German–English dictionary

dazu passend

The same as another; sharing the same design.

dazugehören

(followed by to) To be a part of a group.

dazugehörend

Arising as the result of an event, inherent.

dazwischenfahren

(intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in]

dazwischengehen

(intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in]

dazwischenkommen

(intransitive) to obstruct, hinder, or interfere

dazwischenrufen

(transitive) To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses. [from later 18th c.]

dazwischentreten

(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.

de

Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.

de facto

In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.

de Genesung betreffend

of convalescence or convalescents

de jure

Legal; justified by right or by law, especially when in name only.

de luxe

Very fine in quality or luxurious.

de-

reversal, undoing

Deadlock

(computing) An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.

deaktivieren

(ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective

deaktiviert

Made incapable of use or action.

Deal

A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.

dealen

(ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.

Debakel

(figurative) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. [from early 19th c.]

Debatte

(uncountable) Controversy; debate.

debattieren

(transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. [from 16th c.]

debil

(informal) Behaving in the manner of a moron; idiotic; stupid.

debuggen

(computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

Debüt

A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.

Debütant

A person (especially a male) who débuts, or appears for the first time.

Debütantin

A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment.

debütieren

(intransitive) to make one's initial formal appearance

Dechant

A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.

dechiffrieren

(transitive) To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

Dechsel

A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.

Deck

Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.

Deckchen

(Judaism) A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women.

Decke

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

Deckel

A lid.

decken

(intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.

Deckenbalken

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.

Deckengewölbe

Any arched ceiling or roof.

Deckenkonstruktion

(construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

Deckenplatte

A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

Deckfeder

(ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.

Deckhengst

A male horse kept primarily as a stud.

Deckmantel

A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

Deckmittel

A protective coating or covering.

Deckname

Another name; especially, an assumed name.

Deckung

A reserve or substitute.

Deckung geben

(military, law enforcement, transitive) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

decodieren

To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.

dedizieren

(transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or affection.

dediziert

Devoted; loyal; conscientious.

deduplizieren

(transitive, computing) To eliminate redundant duplicate data from.

deduzibel

Capable of being deduced.

deduzieren

(transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.

Defätismus

Acceptance of defeat without struggle.

Defätist

Someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude.

defätistisch

Of or relating to defeatism.

defekt

Non-functional; not functioning properly.

defensiv

Performed so as to minimise risk.

Defibrillator

(cardiology) An electronic device used internally or externally that delivers a controlled electric shock to a patient to correct ventricular fibrillation, a lack of coordination of the contraction of muscle tissue of the large chambers of the heart.

definiert

Having a definition or value.

Definierung

A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation

Definition

(semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition.

Definitionsbereich

(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

Definitionsmenge

(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

definitiv

Without question and beyond doubt.

defizient

Insufficient or inadequate in amount.

Defizit

A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.

Deflation

(economics) A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.

deflorieren

(transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

Deformation

(uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.

deformieren

(transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.

deformiert

Not formed correctly; misshapen; deformed.

defragmentieren

(computing) To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.

deftig

Promoting strength; nourishing.

degagieren

(transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.

Degeneration

(uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.

degenerativ

Characterized by or causing degeneration.

degeneriert

(of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.

degradieren

(transitive, military, most often in the, _, passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.

Degradierung

The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society

Degustation

The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.

dehnbar

Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.

Dehnbarkeit

The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.

dehnen

(transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.

Dehngymnastik

A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.

Dehnung

The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

Dehnungsnarbe

A stretch mark.

Dehnungsstreifen

(dermatology) Any of a series of red (or purple or faded), irregular stripes on the surface of the skin caused by rapid growth of the tissues lying just underneath. They may appear as a result of pregnancy, puberty, obesity, rapid muscle growth or family history.

Dehydration

The act or process of removing water from something.

dehydriert

From which the water has been removed.

Dehydrierung

The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

Deibel

(epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

Deich

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

Deichsel

(literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.

dein

(archaic, EME) Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).

deine

(archaic, EME, dialectal, literary) : that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).

deiner

(archaic, EME) Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.

deinesgleichen

(sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.

deinstallieren

(computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.

Deismus

(philosophy) A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.

Déjà-vu-Erlebnis

Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.

Dekade

A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]

dekadent

(of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.

Dekadenz

A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay

Dekaeder

A polyhedron with ten faces.

Dekan

(Christianity) A senior record keeper of a cathedral; a senior legal officer for a bishop or diocese in charge of hearing cases involving ecclesiastical law.

Dekanter

A vessel for decanting liquor.

dekantieren

(transitive) To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment.

Dekapitation

Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating.

Dekathlon

An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.

deklamieren

(transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.

Deklarant

(legal) A person who makes a formal declaration or statement

Deklarantin

(legal) A person who makes a formal declaration or statement

deklarieren

(transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.

deklassieren

(transitive, idiomatic) To overwhelm or overcome.

deklinieren

(transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.

Dekoder

A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal

Dekodierer

A person who decodes secret messages

Dekodiererin

A person who decodes secret messages

dekomponieren

(transitive) To separate or break down (something) into its components.

Dekompression

The process of decompressing.

dekomprimieren

(computing, transitive) To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.

Dekomprimierung

The process of decompressing.

Dekontamination

The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.

Dekorateur

Someone who decorates.

Dekorateurin

Someone who decorates.

Dekoration

Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.

dekorativ

That serves to decorate

Dekorieren

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

Dekorum

(uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.

Dekret

An edict or law.

dekretieren

To command by a decree.

Delaware

A member of the Lenape / Delaware people.

Delaware River

A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.

Delaware-Fluss

A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.

Delawarefluß

A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.

Delawaren

The Lenape people, the indigenous people of Lenapehoking, in what is now the Mid-Atlantic United States.

Delawarensprache

Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.

Delawarfluss

A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.

Delawarin

A member of the Lenape / Delaware people.

Delawarinnen

The Lenape people, the indigenous people of Lenapehoking, in what is now the Mid-Atlantic United States.

Delawarisch

Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.

delawarische Sprache

Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.

Delegation

A group of delegates.

Delegierte

Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body. [from 17th c.]

Delegierter

Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body. [from 17th c.]

Delegierung

(legal) The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)

Deletion

(genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.

Delfin

(constellation) A small summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dolphin. It lies between the constellations Cygnus and Aquila.

Delhi

A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.