Czech–English dictionary

ostružina

A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

ostružiník

A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

ostrý

(figuratively) Angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter, mean-spirited, sharp in language or tone. [from early 17th c.]

ostrý úhel

(geometry) An angle greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees.

ostuda

The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

ostudný

Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.

ostýchavý

(dated) Bashful, shy, retiring.

osud

Destiny, especially terrible.

osudný

Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

osudový

(rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

ošuntělý

Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.

osvědčení

A document containing a certified statement.

osvěta

The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.

Osvětim

A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.

osvětlení

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

osvětlený

Illuminated.

osvětlený měsícem

Lit by moonlight.

osvětlit

(transitive) To shine light on something.

osvětlovat

(transitive) To shine light on something.

osvěžit

(transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.

osvěžující

Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.

osvícení

An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

osvícenost

The property of being lucid; lucidness.

osvícenství

(historical period) A period of European intellectual history during which the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement emphasizing the importance of logic and reason, flourished, from part of the 17th century through much of the 18th century.

osvítit

(transitive, figurative) To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.

osvobodit

To set free from restraint or danger.

osvoboditel

A person who frees or liberates.

osvoboditelka

A person who frees or liberates.

osvobození

The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).

osvobozený

Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.

osvobozovat

(transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.

osvojení

The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

osvojit

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

osvojit si

(transitive, figuratively) To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.

osyp

(uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope. [from early 18th c.]

Ota

A en given name.

otáčet

(transitive) To make something or someone whirl.

otáčet se

(intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

otáčivý

Capable of rotation.

otálet

(intransitive) To delay, to wait.

otázka

A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.

otčím

(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.

otčina

The country of one's ancestors.

otcovský

Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.

otcovství

The state of being a father (biological father, stepfather, adoptive father, foster father; sometimes the biological father specifically).

otec

A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).

otéci

(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

otéct

(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

otěhotnět

(ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).

oteklý

Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.

oteplení

A small rise in temperature.

oteplování

A small rise in temperature.

otesávat

(transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.

otestování

A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.

otevírat

(transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.

otevřen

(comparable) Receptive.

otevřeně

In a straightforward manner; straightforwards; straightforwardly.

otevření

An act or instance of making or becoming open.

otevřený

Straightforward, open and sincere.

otevřít

(transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.

otevřít se

(obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

otěž

A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.

otisk

(cryptography) A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.

otitulkovat

To create subtitles for the dialogue in a film.

otlouct se

(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.

Oto

A en given name.

otočit

(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

otočný

Capable of rotation.

otok

(medicine) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.

otřást

(transitive) To shock emotionally.

otrava

A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

otrava alkoholem

(pathology) Acute alcohol poisoning.

otrava krve

(pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.

otrávená návnada

Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

otrávení

The state of being poisoned.

otrávenost

A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

otrávený

annoyed, irritated or distressed

otrávit

(transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).

otravný

Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

otravování

(uncountable) The action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; (countable) an instance of this.

otravovat

To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.

otřelý

Repeated too often.

otřep

A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.

otřepaná pravda

A banality or cliché.

otřepaný

Repeated too often.

otřes

A surprise or shock.

otřesný

Inspiring shock; startling.

otrhanec

(derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.

otrhaný

Wearing tattered clothes.

otrlý

(figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.

otročina

Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

otročit

(intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

otrocký

In the manner of a slave; abject.

otroctví

The state of being a slave; slavery; being forced to work for others or do their bidding without one's consent or against one's will, either in perpetuity or for a period of time over which one has little or no control.

otrok

A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

otrokářství

An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.

otrokyně

A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

otruby

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

Ottawa

A city in Ontario, Canada; the capital city of Canada.

otupělost

A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly, symptom) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.

otupělý

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

otupení

Mental lethargy or dullness.

otupit

(transitive) To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).

otužilý

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

otvírák

A device used to remove the cap from a bottle.

otvor

(skeleton) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.

otylost

(pathology) The state of being obese.

ouklej

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

ouklej obecená

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

outdoorový

Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]

outor

(nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.

outsider

One who is not part of a community or organization.

outsiderka

One who is not part of a community or organization.

ovál

Having the shape of an oval.

oválný

Having the shape of an oval.

ovčan

(countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

ovčani

(derogatory, slang) People who unquestioningly accept as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopt popular opinion as their own without scrutiny.

ovce

A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.

ovce vedoucí stádo

The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.

ovdovělý

(of a previously married person) Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.

ovečky

Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.

ověření

(mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

ověřit

(transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.

ověřitelný

Able to be verified or confirmed.

oves

(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

ověšený

Having hanging additions or appendages.

ověsit

(transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

ovesná kaše

A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

ovinout

(transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.

ovladač

One who controls something.

ovládat

(transitive) To control, limit, or halt.

ovladatelný

Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.

ovlivnit

(transitive) To influence or alter.

ovlivňovat

(transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.

ovocná šťáva

(UK, AU, NZ) A concentrated non-carbonated soft drink which is diluted with water before drinking.

ovzduší

The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.

oxid

(chemistry) A binary chemical compound of oxygen with another chemical element.

oxidovat

(chemistry, transitive) To combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide.

oxygenace

The process of reacting or treating something with oxygen.

oxymóron

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.

ozářit

To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.

ozbrojené síly

The military forces of a nation, such as the army, navy, air force, marines, and sometimes, coastguard or border guard, which are tasked with the defence of the nation and its citizens, if necessary through use of deadly force.

ozdoba

An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.

ozdobit

To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.

ozdobný

That serves to decorate

ozdravovna

An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.

ožeh

A slight or surface burn.

ožehavý

Troublesome or vexatious.

ožehnout

(ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.

ožehnutí

A slight or surface burn.