German–English dictionary

chatten

To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).

Chauffeur

A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

Chauffeurin

A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

Chauffeuse

A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

chauffieren

(intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).

Chaussee

A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

Chauvinismus

(pejorative) Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism.

Chauvinist

(pejorative) A chauvinistic person.

Chauvinistin

(pejorative) A chauvinistic person.

chauvinistisch

Pertaining to chauvinism.

Cheat

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.

Check

An inspection or examination.

Check-up

A routine visit to the doctor, dentist, or the like.

Checkbox

(graphical user interface) An on-screen box that can be optionally filled with a check mark, to enable or disable a setting.

checken

(transitive) To inspect; to examine.

Checkliste

A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.

Checkpoint

A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

Cheddar

A large village and civil parish, previously in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England, famous for its cheese, and also for its gorge, caves and remains of early man found in them (OS grid ref ST4553).

Cheerleader

(chiefly, US) A person, usually a young, attractive female, who encourages applause and cheers at a sports event, and wearing a specially-designed uniform in the official colors of the team he/she cheers for.

Cheerleaderin

(chiefly, US) A person, usually a young, attractive female, who encourages applause and cheers at a sports event, and wearing a specially-designed uniform in the official colors of the team he/she cheers for.

Cheerleading

A physical activity in which cheerleaders organize elements of dance, gymnastics, and tumbling for judgment or to cheer on a team.

Cheeseburger

A hamburger containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese).

Chef

The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group. [from 13th c.]

Chefin

A headdress; a covering for the head.

Chefkoch

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

Chefköchin

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

Chefsprecher

(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.

Chefsprecherin

A female anchorperson.

Chemiker

A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

Chemikerin

A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

chemisch

Of or relating to chemistry.

chemische Industrie

The chemical industry.

chemo-

Relating to or using chemicals or chemistry.

Chemosynthese

the production of carbohydrates and other compounds from simple compounds such as carbon dioxide, using the oxidation of chemical nutrients as a source of energy rather than sunlight; it is limited to certain bacteria and fungi

chen

Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names.

Cherokesen

An indigenous North American people.

Cherub

(biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.

Chester

A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.

Cheyenne

A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.

Chi

The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.

Chia

A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.

Chianti

A Tuscan red wine.

chic

Elegant, stylish.

Chicago

A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.

Chicorée

(chiefly, Britain) Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names.

Chiffre

Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.

chiffriert

Being in code; having been encrypted.

Chihuahua

The smallest breed of dog in the world, originating in Mexico and having large erect ears.

Chikago

A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.

Chile

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Chile. Capital and largest city: Santiago.

Chilene

A person from Chile or of Chilean descent.

Chilenin

A person from Chile or of Chilean descent.

chilenisch

Of, from, or pertaining to the nation or culture of Chile or its people.

Chili

(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.

chillen

(intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.

Chimäre

(Greek mythology) A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.

Chinatown

A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.

Chinese

(dated, now, offensive) A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.

Chinesen

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.

Chinesenstadt

A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.

Chinesin

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.

Chinesinnen

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person from China or of Chinese descent.

Chinesisch

(uncountable, collective) The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China.

chinesische Sprache

(uncountable) The branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family including Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Southern Min, and other closely related language varieties and dialects.

chinesischer Rettich

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.

Chinin

(pharmaceutical drug) An alkaloid with the chemical formula C20H24N2O2, originally derived from cinchona bark (from plants of the genus Cinchona), used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water, which presents as a bitter colourless powder; also, a drug containing quinine or a chemical compound derived from it. [from early 19th c.]

Chip

(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.

Chiropraktiker

A health-care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic.

Chiropraktikerin

A health-care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic.

Chirurg

One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.

Chirurgie

(medicine, usually, _, uncountable) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

Chirurgin

One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.

chirurgisch

Relating to surgery; by means of surgery.

Chlamydien

(uncountable) Any of several common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted diseases caused by the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis.

Chlor

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

Chlorat

(chemistry) Any salt of chloric acid.

Chlorid

(chemistry) Any salt of hydrochloric acid.

