Czech–English dictionary

uznat

To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge

uznávaný

Greatly praised or lauded, revered, highly respected.

uznávat

To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.

uzurpace

The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.

uzurpátor

One who usurps.

uzurpovat

To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

v

Indicating time of occurrence, especially an instant of time, or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker’s perspective.

v běhu

(figurative) In motion; in action; astir; stirring; in progress.

v daném pořadí

In a relative manner; often used when comparing array lists, where the term denotes that the items in the lists correspond to each other in the order they are given.

v dnešní době

In the current era; nowadays; these days.

v euforii

Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness.

v hlavních rolích

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

v každém případě

Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. See anyhow and at least. [from 19th c.]

v kostce

(idiomatic) In summary; briefly or simply.

v módě

In fashion; popular.

v nepořádku

(figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course

v očekávání

On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.

v podstatě

In essence or functionally, but not in fact, formally, or technically.

v pohodě

It does not bother me; I am not concerned.

v polovině

Halfway through a term, or roughly so.

v pořádku

(informal) All right; acceptable; good.

v poslední době

(referring to a time period starting in the recent past and including the present) in recent times.

v přímém přenose

Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.

v případě, že ...

For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.

vábit

(ambitransitive) To seem attractive and inviting.

vábivý

Attractive, alluring, tempting.

vábnička

Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something

váček

(anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.

vachrlatý

(chiefly, British, Australia, NZ, Irish) Feeble, shaky or rickety.

vačice

Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.

vačnatec

Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.

vada

A fault or malfunction.

vádí

A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

vadit

(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

vadivý

Prone to argue or dispute.

vadnout

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

vadný

Having one or more defects.

vafle

(countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.

vagabund

A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

vagína

(anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.

vágní

Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.

vagón

(rail, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

váha

(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

váhání

The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.

váhat

To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

váhavost

Hesitancy in taking some action.

váhavý

Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining.

váhy

A device for measuring weight.

vaječník

(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.

vaječný likér

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.

vajíčko

(cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

vak

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

vakcína

A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.

vakcinace

(immunology) The introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.

val

A defensive wall or rampart.

valchář

A person who fulls cloth.

valchářka

A person who fulls cloth.

valchovat

To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.

válčící

engaged in war; belligerent

válcová plocha

(geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.

válcovat

(ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.

válcovitý

Shaped like a cylinder.

válcový

Shaped like a cylinder.

Valdemar

(rare) A en given name.

válec

(geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.

váleček

A food preparation utensil consisting of a cylinder with a handle at each end, used to flatten dough.

válečná doba

(often, attributive) A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.

válečná loď

Any ship built or armed for naval combat.

válečná stezka

(figurative) A course of action that leads to battle or hostility.

válečník

A warrior; a fighting soldier.

válečný

Characteristic of members of the armed forces.

válečný vůz

A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.

valem

Rapidly; with speed; fast.

valence

The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen.

Valencie

The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.

válení se

An instance of wallowing.

Valentýn

An English and Scottish surname derived from the male given name.

Valérie

A en given name.

válet

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

validace

The act of validating something.

valit

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

valit se

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

válka

(chiefly, _, US) A sustained campaign against a social problem, idea, set of values, etc.

valkýra

(Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

valník

(historical) Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.

valoun

(countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.

Valtr

A en given name.

valuta

Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.

vám

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

vámi

(indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). [from 16th c.]

vampír

(mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.

vampýr

A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living. [from 1732]

vana

A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

Vancouver

A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.

Vanda

A en given name.

Vandal

(historical) A member of an ancient east Germanic tribe famous for sacking Rome.

vandalismus

Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

vandalství

Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

vánek

A light, gentle wind.

Vanesa

A en given name.

vánice

A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.

Vánoce

(originally, Christianity) A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.

vánoční baňka

A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

vánoční koule

A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

vanout

(intransitive) To produce an air current.

vápenec

(mineral) A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble.

vápník

The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.

vápnit

(transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).

vápno

(chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).

var

The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.

vaření

(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.

varhaník

A musician who plays the organ.

varhanní píšťala

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. [from 14th c.]

varhany

(musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.

variabilní

Able to vary or be varied.

variace

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.

varianta

Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.

vařič

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.

varieta

(mathematics) A Hausdorff topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space \mathbb{R}^n.

vařit

(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

vařit se

Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.

várka

(figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.

varování

A warning.

varva

(geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

vás

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

vasektomie

(surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.

vášeň

Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.

Vasil

A en given name, in quiet but steady use in the UK.

vaskulitida

(pathology) A group of diseases featuring inflammation of the wall of blood vessels.

vášnivě

In a passionate manner.

vášnivý

Full of ardor; expressing passion, spirit, or enthusiasm.

vát

(intransitive) To produce an air current.

Vatikán

A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy.

vaudeville

(historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.

vavřín

An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

Vavřinec

A en given name.

vaz

(anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.

váza

An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

vazák

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

vazal

(historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.

vázanka

A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front.

vázat

(transitive) To couple.

vazba

(legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

vazelína

A pale yellow semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in lubricants and ointments.

vážený

Deserving respect.

vážit

(transitive) To determine the weight of an object.

vážit si

(transitive) To be grateful or thankful for.

vazivo

(anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.

vážka

An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.

vazký

Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid (that is, a high viscosity).