German–English dictionary

Taoistin

A follower of Taoism.

tapen

To bind with adhesive tape.

Tapete

(uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.

tapezieren

(ambitransitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.

Tapezierer

Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.

Tapeziererin

Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.

tapfer

Courageous, daring.

Tapferkeit

(usually, uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.

Tapioka

A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.

tappen

To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

Taps

A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.

Tapser

The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep.

tapsig

In an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination.

Tarantel

(dated) A species of wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism). [from mid 16th c.]

Tarbusch

A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.

Tarentiner

A native or inhabitant of Taranto.

Tarentinerin

A native or inhabitant of Taranto.

Tarentinisch

A dialect of Neapolitan spoken in and around Taranto in Apulia.

Tarif

A subscription to a service.

Tarnanzug

(textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.

Tarnen

The act of disguising.

Tarnmanöver

(figuratively) Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.

Tarnmaterial

A disguise or covering up.

Tarnmuster

(textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.

Tarnung

A disguise or covering up.

Taro

Old cocoyam: Colocasia esculenta; taro.

Tarot

(singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.

Tarotkarte

Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Tarsus

A city in Mersin Province in southeastern Turkey, an important center of Cilicia since antiquity.

Tartan

(uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.

Tartaros

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.

Tarte

A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg, butter, historically even meat or other savory fillings).

Tartsche

(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

Tartüfferie

The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.

Tasche

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.

Taschenbuch

(publishing, of a book) Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.

Taschendieb

A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.

Taschendiebin

One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

Taschenflasche

A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.

Taschenlampe

(Canada, US, Philippines) A battery-powered hand-held light source.

Taschenmuschi

A vagina-, anus-, or mouth-shaped sex toy which is designed to stimulate and fit around the penis to aid masturbation.

Taschenpiepser

(telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

Taschenratte

A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).

Taschenrechner

A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.

Taschenspielertrick

Mischievous behaviour, dishonest or shady activity.

Taschentuch

A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.

Taser

(by extension) Any electroshock stun gun.

Tash

A village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary.

Tass

A village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary.

Tasse

A customary unit of measure

Tasse Tee

(countable, Commonwealth, northern, _, US) A cup or (East Asia, Southern, _, US) glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls.

Tassenkuchen

A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

Tastatur

(computing, etc.) A set of keys laid out in a grid-like pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer etc.

Tastaturecho

(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

Taste

A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

tasten

(intransitive) To search by sense of touch.

tastend

Restrained; polite; feeling one's way, not using full force.

Tastenfeld

A small board with keys primarily used for tactile input into a machine.

Tastenkombination

(computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.

Tat

(countable) Something done, a deed.

Tatar

A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Tatarin

A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

tatarisch

Of or relating to the people or culture of Tatars.

tatarische Sprache

An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Tatbestand

(legal) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.

Tatbeteiligung

The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.

Tatenlosigkeit

Lack of action or activity or labor

Täter

One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.

Täterin

A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

Täterschaft

The act of perpetrating

tätig

Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative

Tätigkeit

(legal) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).

Tätigkeitsrausch

Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.

Tätigkeitswort

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

Tatjana

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Татья́на (Tatʹjána).

Tatkraft

A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

tätlicher Angriff

(legal) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.

Tatmittel

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.

Tätowieren

A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).

tätowiert

Having one or more tattoos.

Tätowierung

An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.

Tatsache

Something actual as opposed to invented.

Tatsachenverdreher

One who prevaricates.

tatsächlich

Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact. [from 14th c.]

tatsächlich?

(informal) Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism.

tätscheln

(intransitive) Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person; of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have sexual intercourse; to make love.

tatterig

Doddering, trembly, shaky.

tattern

(intransitive) To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.

Tattoo

An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.

Tatwerkzeug

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.

Tatze

The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.

Tau

A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

taub

Unable (or partially able) to hear.

Täubchen

(countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

Täubchenfleisch

(countable) A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.

Taube

(constellation) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.

taube Nuss

(pejorative) A dunce, mentally dull or stupid person.

Tauben

(archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.

Tauben-

(archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.

taubenartig

Having the form of a dove or pigeon; of the order Columbiformes.

Taubenbaby

A young dove or pigeon.

taubenhaft

(economics) Disfavoring increasing interest rates; inclined against increasing interest rates.

Taubenhaus

(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

Taubenkobel

A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

Taubenküken

A young dove or pigeon.

Taubenschlag

(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

Tauber

A male pigeon.

Tauberich

A male pigeon.

Taubheit

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

Täubin

A female pigeon.

Tauchboot

(US) A very small "baby" submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to a submarine or ship for life support and communications. Slang synonyms: midget-submarine, anchor.

Tauchen

A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.

Taucher

Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

Taucherin

Someone who works underwater; a frogman.

tauchfähig

Able to be submerged.

Tauchgerät

(underwater diving) A piece of equipment consisting of an oxygen tank and breathing apparatus used by divers to allow them to breathe underwater.

tauen

(intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.

Taufbecken

(Christianity) A large basin used for baptism in or near a church.

Taufbewerber

A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young or recent Christian preparing for confirmation.

Taufbewerberin

A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young or recent Christian preparing for confirmation.

Taufe

(Christianity) A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.

Täufer

A member of any of several present-day churches descended from that origin.

Täuferin

A member of any of several present-day churches descended from that origin.

Täuferinn

A person who baptizes.

taufeucht

Covered by dew.

Taufpate

(Christianity) A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.

Taufpatin

A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.

Taugenichts

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, often, disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.

tauglich

Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.

Tauglichkeit

The state, quality, or the fact of being eligible.

Taukreuz

A T-shaped cross.

Taumel

(informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.

Taumel-Lolch

Any of genus Lolium of grasses, especially as a weed in wheat fields.

Taumellolch

Any of genus Lolium of grasses, especially as a weed in wheat fields.

taumeln

(intransitive) To flop around as a fish out of water.

taumelnd

Lurching, floundering.

Taurusgebirge

A mountain range in southern Anatolia, almost 4000 metres high and running parallel to the Mediterranean coast

Tausch

A village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary.

tauschen

(intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

täuschend

In a deceptive manner; misleadingly.

Täuscher

One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.

Tauschgeschäft

An exchange of two comparable things.

Täuschung

(uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

Täuschungsmanöver

(uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

tausend

A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103 (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)

Tausendfüßer

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

Tausendfüßler

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

tausendjährig

Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.

Tausendschönchen

A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals

tausendste

last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.