German–English dictionary

Bollwerk

(architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

Bollywood

The Hindi-language film industry located in Mumbai.

bolognesisch

Of, from or relating to the city of Bologna, capital and largest city of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, or the surrounding metropolitan city.

Bolschewik

(historical) A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.

Bolschewikin

(historical) A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.

Bolschewismus

The Communist political ideology adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Marxism-Leninism.

Bolschewist

(historical) A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.

Bolschewistin

(historical) A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.

Bolzen

A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.

Bombage

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

Bombarde

A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.

Bombardement

The act of bombing, especially towns or cities.

bombardieren

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

Bombardierung

The act of bombing, especially towns or cities.

Bombast

Pompous, officious talk.

bombastisch

(of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous

Bombe

An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

Bombenanschlag

The action of placing and detonating bombs.

Bombenanschläge

The action of placing and detonating bombs.

Bombenflugzeug

(aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.

Bombenleger

A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.

Bombenlegerin

A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.

Bombenschütze

(North America) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.

Bombenschützin

(North America) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.

Bomber

(aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.

bombieren

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

bombig

(slang, dated) Clipping of radical (“excellent”).

Bommel

A furry ball attached on top of a hat.

Bon

A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.

Bonaventura

A surname transferred from the given name.

Bonbon

(countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Bondage

(sex) The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.

Bongo

A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

Bonität

(uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).

Bonito

Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and resemble the tuna, but smaller. [from 16th c.]

Bonmot

A clever saying, phrase, or witticism; often, a witty riposte in dialogue.

Bonn

An independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany.

Bonsai

(transitive) To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.

Bonsaibaum

(transitive) To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.

Bonus

Something extra that is good; an added benefit.

Bonze

(idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.

Bookie

(gambling) A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.

Bookmaker

(gambling) A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.

bookmark

(computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

Boolean

(logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

boolesch

(logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

boolsche Variable

(logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

Boom

A rapid expansion or increase.

boomen

(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.

boomend

(by extension) A new growth or expansion of something.

Boost

A push from behind or below, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.

Booster

(aerospace) The first stage of a multistage rocket, providing primary or supplemental thrust for liftoff and early flight.

Booten

(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.

Böotier

(historical) An inhabitant or a resident of Boeotia.

Böotierin

(historical) An inhabitant or a resident of Boeotia.

böotisch

(historical) Pertaining to Boeotia.

Bootsfahrer

(nautical) Someone who travels by boat.

Bootsführer

In a ship's boat, the helmsman given charge of the boat's crew.

Bootshafen

A harbour for small boats.

Bootshalle

A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.

Bootshaus

A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.

Bootsladung

(slang) A large quantity.

Bootsmann

(nautical) The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.

Bootsschuppen

A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.

Bootssteg

(by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.

Bord

A shelf on which articles may be laid.

Bordeaux

The capital city of Gironde department, France; the capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

bordeauxfarben

Of a deep purple red color like that of Burgundy wine.

Bordeauxrot

A dark red colour tinged with purple, like that of Burgundy (red) wine.

Bördel

An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.

Bordell

A house of prostitution.

Bordellwirtin

A person who runs a brothel, whether legally or illegally.

Bördelrand

A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.

Bordkante

(British spelling) .

Bordküche

(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

Bordstein

(British spelling) .

Bordsteinschwalbe

A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.

boreal

Of, relating to, or coming from the north.

Borealer Nadelwald

A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Borg

(obsolete, _, except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.

borgen

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

Borgis

(printing, dated) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

Borke

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

Borneo

A Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.

bornierter Mensch

One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.

Borniertheit

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

Borschtsch

A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.

Börse

A place for conducting trading.

Börsenmakler

A stockbroker.

Börsenmaklerin

A stockbroker.

Börsensaal

The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.

borstig

Childishly irritable.

Borusse

(historical) A citizen of the German state of Prussia.

bösartig

Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.

Bösartigkeit

Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.

Böschung

(architecture) An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

böse

Displaying or feeling anger.

böse sein

(transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

böser

Mischief.

böser Blick

A wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.

böser Geist

A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

Bösewicht

(informal) a villain, particularly an antagonist in a story.

boshaft

sly and spiteful; marked by malice

boshaftes Kind

An overly playful person; a trifler.

Boshaftigkeit

The quality or state of being evil.

Bosheit

Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.

Bosnier

Of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language.

Bosnierin

(uncountable) The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

bosnisch

Of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language.

Boson

(particle) A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion.

Boss

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

Boston

An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.

böswillig

Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.

Böswilligkeit

Hostile attitude or feeling.

Bot

(computing) A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.

Botanik

(uncountable) A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.

Botaniker

(botany) A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.

Botanikerin

(botany) A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.

botanisch

Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.

Bote

A messenger, especially one bringing important news.

Botox

A toxic compound (generic name botulinum toxin type A) produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, that causes the paralysis of muscles, used in cosmetic surgery to conceal wrinkles and for muscle spasm relief and headache prevention.

Botschaft

An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.

Botschafter

One who brings messages.

Botsuana

The Republic of Botswana, since 1966.

Böttcher

A maker of barrels, especially a cooper#Noun or a container manufacturer.

Bottich

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.

Bottleneck

An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.

Botulismus

(pathology) Poisoning caused by the toxin from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacterium that grows in improperly prepared food.

Bouillabaisse

A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France.

Boulevard

A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.

Boulevardblatt

(newspapers) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news. [from early 20th c.]

boulevardesk

(figurative) Resembling the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper: appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.

Bounce

(internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.

Bouquet

A bunch of cut flowers.

Bourbon

A serving of bourbon whiskey.

bourgeois

(Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually, _, pejorative) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

Bourgeoisie

(Marxism) The capitalist class.

Bouteille

The contents of such a container.

Boutique

A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.

Boutonniere

A small flower or bunch of flowers worn in a buttonhole or pinned to the lapel of a jacket.

Bowen

A coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.

Bowl

(cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.

Bowle

A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

bowlen

(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

Bowling

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling

Bowlsspiel

A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.

Box

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

Boxen

(sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

Boxenstopp einlegen

(intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

Boxenstopp machen

(intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.