Czech–English dictionary

loch

(slang) Jail.

lockdown

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

lockjaw

(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.

loď

(nautical) The act of hiring, or the contract for use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

loďař

A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.

lodě

A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

loděnice

A place where ships are built and repaired.

loděnka

A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.

lodivod

A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.

loďka

(nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.

loďmistr

(nautical) The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.

lodní hák

A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.

lodní šroub

(nautical) A ship's propeller.

loďstvo

A group of vessels or vehicles.

Lodž

The capital city of Lodz Voivodeship, Poland, also spelled Łódź.

logický

Used to form adjectival forms of nouns ending in -logy.

logický klam

(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

logie

A branch of learning; a study of a particular subject.

logo

A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.

lok

The usual amount swallowed.

lokalita

An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.

lokálně

With respect to place; in place.

lokální

(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.

lokat

To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. [from mid-16th c.]

loket

The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.

loketní kost

(anatomy) The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.

lokomotiva

(rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.

lol

(originally, Internet slang, text messaging, by dilution, figurative) Indicates light-heartedness or amusement, or that the accompanying statement is not intended as serious; sometimes extends to irony or sardonicism, in the same way that spoken humor sometimes does.

lolita

A young girl who is sexually alluring.

lolitka

A sexually attractive girl or young woman. [from 20th c.]

lom

(mining) A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.

Lombarďan

A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.

lomítko

(originally, _, US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.

lomoz

A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

lomozit

(intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

Londýn

The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.

londýnský

The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.

loni

(This entry is a translation hub.)

lonžovat

(transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

lopáč

A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

lopata

Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

lopatka

(biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.

lopota

Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

lopotit se

(intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

lopuch

Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.

los

A slip of paper drawn in a lottery, possibly redeemable for a prize.

losos

A meal or dish made from this fish.

lososová

(plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

losovat

(cricket, archaic) Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. [from 19th c.]

loterie

A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.

lotos

A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.

lotr

(dated) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

Lotrinsko

A cultural region, former administrative region, and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est region.

Lotyš

(countable) A person from Latvia or of Latvian descent.

Lotyška

(countable) A person from Latvia or of Latvian descent.

Lotyšsko

A country in northeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Latvia.

lotyšský

Of, from, or pertaining to Latvia, the Latvian people or the Latvian language.

lotyština

Of, from, or pertaining to Latvia, the Latvian people or the Latvian language.

loubí

A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

loudat se

To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

loudavý

(slang) slow

loudil

(mostly, pejorative) A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.

loudit

(Geordie) To beg.

louhovat

(intransitive) To leave tea temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase; to infuse, to steep; also, of a teapot: to cause tea to infuse.

louka

An open field, meadow, pasture.

loupač kůry

(historical) A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.

loupání

The act of removing the outer surface in strips.

loupat

(transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.

loupat se

(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

loupež

A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

loupežník

(historical) A person, usually mounted on horseback, who robbed travelers on public roads.

loupit

(intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.

loutka

One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.

loutkář

A person who uses a puppet.

loutkoherec

A person who uses a puppet.

loutna

A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Louvre

A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.

louže

A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.

lov

A hunting expedition.

lov velryb

The practice of hunting whales.

love

(uncountable, slang) Money.

lovec

One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

lovecký

An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.

lovecký pes

A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.

lovit

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

lovkyně

One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

lóže

A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.

ložisko

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.

ložiště

A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.

lozit

(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

ložnice

A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

lpět

To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.

lstivost

Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

lstivý

Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

lubrikant

A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.

Lucemburk

The capital city of Luxembourg.

Lucembursko

The capital city of Luxembourg.

Lucern

The capital city of Lucerne canton, Switzerland.

Lucie

A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.

Lucifer

(biblical) The King of Babylon who was compared to the planet Venus in first the Wycliffe version then the King James Version of Isaiah 14:12; it is unclear whether this verse refers to a specific king or to a representation of the entire line of kings of Babylon.

lučištník

One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

lufa

Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.

lůj

(physiology) A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.

luk

(archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.

lukař

Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

lukostřelba

(uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.

lukostřelec

One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

lulan

(slang, sometimes, _, childish) The penis.

lumen

(physics) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.

lumík

A small arctic and subarctic rodent of the tribes Lemmini, Dicrostonychini and Lagurini.

luminiscence

(physics) Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.

luminiscenční

Emitting light by luminescence.

lump

A dishonest person; a rogue, a scoundrel, a trickster.

lumpárny

Mischievous play, especially by children. [from mid 19th c.]

luňák

A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

lunární

(astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.

lůno

(anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. [from 8th c.]

luoština

The Nilotic language spoken by this group.

lup

The loot attained by plundering.

lupek

(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

lupen

(mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.

lupénka

(disease) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.

lupina

Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae.

lupínek

(anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.

lupy

scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis

lusk

(botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

luskat

(transitive) A video of a person snapping their fingers. Alternative snapping technique To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.

lusknout

(transitive) A video of a person snapping their fingers. Alternative snapping technique To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.

lusknutí

The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.

luskoun

Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.

luštěnina

(botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.

lustr

A branched, often ornate, light fixture suspended from a ceiling.

lutecium

A chemical element (symbol Lu) with an atomic number of 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air.

luterán

(Christianity) A member of any of the Christian churches which identify with the theology of Martin Luther.

luteránský

(Christianity) Of or pertaining to the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546) or his followers, or the Lutheran church.

Lutych

The largest city and provincial capital of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

lux

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx

Luxor

A city in Egypt, located on the site of the ancient Thebes.

lůza

(informal, somewhat, derogatory) The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.

lůžko

A prepared spot in which to spend the night.

Lví Srdce

The nickname of Richard I of England.

lvice

A female lion (animal).

lýko

Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants (particularly the lime tree) and used for making ropes, cords and matting.

lýkovec

Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.

lymfa

(physiology) A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.

lymfatický

(anatomy) Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.

lymfom

(oncology, pathology) A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.

lynčovat

(transitive) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.

lyra

(string instrument) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.

lyska

Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.