German–English dictionary

Dreieck

(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.

dreieckig

Of, or pertaining to, triangles.

dreieinig

(chiefly, religion, Christianity) Both trine and one at the same time.

Dreieinigkeit

(Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Dreier

An instance of sexual activity involving three people.

Dreierwette

(betting) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.

dreifach

By a factor of three.

Dreifaltigkeit

(Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Dreifuß

A three-legged stand or mount.

dreigliedrig

In three parts.

Dreiheit

A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.

Dreihorn

Common name of the extinct genus Triceratops; herbivorous ceratopsids from the late Cretaceous.

Dreihorngesicht

Common name of the extinct genus Triceratops; herbivorous ceratopsids from the late Cretaceous.

Dreikampf

Generally, a sports event in which contestant compete in a combination of three sports.

Dreikäsehoch

A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.

Dreiklang

(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale OR any chord with three notes.

Dreikönigsfest

A en given name.

Dreikönigstag

A en given name.

dreimal

(somewhat, dated, outside, Asia, Canada, Australia, &) Three times.

dreimonatlich

Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.

Dreingabe

Something extra that is good; an added benefit.

Dreipass

A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.

Dreirad

A car, cycle or motorbike having three wheels.

dreiseitig

Done by three parties (as an agreement).

dreißig

The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.

Dreißiger

A decade starting with the year xx30, most usually the decade from 1930 to 1939.

dreißiger Jahre

A decade starting with the year xx30, most usually the decade from 1930 to 1939.

dreist

Impudent, insolent.

Dreistheit

(dated) Arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect.

Dreistigkeit

Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.

Dreitagebart

A fashionable short growth of male facial hair.

dreiteilen

To divide into three equal parts.

dreiteilig

In three parts.

dreiviertel

(astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.

dreizehn

The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.

dreizehnte

The ordinal form of the number thirteen.

Drempel

A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

dreschen

(transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.

Dreschflegel

A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.

Dresden

The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe. [1735]

dresdenerisch

(history, metonymically) The Bombing of Dresden.

dresdnerisch

(history, metonymically) The Bombing of Dresden.

Dressing

(cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.

Dribbeln

(countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.

Dribbling

(countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.

driften

(intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.

Drill

The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

drillen

(transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.

Drillich

A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Drilling

(card games) A hand including three cards of the same rank.

Drina

A river that flows northward 160 miles along the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia to empty into the Sava River.

dringend

Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.

dringlich

Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.

Dringlichkeit

The quality of being immediate, of happening right away.

Drink

Alcoholic beverages in general.

drinnen

Inside, into, or within a building.

dritte

The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

Drittel

One of three equal parts of a whole.

dritteln

(transitive, mathematics) to divide a quantity, angle etc into three equal parts

drittens

In the third place; third in a row.

dritter

The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

drittletzte Silbe

The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.

drittletzter

Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.

Drittsemester

(US, Philippines) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.

Drive

A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

Driver

(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.

Droge

(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

Drogen-

Of or pertaining to narcotics or their trade and use.

Drogenfahnder

(informal, colloquial, drugs) A police officer or federal agent assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.

Drogenkonsument

A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.

Drogenrausch

(colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.

Drogenterrorismus

Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.

Drogenvermittler

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

Drogenvermittlerin

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

drohen

(intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.

drohend

Suggesting imminent harm

drohendes Unheil

Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.

Drohn

A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.

Drohne

(aviation) Initialism of unmanned aerial vehicle or uncrewed aerial vehicle: an aircraft with no onboard pilot, and sometimes completely unpiloted, that is capable of controlled, sustained, level flight.

Dröhnen

A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.

dröhnend

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.

Drohung

A perceived threat or danger. [a. 1300]

drollig

Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

drom

(literary) Forms placenames related to racetracks (now especially large covered racetracks) or similar structures.

Drôme

A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Valence (INSEE code 26).

Dromedar

The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).

Dronte

A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

Drops

Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.

Drossel

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

drosseln

(transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict; to keep in check.

Drosselspule

(electronics) A choking coil.

Drosselung

(figurative) Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.

drüben

In that place; there (at some distance).

drüberhüpfen

To leap lightly over.

drüberspringen

To leap lightly over.

Druck

(chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.

Druckaufbau

The act or process of increasing pressure within a volume of space.

Druckbeaufschlagung

The act or process of increasing pressure within a volume of space.

Druckbogen

(printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.

Drückeberger

(slang) A person who cops out.

drücken

(transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.

drückend

(of weather) Hot and humid.

Drucker

(computer hardware) A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

Druckereiarbeiter

A person who prints or binds books.

Druckerpresse

(countable) A printing machine.

Druckfehler

An accidental mistake in print.

Druckknopf

An electrical switch activated by pressing a button.

Druckkraft

The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

Drucklufttauchgerät

(underwater diving) A piece of equipment consisting of an oxygen tank and breathing apparatus used by divers to allow them to breathe underwater.

Druckrohrleitung

A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.

Druckschleuse

A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.

Druckschrift

(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.

Druckspalte

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

Druckstelle

A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.

Druckstock

(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

Drude

(obsolete, or, historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.

Druide

(historical) One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.

Druidenstein

(archaeology) A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially one dating to prehistoric times.

Drummer

(musician) One who plays the drums.

Drummerin

(musician) One who plays the drums.

drunter und drüber

Behaviorally erratic or uncontrollable, especially of a machine or mechanical process.

Drüse

(zoology) A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).

drüsig

(medicine) Pertaining to a gland or glands.

Dschamal

A en given name.

Dschebel

A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa).

Dschihad

(Islam) A holy war undertaken by Muslims.

Dschinn

(Arabic culture) A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.

Dschungel

A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.

Dschunke

(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

DTG

(underwater diving) A piece of equipment consisting of an oxygen tank and breathing apparatus used by divers to allow them to breathe underwater.

du

(archaic, dialectal, literary, religion) . [chiefly up to early 17th c.]

dual

(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.

Dub

(music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.

Dübel

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

Dübelholz

(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.

dubios

(of a statement, matter, or thing) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.

Dublette

(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.

Dublikat

(US, informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.

Dublin

(metonym) The government of the Republic of Ireland.

Dubrovnik

A city and port in southern Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea; formerly, Ragusa.

Duce

(historical) The title which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini assumed during his rule (1922—1945).

Ducht

(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.

Ducken

(countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).

Duckmäuser

A cheat; a con artist.

duckmäuserig

Dishonest; deceitful.

Duckmäuserin

A cheat; a con artist.

Dudelsack

A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

Dudelsackpfeifer

One who plays the bagpipes.

Dudelsackpfeiferin

One who plays the bagpipes.

Dudelsackspieler

One who plays the bagpipes.