German–English dictionary

cremen

(transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.

cremig

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

Crêpe

A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.

Crescendo

(music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.

Crew

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

Cricket

A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).

crimpen

(electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

Crispinus

A Roman shoemaker, martyr and saint, and brother of Crispinian; patron saint of cobblers and tanners.

Crocket

(uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).

Croissant

A curved pastry.

Cropping

The act of cropping.

Croquet

(uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).

Cross

(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

crossen

(intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.

Crossover

(sometimes, derogatory) An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.

Croupier

The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.

Croupière

The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.

Crumble

A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

Crux

A puzzle or difficulty.

CSD

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.]

CSU

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

Cunnilingus

Performance of oral sex upon the vulva or vagina.

Cupcake

A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

Cupido

(Roman god) The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow). The Roman counterpart of Eros.

Curare

A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

Curling

(uncountable) A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).

Curriculum

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

Curry

One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.

curryen

(transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.

Currysoße

A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.

Cursor

A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.

Curveball

(baseball) A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"

CVJM

A hostel or other facility operated by the Young Men's Christian Association.

Cyan

An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.

Cyanid

(inorganic compound, organic compound, countable) Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN− anion.

cyber-

(Internet) Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally.

Cyberangriff

An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.

Cyberattacke

An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.

Cyberspace

A world of information accessed through the Internet.

Cyborg

(scifi) A being which is part machine and part organic.

Cycloalkan

(organic compound) Any saturated alicyclic hydrocarbon.

Cyclohexan

(organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C6H12, consisting of a ring of six carbon atoms; a volatile liquid.

Cyclohexen

(organic compound) A cyclic hydrocarbon containing six carbon atoms and one double bond; any of its derivatives.

Cyprian

A surname from Spanish.

Cyprianus

A surname from Spanish.

cyt

Used to form cell names and classifications for mature cells.

Cytoplasma

(cytology) The contents of a cell except for the nucleus. It includes cytosol, organelles, vesicles, and the cytoskeleton.

d. h.

(initialism) That is, namely, in other words, that is to say.

da

Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).

da capo!

(said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!

da ist nichts zu machen

(colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.

dabei

(colloquial) Willing and able to participate.

dabei sein

(transitive, now, rare) To expose, uncover.

dabeibleiben

(intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.

Dach

An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.

Dachbalken

A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.

Dachboden

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

Dachfenster

(architecture) A skylight that lies along the slope of the roof.

Dachfirst

The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.

Dachflächenfenster

(architecture) A skylight that lies along the slope of the roof.

Dachgebälk

(botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

Dachgeschoss

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

Dachlatte

(carpentry, construction) A plank or strip of wood, or several of such strips arranged side by side, used in construction to hold members of a structure together, to provide a fixing point, to strengthen, or to prevent warping.

Dachluke

(architecture) A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.

Dachplatte

A flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing.

Dachrinne

(Canada, Upper Midwest US, Western US) A trough under the eaves of a building for draining water from the roof; gutter.

Dachs

A badger species indigenous to Eurasia, Meles meles.

Dachsbau

The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.

Dachschiefer

(countable) A roofing-tile made of slate.

Dachschindel

(countable) A roofing-tile made of slate.

Dachschindeln

An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.

Dachschräge

The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

Dachshund

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

Dachsjunges

The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.

Dachstroh

Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

Dachstuhl

(botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

Dacht

(countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.

Dachterrasse

A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment

Dachtragwerk

(botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

Dachwohnung

An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

Dachzeile

(journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.

Dachziegel

(obsolete) A ridge tile, A tile for the ridge of a roof.

Dackel

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

Dactylo

A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.

Dadaismus

A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.

dadurch

Through or by that very act or quality; thereby.

Daesch

(derogatory) Synonym of ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State

dagegen haben

(chiefly, in the imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]

dagegen sein

(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.

daheim

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at,‎ home. In one's place of residence.

daher

(logic) Used to connect the internal logic of two statements.

dahergelaufen

Dark, faint or indistinct.

dahin

(location) In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).

dahin schmieren

(transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.

dahinjagen

(intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.

dahinscheiden

(formal, transitive) To cause to die.

dahinschleichen

(intransitive) To proceed with little effort.

dahinschwindend

Diminishing rapidly.

dahinsegeln

(intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.

dahinsiechen

(intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions. [from 15th c.]

dahinsiechend

Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

dahinter

Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.

Dahinvegetierende

(figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

Dahinvegetierender

(figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, whose body) has been damaged to the point that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

dahinwelken

(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

Dahlie

Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

Daidalos

(Greek mythology) Greek mythological figure who crafted the waxen wings of Icarus.

Daikon

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.

Daikon-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.

Daimio

(historical) A lord during the Japanese feudal period.

Daimjo

(historical) A lord during the Japanese feudal period.

Daimyo

(historical) A lord during the Japanese feudal period.

Daiquiri

A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.

Dakar

The capital city of Senegal.

Dakota

A member of the Dakota people

Daktylus

A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.

Dalbe

(nautical) A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.

Dallas

A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas.

Dalmatiner

One of a breed of dog with a short, white coat with dark spots.

Dalmatinerin

(demonym) A native or inhabitant of Dalmatia.

dalmatisch

Relating to Dalmatia or its people.

damalig

Being so at that time.

damals

Back then, at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past.

Damaskus

The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE.

Dame

An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.

damenhaft

Of or related to the appearance or behaviour of a well-mannered woman.

Damenschneider

A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.

Damenschneiderin

A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.

Damentoilette

(historical) A waiting room in a railway station or other public building intended exclusively for women and usually including a separate women's lavatory.

Damenunterwäsche

Underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

Damespiel

(board games, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.

Damhirschkuh

A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).

damit

So that; used to indicate purpose

damit einhergehend

Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent. [from early 17th c.]

damit enden

(copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.

damit verbunden

(of a person or thing) Connected with something or another person.

Damkalb

A young deer.

dämlich

Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.

Damm

A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.

dämmerig

Not bright or colorful.

dämmern

(specifically, in, _, programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.

Dämmerung

(now, _, rare) Twilight.

dämmerungs-

Of or resembling twilight; dim.

dämmerungsaktiv

(zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.

Dammschüttung

a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.

Dammstraße

A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.

Dämmung

(engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound

Dammweg

A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.

Dämon

(now, chiefly, historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity. [from 10th c.]

Dämonin

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