German–English dictionary

Beziehung

A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.

Beziehungen

Communication, conversation.

Beziehungspause

A temporary split with a romantic partner.

beziehungsweise

in an alternative way

Beziehungswort

(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.

Bezirk

An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.

bezirzen

(transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.

Bezoar

A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.

Bezug

(preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]

bezüglich

regarding, concerning

Bezugselement

(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.

Bezugslinie

A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.

Bezugspunkt

A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.

Bezugssystem

(physics) A set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.

Bezugswert

A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.

Bezugswort

(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.

bezweifeln

(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

bezwingen

(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.

Bezwinger

Someone who conquers.

Bezwingerin

Someone who conquers.

bezwitschert

(archaic) Intoxicated, drunk.

BH

An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts. [from 1920s]

Bharat

(chiefly, India, poetic) India: the Republic of India.

Bhutan

A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.

bi

(LGBTQ, slang) Bisexual.

bi-

Every two; a rate of once every two.

Bianca

A en given name.

Bianka

A en given name.

Bias

(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

Biathlon

(winter sports, uncountable) Racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; (countable) a particular instance of such a race.

bibbern

To anticipate with fear.

Bibel

The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.

Biber

(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.

Biberburg

A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.

Biberfell

The fur of the beaver.

Bibergeil

The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers, used as a scent mark, and as a tincture in some perfumes.

Biberl

A young chicken.

Bibliografie

A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.

Bibliographie

A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.

Bibliophile

One who loves books.

Bibliophiler

One who loves books.

Bibliothek

An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.

Biden

A surname.

Bidet

A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.

bieder

Well-mannered; well-behaved.

Biedermann

A narrow-minded person or group that is overly concerned with censoring or criticizing personal conduct.

Biedermeiersträußchen

A small bunch of fragrant flowers or herbs tied in a bundle, often presented as a gift; nosegays were originally intended to be put to the nose for the pleasant sensation or to mask unpleasant odours. [from 15th c.]

biegbar

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

Biegegerät

A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.

biegen

(intransitive) To become curved.

biegend

Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.

Biegevorrichtung

A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.

biegsam

Having the ability to be bent easily.

Biegsamkeit

(uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.

Biegung

A curve.

Biene

(informal, proscribed) Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.

Bienenbrot

Bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, made and stored in brood cells by forager bees, and used as food for worker bees and larvae.

Bienenhaus

A place where bees and their hives are kept.

Bienenkorb

A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.

Bienenstaat

Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.

Bienenstand

A place where bees and their hives are kept.

Bienenstich

A hypodermic puncture from a bee, resulting in envenomation and often involving the penetration and lodging of the stinger.

Bienenstock

A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.

Bienenwabe

(uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

Bienenwachs

A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.

Bienenzüchter

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

Bienenzüchterin

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

biennal

Happening every two years.

Bierbrauer

Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

Bierbrauerei

A building where beer is produced.

Bierbrauerin

Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

Bierdeckel

(idiomatic, informal) Especially of a calculation, estimation, or other reasoning, or an idea: approximate, rough, simplified. [from 20th c.]

Bierglas

A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.

Bierkrug

A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.

Bierseidel

A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.

Biest

A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.

bieten

(transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

Bifurkation

(biology) A division into two branches.

Bigamie

The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously.

Bigfoot

(cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

bigott

Having the characteristics of a bigot; strongly prejudiced; forming negative opinions about others without just cause.

Bigotterie

The condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.

Biker

A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.

Bikerin

A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.

Bikini

A brief bathing suit worn by men.

bilanzieren

(transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.

Bilanzprüfung

An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures

bilateral

Involving both sides equally.

Bild

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

Bilddarstellung

(mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

Bilddatei

A drawing or picture.

Bildelement

One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

bilden

To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

bildend

Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.

Bilderanbetung

The use of images as symbols that provide an inspiration and aid to worship.

Bilderbuch

A book for young children in which the narrative is accompanied by illustrations.

Bilderdienst

(religion) The worship of idols.

Bilderrätsel

An arrangement of pictures, symbols, and/or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.

bilderreich

With many figures of speech.

Bildersprache

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

bildhaft

(figurative) Famously and distinctively representative of its type.

Bildhauer

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

Bildhauerei

(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).

Bildhauerin

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

bildhauerisch gestalten

(intransitive) To work as a sculptor.

bildhauerisch tätig sein

(intransitive) To work as a sculptor.

Bildhauerkunst

(countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

bildlich

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.

Bildmaterial

(usually, uncountable) An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.

Bildnis

A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.

Bildpunkt

One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

Bildschärfe

(of an image) distinctness, focus.

Bildschirm

(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

Bildschirm-

Inside the frame of the cinema, television or computer screen.

Bildschirmecho

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

Bildseite

The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.

Bildsynthese

(computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.

Bildteppich

A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.

Bildtext

A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

Bildüberschrift

A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

Bildung

Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition

Bildungs-

Of, or relating to education.

bildungsbürgerlich

(sometimes, derogatory) Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated.

Bildungsbürgertum

People of education and good breeding.

bildungsfern

Not educated.

Bildungsplan

(US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.

Bildunterschrift

A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

Bildwirkerei

A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.

Bilge

(nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.

Bilgenwasser

(nautical) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.

Bilgewasser

(uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.

Billard

(games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.

Billardstock

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.

Billiarde

(British, rare) 1015, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

billig

In a cheap manner; without expending much money.

billig-

Appropriate to a restricted budget.

billigen

(transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.

billiges Vergnügen

(idiomatic) Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.

Billigkeit

Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".

Billigkeitsrecht

(legal) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.

Billigung

An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that a person, thing, or event meets requirements.

Billigware

(marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin and (usually) fungibility, as distinguished from branded products not wholly fungible.

Billion

(dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million (times a) million (logic: 1,000,0002): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (1012); a thousand milliard.

Bims

A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.

Bimsstein

A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.

Binärbild

(computing) A series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits.

Binärdatei

(computing) .

Binärsystem

(mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

Binde

A pad of absorbent material (such as cotton) used to absorb menstrual flow.

Bindebogen

(music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).