German–English dictionary

Kollektivarbeit

(uncountable) The act of collaborating.

Kollektivismus

An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively

Kollektivist

An advocate of collectivism.

Kollektivistin

An advocate of collectivism.

kollektivistisch

Of or pertaining to collectivism.

Kollektor

(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

Koller

An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

kollern

(ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.

kollidieren

(intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.

Kollision

An instance of colliding.

Kolloid

(physical chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.

Kollokation

(linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.

Kolloquium

An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.

kolludieren

(intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire

Kollusion

A private agreement for a fraudulent or illegal purpose; conspiracy.

Köln

The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the Rhine River.

Kölnisch Wasser

Any of a family of fresh, citrus-based fragrances distilled using extracts from citrus, floral, and woody ingredients, said to have been developed in the early 18th century in Cologne, Germany.

Kölnischwasser

Any of a family of fresh, citrus-based fragrances distilled using extracts from citrus, floral, and woody ingredients, said to have been developed in the early 18th century in Cologne, Germany.

Kolon

The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.

Kolonel

(uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.

kolonial

Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.

Kolonialisierung

The process of establishing a colony.

Kolonialismus

The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.

Kolonialist

One who supports or advocates colonialism.

Kolonialistin

One who supports or advocates colonialism.

kolonialistisch

Of or pertaining to colonialism.

Kolonialwarenhändler

A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.

Kolonie

A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.

Kolonisation

The process of establishing a colony.

Kolonisator

A founder of a colony.

Kolonisatorin

A founder of a colony.

Kolonisierung

The process of establishing a colony.

Kolonist

A founder of a colony.

Kolonistin

A founder of a colony.

Kolonnade

A series of columns at regular intervals.

Kolonne

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

Kolophonium

(organic chemistry) A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.

kolorieren

(photography, filmology) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).

Koloskopie

(medicine) The examination of the colon using a colonoscope.

Koloss

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

kolossal

Extremely large or on a great scale.

Kolosseum

The largest stadium in the Roman empire, located near the center of Rome.

Kolter

A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.

Kolumbarium

(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

Kolumbianer

Of, from or relating to Colombia.

Kolumbianerin

A native or inhabitant of Colombia.

kolumbianisch

Of, from or relating to Colombia.

Kolumbien

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.

Kolumbus

A person who makes a great discovery.

Kolumne

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

Kolumnist

A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

Kolumnistin

A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

komaglotzen

To watch multiple episodes of a television programme in a short period of time.

komatös

In a coma: unconscious.

Kombattant

A person engaged in combat, often armed.

Kombattantin

A person engaged in combat, often armed.

Kombinat

An object formed by combining.

Kombination

The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.

kombinieren

To arrange or occur side by side.

kombiniert

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.

Kombinierte

An object formed by combining.

Kombüse

(obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.

Komet

A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.

Komfort

Contentment, ease.

komfortabel

Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable. [from 18th c.]

Komik

(countable) Something that induces much laughter.

Komiker

An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

Komikerin

An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

komisch

Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.

Komitativ

(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that is used in some languages to indicate accompaniment.

komitativisch

(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that is used in some languages to indicate accompaniment.

Komitee

A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.

Komma

(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

Kommandant

One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.

Kommandeur

One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.

kommandieren

(ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.

Kommando

An order to do something.

Kommandör

One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.

Kommandosoldat

A commando trooper.

Kommandostab

(military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.

kommen

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

kommen an

(transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

kommen von

(intransitive) To originate or stem (from).

Kommende

(historical) The smallest division of a manor under the control of a commander of an order of knights, originally only the Knights Hospitaller.

Kommentar

A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.

Kommentare einfügen

(transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Kommentator

A person who makes a commentary, particularly

Kommentatorin

A person who makes a commentary, particularly

kommentieren

(transitive) To add annotation to.

Kommentierung

The process of writing such comment or commentary.

Kommerz

(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

kommerzialisieren

(transitive) To apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).

kommerziell

Of or pertaining to commerce.

Kommi

(pejorative, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.

Kommissar

(historical, early, _, Soviet Union) The head of a commissariat.

Kommissarin

(historical, early, _, Soviet Union) The head of a commissariat.

Kommission

A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.

Kommissionär

(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

Kommissionsmitglied

A member of a commission.

kommod

Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable. [from 18th c.]

Kommode

(US) A chest of drawers for clothes.

Kommodore

(military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.

kommunal

Pertaining to a community or a commune.

Kommune

A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).

Kommunikation

The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.

Kommunikationsdaten

The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.

kommunikativ

Eager to communicate; talkative.

Kommunion

A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.

Kommunist

Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating communism.

Kommunistin

(communism) An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.

kommunistisch

Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating communism.

kommunizieren

(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. [from 16th c.]

kommutieren

(intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

komödial

(archaic) Originally, relating to comedy.

komödisch

(archaic) Originally, relating to comedy.

Komodo

An island of Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands

Komodo-Insel

An island of Indonesia, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands

Komorbidität

(medicine, uncountable) The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.

kompakt

Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.

Kompaktheit

The state of being compact.

Kompanie

(military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.

komparabel

(often with to) Able to be compared (to).

Komparation

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

Komparativ

Of or relating to comparison.

Komparator

Any device for comparing a physical property of two objects, or an object with a standard.

komparierbar

(often with to) Able to be compared (to).

komparieren

(transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.

Kompass

A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

kompatibel

Capable of easy interaction.

kompatibel sein

(transitive, said of electronic devices, programming languages, etc.) To be designed to provide capacity for; to work or be compatible with (a part, accessory, file type, program, algorithm, etc.).

Kompatibilität

(telecommunication) the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference.

Kompatriot

Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman.

Kompatriotin

Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman.

Kompendium

A short, complete summary; an abstract.

Kompensation

The act or principle of compensating.

kompensieren

To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.

Kompensierung

A recompense or reward for service.

kompetent

(law) Legally qualified or competent. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

Kompetenz

(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.

kompetitiv

(of someone's character) Inclined to compete.

Kompilation

(countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

Kompilator

One who compiles.

Kompiler

(software) A computer program that transforms source code into object code.

Kompilieren

(countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

Kompilierer

One who compiles.

Kompilierung

(countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

komplementär

Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.

komplementieren

To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.

komplett

Including everything about a topic; overall, all-encompassing.

komplettieren

(transitive) To make whole or entire.