Czech–English dictionary

přičemž

In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although.

příčestí

(grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.

příčetnost

The condition of being sane.

příčetný

Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.

přicházet

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

příchod

The act of arriving; an arrival.

příchozí

One who comes in.

příchuť

A pleasant taste.

přichytit se

(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

příčina

Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.

přičinit se za

To work with purpose.

přičinlivost

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

příčka

A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.

přičlenění

The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.

příčný

Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.

příď

(nautical) The front of a boat or ship.

přidat

(transitive) To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.

přidávat

(intransitive) To intensify; to augment; to increase.

přídavek

A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.

přídavné jméno

(grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.

příděl

A portion of some limited resource, especially food, allocated to a person or group.

přidělit

(transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

přidělovat

(transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

přidružení

The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.

přihlášení

The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled.

přihlásit

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

přihláška

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

přihlouplý

(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)

příhodný

Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.

přihrádka

A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.

přihrát

(transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.

přijatelnost

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

přijatelný

Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.

příjem

Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

příjemce

The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.

příjemkyně

The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.

příjemně prohřátý

(colloquial) Pleasantly warm.

příjemně teplý

(colloquial) Pleasantly warm.

příjemnost

Pleasantness.

příjemný

Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.

přijet

(intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.

přijetí

(uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.

příjezdová cesta

A driveway.

příjice

(disease) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

přijímač

Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such. [from 19th c.]

přijímací pohovor

A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant. [from 20th c.]

přijímat

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

přijít

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

přijíždět

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

příjmení

The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s).

přijmout

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

příkaz

A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of and at one's behest. [from 12th c.]

přikázání

(archaic, or, jocular) Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.

přikázat

(ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.

přiklánět

(mostly, intransitive, mostly, in the passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

příklon

An alliance of factions.

příkop

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

přikrášlit

To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.

přikrást se

(ambitransitive, also, figuratively) In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner.

přikrčený

Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

příkrý

Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

přikrýt

(transitive) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.

přikývnout

(ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.

přikyvovat

(ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.

přilba

A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.

přilbice

(headwear) A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.

přiléhat

(intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

přilepit

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

příležitost

(countable) An opportunity or possibility.

příležitostně

On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes. [from 15th c.]

příležitostný

Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

přílipka

Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.

příliš

(degree) To an excessive degree, more than enough indicates that the degree of a quality is more than what is needed or wanted.

příliš malý

Small or inadequate; not generous; diminutive.

přílišný

Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.

příliv

(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.

přiložený

Contained; held within a container.

přiložit

(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

přímá cesta

(mining, chiefly, historical) A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.

přímá dráha

(mining, chiefly, historical) A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.

primárky

(political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.

primární

Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.

primát

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.

přiměřený

Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

příměří

(countable, military) A formal agreement, especially between nations, to end combat.

přimět

(obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.

priming

(psychology) The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.

primitiv

An uncultured person; a vulgarian.

přímka

(geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

přimluvit

(intransitive) To plead on someone else's behalf.

přímo

In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

přímočarý

(figurative) Direct; forthright; frank; sincere.

přimontovat

(obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.

přímorožec

Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns

přímořský

Bordering on the sea; living near the seacoast; coastal.

přímý

Impartial and free from prejudice.

přinášet

(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

princ

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

princezna

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

princip

A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.

přinést

(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

přínosné

Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.

přinucený

Obtained forcefully, not naturally.

přinucovat

(transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.

přinutit

(transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.

přinutit k trysku

(transitive) To cause to gallop.

prioritizace

The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.

priorizace

The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.

případ

(legal) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.

případek

Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.

připadnout

(transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

připevnit

(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

připisovat

(transitive) To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

přípitek

(countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.

připodobnit

Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.

připojit

To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

připojit se

(intransitive, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

připojovat

(transitive) To become a member of.

připomenout

(transitive) To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).

připomínač

Someone or something that reminds.

připomínající

(figurative) Suggestive or reminiscent.

připomínat

(transitive) To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).

připomínka

Someone or something that reminds.

přípona

(computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.

připouštět

To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge

připoutání

(countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures

připoutat

(ambitransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.

příprava

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.

připravenost

The state of being prepared.

připravený

(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.

připravit

(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.

připravit se

(transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.

přípravná zkouška

Mockery; the act of mocking.

přípravný

Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.

připravovat

(intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.

připsat

(transitive, accounting) To add to an account.

připustit

(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.

přípustný

Capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable.

přiřadit

(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.

přiřazení

(programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

příroda

(uncountable, often, _, capitalized) The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.

přírodní

As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances. [from 14th c.]

přírodní výběr

(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

přirovnání

(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. [from 16th c.]

přirovnat

Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.

přirovnávat

Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.

přirození

(by extension) Any sex organs, whether external or internal; body parts responsible for sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation.

přirozený

Not posed or rehearsed.

příruba

A band holding parts of an object together.

příručka

A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.