German–English dictionary

Sitzsack

A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similar pellets.

Sitzung

A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).

sixtinisch

Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus.

sizilianisch

Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.

Sizilien

The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily.

Ska

(music genre) A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

Skabies

(veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).

Skala

A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.

skalieren

(transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

Skalp

(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.

Skalpell

A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.

Skandal

An offensive, immoral or indecent act.

Skandalblatt

(newspapers) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news. [from early 20th c.]

skandalös

Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.

Skandalreporter

A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.

Skandalreporterin

A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.

skandha

(Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.

skandieren

To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

Skandinavien

A geographic region of Northern Europe, consisting of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, Åland and the Faroe Islands.

Skandinavier

Someone from Scandinavia.

Skandinavierin

Someone from Scandinavia.

skandinavisch

(of a language) Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.

skandinavisches Büfett

A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes.

Skateboarden

The act of skateboarding

Skateboardfahren

The act of skateboarding

Skaten

The action of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.

Skeet

(uncountable) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.

Skeleton

(sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.

Skelett

(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

Skelett-

of, or relating to the skeleton

skelettal

of, or relating to the skeleton

Skeptiker

Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.

Skeptikerin

Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.

skeptisch

Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.

Sketch

A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.

Ski

One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.

Ski fahren

(transitive) To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).

Ski laufen

(transitive) To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).

Skifahren

(sports) A group of sports using skis as primary equipment.

Skifahrer

One who skis.

Skifahrerin

One who skis.

Skiff

A small rowing boat, for one person.

Skiläufer

One who skis.

Skiläuferin

One who skis.

Skimaske

A type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool.

Skinhead

A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

Skizze

(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

Skizzenbuch

A book or pad with blank pages for sketching; a sketch pad.

skizzenhaft

Sketchy, incomplete.

skizzieren

(transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.

skizziert

Sketchy, incomplete.

Sklave

A person who works in a low servile job.

Sklavenhalter

Someone who owns slaves.

Sklavenhalterin

Someone who has control or ownership over another human being; the owner of a slave.

Sklavenhändler

A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.

Sklavenhändlerin

A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.

Sklaverei

The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.

Sklavin

A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.

sklavisch

Slavish or submissive.

Sklera

(anatomy) The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.

Sklerose

(pathology) The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.

Skoliose

(pathology) The abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

skop

Used to make terms denoting an instrument used for viewing or examination.

Skopus

(medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.

Skorbut

(uncountable, disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes; (countable, obsolete) an occurrence of this disease.

Skorpion

(astrology) The zodiac sign for the scorpion, ruled by Mars and covering October 23 - November 22 (tropical astrology) or November 16 - December 15 (sidereal astrology).

Skorpionstich

A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.

Skript

(countable) A writing; a written document.

Skriptum

(countable) A writing; a written document.

Skrotum

(anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.

Skrupel

Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.

skrupellos

(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.

Skuff

The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.

Skulpteur

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

Skulpteurin

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

skulptiert

Well shaped, as a good sculpture is.

Skulptur

(countable) A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

Skunk

Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.

skurril

Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.

Skydiving

The practice of performing acrobatic movements during the freefall phase of a parachute jump.

Skye

The largest island of the Inner Hebrides, in Highland council area, Scotland; the Isle of Skye.

Skyline

The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.

Skylla

A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.

skypen

(transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.

Slackline

(forestry, mining, sports) A length of cable, rope, or webbing that hangs loosely from its points of suspension.

Slacks

(dated) Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single pair; may be referred to as a pair of slacks.)

Slang

Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.

Slapstick

(uncountable, comedy) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.

Slave

(engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

Slawe

A member of any of the peoples of Europe who speak the Slavic languages.

Slawin

A member of any of the peoples of Europe who speak the Slavic languages.

slawisch

Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

SLB

(aviation) A section of land, usually paved, for airplanes to land on or take off from.

Slice

(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.

Slip

(chiefly, Australia, informal) Male underpant bikini briefs.

Slipper

A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

Slogan

A common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth.

Slowake

(countable) A person from Slovakia or of Slovak descent.

Slowakei

A country in Central Europe. Official name: Slovak Republic. Capital and largest city: Bratislava.

Slowakin

(countable) A person from Slovakia or of Slovak descent.

slowakisch

Of, from, or pertaining to Slovakia, the Slovak people or the Slovak language.

Slowenien

A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Slovenia. Capital and largest city: Ljubljana. Part of Yugoslavia until 1991.

Slum

An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

Slup

(nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.

Slush

Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).

Slush Eis

Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).

Slusheis

Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).

Smaragd

Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.

smaragdfarben

Of a rich green colour.

smaragdgrün

Of a rich green colour.

smart

(slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.

Smartphone

(cell phone) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

Smiley

A simplified representation of a smiling face.

Smog

A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

Smörgåsbord

A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes.

SMS

(countable) A text message sent using the short message service.

SMS-Nachricht

(countable) A text message sent using the short message service.

Snack

(usually, countable, usually, in the plural) That which refreshes, such as a light snack or drink.

Snap

(American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.

Sneakers

(US, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.

sniffen

(transitive, slang, originally, US) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.

Snob

(informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]

snöben

To ride a snowboard.

snobistisch

Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.

Snooker

A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.

Snoopy

Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz; often representing doggish soulfulness.

Snowboard

A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.

snowboarden

To ride a snowboard.

Snowboarder

Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.

Snowboardfahrer

Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.

so

(archaic) As if; as though.

so ... wie

To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.

so bald wie möglich

Initialism of as soon as possible.

so dass

(mathematics) Abbreviation of such that.

so ein

(demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.

so Gott will

(often, as disjunct) Barring unforeseen circumstances, it is hoped that (while generally also indicating acceptance of God's will).

so gut wie

Very close to, but not quite.

so schnell wie möglich

Initialism of as soon as possible.

so tun, als ob

(idiomatic, childish) To pretend or imagine.

so um

Located close to; near (a time or place).

so wie

Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).

so wie es sich gehört

In proper order; as it should be. [from 19th c.]

So.

Abbreviation of Sunday.

Soba

A Japanese buckwheat noodle.

sobald

At the moment when; immediately (after); instantly; directly.

Social Media

(uncountable) Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another through the Internet.

Socke

(clothing) A knitted or woven covering for the foot.

Sockel

(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

Soda

(uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).

sodass

So that; used to indicate purpose