German–English dictionary

Laderaum

the compartment on a plane used to store luggage that will not safely fit in the passenger cabin.

Ladestock

(firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.

Ladestreifen

(military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.

Ladstab

(firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.

Ladstecke

(firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.

Ladstecken

(firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.

Ladung

Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.

Ladungsliste

A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.

ladylike

Of or related to the appearance or behaviour of a well-mannered woman.

Lage

A covering layer of anything.

Lageenergie

The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).

Lagenschwimmen

(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. [from 20th c.]

Lager

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.

Lagerbalken

(carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.

Lagerbestand

A supply held in storage.

Lagerfeuer

A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.

Lagergang

(geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.

Lagerhalde

A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.

Lagerhaus

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.

Lagerholz

(carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.

Lagerleiste

A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).

lagern

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

lagern zum Trocknen

The air drying of wood.

Lagerplatte

(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.

Lagerplatz

(often, military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.

Lagerraum

A room used for storage.

Lagerstätte

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

Lagerung

(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

Lagerzapfen

(engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.

Lagewort

(grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.

Lagune

A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

lahm

Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.

lahm legen

To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.

lahmarschig

(British, archaic) Lacking vitality.

lahme Ente

(colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.

lähmen

To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.

lähmend

Causing a loss of energy or strength.

lahmlegen

To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.

Lähmung

(pathology) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.

Lahnung

An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.

Laib

(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.

Laib Brot

(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.

Laich

The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

laichen

(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

Laie

People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.

Laien

Not professional; amateur.

Laien-

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

laienhaft

(pejorative) Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.

Laiin

Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.

laikal

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

Laissez-faire

(economics, politics) A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.

Laizist

A supporter of laicism; a secularist.

Laizistin

A supporter of laicism; a secularist.

laizistisch

Pertaining to or representing the interests of the laity; non-clerical; secular.

Laizität

Neutrality towards all religions.

Lakai

A person who works in a low servile job.

lakaienhaft

Obsequiously submissive.

Lake

Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.

Lakonien

A city, the county seat of Belknap County, New Hampshire; named for the Laconia Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer.

lakonisch

Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

Lakota

A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.

Lakritz

Licorice in confectionery form.

Lakritze

Licorice in confectionery form.

Lakshmi

The Hindu goddess of wealth, the consort of Vishnu and married to Rāma (in her incarnation as Sita) and Krishna (as Radha and Rukmini).

Laktose

(carbohydrate) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C12H22O11, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.

lallen

(intransitive, now, _, rare) To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent at or against someone or something. [from 14th c.]

Lallname

(uncountable) The formation of terms of endearment or pet names.

Lama

A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

Lamahengst

A male llama.

Lambda

The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet.

Lambdazismus

(phonology) A pronunciation shift whereby /l/ or other closely related phonemes are substituted for other sounds (typically /r/), as Sally for Sarah or Molly for Mary.

Lambrecht

(countable) A en given name; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.

Lamelle

(mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.

Lametta

Thin wire or foil made of brass, gold or silver; now especially thin strips of metallic foil used as Christmas decoration.

Lamia

(Greek mythology) A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.

Laminat

Material formed of thin sheets glued together. [from 1939]

laminieren

(transitive) To assemble from thin sheets glued together to make a thicker sheet.

laminiert

Made by lamination.

Lämmchen

A young lamb, a very young sheep.

lammfromm

Like a lamb; gentle; inoffensive.

Lampe

A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

Lampenschirm

A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.

lancieren

(transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.

land

Used to form the name of a territory, country, or region.

Land Brandenburg

A state in the northeast of Germany.

Land gewinnen

(intransitive, originally, US, often, imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away. [from early 20th c.]

Land-

From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.

Landarbeiter

A person who works on, but does not own, a farm; an agricultural labourer / agricultural laborer.

Landassel

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.

Landauer

A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.

Landbesetzer

One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. [from 1788]

Landbewohner

A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.

Landbewohnerin

A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.

Landbrücke

(landforms) A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.

Landebahn

(aviation) A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.

Landeberührung

(rugby) A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).

Landei

A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.

Landeklappe

(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.

Landekopf

(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material

landen

(copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.

Landenge

(landforms) A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.

Landepiste

An aircraft landing field, usually with one runway and only basic facilities.

Landeplatz

A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.

Lander

A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.

Landeschwelle

(aviation) The start of the landing area of a runway.

Landeshoheit

(by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.

Landesteg

(by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.

Landesverrat

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

landesweit

Throughout a country.

Landfläche

(geography) A large, continuous area of land surrounded by sea or contiguous with another landmass.

Landfrau

A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.

Landgut

An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18th c.]

Landhaus

(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

Landhäuschen

(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

Landkaffee

(uncountable, cooking) A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.

Landkarte

A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

Landkorridor

The handle of a pan.

Landkreis

An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 47 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska, Connecticut, and Louisiana).

ländlich

From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.

Landmann

A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.

Landmasse

(geography) A large, continuous area of land surrounded by sea or contiguous with another landmass.

Landmensch

A man who is a country dweller, especially a follower of country pursuits.

Landplage

(informal) An annoying and bothersome person or thing.

Landpomeranze

(slang, US, usually, pejorative, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.

Landrasse

(often, attributive) Any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work). [from late 19th c.]

Landratte

(nautical, pejorative) Someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship, especially a novice seaman.

Landschaft

(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]

Landschaftsbau

The act of improving a landscape.

Landschildkröte

Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly, North America) or the order Testudines (chiefly, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India) , whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

Landser

(US, military slang) An infantry soldier.

Landsfrau

Somebody from one's own country.

Landsitz

A landed estate.

Landsmann

Somebody from one's own country.

Landsmännin

Somebody from one's own country.

Landspitze

Coastal land that juts into the sea.

Landstreicher

(sometimes, pejorative) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.

Landstreicherei

the state of being a vagrant

Landstreicherin

A roving vagabond.

Landung

An arrival at the shore by a ship, or sighting of the shore from a ship.

Landungsbrücke

(nautical) A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.

Landungsplatz

(by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.

Landungssteg

(nautical) A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.

Landwehr

An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.

Landwirt

A farmer; one involved with agrarian business.

Landwirtin

A farmer; one involved with agrarian business.

Landwirtschaft

Of or pertaining to agriculture.

landwirtschaftlich

Of or pertaining to agriculture.

Landzipfel

The handle of a pan.

Landzunge

A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.

lang

Over (a period of time).