskutečnitelnost

The state of being feasible or possible.

uskutečnitelný

Able to be done in practice.

ušlechtilý

Idealistic, implying over-optimism.

uslzený

Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.

usmát

(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.

usmažit

(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.

usměrňovač

A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.

úsměšek

A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

úsměv

A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.

ušmiknout

To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

usmíření

Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.

usmířit

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

usmířit si

To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.

usmiřovatel

A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.

usmiřovatelka

A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.

usmívat

(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.

usnadnit

To make easy or easier.

usnesení

A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.

ušní

Of or pertaining to the ear.

uspávací

(pharmaceutical effect) Inducing sleep; soporific.

uspávadlo

(pharmaceutical drug) A soporific substance.

uspávající

(pharmaceutical effect) Inducing sleep; soporific.

úspěch

Success.

uspěchaný

Busy; full of energy and noisy activity.

úspěšně

In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

úspěšný

Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.

uspět

(intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).

ušpiněný

Stained or covered with grime.

ušpinit

(transitive) To make (something) dirty.

uspokojení

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

uspokojit

(transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.

uspokojivě

In a satisfactory manner, in a manner adequate to requirements.

uspokojivý

Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient.

uspokojovat

(transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.

uspořádaná množina

(order theory) A partially ordered set.

uspořádání

An arrangement of items in a line.

uspořádat

(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

úspornost

(economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.

úspory

(countable, usually, in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.

ústa

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

ustálený

Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.

ustalovač

(photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.

ustanovit

To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

ustaraný

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

ustat

(ambitransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).

ústav

An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects

ustavit

(transitive) To set up; to establish; to enact.

ústí

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

ústí řeky

An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary. [from c. 1600]

ústní

(relational) Relating to the mouth.

ústní voda

A liquid used to clean one's mouth.

ustoupit

To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

ústřední

Being in the centre.

ustřihnout

To cut the hair of (a person).

ustrnutí

An unpreparedness, unwillingness, or an inability to believe that something is the case.

ústrojí

(anatomy) A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.

ústup

The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.

ústupek

(by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.

úsudek

The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.

usuzování

(uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

usvědčení

(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.

usvědčit

(chiefly, religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).

usvědčovat

(chiefly, religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).

úsvit

(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

usychat

(intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.

utahaný

(of a person) Tired and exhausted.

utahat

(slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.

utáhnout

(transitive) To make tighter.

utahování opasků

(economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.

utajení

The condition of being hidden or concealed.

utajený

Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

utajit

(transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.