German–English dictionary

Fantasy-Autor

A writer who writes in the fantasy style.

Fantasy-Autorin

A writer who writes in the fantasy style.

FAQ

(internet) A list of questions said to be frequently asked, and their answers.

Farbband

An awareness ribbon.

Farbe

(dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.

farbecht

Having colors that have been dyed or applied to the material in a way that will prevent them from being washed out, running, or fading.

Färbemittel

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

färben

(transitive) To give something color.

farbenfroh

Possessing prominent and varied colors.

farbenprächtig

Possessing prominent and varied colors.

farbenreich

Possessing prominent and varied colors.

Färber

One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.

Färberdistel

A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.

Färberin

One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.

Färberkrapp

A dye made from the plant.

Färberlack

In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.

Färberresede

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

Färberröte

A dye made from the plant.

Färberwau

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

farbig

Having prominent colors; colorful.

Farbige

(South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.

Farbiger

(South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.

farblos

Without color; pale; pallid.

Färbmittel

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

Färbmittel (soluble colorant)

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

Farbpalette

(painting) A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.

Farbpinsel

A thin brush for applying paint.

Farbstoff

A pigment, dye etc added to something to change its colour or hue.

Farbstoff (soluble colorant)

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

Farbton

These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).

Farbumfang

All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

Färbung

A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.

Färbung (Farbnuance)

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

Farce

A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.

farcieren

(transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.

Farm

(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

Farmer

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.

Farmhaus

A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.

Farn

Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

Farnkraut

Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

Farnkrautwedel

(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

Farnwedel

(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

Faro

A city in Portugal.

Färse

A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.

Fasan

(countable) A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.

Fasanenbrust

A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.

Fasanenhuhn

(countable) A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.

faschiert

Full or packed (with some material or substance).

faschierter Braten

A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.

Faschiertes

(uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.

Fasching

The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.

Faschist

A proponent of fascism.

Faschistin

A proponent of fascism.

Fascho

A proponent of fascism.

Fase

An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.

Faselei

Nonsense; senseless talk.

faseln

(ambitransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.

fasen

(transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.

Faser

A fine thread or wire.

Faserband

A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.

Fäserchen

(biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.

Fasern

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

Faserzement

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

Fass

(countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

Fassade

(software, object-oriented) A structural design pattern that provides an object that is a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library.

Fassadenverkleidung

(North America) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.

fassartig

Resembling a tub

fassbar

Able to be comprehended.

Fassbier

Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

Fassbinder

A maker of barrels, especially a cooper#Noun or a container manufacturer.

Fässchen

Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun#Noun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

Fassen

(rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.

Fassküfer

A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

Fassmacher

A maker of barrels, especially a cooper#Noun or a container manufacturer.

Fassung

The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

Fassungsgabe

The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.

Fassungskraft

The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.

fassungslos

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

Fassungslosigkeit

The state of being bewildered.

fast

Very nearly; everything short of. Most often precedes a verb or adjective.

fast unmerklich

Of an argument or concept, words, etc.: requiring one to distinguish between fine points, especially if it is difficult to do so; nice; also (generally) , difficult to grasp; not easily understood or obvious.

fasten

(transitive, sciences) To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.

Fastenzeit

(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

Fastnacht

The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.

Faszie

(anatomy) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis.

Faszination

(figurative) Something that causes excitement or interest.

faszinieren

(figuratively) To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain.

faszinierend

Having interesting qualities; captivating; attractive.

fasziniert

In love, amorous.

Fata Morgana

A form of mirage seen just above the horizon, caused by a temperature inversion in the atmosphere, in which multiple upright and inverted images of a distant object appear to be stacked on top of each other in a highly distorted fashion; especially one seen at sea, and particularly in the Strait of Messina.

Fatah

A major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

fatal

Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

Fauchen

A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.

faul

Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.

faul sein

(obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.

faulen

(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

faulenzen

To be lazy, waste time.

Faulenzer

One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.

Faulenzerin

One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.

fauler Zauber

(uncountable, slang) Nonsense.

Faulheit

Spiritual or mental sloth.

faulig

Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.

Fäulnis

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

Faulpelz

(pejorative) A lazy or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise financially independent people for support.

Faultier

(slang) A person who is lazy.

Faun

(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

Fauna

(biology) The regnum Animalia; the set of all animals.

Faunus

(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

Faust

A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

Faustfeuerwaffe

(broad) A handgun [1570s]

Fausthandschuh

A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.

Faustkampf

(slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

Fäustling

(clothing) An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

Faustschild

(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

Faustschlag

(countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.

Fauteuil

A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

Fauxpas

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

Favela

A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil.

Favicon

(web design) An icon associated with a particular website, and typically displayed in the address bar of a browser viewing the site.

Favorit

A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.

Fax

A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

faxen

To send a document via a fax machine.

Faxgerät

A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

Fazialpalmieren

A gesture of bringing one or both palms to the face, with various interpretations including exasperation, chagrin, frustration, embarrassment (one's own or vicarious), etc.

Fazit

(idiomatic) The summary or result; the most important information.

FBI

(US, police) Initialism of Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Feature

(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

Feber

The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days.

febril

Feverish, or having a high temperature.

Februar

The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days.

Fechser

A young tree, larger than a seedling.

fechten

(intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.

Fechter

A participant in the sport of fencing.

Fechterin

A participant in the sport of fencing.

Feder

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.

Federast

(ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.

Federball

(uncountable) A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.

Federbett

(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.

Federbusch

(countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.

Federfahne

(ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.

Federhalter

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

Federkiel

A pen made from a feather.

Federkleid

(ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.

Federkohl

An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

Federleiste

(electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.

federnd

Easily bounced.

Federschmuck

(ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.

Federspitze

The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.

Federspule

(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.

Federstrich

A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.