German–English dictionary

Weissagung

A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

Weißblütigkeit

(oncology, pathology) Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.

Weißdorn

Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches

Weißdornblüte

The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.

Weiße

(anthropology, dated) A member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).

weiße Augenhaut

(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.

weiße Liste

(legal, computing) A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted.

weißen

(ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

Weißenburg

The capital and largest city of Alba County, Romania.

Weißer

(anthropology, dated) A member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).

weisser Langstock

(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path

Weißer Sonntag

(Christianity) The first Sunday after Easter Sunday.

Weißer Thun

A longfin tuna, a large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh.

Weißfleckenkrankheit

(dermatology) The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.

weißgescheckt

Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.

weißglühend

Shining very brightly.

Weißheit

(statistics, of a stochastic process) The quality of being white noise.

Weißkohl

(uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

Weißkohlsalat

A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).

weißlich

Somewhat white, pale or almost white.

Weißling

Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.

Weissnäherin

A woman who sews clothes professionally.

Weißrussland

A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.

Weißruthenien

A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.

Weisssein

(statistics, of a stochastic process) The quality of being white noise.

Weißwal

A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.

weit

At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

weit entwickelt

Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.

weit hergeholt

A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.

weit verbreitet

(of a, language) Spoken by a large number of people.

weit verbreitet sein

(intransitive) To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.

weit verstreut

Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

weit weg

At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

Weitblick

The quality of being considerate about what might happen in the future.

Weite

Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.

weite Verbreitung

The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.

weiten

(intransitive) To become broad or broader.

weiter

Onward, forward, with progressive action.

Weiter so!

An expression of congratulations, encouragement, or approval.

weiterbringen

(transitive) To advance, promote.

Weiterentwicklung

Development, increase, evolution.

weiterführend

Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course.

Weitergabe von medialen Inhalten

The act of syndicating a news feature by publishing it in multiple newspapers etc, simultaneously

weitergeben

(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. [from 16th c.]

weitergeführt

Uninterrupted.

weitergehen

(intransitive) To continue in extent.

weiterhin

(conjunctive) Also; in addition.

Weiterkommen

(figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.

weiterleiten

(transitive) In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority

Weiterleitung

(computing) The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.

weitermachen

Disregard the previous partial command or order and return to the most recent formal command or order.

weiterreichen

To hand down; to transmit.

weitersenden

(transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.

Weiterverbreitung von medialen Inhalten

The act of syndicating a news feature by publishing it in multiple newspapers etc, simultaneously

weiterverfolgen

(transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession). [from 15th c.]

Weiterverkauf

Sale of something previously bought.

weiterverkaufen

To sell again.

weitgehend

Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.

weither

At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

weitläufig

Of a long and winding route.

weitläufige Verwandtschaft

(marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).

weiträumig

Large in expanse.

weitreichend

Having a broad range, scope, or influence.

weitschweifend

Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.

weitschweifig

Not direct or to the point.

Weitschweifigkeit

Long-windedness, tiresome length, excess of words.

Weitsicht

The quality of being considerate about what might happen in the future.

weitsichtig

Unable to focus with one's eyes on near objects; presbyopic.

Weitsichtigkeit

(pathology) The condition of being unable to focus on near objects; presbyopia.

weitverbreitet

Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

Weizen

(countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

Weizenbraunrost

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

weizenfarben

Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.

welch

Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'.

welche

A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things).

welcher

(interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.

welches

(interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.

Welfe

(historical, politics) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.

welk

(archaic, or, literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.

welken

(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

Wellchen

A small wave; a ripple.

Welle

A spindle of a wheel.

wellen

To fold into parallel folds, grooves or ridges.

Wellen schlagen

(intransitive) To make a commotion or uproar.

Wellenbrecher

A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.

wellend

Moving up and down like waves; wavy.

Welleneffekt

The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.

wellenförmig bewegen

(transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.

Wellengang

A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.

Wellenkamm

A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

Wellenlänge

(physics) The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency.

wellenreiten

To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.

Wellenreiter

A person who rides a surfboard.

Wellenreiterbrett

A shaped waterproof plank, usually made of wood or foam and reinforced plastic, used to surf on waves.

Wellenschnitt

(heraldry) Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines, especially to symbolize a river.

Wellensittich

A species of small green parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, native to inland Australia; a common cagebird throughout the world and bred in many colour varieties.

Wellenspitze

A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

Wellental

A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.

Welligkeit

(electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

Wellington

(card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.

Welpe

The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.

Welpin

A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.

Wels

The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

Welschkorn

Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Welt

The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.

Welt-

Common to all society; worldwide.

weltabgeschieden

Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.

Weltall

(countable) The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.

Weltanschauung

A system of beliefs; a set of beliefs with interrelations.

weltbewegend

Innovative; new, different; doing something that has never been done before.

Weltbild

A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.

Weltbürger

A person regarded as part of the global citizenry; specifically, one who takes the view that they belong to no particular country or state.

weltbürgerlich

(of a place, or, institution) Composed of people from all over the world.

Weltbürgertum

The idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.

Weltenbummler

A person who travels often to faraway places.

Welteninsel

(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. [from 19th c.]

Weltepiskopat

Bishops seen as a group.

weltfremd

(colloquial, figurative) Out of touch with the experience of ordinary people.

weltgewandt

Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

Weltherrscher

One who rules the world.

Weltläufigkeit

The characteristic of being mundane; ordinariness; worldliness.

weltlich

Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven; terrestrial.

weltmännisch

Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave.

Weltmeer

(countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

Weltraum

A region outside of explored space.

Weltraumbahnhof

A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.

Weltraumfahrer

(informal, childish) An astronaut, often a male astronaut.

Weltraumpilot

A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.

Weltraumwesen

Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

Weltreich

The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.

Weltschöpfer

(religion, sometimes, capitalized) The deity that created the world.

weltweit

Concerning all parts of the world.

wem

(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.

wen

As the object of a verb.

wendbar

(of, clothing) Able to be worn inside out.

Wende

A member of a Slavic people from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub.

Wendehals

A small migratory bird in the woodpecker family, Jynx torquilla.

Wendekreis

A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic.

Wendelring

(historical) A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.

Wendemanöver

(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.

wenden

(intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.

Wendepunkt

The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.

wendig

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.

Wendigkeit

(uncountable) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion

Wendigo

(mythological creature) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

Wendung

A colloquialism or idiom.

Wenig

A small amount of something.

wenig überraschend

Not surprising; expected.

wenige

A small number of things.

weniger

a smaller number.