Czech–English dictionary

chvástat

(intransitive, often with of) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.

chvástat se

(intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

chvástavý

Possessing excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.

chvastoun

(Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. [from c. 1840]

chvastounka

(Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. [from c. 1840]

chvění

A nervous action; a tic.

chvět se

(intransitive) To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.

chvíle

(abstract) This time, the present situation.

chvilka

(informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.

chvilkový

Lasting for only a moment.

chvost

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

chyba

(chiefly, _, computing, engineering, _, jargon) A problem that needs fixing.

chyba tisku

An accidental mistake in print.

chybět

(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

chybný

Containing an error; inaccurate.

chybový

(computing) Containing programming errors.

chýše

(US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.

chystat

(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.

chytač

(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

chytat

(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13thc.]

chytat lelky

(US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.

chytit

To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.

chytit do oka

(transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

chytit do pasti

To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.

chytlavý

(of a tune or phrase) Instantly appealing and memorable.

chytrá

(uncountable) The quality or state of being prudent: circumspection and good judgment in knowing how best to act; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.

chytře

Intelligently directed to a purpose.

chytrost

Something clever, or done cleverly.

chytrý

Knowing, shrewd, astute.

chytrý telefon

(cell phone) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

čí

(added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More; used to form the comparative.

Cicero

The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).

čich

The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.

čichat

(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

čichotupost

Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.

čichový

(relational) Concerning the sense of smell.

cicmat se

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, colloquial) To kiss passionately.

ciferník

The surface of a clock that contains the dial and hands (via the traditional design of clocks); such an arrangement on either a clock or a watch.

cifra

A numeric character.

cigareta

A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.

cigáro

A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

cígo

(colloquial, countable) A cigarette.

číhat

To remain concealed in order to ambush.

cihla

A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

cihlový

(colloquial, AAVE, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.

cikáda

Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.

cikán

(colloquial) An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.

cikánský

Of or belonging to the Roma people.

cikánština

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.

cikorka

(uncountable, cooking) A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.

cíl

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

čilost

(uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.

čilský

Of, from, or pertaining to the nation or culture of Chile or its people.

čilý

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.

čím

By which.

čím + comp., tím + comp.

With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

cimbuří

In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.

cimprcampr

(informal) Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.

cimprlich

Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.

čímž

By which.

čin

A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.

Číňan

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.

Číňané

(uncountable, collective) The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China.

Číňanka

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.

činčila

(countable) A small, crepuscular rodent of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes Mountains, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets.

činel

(percussion instrument) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.

činidlo

(chemistry) A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

činit

(transitive, stative) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.

činitel

(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

činka

A wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.

cinkání

The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.

cinknout

To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

cinknutí

A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

cinkot

The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.

činnost

(countable) Something done as an action or a movement.

činný

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

činohra

(countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.

cínový

Made of tin.

čínská čtvrť

A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.

čínský

(uncountable) The branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family including Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Southern Min, and other closely related language varieties and dialects.

čínština

(uncountable, collective) The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China.

čip

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.

čípek

(anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.

čiperný

Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.

cirhóza

(pathology) A chronic disease of the liver caused by damage from toxins (including alcohol), metabolic problems, hepatitis, or nutritional deprivation, characterised by an increase in fibrous tissue and the destruction of liver cells.

čiřikání

The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

čiřikat

Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.

cirka

Approximately, about, around (typically in relation to time)

církev

(uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.

církevní

Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.

cirkulace

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

cirkus

A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent. [from late 18th c.]

číro

A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.

čirok

A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).

čirý

Transparent in colour.

císař

An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.

císařský

Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.

císařství

A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.

číselný

(relational) Of or pertaining to numbers.

číslice

A numeric character.

číslicový

Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.

číslo

(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

číslovat

(transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

číslovka

(countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

číšnice

(chiefly, historical) One who ceremonially fills and hands out the cups in which a drink is served.

číšník

(chiefly, historical) One who ceremonially fills and hands out the cups in which a drink is served.

číst

(transitive, or, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

číst se

(ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.

cisterna

A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.

čisticí prostředek

Any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant.

čistící stroj

That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.

čistit

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

čistka

A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.

čistost

The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.

čistota

The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.

čistotný

Being habitually clean, practising good hygiene.

čistý

Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed. [first attested in the mid 1500s]

cit

Emotion; impression.

čítač

An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

citát

A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.

čitelnost

The property of being legible or easily readable.

citelný

(usually) Both detectable#Adjective and at least modestly substantial#Adjective: large enough to be estimated and to be of practical relevance#Noun.

cítící

Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

cítit

(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

cítit odpor

(transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

citlivka

(botany) A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers.

citlivost

The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.

citlivý

Intense; sensitive; sharp.

citoslovce

(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

citovat

(transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.

citově

In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.

citový

Of or relating to the emotions.

citron

A yellowish citrus fruit.

citroník

A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.

city

(always, _, in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.

čivava

The smallest breed of dog in the world, originating in Mexico and having large erect ears.

civět

(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

civilista

(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. [from 15th c.]

civilistka

(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. [from 15th c.]

civilizovaný

(comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner; avoiding displays of hostility.

civilní

(uncomparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.

cívka

A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.

cizí

Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

cizinec

A person from a foreign country.

cizinka

A person from a foreign country.

cizma

A seed of this plant, often used as a food.

cizokrajný

Non-native to the ecosystem.

cizoložnice

(broadly) One who commits adultery.

cizoložník

(broadly) One who commits adultery.

cizoložství

(narrowly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry