German–English dictionary

Flohweibchen

A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.

Flomenschmalz

The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.

Floor

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

Flop

(informal, film) A motion picture that generates relatively low revenue at the box office, especially less than the budget for producing it.

Flopp

(slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.

floppen

(intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

Floppy Disc

(computing, dated) A floppy disk.

Flor

A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.

Flora

Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

floral

Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

Florentiner

Of, from or relating to the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Florentinerin

A native or inhabitant of the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

florentinisch

Of, from or relating to the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Florett

(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.

Florida-Waldkaninchen

A rabbit of any of various species in genus Sylvilagus.

florieren

(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.

florierend

Characterized by success.

Florist

A person who sells flowers.

Floristin

A person who sells flowers.

Floskel

(rhetoric) Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude. [from 19th c.]

Floß

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

Flosse

(ichthyology, zootomy) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.

Floßsack

(nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.

Flöte

(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

flöten

(ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.

flott

Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid. [from 14th c.]

flott erhalten

(transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.

Flotte

A group of vessels or vehicles.

Flottekapitän

(nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral.

Flottille

(nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.

Flottillenadmiral

(military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.

Flöz

(geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.

Fluch

(literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

fluchen

To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

Flucht

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

flüchten

(ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).

flüchtig

Hasty or superficial.

flüchtig hingeworfen

Roughly or hastily laid out; intended for later refinement.

flüchtig küssen

To kiss briefly.

flüchtiger Blick

(computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.

flüchtiger Kuss

A small kiss.

Flüchtigkeit

(uncountable) The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.

Flüchtling

Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.

Flüchtlingin

(attributive, also, figurative) A person seeking refuge (as for shelter or protection), especially in a foreign country, out of fear or prospect of political, religious persecution, war, natural disaster, etc. [from 1680s]

Fluder

An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch.

fluffig

Light; soft; airy.

Flugabwehrkanone

Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. [from 1938]

Flugbahn

(astronomy, space) The path of a body as it travels through space.

Flugball

(sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.

Flugbegleiterin

A member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers.

Flugblatt

A loose printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.

Flügel

(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.

Flügelfrau

A pilot partner of another; a pilot who flies in the same wing or squadron.

Flügelholm

(aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

Flügelmann

A pilot partner of another; a pilot who flies in the same wing or squadron.

Flügelnuss

The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

Flügelschlag

(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.

Flügelspannweite

The distance from the left wingtip to the right wingtip (of a bird, airplane etc.).

Flügelstürmer

(sports) An offensive player who plays on either side of the center.

Flügelstürmerin

(sports) An offensive player who plays on either side of the center.

Flugfäden

A fine film made up of cobwebs, seen floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.

flügger Vogel

A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).

flügges Kücken

A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).

Fluggeschoss

Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Fluggesellschaft

A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.

Flughafen

An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.

Flughafenhalle

An airport terminal.

Flughafenterminal

An airport terminal.

Flugkapitän

The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.

Flugplatz

An airfield:

Flugpreis

The cost or expense of an airplane ticket or trip.

Flugroute

(aviation) A flight path used by aeroplanes.

flugs

With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.

Flugschrift

A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover, formerly containing literary compositions, newsletters, and newspapers, but now chiefly informational matter.

Flugsteig

A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

flugunfähig

Unable to fly.

Flugzeug

A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.

Fluid

Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.

Fluke

Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.

Fluktuation

A wavering; unsteadiness.

fluktuieren

(intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.

Flunder

A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).

Flunke

(nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.

Flunkerei

Mindless chatter.

flunkern

(informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

Flunsch

(North America) A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.

fluoreszent

Of or relating to fluorescence.

fluoreszierend

Of or relating to fluorescence.

Fluorid

(chemistry) The anionic form of a fluorine atom.

Fluorophor

(biochemistry) A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.

Flur

A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.

Flurfunk

An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.

Fluse

Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.

Flush

(poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

Fluss

(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.

flussabwärts

Following the path of a river or stream.

Flussaue

(geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.

flussaufwärts

Against the current.

Flussbett

(hydrology) The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.

Flussbiegung

(geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse

Flüsschen

A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.

flüssig

(linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; a person's command of a particular language.

Flüssigkeit

The quality of smoothness of flow.

Flüssigkeitsstrom

A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.

Flüssigsein

(uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.

Flussinsel

A small island.

Flusskrebs

Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.

Flußlauf

Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.

Flussmittel

A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

Flussmündung

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

Flussniederung

A low tract of moist or marshy land.

Flusspferd

A semi-aquatic, herbivorous, African hoofed mammal of the family Hippopotamidae.

Flussschlinge

(geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse

Flussschwinde

(geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.

Flussufer

A bank or side of a river.

Flusswindung

(geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse

Flüstern

The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially without vibration of the vocal cords.

Flüstertüte

A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.

Flut

An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

Flutgraben

A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.

FME

(telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

Fock

(nautical, on a square-rigged ship) The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast

Föderalismus

A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.

Föderation

Array of nations or states that are unified under one central authority which is elected by its members.

Fohlen

A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

Föhn

Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.

Föhre

(countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

Föhrenholz

(uncountable) The wood of a pine.

fokal

Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.

Fokus

(figuratively) Something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration.

fokussieren

(intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention on something; to have as one's central point of interest, concern, etc.

fokussiert

Directing all one's efforts towards achieving a particular goal.

Foley

(uncountable, US) The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.

Folge

That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

Folge-

(ecology) A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. [from early 20th c.]

Folgebereitschaft

(uncountable) The state of being compliant.

Folgegerät

(engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

Folgen

An act of complying.

folgen (auf)

(ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.

folgend

following, in succession, without interruption

folgenreich

Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

folgenschwer

Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

folgerichtig

Orderly, logical and consistent.

folgern

(transitive, now, rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

Folgerung

(logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.

Folgesatz

(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

Folgestadium

(ecology) A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. [from early 20th c.]

Folgezeit

That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

folglich

Following as a result.

folgsam

Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.