German–English dictionary

dämonisch

Pertaining to demons or evil spirits; demoniac.

dämonisieren

(transitive) To turn into a demon.

Dampf

(Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

dämpfen

(transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

dampfend

Giving off steam.

Dämpfer

A control; a limit or stop.

dampfförmig

Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.

dampfig

Dark, damp and humid.

Dampfkochtopf

(cookware) A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.

Dampfplauderei

Pompous, officious talk.

Dampfplauderer

(informal) One who chats or talks to excess.

Dampfschiff

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

Dampftopf

(cookware) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.

Dämpfung

(physics) A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.

Dampfwalze

(historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.

dampvormig

Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.

danach

(temporal location) At a later or succeeding time; after that;

Danakil

A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.

Dandy

A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.

Däne

A person of Danish descent.

daneben

Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

danebengreifen

(intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid. [from 1706]

danebenliegen

Asserting something incorrect or untrue.

Dänemark

A country in Northern Europe. Capital and largest city: Copenhagen; the metropole of the sovereign nation of the same name.

Dänin

A person of Danish descent.

dänisch

Of or pertaining to Denmark.

Dank

Used to express appreciation or gratitude.

dankbar

Showing appreciation or gratitude.

Dankbarkeit

A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.

danke

(Commonwealth, informal) thank you

danke schön

An expression of gratitude or politeness in response to something done or given. [from c. 1400]

danke sehr

An expression of gratitude or politeness in response to something done or given. [from c. 1400]

danken

To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something).

dankenswert

Pleasing, satisfying.

Danksagung

The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

dann

(temporal location) At that time.

Dannenhof

A village in the Gmina of Puck, Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

Danzig

Gdańsk (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Prussia or Germany).

daran denken

To not forget (to do something required)

darauf

Behind; later in time; following.

darauf folgend

Refers to the actions, consequences, and repercussions which result from some prior stimulus or event.

darauffolgend

Just before, after, or facing.

daraufhin

Accordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction), consequently.

daraufsetzen

To place an object over another object, usually in such a way that both will be visible.

daraus folgend

Following as a result.

darbieten

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

Darbietung

(obsolete) A show or spectacle.

Dareios

Any of several kings in Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, 6th to 4th century BCE.

Darius

Any of several kings in Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, 6th to 4th century BCE.

Darkroom

A darkened room where sexual activity can take place, especially one in a gay club.

darlegen

(transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length.

Darlehen

(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

Darlehensgeber

One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.

Darlehensvertrag

The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.

Darm

(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.

Darm-

Relating to the intestines.

darmbesaitet

Made of gut.

Darmsaite

(uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.

Darmspiegelung

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

Darre

An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

darreichen

(transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

Darreichung

The act of presenting, or something presented.

darstellen

(transitive) To make up; to compose; to form.

Darstellung

(countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.

Darstellungsart

(uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.

Darts

(games, sports) A game or sport in which darts are thrown at a board, and points are scored depending on where the darts land.

darüber

In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream. [first attested around 1150–1350]

darüber hinaus

(idiomatic) Doing more than is expected or required.

darüber hinweg sein

No longer capable of.

darüber schauen

(obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.

darüberlegen

To place an object over another object, usually in such a way that both will be visible.

darum

Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer to a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".

darunter

In or to a lower place.

darunterliegend

(literal) lying underneath

Darwinismus

The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Darwinist

An adherent of Charles Darwin's theory of the origin of species, or of Darwinism.

das

In each; to or for each; per.

das Evangelium nach Lukas

(biblical) The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.

das Gefühl haben

(transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.

das genügt

Stop! Don't do that any more!

das Geschlecht bestimmen

(zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of (an animal).

das Ihre

That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]

das ist das Glück der Unwissenden

A lack of knowledge or awareness about certain facts or situations results in happiness or reduced anxiety.

das Lager abbrechen

(intransitive) To break up camp and move on.

das oben erwähnte

(uncountable) The one or ones mentioned previously.

das Recht erteilen

To give power or authority (to do something).

das Recht geben

To give power or authority (to do something).

das Schwarze im Auge

(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

das Seine

That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.

das vorher erwähnte

(uncountable) The one or ones mentioned previously.

Dasein

The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.

Dashboard

(GUI, video games) A graphical user interface for changing settings.

dass

Introducing a clause that describes the information content of a preceding reporting noun.

Dasselbeule

A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.

Date

A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

Datei

A collection of papers collated and archived together.

Dateiverknüpfung

(computing, in the Microsoft family of operating systems) A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.

daten

(transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.

Datenbeschädigung

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

Datenblock

(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.

Datenfeld

(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.

Datenkorruption

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

Datensatz

(statistics) A set of data to be analyzed.

Datenschaden

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

Datensicherung

(computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.

Datenstrom

(computing) a sequence of digitally encoded coherent signals used in a transmission

Datenstruktur

(computer science) Any form of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be accessed efficiently.

Datenverkehr

The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

datiert

Marked with a date.

Datierung

An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc.

Dating

A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.

Datscha

A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

Datsche

A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

Dattel

The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. [from 14th c.]

Datum

The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

Daube

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

Dauer

An amount of time or a particular time interval.

Dauer-

Lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.

Dauerbrenner

(theater, music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.

Dauergebrauch

Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.

dauerhaft

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

Dauerhaftigkeit

The state of being permanent.

Dauerkarte

Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.

Dauerlutscher

(motorsport) A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.

Dauermarke

(philately) an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand

dauern

(archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.

Dauerrede

(US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.

Dauerredner

(US politics) A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction.

Dauerwelle

A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.

Däumchen drehen

To be lazy, waste time.

Däumelieschen

A fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl.

Däumelinchen

A fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl.

Daumen

The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.

Daune

Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.

Daunendecke

(British, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.

Dauphin

The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois.

Dauphiné

(historical) A former province in southeastern France, centred on Grenoble.

Daus

(cards) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

davon

In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.

davoneilen

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

davonflitzen

(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.

davongelaufen

Having run away; escaped; fugitive.

davongerannt

Having run away; escaped; fugitive.

davonkommen

(intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object, or a liquid.

davonlaufen

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

davonmachen

(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.]

davonstehlen

(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.]

davor

At an earlier or preceding time.

Davos

A mountain resort and municipality in Grisons, Switzerland, host of the World Economic Forum.

dazu bringen

(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.