German–English dictionary

City

(chiefly, US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.

Clairon

(brass instrument, historical, or, poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.

Clan

A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.

Claque

(collective) A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.

Clark

A en given name.

Clash

Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.

Classis

(taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

Claudia

A en given name.

Claustrum

(neuroanatomy) A thin, irregular sheet of grey matter underneath the inner part of the neocortex on both sides of the brains of mammals; its exact function is not understood, but it is believed to facilitate coordination between senses

clean

Free from (or showing no signs of) corrupt, unlawful, and/or sinister conduct or connections (and (of criminal, driving, etc. records) therefore without restrictions or penalties).

Clearing

(banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.

Cleaver

A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.

Clemens

A en given name, borne by an early pope and by several saints.

Clementine

A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.

clever

Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.

Client

(computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.

Clinch

(wrestling, combat sports) The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.

Clips

Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.

Clique

A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

Closure

(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.

Cloud

(cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

Cloud-Computing

(informal, computing) Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

Clown

A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.

Clownerie

The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.

Clownin

A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.

Clubbing

(uncountable) The practice of frequenting nightclubs.

Cluster

(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.

Clutch

A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.

Clyde

A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Coach

(originally, Oxford University, _, slang) A trainer or instructor.

Coachin

(originally, Oxford University, _, slang) A trainer or instructor.

Coaching

The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.

Cobain

A surname.

Cobalt

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

Coca-Cola

A particular cola soft drink (type of carbonated drink), produced by the Coca-Cola Company.

Cocablatt

The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

Coccyx

(medical, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.

Cochenille

(countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).

Cochenillelaus

(countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).

Cochenilleschildlaus

(countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).

Cockpit

The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled. [from 20th c.]

Cocktail

A mixed alcoholic beverage.

Coda

(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

Code

Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

Code-Einschleusung

(computer security) The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.

Code-Switching

(linguistics) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.

Codein

(pharmaceutical drug) An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and antitussive; often mixed with aspirin etc.

coden

(computing) To write software programs.

Codewort

(military, security) A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.

Coelestin

(mineral) A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO4, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.

Coffein

An alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, found naturally in tea and coffee plants, which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system. [from 1830]

Cognac

A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.

Cognomen

(historical) A personal epithet or clan name added to the given name and family name of Ancient Romans.

Coiffeur

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

Coiffeuse

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

Cola

(countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.

Collage

A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

Collie

Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs

Collier

(jewelry) An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.

Colombo

The commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

Colonel

(uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.

Colonoskopie

(medicine) The examination of the colon using a colonoscope.

Columbarium

(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

Combo

A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.

Comeback

A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.

Comedian

An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

Comicliteratur

the medium of comic books, comic strips, and other sequential art

Comiczeichner

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

Comiczeichnerin

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

committen

(ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)

Common Sense

Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.

Compiler

(software) A computer program that transforms source code into object code.

Compliance

(uncountable) The state of being compliant.

Complication

(horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.

Computer

A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media. [from 20th c.]

Computercluster

A group of computers that work together.

Computerei

The study of computers and computer programming.

Computerfreak

(slang, sometimes, _, derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.

Computerisierung

The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.

Computermaus

Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

computersimuliert

Simulated in a computer and/or online.

Computerspiel

An electronic game, especially a game played using a general-purpose computer (as opposed to a game console).

Computervirus

(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.

Concetto

(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. [from 16th c.]

conchieren

To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

Concierge

One who attends to the wishes of hotel guests.

Conclusio

(countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

Conférencier

Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.

Confiserie

(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.

Confucius

An influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.; personal name Kong Qiu (孔丘).

Congee

(Asian, _, cuisine) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

Connaisseur

A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.

Connecticut

A state in the northeastern United States.

Conquest

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

Conquest-Modus

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

Conquestmodus

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

Container

(transportation) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

Conté

(art) A drawing medium, usually square in cross-section, composed of compressed powdered charcoal or graphite mixed with a clay or wax base. [from mid 19th c.]

Contenance

Calmness of mind or temperament.

contra

Contrary to something.

Contra Tanz

(dance) A contra dance.

Controller

(business) The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.

Cookie

(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

cool

Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

Copilot

A backup or assistant pilot of an aircraft.

Copyleft

A software license that follows this philosophy.

Cord

A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.

Corinna

A en given name.

Cornelia

A en given name in quiet use since the 18th century.

Cornflakes

A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.

Cornrow

(chiefly, in plural) One of a set of rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp, forming a hairstyle, of African origin.

Coroner

(Commonwealth, Ireland, Japan, legal) A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, and who may have (or historically had) additional powers such as investigating cases of treasure trove.

Cortex

(countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.

Cortison

(steroid hormone, pharmaceutical drug) A corticosteroid hormone, closely related to corticosterone, produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and antiallergy agent. 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, with formula C21H28O5.

Cosplay

(uncountable) The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.

costillar

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.

Cottage

A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

Couch

(North America, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

Country

Ellipsis of country music. [from 20th c.]

County

An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 47 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska, Connecticut, and Louisiana).

County Galway

A city in County Galway, Ireland.

Coupé

A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupe)

Couplet

(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.

Coupon

A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.

Courage

The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

couragiert

Of an action, that requires courage.

Court

(sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games

Couscous

A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.

Cousin

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

Cousine

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

Cover

(music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.

covern

(music, transitive) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).

Cowboy

A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.

Cowgirl

A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.

Coxa

(anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

CPU

(computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.

Crack

(obsolete) One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.

Cracker

A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

Crackerin

(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

Cranberry

(countable) The edible red berry of that shrub.

Craquelé

(ceramics) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.

Crash

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

Crawley

A large town and borough in West Sussex.

Credit

A nominal unit of value assigned outside of a currency system.

Creditpoint

A nominal unit of value assigned outside of a currency system.

Credo

A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.

Cree

An aboriginal nation of North America.

Creme

A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.

cremeartig

Of food or drink, having the rich taste or thick, smooth texture of cream, whether or not it actually contains cream.