German–English dictionary

Innuendo

A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.

Innung

(countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ [15th century].

inoffiziell

Not in accord with the usual regulations.

inokulieren

(transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease. [from c. 1722]

inopportun

not convenient

Input

Data fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process.

inquirieren

(intransitive, US, Canada, Australia) To ask (about something).

Inquisition

(historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.

Inquisitor

(historical) An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.

ins Exil schicken

(transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.

ins Leben zurückbringen

(figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.

ins Rollen kommen

(intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become more active.

ins schlechte Licht setzen

To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.

ins Spanische übersetzen

(transitive) To translate into Spanish.

ins Stocken geraten

(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.

ins Vertrauen ziehen

(intransitive, with in) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with.

Insasse

A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

Insassin

A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

insbesondere

(focus) Especially, individually or specifically.

Inschallah

(Islam) Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.

Inschrift

Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.

Insekt

An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.

insekten fressende Pflanze

Insect-eating animal or plant.

Insektenbiss

A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.

insektenfressende Pflanze

Insect-eating animal or plant.

Insektenfresser

Insect-eating animal or plant.

Insektengift

A substance used to kill insects.

Insektengitter

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

Insektenstich

A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.

Insektenwissenschaftler

A scientist who studies insects.

Insektenwissenschaftlerin

A scientist who studies insects.

Insektivore

Insect-eating animal or plant.

Insektizid

A substance used to kill insects.

Insel

Of or being, pertaining to, situated on, or resembling an island or islands.

Inselansammlung

(collective, geography) A group of islands.

Inselchen

A small island.

Inselgruppe

(collective, geography) A group of islands.

Inselhaufen

(collective, geography) A group of islands.

Insemination

The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).

Inserat

(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

inserieren

(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others. [from 18th c.]

insgesamt

Completely, wholly, or without exception.

Insider

(idiomatic) A joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details (an ingroup).

Insiderinfos

(uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]

Insigne

A symbol or token of personal power, status, or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction.

Insignien

The emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre or sword.

insinuieren

To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.

Insistenz

The state of being insistent.

insistieren

(with (that + indicative), or, intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.

insofern

To such a degree or extent.

insolvent

Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.

Insolvenz

(finance) The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay their debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business.

Insolvenzverwalter

A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity. [from 18th c.]

Insomnie

(medicine) A sleeping disorder that is known for its symptoms of unrest and the inability to sleep.

insomnisch

Suffering from or pertaining to insomnia.

insoweit

To the extent that; insofar as.

Inspektion

An inspection or examination.

Inspiration

A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.

inspirativ

Providing inspiration; encouraging; stimulating.

inspizieren

To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.

instabil

Emotionally fragile, easily offended.

Instagram

(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.

Installateur

One who installs.

Installation

(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.

Installationskanal

A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.

Installationsprogramm

(computing) A program that installs software in a computer and prepares it for use.

Installationsrohr

A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.

Installer

(computing) A program that installs software in a computer and prepares it for use.

instand setzen

To renovate or recondition; to refurbish.

instandhalten

(transitive, British) To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.

Instandhaltung

Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.

Instandsetzung

A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.

instant-

Very quickly and easily prepared.

Instantessen

A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.

Instanz

(computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming. [from 20th c.]

instationär

Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

Instinkt

A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

instinktiv

Instinctive.

instituieren

(transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.

Institution

A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.

institutionell

Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.

instruieren

(transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.

Instruktion

(computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.

Instruktiv

(linguistics) A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

Instrument

A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."

instrumental

(music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).

Instrumentalis

(music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).

Instrumentarium

(countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.

instrumentell

(music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).

Instrumententafel

(historical) An upturned screen of wood or leather placed on the front of a horse-drawn carriage, sleigh or other vehicle that protected the driver from mud, debris, water and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves.

Insubordination

The quality or state of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority; specifically, an employee's failure or refusal to comply with a request or an assignment given by his/her supervisor.

Insuffizienz

The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.

Insulin

A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).

Insurgent

One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.

inszenieren

To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.

Inszenierung

The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.

intakt

Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied or otherwise damaged.

integral

Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable

integrieren

(transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

integriert

composed and coordinated to form a whole

Integrität

(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.

Intellekt

(uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.

Intellektualismus

(philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

intellektuell

Having a love of or aptitude for learning.

Intellektuelle

An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

Intellektueller

An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

intelligent

Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.

intelligentes Leben

(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

Intelligenz

(mostly, uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.

Intelligenzbestie

(informal) An intelligent person.

Intelligenzija

(politics) The intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine.

intendieren

(ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

intensifizieren

(intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Intensität

The quality of being intense.

Intensiv

(medical) Initialism of intensive care unit.

intensivieren

(intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Intensivierung

The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

Intensivstation

(medical) Initialism of intensive care unit.

Intention

Resolution; determination.

interagieren

(intransitive) To act upon each other.

Interaktion

The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.

interaktiv

Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or with the other.

interdependent

Mutually dependent; reliant on one another.

Interdependenz

The condition of being interdependent.

Interdikt

A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.

interessant

Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.

interessante Beschaffenheit

The state or quality of being interesting.

Interessantheit

The state or quality of being interesting.

Interesse

A taste (for); liking (of); fondness. [with for]

Interesselosigkeit

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

Interessengemeinschaft

A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.

Interessenträger

(business) A person or organisation with a legitimate interest (a stake) in a given situation, action or enterprise.

Interessenverband

A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.

interessieren

(obsolete, often, _, impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.

interessiert

Having or showing interest (attention or curiosity).

Interferenz

The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.

interferieren

(intransitive, physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.

intergalaktisch

(astronomy) Occurring between galaxies.

intergeschlechtlich

Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.

Interieur

The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

Interim

A transitional or temporary period between other events.

interimistisch

Transitional.

Interjektion

(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

interkontinental

Taking place between two or more continents.

Interlinea

(typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.

intermittierend

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

international

Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.

Internationale Seeschifffahrts-Organisation

(UN, nautical) Initialism of International Maritime Organization.

Internatsschüler

A pupil who lives at school during term time.

Internatsschülerin

A pupil who lives at school during term time.