Czech–English dictionary

kleveta

The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.

klevetit

(intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.

klevetnice

(countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

klevetník

(countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

klíč

(music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

klíček

A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.

klíčení

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

klíčenka

An ornamental piece holding such a chain or ring.

klička

A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.

kličkovat

To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.

klíční kost

(skeleton) The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.

klíčová dírka

Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.

klíčové slovo

(cryptography) Any word#Noun used as the key to a code.

klíčový okamžik

A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.

klid

(uncountable) The state of being calm; tranquillity; silence.

klid zbraní

A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.

klidně

In a calm manner; coolly.

klidný

(figurative) Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.

klient

A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

klientela

The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.

klientka

A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

klik

(GUI) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.

klika

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

klikatý

Characterised by a twist or twists; twisting.

kliknout

(computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).

kliknutí

(GUI) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.

klikva

(countable) The edible red berry of that shrub.

klima

The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).

klímat

(intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.

klimatické změny

Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.

klimatický

Of, relating to, or influenced by climate.

klín

(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

Klingon

(countable) A member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on the strict observance of honor, loyalty, and combat.

klingonský

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

klingonština

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

klinika

A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

klipr

(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.

klišé

(US, figurative) Said of canned insight; a slogan or saying that is trite or lacks depth.

klisna

An adult female horse.

klisnička

A young female horse.

klíště

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

klít

To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

klitoris

(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. [from 17th c.]

kloaka

(anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, marsupials and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.

klobása

A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.

kloboučník

A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.

klobouk

(headwear) A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

klobouk dolů

(figurative) Used to express approval or praise: congratulations, kudos, well done! [with to]

klokan

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]

klokan wallaby

Any of several species of macropod; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.

kloktadlo

A liquid used for gargling.

klonovat

(transitive) To create a clone of.

klopa

Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.

klopýtat

To stumble.

klopýtnout

To stumble.

klopýtnutí

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

kloub

(nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.

kloub prstu

Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.

kloubový

(of a vehicle) Articulated.

klouzačka

An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.

klouzání

A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.

klouzat

(intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

klouzat se

(intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

klovat

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.

klub

(countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

klubko

A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

klubovna

Any building used by a club for meetings or social activities.

kluk

A male child. [from 15th c.]

klus

A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

klusat

To travel an easy pace with long strides.

kluzák

Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.

kluzký

Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.

klystýr

To administer an enema.

kmen

The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

kmitání

the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated

kmitat

(intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.

kmitočet

(countable) The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f = n / t.

kmotra

A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.

kmotřenec

A male child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.

knedlík

(chiefly, US) Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.

kněz

(Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.

kněžiště

The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.

kněžka

A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.

kněžna

A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch. [from 14th c.]

kněžský

Of or relating to clerks or their work.

kniha

A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

Kniha Daniel

A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Kniha Jozue

The sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.

knihkupec

A person engaged in the business of selling books.

knihkupectví

A shop that sells books.

knihovna

A piece of furniture for the storage and display of books.

knihovnička

(furniture) A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

knír

A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

kníže

The (male) ruler or head of a principality. [from 14th c.]

knížecí

Relating to a prince.

knížectví

(countable) A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess. [from 14th c.]

knížka

A small or thin book.

knižní

Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.

knižní vazba

The art, craft or process of binding books.

knobloch

A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

knoflík

(clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from mid-13th c.]

knot

(countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.

kňourání

A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.

kňourat

(informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.

kňučet

(intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine (compare whinge) or as if with a whine.

knuta

A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.

koala

A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

koalice

A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

kobalt

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

Kóbe

The capital and largest city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

koberec

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

kobereček

A partial covering for a floor. [1624]

kobliha

A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.

kobra

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.

kobyla

An adult female horse.

kobylka

(music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.

kočár

A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.

kočárek

(US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.

Kóči

The capital city of Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.

kočičí

(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.

kočičí hlava

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

kočka

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

kočka divoká

(UK) Felis silvestris, a common small Old World wild cat somewhat larger than a house cat.

kočkodan

A member of the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys, of sub-Saharan Africa, principally forests.

kocour

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

kočovník

(anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.

kód

Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

Kodaň

The capital city of Denmark.

kodex

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

kodifikace

The process of precisely formulating a statement, such as a code of laws.

kodifikátor

One who or that which codifies.

kodifikovat

To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

kodrcat se

(intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

koeficient

(mathematics) A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.

koexistence

The state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spatial sense, with or without mutual interaction.

koexistovat

(intransitive, stative, of two or more things, people, concepts, etc.) To exist contemporaneously or in the same area.

kofein

An alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, found naturally in tea and coffee plants, which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system. [from 1830]

koga

(historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.

kognitivní

Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

koherence

The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.

koherentní

(physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.

kohout

(firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

kohoutek

Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.

koincidence

Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.

koir

The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

koitus

(formal, now, also, humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile–vaginal penetration.

kóje

(by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.

kojenec

A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

kojení

(countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.

kojit

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.