Chloroform

(organic compound) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

Chlorophyll

(biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

Chlorpromazin

(pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antiemetic. It is a phenothiazine derivative.

chnitzer

A mistake or error.

chocolat

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

Choke

A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.

Cholera

(pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

Cholesterin

(biochemistry) A sterol lipid synthesized by the liver and transported in the bloodstream to the membranes of all animal cells; it plays a central role in many biochemical processes and, as a lipoprotein that coats the walls of blood vessels, is associated with cardiovascular disease.

Cholesterol

(biochemistry) A sterol lipid synthesized by the liver and transported in the bloodstream to the membranes of all animal cells; it plays a central role in many biochemical processes and, as a lipoprotein that coats the walls of blood vessels, is associated with cardiovascular disease.

Chomeini

A surname from Persian, notably borne by Ruhollah Khomeini.

Chopper

(archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.

Chor

(Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.

Choral

(Christianity) A form of Lutheran or Protestant hymn tune.

Chordirektor

the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal

Chordirektorin

the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal

Choreograf

A person who choreographs.

Choreografie

The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.

Choreografin

A person who choreographs.

Choreograph

A person who choreographs.

Choreographin

A person who choreographs.

Chorhemd

A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees, usually featuring lace decoration and embroidered bordures.

Chorherr

A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

Chorion

(anatomy, biology) The protective and nutritive membrane in higher vertebrates that attaches the fetus to the uterus.

Chorizo

A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.

Chorleiter

the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal

Chorleiterin

the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal

Chormeister

the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal

Chormeisterin

the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal

Chorpult

A stand with a slanted top used to support a Bible from which passages are read during a church service.

Chorrock

A liturgical vestment of the Christian Church in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or knees, usually featuring lace decoration and embroidered bordures.

Chorus

(often, attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.

Christ

(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.

Christa

A en given name.

Christbaumkugel

A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

Christenheit

The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth. [from 14th c.]

Christentum

The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth. [from 14th c.]

Christenwelt

The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth. [from 14th c.]

Christi Himmelfahrt

(Christianity, specifically) The believed entry of Jesus Christ into heaven after his resurrection.

Christin

(obsolete, England) A European, especially though not necessarily of the Christian religion.

Christine

A en given name.

christlich

(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.

Christlich-Soziale Union

(German politics) The Bavarian Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union), a major mainstream right-wing political party in Bavaria.

Christoph Colon

A person who makes a great discovery.

Christoph Columbus

A person who makes a great discovery.

Christoph Kolumbus

A person who makes a great discovery.

Christopher Street Day

A festival or other event, usually involving a march or parade and organized annually within a city, to celebrate the experiences and identities of LGBTQ people and to promote their interests and rights. [from late 20th c.]

Chrom

A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.

Chromatische Tonleiter

(sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.

Chromatografie

(analytical chemistry) Any of various techniques for the qualitative or quantitative separation of the components of mixtures of compounds; all characterized by the use of a mobile phase (gas or liquid) moving relative to a stationary phase (liquid or solid) – the differences between the rates of migration of the compounds between the two phases affect the separation.

Chromosom

(cytology, genetics) A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.

Chronik

A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

Chroniken

(book of the bible) A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible.

chronisch

Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

Chronist

A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

Chronograf

A device which marks or records time or time intervals.

Chronograph

A device which marks or records time or time intervals.

Chronologie

(uncountable) The science of determining the order in which events occurred.

chronologisch

(films, shows, books, etc) Relating to the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur within a story, rather than the order in which they are released.

Chronometer

A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.

Chronos

(Greek god) The personification of time.

Chruschtschow

English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв; usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.

Chrysantheme

Any of many flowering perennial plants, of the genus Chrysanthemum, native to China, that have showy radiate heads.

chthonisch

Dwelling within the underworld. [from late 18th c.]

Chur

A town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland.

Churro

A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.

Chutney

A sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers. [from 1813]

Chuzpe

Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

Cicero

The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).

Cineast

A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of their works.

circa

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

circadian

(biology) Of, relating to, or showing rhythmic behaviour with a period of approximately 24 hours; especially of a biological process.

cis

Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) nor non-binary.

Cisperson

A cisgender person.