German–English dictionary

lobende Erwähnung

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lobenswert

Meriting praise; worthy of high praise

Lobeshymne

(journalism, publishing, informal) A journalistic form of puffery; an article or story of exaggerated praise that often ignores or downplays opposing viewpoints or evidence to the contrary.

Lobesrede

An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.

Lobgesang

A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.

Lobhudelei

Flattery; fulsome praise.

Loblied

A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.

lobpreisen

To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.

Lobrede

An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.

Lobus

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Locale

(computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.

Loch

A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.

lochen

(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).

Locher

A tool that is used to make holes in stationery for ease of filing.

Lochstopfer

A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.

Lochung

(countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.

Lochzange

(countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.

Lock

(computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

Lockdown

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

Locke

A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.

locken

(transitive) To entice; to attract.

Lockenkopf

a person or animal with curly hair.

locker

Naturally and genuinely easy to get along with.

locker werden

(transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

Lockerheit

The quality of being folksy.

lockern

(nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.

lockig

Having curls.

Locking

the act by which something is locked.

Lockmittel

Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something

Lockout

(labor) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.

Lockruf

A beckoning or summoning.

Lockung

(also, figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.

Lockvogel

A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.

Lodern

Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.

lodernd

Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire. [18th century.]

Lodge

A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

Lodsch

The capital city of Lodz Voivodeship, Poland, also spelled Łódź.

Lodz

The capital city of Lodz Voivodeship, Poland, also spelled Łódź.

Löffel

A spoon for eating soup, typically smaller than a tablespoon and larger than a dessert spoon, characterised by having a round bowl rather than the usual oval bowl of other types of spoon.

Löffelbiskuit

A small sponge cake, shaped approximately like a finger.

Löffelchen schlafen

(intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.

Löffelvoll

The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.

Log

(nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.

Log-out

(computing) The act or process of logging out.

Logbuch

(nautical) A book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.

Loge

A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.

Loggia

(architecture) A roofed, open gallery, usually on an upper level.

logie

A branch of learning; a study of a particular subject.

logieren

(intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.

Logiernacht

An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.

Login

(computing) Credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.

logisch

Used to form adjectival forms of nouns ending in -logy.

logischerweise

(conjunctive) In natural sequence; consequently; so.

Logo

(television) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.

Logos

(Christianity) The Word of God as incarnate in Jesus Christ, or as identified with the second person of the Trinity; Jesus; God the Son; Word of God.

loh

Yellowish-brown.

Lohe

A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

lohfarben

Yellowish-brown.

Lohn

Wages, money earned, income.

Lohn- und Gehaltsabteilung

(accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

lohnen

(figurative) To be worthwhile.

lohnend

Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc.

Lohnkosten

The total sum of money paid to employees.

Lohnliste

A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.

Lok

(rail transport, informal) A locomotive.

Lokal

(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.

Lokalisation

(algebra) A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.

Lokalisieren

(algebra) A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.

Lokalisierung

(software engineering) The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

Lokalität

(uncountable, maths, computing) The condition of being local.

Lokomotion

(uncountable) The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.

Lokomotive

(rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.

lokomotorisch

Of or relating to locomotion.

lol

(Internet slang, text messaging) Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)

Lolita

(slang) A sexually mature person below, or appearing to be below, the legal age of consent, who is regarded, usually by an adult, as being sexually attractive and/or seductive.

Lolli

(motorsport) A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.

Lollipop

(motorsport) A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.

Lombarde

A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.

Lombardin

A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.

London

The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.

Londoner

The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.

Londoner [[U-Bahn]]

(informal) The London Underground.

Londoner Metro

(informal) The London Underground.

londonisch

The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.

longitudinal

Relating to length.

Lookup

(computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.

Loop

(algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.

Looping

An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.

Lorbeer

An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

Lorbeerkranz

A crown of laurel.

Lord

An additional title added to denote the dignity of certain high officials, such as the "Lord Mayors" of major cities in the British Commonwealth

Loreley

A siren; a temptress.

Lorenz

A en given name.

los

Lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun.

losbinden

(transitive) To take bindings off.

Losbrechen

The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.

Lösch-Mitteilung

(US) A cancellation.

löschen

(transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.

Löschgerät

One who, or that which, extinguishes something.

Löschsand

(historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.

Löschung

The act of deleting. [c. 1600]

Löschwasser

(especially, manufacturing) Water for use in firefighting.

lose

Not cohering socially, not united.

lose Sitten

Having a deep red colour.

Lösegeld-Software

(computer security) Malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom, usually requiring or claiming to require payment to restore access.

Lösegeld-Trojaner

(computer security) Malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom, usually requiring or claiming to require payment to restore access.

Lösemittel

A fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.

lösen

To become separated, literally or figuratively.

Loser

(chiefly, colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.

losgehen

(intransitive) To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth").

losgelöst

Cut off, or separated.

Losgelöstheit

(uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.

losgemacht

Not tethered; not tied down.

Loskauf

The recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article.

loskaufen

To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.

loslassen

(intransitive, with of, and, transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.

loslegen

(intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become more active.

loslösen

(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.

Loslösung

(boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.

losmachen

To leave suddenly.

Losmachung

(boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.

losrennen

(chiefly, US, dialectal, intransitive) To go off quickly: to hurry up.

lossagen

(transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

Lossagung

(boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.

Losschnappen

The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.

losschrauben

(transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

lossprechen

(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

losstürzen

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).

Lösung

A solution to a problem.

Lösungsmittel

(analytical chemistry) A solvent or other liquid preparation used to dilute a sample prior to testing.

lösungsmittelfrei

(chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.

loswerden

(transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.

losziehen

(idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip.

Lot

(biblical character) A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.

loten

(also, figurative) To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound.

Lothringen

A cultural region, former administrative region, and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est region.

Lotion

(archaic) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of beautification.

Lötlampe

A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.

Lotos

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

Lotosblume

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

lotrecht

(geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).

Lotrechte

(geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.

Lötrohr

(chemistry) A narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture.

Lotse

A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.

lotsen

(transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.

Lotterie

a lottery

Lotto

a game of chance similar to bingo

Lötung

A method of joining two metallic surfaces by melting an alloy between them.

Lotus

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

Lotuspflaume

The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).