German–English dictionary

sich vergleichen

(transitive, legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.

sich vergnügen

(intransitive) To play or do something amusing.

sich verhalten

(transitive, reflexive) To behave.

sich verheddern

(transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.

sich verjüngen

(ambitransitive) To diminish gradually.

sich verjüngend

Narrowing gradually towards a point.

sich verkaufen

(ergative) To be sold.

sich verlaufen

(intransitive) To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.

sich vermählen mit

(transitive) To marry.

sich vermehren

(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.

sich verpflichten

(ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)

sich verpflichten (zu)

(intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.

sich verschlechtern

(intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

sich verschlimmern

(intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).

sich verschlingen

(intransitive) To cross one another as if woven together; to intertwine; to blend intricately.

sich verschreiben

(transitive) To make a typographical error.

sich verspäten

(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

sich verständigen

(intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

sich verstecken

To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.

sich verstellen

(intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.

sich verstricken

(transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.

sich verteilen

(transitive) To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.

sich vertraglich verpflichten

(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.

sich verwandeln

(intransitive, or, transitive) To change condition or attitude.

sich verweigern

Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.

sich verwickeln

(intransitive) To become entangled.

sich verwickeln lassen

(intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

sich verwirklichen

(transitive) To make real; to realize.

sich verzehren

(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness. [from 14th c.]

sich verziehen

(ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.

sich verzögern

(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

sich vollfressen

(intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]

sich vollständig konzentrieren (auf)

(intransitive) To attend to something to the exclusion of all others. [with on]

sich vollstopfen

(intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]

sich voranschleppen

(intransitive) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.

sich vorbereiten

(transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.

sich weiden

To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.

sich weigern

(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

sich weiten

(intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.

sich wellenförmig bewegen

(intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.

sich wichtigmachen

(transitive, and, intransitive, idiomatic) To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism.

sich widerrechtlich ausdehnen

(intransitive) To advance gradually beyond due limits.

sich widersetzen

(intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

sich widmen

(transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action.

sich winden

(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

sich windend

Of a long and winding route.

sich zanken

To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

sich zerstreuen

(physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.

sich zerteilen

(physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.

sich ziehen

To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

sich ziemen

(transitive, formal) To befit, to suit.

sich zu eigen machen

(transitive, figurative, modern usage) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).

sich zu einer Verwehung anhäufen

(intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.

sich zurechtlegen

(figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.

sich zusammenschließen

(transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole.

sich zuspitzen

(ambitransitive) To diminish gradually.

Sichbrüsten

The act of one who gloats.

Sichel

An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. [before 10th century]

sicher

Suffix added to a noun to form an adjective denoting imperviousness to that noun.

sichere Sache

(US) That which is certain.

sicherer Rückzugsort

A place of safety or refuge.

sichergehen

To make oneself certain (of something, or that something is the case); to verify, to ascertain. [from 17th c.]

Sicherheit

The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.

Sicherheitsbehälter

(countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.

Sicherheitsdienst

(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

Sicherheitskopie

(computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.

Sicherheitslücke

(computer security) A security vulnerability in a computer system.

sicherheitsüberprüft

Having undergone an investigation and been approved.

Sicherheitsumschließung

(countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.

sicherlich

Without doubt, surely.

sichern

(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.

sicherstellen

(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). [from 18th c.]

Sicherung

An object or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

Sicherungsgut

(finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.

Sicherungskopie

(computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.

Sicht

Vision or the faculty of sight.

Sicht der Dinge

A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

Sichtanzeige

A display, particularly one that presents numerical data.

sichtbar

Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.

Sichtbarkeit

(countable) The degree to which things may be seen.

sichten

(transitive) To examine (something) carefully.

sichtlich

(idiomatic) Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic.

Sichtung

The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for.

Sichtverhältnisse

(countable) The degree to which things may be seen.

Sichtweise

A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.

Sichtweite

A straight line along which an observer has a clear view.

sick

(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.

Sickergraben

Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

Sideboard

(furniture) A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.

sie

The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.

Sie haben mich nicht nach meinem Rat gefragt, aber

Considering what limited worth this advice, opinion, or suggestion might have for you; used to soften the presentation of unsolicited advice or information that may not be relevant.

sie selbst

(emphatic) She; an intensifier of the female subject or object, often used to indicate the directness or exclusiveness of that person .

Sieb

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

sieben

(transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.

Siebenbürgen

A historical region in western Romania.

Siebengestirn

(astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.

Siebenkampf

(athletics) An athletic contest comprising seven events; contested mostly by women, for whom this is an Olympic sport.

Siebensachen

(usually, in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.

siebenter

The ordinal form of the number seven.

Sieber

(rare) One who sifts.

siebte

The ordinal form of the number seven.

siebzehn

The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

Siebzehn und Vier

(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

siebzehnte

The ordinal form of the number seventeen.

siebzehnter

The ordinal form of the number seventeen.

siebzig

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

Siebziger

The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.

siebziger Jahre

The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.

siech

Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. [from 15th c.]

siechen

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. [from 14th c.]

siechend

Sickly, infirm, of ailing health.

Sieden

The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.

Siedler

Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

Siedlerhof

A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

Siedlerin

Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

Siedlung

A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time, primarily for residential accommodation.

Sieg

Of or expressing a sense of victory or triumph.

Siegel

A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.

siegen (über)

(intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.

Sieger

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

Sieger-

Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc.

Siegerin

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

Sieges-

Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc.

Siegesfreude

The act of one who gloats.

siegesfreudiger Ausdruck

The act of one who gloats.

siegesstrahlend

Of or expressing a sense of victory or triumph.

siegheilen

To greet with a Sieg Heil.

siegreich

Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc.

Siegtor

(sports) A point or goal that wins a competition.

siehe auch

A suggestion that other topics of study are related to a current topic.

siehe da!

Used to express surprise.

Siel

An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.

sier

Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.

siere

Belonging to someone (one person, singular), or occasionally to something.

Siesta

(countable) A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures.

siezen

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

Siff

Slimy mud, sludge.

Sightseeing

The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.

Sigma

The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient.

Signal

An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.

Signalbrücke

A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.

Signalflagge

A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.

signalisieren

(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.

Signalpfosten

A post bearing a sign that gives information on directions.

Signalposten

A post bearing a sign that gives information on directions.

Signalschalter

(electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.

Signatur

A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.

Signet

(historical) An object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin.

signifikant

Having a noticeable or major effect.

Signifikanz

The extent to which something matters; importance