German–English dictionary

Bettgeschichte

A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.

Betthäschen

(derogatory, slang) A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.

bettlägerig

Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness.

Bettlägriger

(dated, sometimes, offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.

Bettler

A person who begs.

Bettlerin

A person who begs.

Bettpfanne

A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.

Bettpfosten

Any of the four upright supports of a bedstead.

Bettschüssel

A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.

Bettung

Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.

betulich

Excessively careful; cautious.

betüpfeln

To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

betütert

(informal, slang) Slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.

beugen

(transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

Beugestütz

(bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.

Beugung

(quantum mechanics) The breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure (e.g. a slit), followed by reconstruction of the wave by interference.

Beule

An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.

Beulen

The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).

beunruhigen

(intransitive, figurative) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

beunruhigend

Tending to discomfit.

beunruhigt

(not comparable) Having an alarm fitted.

Beunruhigung

(archaic, countable, uncountable) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

beurlauben

(transitive) To grant a furlough to (someone).

Beurlaubung

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

beurteilen

(transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.

beurteilend

(informal) Inclined to make (disapproving) judgments; judgmental.

Beurteilung

A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.

Beute

An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.

Beutegreifer

Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other non-plant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.

Beutel

(countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.

Beutelratte

Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.

Beuteltier

Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.

Beutnerin

A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.

bevölkern

(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

bevölkert

Having a large population.

Bevölkerung

A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

bevölkerungsreich

Having a large population.

Bevölkerungszahl

(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

Bevölkerungszählung

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

bevollmächtigen

(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.

Bevollmächtigung

The process of assuring that all systems and components of a major piece of equipment, a process, a building or similar are designed, installed and tested according to the operational requirements of the owner or final client.

bevor

In advance of the time when.

bevormunden

(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

Bevormundung

The characteristic of being bossy.

bevorratet

Having been replenished with stock.

Bevorratung

An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.

bevorrechtet

Having a hereditary or official right or privilege.

Bevorrechtung

An exclusive hereditary or official right or privilege.

bevorstehend

(not comparable) Approaching or about to take place.

bevorzugen

(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]

bevorzugt

Better than some other option; preferred.

Bevorzugung

The quality or degree of being viewed favorably

bewachen

(transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

Bewaffnung

(usually used in the plural) A weapon.

bewahren

(transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.

Bewahrung

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

bewalden

(transitive) To cover an area with trees.

bewaldet

Covered in forest.

bewältigen

(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.

bewandert

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

bewandt

Capable of doing many things competently.

bewässern

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.

Bewässerung

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

bewegen

(transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.

bewegend

(not comparable) That moves or move.

Beweger

Someone who or something that moves.

Bewegerin

Someone who or something that moves.

Beweggrund

(law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour. [from 18th c.]

beweglich

(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

beweglich lagern

(transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.

beweglich verbinden

(transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.

bewegliches Gut

Tangible, movable property.

Beweglichkeit

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

bewegt

Emotionally moved; touched.

Bewegung

(mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).

Bewegungsenergie

(physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

bewegungslos

(not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life) .

Bewehrung

(uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.

Bewehrungsstab

(countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.

beweiden

(transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

beweinen

(transitive) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.

Beweis

A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.

beweisen

(transitive) To show how to use (something).

beweiskräftig

(legal) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.

Beweislast

(legal) The duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi.

Beweismittel

(legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

Beweisstück

(legal) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

bewerben

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

Bewerber

One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.

Bewerberin

One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.

Bewerbung

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

Bewerbungsgespräch

A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant. [from 20th c.]

bewerfen

Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.

bewerkstelligen

(transitive) To accomplish, to achieve.

bewerkstelligt

Completed; effected; established.

bewerten

(transitive) To estimate; to conjecture.

Bewertung

The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.

bewilligen

(intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. [from 16th c.]

bewilligt

Having received approval.

Bewilligung

(legal) The act of approving a bill etc. [from 15th c.]

bewillkommnen

To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".

bewirken

(transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.

bewirten

(transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward. [from 16th c.]

Bewirter

One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.

bewohnbar

Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

bewohnen

(transitive) To live or reside in.

Bewohner

An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.

Bewohner des Nordens

A native or inhabitant of the north of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the northern United States, the north of Norway, etc.

Bewohner des Südens

A native or inhabitant of the south of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as the United Kingdom.

Bewohnerin

An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.

Bewohnerin des Nordens

A native or inhabitant of the north of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the northern United States, the north of Norway, etc.

Bewohnerin des Südens

A native or inhabitant of the south of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as the United Kingdom.

bewohnt

Having inhabitants; lived in.

bewölkt

Covered with or characterised by clouds.

Bewucherung

(biology) Something that grows or has grown.

Bewuchs

(biology) Something that grows or has grown.

Bewunderer

One who admires.

Bewunderin

One who admires.

bewundern

(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.

bewundernd

Characterized by admiration.

bewundernswert

Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; estimable.

Bewunderung

A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful

Bewundrerin

One who admires.

bewusst

Sapient; self-aware.

bewusst unterbieten

(transitive) To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.

bewusst unterschätzen

(transitive) To give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.

Bewusstheit

(uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

bewusstlos

Unable to be perceived by the senses.

Bewusstlosigkeit

The state of lacking consciousness, of being unconscious

Bewusstsein

(uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

Bewusstsein wiedererlangen

(intransitive) To regain consciousness.

bewusstseinserweiternd

Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness, etc.

Bey

(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions.

bezahlen

(transitive) To pay (a bill).

Bezahlung

(uncountable) The act of paying.

bezaubern

(figuratively) To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain.

bezaubernd

Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

bezaubernde Frau

A beautiful, charming and irresistible woman.

bezaubert

Held at attention, as if by magic.

bezeichnen

(transitive) To indicate; to mark.

bezeichnend

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

Bezeichner

(computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.

Bezeichnung

(formal, _, or, _, dated) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.

Bezeichnungen

(uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.

bezeichnungsgemäß

(non-standard, more loosely, negative polarity) In a true or literal sense; as one would expect from the name or description.

bezeugen

To deliver a testimony, especially as witness

bezeugt

(linguistics) Of words or languages, proven to have existed by records.

beziehen

(of a clear liquid or surface) To become cloudy or clouded.

Bezieher

A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

Bezieherin

A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.