German–English dictionary

Tausendstel

One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.

Tausi

(plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)

Tautologie

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

tautologisch

Of, relating to, or using tautology.

Tauwerk-Schäkel

(nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.

Tauwetter

The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost

Tauwurm

A worm that lives in the ground.

Taverne

A restaurant or bar.

Tawaritsch

Comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR.

Taxe

A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

Taxi

A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

Taxidermie

The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

Taxifahrer

(colloquial) A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi.

Taxifahrerin

(colloquial) A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi.

Teak

(uncountable, countable) An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).

Teakbaum

(countable) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona.

Teakholz

(uncountable, countable) An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).

Team

A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

Teamarbeit

The cooperative effort of a team of people to achieve a common goal.

Teamchef

(sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.

Teamkapitän

(sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.

Teamkollege

One who is on the same team.

Teamkollegin

One who is on the same team.

Teamwork

The cooperative effort of a team of people to achieve a common goal.

Teaser

(marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.

Technical

A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.

Technik

(uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]

Techniker

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

Technikerin

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

technikorientiert

(of a person) Technically minded; adept with science and technology.

technisch

(of a person) Technically minded; adept with science and technology.

Techno

(music genre) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.

techno-

Relating to technology.

technokratisch

Of, or relating to a technocrat or technocracy.

Technologe

A scientist, engineer, or technician who specializes in a particular technology, or who uses technology in a particular field.

Technologin

A scientist, engineer, or technician who specializes in a particular technology, or who uses technology in a particular field.

technologisch

Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.

Techtelmechtel

A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.

Teckel

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

Tee

(British) A cup of tea served without milk.

Teeblatt

(uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

Teeblätter

(uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

Teegebäck

A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

Teehaus

A cafe or restaurant that serves tea, usually with light food.

Teekanne

A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.

Teelöffel

(rare) An item of cutlery; a spoon, larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon, used for eating dessert.

Teer

(usually, uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.

teeren

(transitive) To coat with tar.

Teerjacke

(slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.

Teermakadam

(loosely, UK, Ireland, Canada) Any bituminous road surfacing material.

Teermaschine

(road transport, construction) A road paving machine, a machine to lay asphalt on roads.

Teespender

A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

Teestube

A cafe or restaurant that serves tea, usually with light food.

Teetasse

A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.

Teheran

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

Teich

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

Teig

A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

Teigwaren

(uncountable) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.

Teil

(programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

teilbar

(arithmetic) Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, results in another integer still, thus leaving no remainder.

Teilchen

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

Teile

(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

Teileigentum

(US, Canada, Philippines) The system of ownership by which such condominiums operate.

teilen

(transitive, obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of. [16th–19th c.]

teilend

Having a quality that divides or separates.

teiler

Speech, or a way of speaking, a narrative, logical discourse.

Teilhaberschaft

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

Teilhabitat

(countable, biology) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.

Teillebensraum

(countable, biology) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.

Teilmenge

(set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.

Teilnahme

The act of participating, of taking part in something.

Teilnahmevoraussetzung

In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.

teilnahmslos

Having, or revealing, no emotion.

Teilnahmslosigkeit

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

teilnehmen

(transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place). [from 17th c.]

teilnehmen (an)

(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). [from 16th c.]

Teilnehmer

A participant who enters something, such as a contest.

Teilnehmerin

One who participates.

Teilnehmerzahl

The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.

Teilraum

(countable, mathematics) A subset of a space which is a space in its own right.

Teilrepublik

One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

teils

To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.

Teilsatz

(grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a sentence.)

Teilstrecke

A defined part of a section.

Teilung

The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft. [from 19th c.]

Teilungsrest

(mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.

teilweise

To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.

teilweise eingebürgerter Ausländer

(British, historical) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.

Teint

The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.

Tektonik

(geology) The study of crustal plates and other large-scale structural features of the Earth.

tektonisch

(geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.

tele-

over a distance

Telefon

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).

Telefonat

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

Telefongesellschaft

(informal) A telephone company (historically); a telecommunications company, a telecom.

telefonieren

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

Telefonstreich

A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else.

Telegraf

(chiefly, _, historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.

Telegramm

A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

Telegraph

(chiefly, _, historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.

telegraphieren

To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.

Telemetrie

(spaceflight, telecommunications) The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.

Telepath

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.

Telepathie

(parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

telepathisch

(parapsychology) Of, relating to, or using telepathy.

Telephon

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).

Teleportation

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

Teleskop

(constellation) A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.

Television

(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

Telex

A network of teletypes.

Teller

A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

Tellereisen

A snare or trap for game.

Tellermütze

(headwear) A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.

tellurisch

(formal, or, literary) Of or relating to the earth; (specifically, chiefly, science fiction) inhabiting planet Earth as opposed to other planets. [from mid 19th c.]

Teltower Rübchen

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

Telugisch

A Dravidian language of India.

Telugu

A Dravidian language of India.

Tempel

A house of worship, especially:

Tempelhüpfen

(playground games) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.

Temperament

(uncountable) Power, strength, energy.

temperamentvoll

(informal) Cheerful, lively.

Temperaturerhöhung

(symptom) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

Temperaturmesser

An apparatus used to measure temperature.

Temperaturregler

A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting.

Temperenz

Moderation of passion; calmness.

Temperenzler

(American spelling) A person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages.

tempern

(metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

Templer

A Knight Templar, one of the Knights Templar.

Tempo

(North America) A disposable tissue.

Tempomacher

(now, uncommon) One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.

temporal

Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.

temporär

(euphemistic) Lasting for a short time only.

temporeich

(chiefly, sports) fast, rapid, speedy.

Temposünder

One who speeds: one who exceeds the maximum legal speed limit.

Temposünderin

One who speeds: one who exceeds the maximum legal speed limit.

Tempura

A Japanese dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter.

Tempus

(linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

Tendenz

An inclination, disposition, tendency, preference, or attraction.

tendenziös

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

tendieren zu

(followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. [from mid-14th c.]

Tennessee

A state of the United States.

Tennis

(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

Tennisschuhe

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

Tenor

(figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.

Tentakel

(zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

tentativ

Uncertain; subject to future change.

Tepidarium

A heated greenhouse.

Teppich

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

Teppichboden

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

Tequila

An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana.