German–English dictionary

plattwalzen

To flatten, as if with a steamroller.

Platz

(US) A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played.

Platz machen

(idiom) To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.

Platzangst

The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

Platzanweiser

A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

Plätzchen

(North America, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.

platzen

(intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.

platzen lassen

(transitive, UK, AU) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.

Platzhalter

Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.

Platzhirsch

(slang) An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.

platzieren

(ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

Platzierung

The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

Platzpatrone

(firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].

Platzregen

A heavy rain.

Platzrunde

(sports) One circuit around a race track.

Platzwart

Someone who takes care of the upkeep of grounds (gardens, a playing field, woodlands, etc.)

Platzwunde

An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.

Plauderer

A person who participates in a conversation.

plaudern

(intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.

Plaudertasche

(informal) One who chats or talks to excess.

plausibel

Plausible; within the realm of credibility.

Plausibilität

(now in more positive sense) The fact of being believable; believability, credibility. [from 18th c.]

Plauze

The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.

plauzen

(intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.

Playboy

A brand of adult magazines introduced in the United States.

Player

(electronics) An electronic device that plays audio or video media.

Playmate

A woman who has appeared as the centerfold in Playboy magazine.

PlayStation

(video games, trademark) A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.

Plazebo

(medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. [from 18th c.]

Plazenta

(botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

Plebejer

A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.

Plebejerin

(pejorative) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

plebejisch

(historical) Of or concerning the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome.

Plebiszit

(law, politics) A direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.

Plebs

The common people, especially (pejorative) the mob.

plegel

A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.

Pleite

(finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

Plejaden

(Greek god) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.

plemplem

(informal, especially, Britain) Mad; crazy.

Plenarsaal

(figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.

Pleonasmus

(uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.

pleonastisch

(uncomparable) Of, or relating to pleonasm.

Plethon

Georgios Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355–1453), a Byzantine Greek philosopher.

Plinius

An ancient Roman praenomen.

Plins

(countable, and, uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

Plinthe

A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.

plissieren

(transitive) To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.

Plombe

(dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.

ploppen

To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.

Plot

(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]

plotten

(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

Plotter

(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.

Plötze

A common roach (Rutilus rutilus)

plötzlich

In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

plötzlich abtauchen

(ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.

plötzlich auffahren

(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.

plötzlich hochfahren

(intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.

plötzlich untertauchen

(ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.

plötzlich wegtauchen

(ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.

plötzliche Zunahme

A sudden increase.

plötzlicher Überfall

A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

plötzliches Auftreten

(figurative) An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.

Plume

(geology) An upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere.

Plumeau

(British, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.

Plümo

(British, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.

plump

Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.

Plumpheit

The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.

Plumps

A dull thud.

plumpsen

(intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.

Plumpsklo

(North America) An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.

Plumula

(botany) The first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons.

Plunder

A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.

Plundergebäck

A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.

plündern

(transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.

Plünderung

The act of stealing during a crisis such as a war, riot or natural disaster, when law enforcement is ineffective or absent.

Plungen

A city and municipality of Telšiai, Lithuania.

plural

Consisting of or containing more than one of something.

Pluralform

(grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.

pluralisch

Consisting of or containing more than one of something.

Pluralität

(uncountable) The state of being plural.

plus

Being positive rather than negative or zero.

Plüsch

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

plustern

(intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.

Plutokrat

Someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth.

Plutokraten

A controlling class of the wealthy.

Plutokratie

Government by the wealthy.

Plutokratin

Someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth.

plutonisch

(by extension, geology, historical) Synonym of plutonic (“of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism, the theory that the rocks of the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again”).

Plutonium

The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 94 and symbol Pu: a silvery-gray fissile radioactive actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.

Pluviale

(liturgy) A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.

PLZ

(UK, Irish) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.

PMS

(medical, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.

Pneumologe

A physician who specializes in pulmonology.

Pneumonie

Inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other infectious microorganisms.

Pneumothorax

(medicine) Presence of air inside the pleural cavity, usually caused by injury either to the lung or the chest wall.

Po

(informal, _, or, _, childish, chiefly, Commonwealth) The buttocks.

Pobacke

(vulgar, _, slang) A buttock.

Pobacken

(childish, or, vulgar, slang, North American) Buttocks.

Pöbel

(collective) The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.)

pöbelhaft

(of a person) Given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed.

pochen

Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.

pochieren

(transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).

Pocken

(disease) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

Pockennarbe

A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.

pockennarbig

having pockmarks

podcasten

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

pode

Related to or resembling a foot or similar limb.

Podest

(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

Podium

A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.]

Podologe

(medicine) A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.

Podologin

(medicine) A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.

Poem

A literary piece written in verse.

Poesie

Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.

Poet

A person who writes poems.

Poetik

(philosophy, literature) The theory of poetry, or of literature in general.

Poetin

A person who writes poems.

pofen

(informal, chiefly, UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

Pogo tanzen

(intransitive) To dance by intentionally jumping into and colliding with other, similarly behaving dancers, and performing other wild, aggressive, or spastic movements.

Pointer

(hunting) A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.

pointiert

(figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe.

Poise

(physics) A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.

Pokal

A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.

pökeln

(transitive) To preserve food in a salt solution.

Pökelung

A process of preservation, as by smoking.

poken

(transitive, computing, dated) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

Poker

(card games) All the four cards of the same rank.

Pol

(geometry) A position directly opposite (possibly also used figuratively).

Polacke

(now, _, North America, _, now, _, offensive) A Pole, or person of Polish descent.

Polarhund

Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.

Polarlicht

An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.

Polarstern

(astronomy) The current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which has been Polaris for the last 1500 years.

Pole

A person from Poland or of Polish descent.

Polei

Mentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.

Poleiminze

Mentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.

Polen

A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.

Polenta

(Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.

Polente

(usually, in the plural, slang) A police officer.

Polier

(management) The leader of a work crew.

polieren

To polish and make shiny by rubbing.

poliert

Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

polierte Platte

(numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.

Polin

A person from Poland or of Polish descent.

Poliomyelitis

(pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.

Polis

(historical) A Greek city-state.

Politik

A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body. [from 15th c.]

Politiker

One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.

Politikerin

One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.

politisch korrekt

(idiom, sometimes, derogatory) Sensitive to giving offense on the grounds of race, sex, etc.

Politisierung

(politics) The state of being (or process of becoming) politicized

Politur

(figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.