German–English dictionary

Hingabe

A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.] (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)

Hingeben

(uncountable) The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.

Hingebung

(uncountable) The act or state of devoting or being devoted.

hingebungsvoll

Devoted; loyal; conscientious.

hingerissen

In love, amorous.

Hingerissenheit

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

hingezogen

In love, amorous.

Hinkel

A young chicken.

Hinkeln

(playground games) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.

Hinkelstein

(archaeology) A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially one dating to prehistoric times.

Hinken

An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.

Hinlänglichkeit

(uncountable) The quality or condition of being sufficient.

hinlegen

(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

Hinnahme

(legal) Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.

hinnehmem

(transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

hinnehmen

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

hinplumpsen

(intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

hinreißend

(of a person or place, sometimes, endearing) Very beautiful.

hinrichten

(transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.

Hinrichtung

The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.

Hinrichtung auf dem elektrischen Stuhl

Deliberate execution by electric shock, usually involving an electric chair.

hinscheiden

(formal, transitive) To cause to die.

Hinschied

(formal) Death, departure from life.

hinschleudern

(transitive) To throw violently.

hinschmeißen

(transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly.

Hinsicht

(preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]

hinsichtlich

Concerning; about.

hinstellen

(intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.

hintanstellen

(transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.

hinten

(nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way. [First attested in the late 17th century.]

hinter

At or in the rear or back part of something.

hinter den Erwartungen zurückbleiben

(ambitransitive) To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment.

hinter den Kulissen

Secret, concealed from the public.

Hinter-

of or belonging to that part in the rear

Hinterbacke

(usually, in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs.

hinterblieben

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

hintereinanderschalten

(transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.

hinterer

(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).

hinterfragen

(transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

hintergehen

(transitive) To attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens.

Hintergrund

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

Hintergrundbild

An image that serves as a visual background.

Hintergrundgeschichte

The previous experiences and life of a person, specifically (narratology, especially in, _, film, television) a character in a dramatic work.

Hintergrundprogramm

(computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

Hinterhalt

The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack or kill by surprise.

hinterhältig

that connives

Hinterhältigkeit

(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

hinterher

Behind; later in time; following.

Hinterherpfeifen

A shout, whistle, or comment of a harassingly sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.

Hinterhof

(AU, Canadian, NZ, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.

Hinterland

The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.

hinterlassen

(legal) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.

Hinterlassenschaft

Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.

hinterlegte Sicherheit

(law) A bailment of personal property to secure payment of a debt without transfer of title.

Hinterlegung

(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.

Hinterleib

(zoology, entomology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. [from late 18th c.]

Hinterlist

Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

hinterlistig

Not honourable; unworthy of honour.

hintern

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. [First attested around the late 15th century.]

Hinterraum

(British) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.

hinters Licht führen

To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.

Hinterschiff

(nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

Hinterseite

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

Hinterteil

(now, _, rare) The buttocks or backside. [from 16th c.]

Hintertürchen

(figurative) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.

Hinterwäldler

A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

Hinterwäldlerin

A rural person.

Hinterziehung

The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

Hinterzimmer

A room near the rear of a premises.

Hinterzungen-

(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).

hinüber

(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.

hinunter

(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.

hinunterschlingen

(transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.

hinunterstürzen

(intransitive, now, archaic) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.

hinunterwerfen

(intransitive, now, archaic) To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.

hinwegfegen

(sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

hinwegsehen über

(transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).

Hinweis

(now, _, rare) A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.

Hinweisen

(art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.

hinweisen auf

(transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; depict; foretell; suggest; allude to.

hinweisend

(grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to

Hinweisgeber

One who informs someone else about something.

Hinweisschild

A post bearing a sign that gives information on directions.

hinwerfen

To throw down or aside. [from 15th c.]

hinzubuchen

(transitive, accounting) To add to an account.

hinzufügen

(transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex

Hinzufügung

(uncountable) The act of adding anything.

hinzukommend

Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.

hip

(slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]

Hippie

(1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.

Hippocampus

(neuroanatomy, anatomy) A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion.

Hippodrom

A horse racing course.

Hippokamp

(mythological creature) A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a fish.

Hipster

A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]

Hipsterin

A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]

Hiragana

(uncountable) The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.

Hirn

(in the plural) Intellect.

Hirnanhang

(anatomy) The pituitary gland.

Hirnanhangdrüse

(anatomy) The pituitary gland.

Hirnanhangsdrüse

(anatomy) The pituitary gland.

Hirnchirurgie

(neurology, surgery, countable) Any surgical procedure performed on the nervous system, especially the brain.

Hirnforschung

The scientific study of the nervous system.

Hirngespinst

A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

Hirnhautentzündung

(pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.

Hirninfarkt

(by extension) The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.

Hirnlappen

(anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

hirnlos

(not comparable) Having no brain.

Hirnrinde

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]

Hirnschädel

(skeleton) That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.

Hirnschale

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Hirnschlag

(by extension) The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.

hirnverbrannt

(originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.

hirnverbrannter Typ

(US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.

Hirnwäsche

A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture.

Hiroschima

A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.

Hiroshima

A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.

Hirsch

(countable) A ruminant mammal with hooves and often antlers, of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla, such as the musk deer or mouse deer.

Hirschbock

(countable) A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.

Hirschkalb

A young deer.

Hirschkuh

A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).

Hirse

Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Hirt

(now, rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.

Hirte

(now, rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.

Hirtenstab

A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.

Hirtin

One who herds.

hispanisieren

(transitive) To render Spanish, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, or style.

Hispanismus

(linguistics) A Spanish-language item as it appears in another language.

hispanoamerikanisch

(colloquial) Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture, as in Latin America.

hissen

(transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).

Historiker

A writer of history.

Historikerin

A writer of history.

historisch

Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.

Hit

(informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.

Hitler

Ellipsis of w:Adolf Hitler; Führer of the Nazi Party and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945; particularly as the embodiment of Nazism.

Hitliste

A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.

Hitze

Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.

hitzebeständig

Resistant to the effects of fire or intense heat.

hitzefest

Not affected by great heat.

hitzig

Very agitated, angry or impassioned.

Hitzkopf

(slang) An individual who is quick-tempered, rambunctious, or unpredictable.

hitzköpfig

Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; boldly rash; hotheaded.

Hiwi

A person who works in a low servile job.

hm

Indicates thinking or pondering.

hmm

Expresses frustration or anger, especially at one’s own stupidity.

hoäpentlik

(uncomparable) It is hoped that; I hope; we hope. [from 18th c.]

Hobart

The capital city of Tasmania, Australia, named for a Lord Hobart.

Hobbit

A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet. [from 20th c.]

Hobby

A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.

Hobby-Mensch

A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.

Hobbyfotograf

(informal) A person who makes a hobby of photography.