German–English dictionary

Kaugummistreifen

a stick of gum A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.

Kaukasier

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.

Kaukasierin

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.

Kaukasiologie

The historical, linguistic or geopolitical studies of the Caucasus.

Kaulquappe

A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

kaum

(not comparable, degree) Almost not at all.

Kaumagen

A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans, and used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.

Kausch

(nautical) A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.

Kausche

(nautical) A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.

Kaustik

(optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.

Kautel

A conditional provision to an agreement.

kauterisieren

To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.

Kaution

(countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

Kaution stellen

To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

Kautschuk

(obsolete) Latex; natural rubber.

Kavalier

(historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.

kavalierhaftes Benehmen

Courteous behaviour, especially that of men towards women.

Kavaliersdelikt

A petty offense.

Kavalkade

(collective) A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.

Kavallerie

(military, usually, _, historical, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.

Kavallerist

(historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.

Kaventsmann

(nautical, surfing) An unexpected, dangerously large wave.

Kaverne

An underground chamber.

Kaviar

Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.

Kazoo

(musical instrument) A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.

Kebab

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

Kebap

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

keck

(of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.

Keckheit

The property of being saucy.

Kees

(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

Kegel

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

kegelförmig

Shaped like a cone.

Kegelmantel

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

Kegeln

Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.

Kehle

(engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.

kehlig

Sounding harsh and throaty.

Kehlkopf

(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, as it houses the vocal cords, sound production.

Kehlkopf-

(anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the larynx.

Kehlkopfdiphtherie

(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

Kehlkopfentzündung

An inflammation of the larynx, typically resulting in hoarseness.

Kehlkopflaut

(phonetics) A sound uttered by using the larynx.

kehlkopflich

(anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the larynx.

Kehllappen

The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.

Kehlsack

(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.

Kehrblech

A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.

kehren

(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

Kehrreim

A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.

Kehrschaufel

A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.

Kehrseite

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

Kehrwert

The inverse element with respect to multiplication; the reciprocal.

keifen

(ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

keifend

Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.

Keil

(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

Keilerei

A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

keilförmig

Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.

Keimdrüse

(anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.

Keimeliminierung

The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

keimen

To germinate.

keimen (lassen)

(transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.

keimen (vi.)

(intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.

keimen (vt.)

(transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.

keimfrei machen

(transitive) To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting.

Keimmonat

(historical) The seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, starting on the date of the vernal equinox (March 21 or 22) and ending on April 19 or 20.

kein

(negative polarity item, or, interrogative, chiefly with plural or uncountable nouns) One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.

kein gutes Haar lassen an

(transitive, figuratively) To strongly condemn or criticize.

kein Problem

(idiomatic, colloquial) Synonym of no big deal: not important, not something to worry about.

keine

Not either one of two.

keine Angabe

not available

keine Reaktion zeigend

Not responsive; unreactive.

keine Regung aufweisend

Not responsive; unreactive.

keine Ursache

A polite way of responding to thanks, by suggesting that the service is too trivial or humble to warrant thanks; you're welcome.

keine Widerrede

(colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.

keinen Draht (haben)

(colloquial, figurative) Out of touch with the experience of ordinary people.

keiner

Not either one of two.

keines

Not either one of two.

keit

A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.

Keks

(UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes, Canada, rare) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

Kelch

(botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

Kelchblatt

(botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure.

Kelchglas

A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.

Kelle

A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.

Keller

(architecture) A floor of a building below ground level.

Kellerassel

Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.

Kellerei

A place where wine is made, or a company that makes wine.

Kellergeschoss

(architecture) A floor of a building below ground level.

Kellergewölbe

Any cellar or underground storeroom.

Kellner

A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

Kellnerin

A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

Kelp

Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).

Kelte

(historical) A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.

Kelter

(countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

Keltisch

A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era.

Kelvin

In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1⁄273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.

Kenia

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

Kenianer

A person from Kenya or of Kenyan descent.

Kenianerin

A person from Kenya or of Kenyan descent.

kenianisch

Of, from, or pertaining to Kenya or the Kenyan people.

kennen

(transitive, mostly, Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.

kennen lernen

To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

Kennenlernspiel

(figurative) A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to ease tension and encourage interaction among individuals in a situation where they do not know each other well.

Kenner

(often, in plural) Someone possessing superior or specialized knowledge in a particular field.

kennerhaft

Of keen insight or selective judgement; perceptive.

Kennerin

(often, in plural) Someone possessing superior or specialized knowledge in a particular field.

Kenngröße

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

Kenning

(poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.

Kenntnis

(uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.

Kenntnisse

(by extension) The ability to understand and evaluate something.

Kennwort

(military, security) A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.

Kennzahl

A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit

(epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

Kennzeichen

(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

kennzeichnen

(transitive) To indicate; to mark.

kennzeichnend

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

Kennzeichner

(grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.

Kennzeichnung

(UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).

Kennzeichnungsschild

(UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).

Kenotaph

A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.

Kent

A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.

Kentaur

(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

kentern

(transitive, nautical) To cause (a ship) to overturn.

Keppelweib

Someone or something that nags.

Keramik

A rural settlement in Ocheretyne settlement hromada, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Keramiker

A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.

Keramikerin

A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.

keramisch

Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

Keratin

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

Kerbe

(stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.

kerben

To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

Kerbtier

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

Kerf

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

Kerker

A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.

Kerl

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847]

Kerlchen

(colloquial, variously expressing familiarity, admiration, or hostility) A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster.)

Kern

A central article or figure.

Kernaussage

(countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.

Kerne

A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.

Kernel

(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.

Kernfamilie

A family unit consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.

Kerngebiet

The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.

Kerngehäuse

The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

kernig

Concise and meaningful.

Kernladungszahl

(physics, chemistry) The number of protons in an atom. Symbol: Z

Kernland

The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.

Kernpunkt

(US, originally, _, psychology, usually, in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now, _, informal, figurative, _, and, _) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.

Kernschmelze

Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.

Kernspeicher

(computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory (“magnetic data storage”).

Kernthema

A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.

Kerosin

A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.

Kerry

A county of Ireland. County seat: Tralee.

Kerub

(biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.