German–English dictionary

Hohlspatel

A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Hohlweg

A narrow passage or way (originally (military) , one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.

Hohlzylinder

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case

Hohn

Act of treating with disdain.

höhnisch

Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.

höhnische Bemerkung

A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.

höhnisches Grinsen

A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

Hohnlächeln

A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

Höker

An itinerant seller of small goods.

Hokkaido

The second largest island of Japan, capital Sapporo.

hold

Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.

Holder

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.

holen

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

holistisch

Related to holism.

Holland

A traditional region of the Netherlands formed by two modern provinces, North Holland and South Holland.

Holländer

(collective) The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.

Holländerin

(collective) The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.

holländisch

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.

Hollandzeug

(now, historical) A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.

Hölle

Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

Höllenfeuer

(uncountable) The fire of Hell.

Holler

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.

höllisch

(vulgar, sometimes, _, offensive) Used as an intensifier.

Holm

A bar for supporting cutting tools.

Holocaust

(historical, broadly) The systematic mass murder (democide) of somewhere between eleven and fourteen million people, namely six million Jews and from five to eight million others (including Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities), perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

Holografie

(physics) a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms

Hologramm

A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.

Holographie

(physics) a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms

holographisch

In the form of a hologram or holograph.

Holokauston

(religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes. [from 13th c.]

Holokaustum

(religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes. [from 13th c.]

holpern

(intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

holprig

Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.

Holster

A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly.

Holunder

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.

Holz

(countable, in more general use) Wood of this kind, but limited to those that are commercial timbers.

Holz vor der Hütte

(slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.

Holzarbeit

(uncountable) Working with wood.

Holzart

(countable) The wood from a particular species of tree.

Holzbalken

A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.

Holzblasinstrument

(musical instruments) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.

Holzbock

A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.

Holzbohrer

A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.

Hölzchen

A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

Holzdrehmaschine

(tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

Holzdübel

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

Holzeinschlag

An act or instance of logging (cutting down trees).

Holzfäller

A worker whose occupation is to harvest trees.

Holzfällerin

A person whose work is to fell trees.

Holzhacker

A person who cuts wood.

Holzhammer

A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

holzig

(botany) Non-herbaceous.

Holzkohle

Of a dark gray colour.

Holzkopf

(slang) A foolish or stupid person.

Holzpaneel

A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.

Holzpantoffel

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

Holzschnitzer

a person who is skilled at woodcarving

Holzschuh

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

Holzschuppen

An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.

Holzständer

(construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

Holzstütze

(construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

Holzverarbeitung

(uncountable, countable) Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim#Noun (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.

Holzverbindung

A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.

Holzverbindung herstellen

(transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together

Homer

Ancient Greek poet; author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Homilie

(Christianity) A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.

Hommage

(countable) An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.

Homo

(now, _, chiefly, in plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.

homo-

Same, identical.

Homocaust

(rare) The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.

Homofeindlichkeit

Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals, or LGBTQ people in general. [from 1971]

homogen

(ring theory, of an element of a graded ring) Belonging to one of the summands of the grading (if the ring is graded over the natural numbers and the element is in the kth summand, it is said to be homogeneous of degree k; if the ring is graded over a commutative monoid I, and the element is an element of the ith summand, it is said to be of grade i)

Homograph

A word that is spelled the same as another word, usually having a different etymology.

Homohasser

One who is prejudiced against homosexual people, or LGBTQ people in general; one who exhibits homophobia.

homöopathisch

Of or pertaining to homeopathy.

Homöostase

(physiology) The ability of a system or living organism to adjust its internal environment to maintain a state of dynamic constancy; such as the ability of warm-blooded animals to maintain a stable temperature.

homophil

(dated) A homosexual, a gay man or lesbian, one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of the same gender; used to emphasize love over sex.

homophob

Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.

Homophobe

One who is prejudiced against homosexual people, or LGBTQ people in general; one who exhibits homophobia.

Homophober

One who is prejudiced against homosexual people, or LGBTQ people in general; one who exhibits homophobia.

Homophobie

Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals, or LGBTQ people in general. [from 1971]

Homophon

(semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.

Homosexualität

Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially, _, offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males. [1897]

homosexualitätsfeindlich

Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.

homosexuell

(derogatory, colloquial, chiefly, UK) Homosexual.

Homosexuelle

(typically, formal, distancing, or, dated) A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.

Homosexueller

(now, _, chiefly, in plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.

homozygot

Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele

Homunkulus

A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.

Honduras

A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Honduras. Capital: Tegucigalpa.

honen

(transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

Honigkuchen

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

Honigtau

(uncountable) A sweet, sticky substance deposited on leaves and other plant parts by insects (especially aphids and scale insects) feeding on plant sap, or by fungi.

Honigwabe

(uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

Honigwein

(alcohol) An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

Honolulu

A port on Oahu Island, the capital city of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.

Honorifikum

(linguistics) A word or word form expressing the speaker's respect for the hearer or the referent.

Hoodie

A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front.

Hookline

(music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.

Hool

(derogatory, chiefly, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

Hooligan

One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

Hooliganismus

unruly, aggressive behavior; behavior associated with hooligans

hoppeln

(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.

hoppla

(UK, Ireland, AU, Commonwealth) An exclamation of astonishment.

hopplahop

Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.

hopplahopp

In a hasty or careless manner.

Hopser

A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.

Horaz

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a poet and philosopher of the Roman Augustan Age (65–8 BCE).

hörbar

Able to be heard.

horchen

(intransitive) To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

Hordeolum

(disease) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

hören

Of or pertaining to sound or hearing.

hören Sie auf und verzichten Sie

(legal) To stop and not resume an action.

hörend

Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.

Hörensagen

Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.

Hörer

A receiver of a telephone to hold near to one's ear.

Hörfunk

(uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.

hörig

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

Horizont

The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

horizontal

Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

hormonal

(hormone) Pertaining to hormones.

hormonell

(hormone) Pertaining to hormones.

Horn

(printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.

Hornblende

(mineral) A green to black amphibole mineral, of complex structure, formed in the late stages of cooling in igneous rock.

Hörnchen

A curved pastry.

Hornhaut

(anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.

Hornhecht

(especially, UK, Ireland) Any fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone.

hornig

Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.

Hornisse

A large species of hornet (Vespa crabro) found across Eurasia and North America.

Hornist

Someone who plays a bugle.

Hornklee

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

Hornstein

(geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.

Hornstoff

(protein) The protein of which hair and nails are composed.

Hornsubstanz

(protein) The protein of which hair and nails are composed.

Hornträger

A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.

Hornung

The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days.

horrend

Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

Horror

(countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

Hörsprechgarnitur

A pair of headphones or earphones, or a singular headphone or earphone, typically with an attached microphone.

Horst

The nest of a bird of prey.

Horstscholle

(geology) A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.

Hort

A hidden supply or fund.

horten

(transitive) To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

Hortikultur

The art or science of cultivating gardens; gardening.

Horus

(Egyptian god) The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.

Hörvermögen

(uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.

Hörweite

A distance from which sound is still audible.

hosanna

A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church.

Höschen

Underpants for women and girls.

Hose

(historical, now only, _, in the plural, or, attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]