German–English dictionary

Gewehr

(now, historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.

Gewehrfeuer

The simultaneous firing of a number of firearms.

Gewehrkolben

The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.

Gewehrlauf

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

Gewehrrohr

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

geweiht

Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.

Geweihter

A person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made.

gewerblich

Of or pertaining to commerce.

gewerbsmäßig

In a commercial manner: a manner pertaining to commerce.

Gewicht

(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

gewichten

(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

gewichtig

Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. [from 16th c.]

gewichtslos

Without weight.

Gewichtung

The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.

gewieft

(obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.

Gewieher

A gentle neighing.

gewillt

Ready to do something, particularly something that requires change or effort; not objecting.

Gewimmer

A low intermittent sob.

Gewinde

The thread of a screw.

Gewindebohrer

(mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.

Gewindebolzen

(engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.

Gewindehülse

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case

gewindeschneiden

(transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).

Gewindeschneider

A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads. [from 19th c.]

Gewindestutzen

A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

Gewinn

The act of gaining; acquisition.

gewinnbringend nutzen

(transitive) To make an activity profit-generating, particularly in computer and Internet-related activities.

gewinnen

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

gewinnend

Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.

Gewinner

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

Gewinnerin

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

Gewinnmarge

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

Gewinnquote

the ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations

Gewinnspanne

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

Gewinnspiel

The compass of any turning body or of any motion.

gewinnsüchtig

Motivated by personal gain.

Gewirbel

Dizziness or giddiness.

Gewirr

The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.

gewiss

Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.

Gewissen

(chiefly, fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

gewissenhaft

Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.

gewissenhaft überprüfen

(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.

Gewissenhaftigkeit

The state or characteristic of being conscientious.

gewissenlos

Lacking a conscience; unscrupulous or ruthless.

gewissenloser Mensch

Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.

Gewissens-

Influenced by conscience; principled; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).

Gewissensbisse

A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.

Gewissheit

The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.

Gewitter

A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.

Gewitterkomplex

An organized cluster of thunderstorms.

gewitzt

Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.

gewoben

Fabricated by weaving.

gewöhnen

(transitive, often, passive, or, reflexive, with to) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.

Gewohnheit

Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.

gewohnheitsmäßig

Occurring regularly or usually.

gewöhnlich

(idiomatic) In general; most often.

gewöhnlich tun

(intransitive, archaic, or, literary, _, except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)

gewöhnlicher Gang

A fixed routine.

gewohnt

Regular or usual.

Gewölbe

(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. [from 16th c.]

Gewölbebogen

An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.

Gewölbekeller

Any cellar or underground storeroom.

Gewölbepfeiler

(architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

Gewölberippe

(architectural element) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

gewölbt

(astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.

Gewölk

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

Gewölle

Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.

gewollt

wished-for, longed-for

Gewühl

A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.

gewunden

(chiefly, anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.

Gewundenheit

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.

gewünscht

wished-for, longed-for

Gewürm

A pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops.

Gewürz

(cooking) Adding a layer of fat to render the surface of cookware non-stick.

Gewürzgurke

A small cucumber, often pickled whole.

Gewürzkuchen

(transitive, idiomatic, uncommon) To decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way.

Gewürznelke

(uncountable, or, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

gewürzt

Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.

Geysir

(planetology, geology, volcanology) A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.

gezackt

Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.

gezahnt

Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.

Gezänk

Lively contention or debate, skirmish.

Gezanke

Petty quarreling.

gezapftes Bier

Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

Gezeit

The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.

Gezeiten

The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.

Gezeitenwelle

A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

Gezeter

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.

gezielt

Of or relating to the process of selection.

geziemen

Without any qualifying word: to be appropriate or creditable (for someone or something).

geziemend

decent, respectable

geziert

Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.

gezinkt

(dice, also, figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.

Gezirpe

A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

gezuckert

Of food or drink: containing sugar.

Gezwitscher

A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

Ghana

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Ghana.

Gharial

A crocodilian of species Gavialis gangeticus, of the family Gavialidae.

Ghee

A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.

Ghetto

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)

ghosten

(chiefly, social media, slang) To stop communicating with (someone) on social media, though text messages, etc., without explanation, especially as a way of ending a relationship; hence, to end a relationship with (someone) by stopping all communication without explanation.

Ghostwriter

A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

Ghul

(mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.

Gibberisch

(informal) Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.

Gibbon

A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

Gibibyte

(computing) Strictly, 230 (10243, or 1,073,741,824) bytes or 210 (1024) mebibytes, as opposed to a gigabyte.

Gibraltar

A peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia.

Gicht

(rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

Giebel

(architectural element) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).

giemen

To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

Gier

Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth

gieren

(US, slang) Have an intense craving.

gierig

Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Gierwinkel

The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.

Gießbach

(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

gießen

To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15th c.]

Gießer

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

Gießerei

A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.

Gießkanne

A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).

Gießpfanne

(metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.

Gif

(Internet slang, loosely) Any short video without audio, usually one which loops.

Gift

A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.

giftig

Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.

Giftigkeit

The quality or degree of being toxic.

Giftköder

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

Giftkunde

(sciences, pharmacology) The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.

Giftmischer

A person who poisons something or someone.

Giftmischerin

A person who poisons something or someone.

Giftmörder

A person who poisons something or someone.

Giftmörderin

A person who poisons something or someone.

Giftpilz

Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanita.

Giftstoff

A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.

Giftzahn

A long pointed tooth in snakes, for injecting venom.

Gig

Originally (music) , a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.

Gigabyte

(computing, formal) One billion (109, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.

Gigampfi

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

Gigant

(figurative) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.

Gigantin

A mythical human of very great size.

gigantisch

Huge; immense; tremendous.

Gigolo

A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.

gilben

(intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.

Gilbert

A en given name.

Gilbhart

The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November.

Gilbkraut

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

Gilde

(historical) A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.

Gilet

(North America) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

Gilgamesch

A semi-legendary king of Uruk, who is the hero of the Babylonian poem Epic of Gilgamesh.

Gilgen

A en given name.

Gimlet

A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.

Gimp

(Internet slang, chiefly, derogatory) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.