German–English dictionary

Schwalbe

(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.

Schwalgloch

(geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.

Schwall

A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

Schwallblech

A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.

Schwamm

(plant disease) A fungal infection which affects plants, in particular potatoes.

schwammig

(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.

Schwan

(constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a swan. It includes the triple star system HD 188753 and the stars Deneb and Albireo.

Schwanen-

A male swan.

Schwanenmännchen

A male swan.

Schwanenweibchen

A female swan.

schwanger

(biology) gravid.

schwanger sein

(obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

schwanger werden

(ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).

schwängern

(transitive) To cause to become pregnant.

Schwangerschaft

The period of time this condition prevails.

Schwänin

A female swan.

Schwanz

(zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.

schwänzeln

(intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

schwänzen

To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.

Schwänzer

(specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative) , a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.

Schwänzerei

The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.

Schwänzerin

(specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative) , a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.

Schwanzriemen

A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.

Schwanzschraube

(firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]

schwanzwedeln

(intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

schwappen

(intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

Schwarm

(collective) A small group of persons, especially of girls and women.

schwärmen

(intransitive, stative, usually, with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

Schwärmer

One who daydreams.

Schwärmerei

Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness.

Schwärmerin

One who daydreams.

schwärmerisch

Infatuated.

Schwarte

The tough outer skin of pork or bacon; pork rind.

Schwartz

A surname from German.

Schwarz

A surname from German.

schwarz brennen

(chiefly, US, ambitransitive) To make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.

schwarz herstellen

(ambitransitive) To make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.

Schwarzarbeit

Black-market or low-quality work.

schwarzarbeiten

To work on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night.

Schwarzarbeiter

A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.

Schwarzarbeiterin

A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.

Schwarzbeinigkeit

(uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax. [from 18th c.]

Schwarzbrennerei

(math, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.

Schwarzdrossel

A bird of the species Turdus merula

Schwärze

(countable, and, uncountable) A black dye or pigment.

schwarze Liste

(legal, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

schwärzen

(transitive, causative) To make dirty.

Schwarzenberg

A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Podgorica. Part of Yugoslavia until 2003, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.

Schwarzer

(countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.

Schwarzer Holunder

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.

schwarzgebrannter Schnaps

(math, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.

schwarzgescheckt

Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.

Schwarzhändler

One who is illegally a producer and/or trader of goods, especially of alcohol.

schwarzkopieren

(transitive, intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

Schwärzlichkeit

The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

Schwarzmaler

(originally, US) A person who worries excessively, especially about unimportant matters.

Schwarzpulver

A simple form of gunpowder, consisting of a mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulfur.

Schwarzrost

A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus.

Schwarzschiefer

(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

Schwarzseher

(idiomatic) a pessimistic person who sees possible calamity in every situation.

Schwarzwasser

Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter. [from 20th c.]

Schwatz

(countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.

Schwätzchen

(countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.

schwätzen

(intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.

Schwätzer

(informal) One who chats or talks to excess.

Schwätzerin

One who uses many platitudes in speaking or writing.

schwatzhaft

Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

Schwatzmaul

One who jabbers.

schweben

To remain stationary or float in the air.

schweben (entlang, über)

(computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).

schweben lassen

(transitive) To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.

schwebend

Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

schwebend halten

To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.

Schwebezustand

(legal) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. [Late 16th century]

Schwebung

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

Schwede

A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.

Schweden

A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden.

Schwedin

A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.

Schwedisch

The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.

schwedische Rübe

(now, North America) The edible root of this plant

Schwefel

(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.

Schwefel-

(American spelling, chemistry) Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its higher oxidation state

Schwegel

A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

Schweif

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

Schweifriemen

A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.

Schweifstern

A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.

Schweigen

The act of refraining from speaking.

schweigend

Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

schweigsam

Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.

Schwein

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

Schweinchen

A ball used in boules.

Schweinefleisch

(mostly, uncountable) The meat of a pig.

Schweinefutter

(collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.

Schweinerei

a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation

Schweinernes

(mostly, uncountable) The meat of a pig.

Schweiners

(mostly, uncountable) The meat of a pig.

Schweinerüssel

The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

Schweinestall

A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.

Schweinswal

Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.

Schweiß

Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.

schweißen

(transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.

Schweißer

One who welds, or wields.

Schweißerin

One who welds, or wields.

Schweißgerät

An item of equipment for welding with: an electric welder.

Schweißhund

A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.

Schweisshündin

(archaic) A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.

schweißtreibend

(pharmaceutical effect) Generating sweat or perspiration.

Schweiz

A country in Western Europe and Central Europe. Official name: Swiss Confederation. Capital: Bern (de facto).

Schweizer

Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.

Schweizerin

(countable) A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.

schweizerisch

Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.

schweizländisch

Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.

Schwelbrand

The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.

schwelen

(intransitive, figurative) To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated. [from 1760s]

schwelende Asche

The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.

Schwelgen

An individual act of debauchery.

Schwelger

A person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

Schwelgerei

An individual act of debauchery.

Schwelle

(anthropology, literary theory) Pertaining to or in a state that is in-between or transitional between two (or more) other states, while belonging to neither; pertaining to or in a state such as to be neither definitively in a particular other state or category nor definitively outside it.

schwellen

To cause to become distended.

Schwellung

(countable) Anything that protrudes.

Schwemme

An excess, too much.

Schwemmland

soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

Schwemmlandboden

soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

Schwengel

An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.

Schwenkbereich

The compass of any turning body or of any motion.

Schwenkbiegemaschine

A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)

schwenken

(transitive) To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.

schwer

Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

schwer atmen

To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

schwer beladen

Burdened by some heavy load; packed.

schwer fassbar

Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.

schwer handhabbar

Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.

schwer treffen

(transitive) To shock emotionally.

schwer zu beschreiben

Difficult to make precise.

Schwere

The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.

schwere Missetat

Wrongdoing.

schwere Straftat

(law, criminology, US, historical, _, in, _) A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by a term of imprisonment of not less than one year or by the death penalty in the most serious offenses.

schwerelos

Not affected by gravity.

Schwerelosigkeit

(countable) An experience or instance of being weightless.

schwerfällig

Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.

Schwerfälligkeit

(figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.

schwergewichtig

(figurative) Important; serious; not trivial or petty.

Schwerhörigkeit

The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear.

Schwerkraft

(physics) The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all matter in the universe, caused by the curvature of spacetime caused by matter. It is the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, and possesses a gauge boson known as the graviton.

Schwerkranker

(dated, sometimes, offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.

schwerlich

Not much; scarcely; hardly.

Schwermut

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

schwermütig

(informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.

Schwerpunkt

(physics) A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.