# translation

lexentry: eng/patriot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
written_rep: patriot
trans_list:
Patriot | Patriotin | Vaterlandsfreund | Vaterlandsfreundin | Vaterlandsliebhaber | Vaterlandsliebhaberin


lexentry: eng/patriotic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: patriotic
trans_list: patriotisch
sense:
Inspired by or showing patriotism; done out of love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country


lexentry: eng/patriotism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: patriotism
trans_list: Patriotismus
sense:
Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.


lexentry: eng/patrol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: patrol
trans_list: Patrouille
sense:
(military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.


lexentry: eng/patron_saint__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: patron saint
trans_list: Schutzheilige | Schutzheiliger | Schutzpatron | Schutzpatronin
sense:
(Christianity) A saint conceived as the patron (protector or supporter) of a particular place, group, person, or activity, for whom or for which his or her intercession is specially invoked.


lexentry: eng/patronage__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: patronage
trans_list: Klüngel | Klüngelwirtschaft
sense:
(politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.


lexentry: eng/patronize__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: patronize
trans_list: bevormunden | gönnerhaft behandeln | herablassend behandeln
sense:
(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.


lexentry: eng/patronymic__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: patronymic
trans_list: Patronym | Patronymikum | Vatersname | Patronymikon | Vatername
sense:
(by extension) A name acquired from one's father's, grandfather's or earlier (male) ancestor's first name. Some cultures use a patronymic where other cultures use a surname or family name; other cultures (like Russia) use both a patronymic and a surname.


lexentry: eng/patsy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: patsy
trans_list: Sündenbock
sense:
(informal, derogatory) A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.


lexentry: eng/pattern__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pattern
trans_list: Schnittmuster
sense:
(textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.


lexentry: eng/patty__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: patty
trans_list: Frikadelle | Bratling
sense:
(US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.


lexentry: eng/pattypan_squash__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pattypan squash
trans_list: Patisson
sense:
A summer squash of the species Cucurbita pepo, notable for its small size, round and shallow shape, and scalloped edges, which cause it to somewhat resemble a small toy top or a flying saucer.


lexentry: eng/paucal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: paucal
trans_list: Paukal | Paucalis
sense:
(grammar) A language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular, dual, trial, and plural.


lexentry: eng/paucident_planigale__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: paucident planigale
trans_list: Giles-Flachkopfbeutelmaus
sense:
Planigale gilesi, a very small species of carnivorous marsupial endemic to desert areas of southern and eastern Australia.


lexentry: eng/pauldron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pauldron
trans_list: Achsel
sense:
A component of plate armor that protects the shoulder, generally covering more than a spaulder, also protecting the armpit and overlapping with other armor over the upper chest and back.


lexentry: eng/pause__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pause
trans_list: pausieren
sense:
(transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.


lexentry: eng/pave__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pave
trans_list: pflastern | bepflastern | mit Platten auslegen
sense:
(Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.


lexentry: eng/pavement__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pavement
trans_list: Asphalt | Fahrbahndecke | Kopfsteinpflaster | Pflaster | Steinpflaster | Strassenbelag
sense:
(now, chiefly, North America) A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface. [from 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/pavis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pavis
trans_list: Langschild
sense:
(military, history) A very large shield, like a small moveable wall, carried in front to protect all or most of the bearer's body, often with a projecting ridge running vertically down the center.


lexentry: eng/paw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: paw
trans_list: Pfote | Tatze
sense:
The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.


lexentry: eng/pawa__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pawa
trans_list: Abalone
sense:
(New Zealand) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.


lexentry: eng/pawl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pawl
trans_list: Klaue | Klinke | Sperrklinke
sense:
A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.


lexentry: eng/pawn__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pawn
trans_list: Bauer
sense:
(chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.


lexentry: eng/pawnbroker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pawnbroker
trans_list: Pfandleiher | Pfandleiherin
sense:
A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.


lexentry: eng/pay-as-you-go__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pay-as-you-go
trans_list: Umlagefinanzierung | Umlageverfahren
sense:
(economics) A financial policy by which capital projects are financed from current revenue in the operating budget rather than through borrowing.


lexentry: eng/pay-as-you-go__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pay-as-you-go
trans_list: Guthabenabbuchung | Prepaid-Zahlung
sense:
(British) A payment method where the charge of a service is taken automatically, usually in small amounts, after the usage, in contrast of paying before usage. Used especially of mobile phones and transport ticketing.


lexentry: eng/pay_TV__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pay TV
trans_list: Bezahlfernsehen | Pay-TV
sense:
A system whereby viewers pay to subscribe to specific broadcast television channels or programme typically used in cable television services


lexentry: eng/pay_grade__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pay grade
trans_list: Gehaltsgruppe | Lohnstufe
sense:
(figuratively) A level of authority or responsibility (since pay rate, authority and responsibility generally increase similarly).


lexentry: eng/pay_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pay off
trans_list: abbezahlen | auszahlen
sense:
(transitive) To pay back (repay) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on (the thing that was financed).


lexentry: eng/pay_respect__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pay respect
trans_list: Ehre halten
sense:
To demonstrate or profess respect to (someone or an ideal); to behave in a manner that demonstrates respect to (someone or an ideal).


lexentry: eng/payload__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: payload
trans_list: Nutzlast
sense:
That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite.


lexentry: eng/payment__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: payment
trans_list: Zahlung | Bezahlung
sense:
(countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange#Noun for goods or services, or the transaction#Noun that conveys it.


lexentry: eng/payment_card__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: payment card
trans_list: Kreditkarte
sense:
(banking) A card, such as a credit card or debit card, which can be used for payment of goods or services.


lexentry: eng/payment_order__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: payment order
trans_list: Zahlungsanweisung
sense:
(finance, chiefly, banking) An instruction from a sender to a receiving bank, transmitted orally, electronically, or in writing, to pay, or to cause another bank to pay a fixed and determinable amount of money to a beneficiary.


lexentry: eng/payola__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: payola
trans_list: Bestechungsgeschenk
sense:
(US) A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record).


lexentry: eng/payphone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: payphone
trans_list: Münzfernsprecher | Münztelefon
sense:
A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.


lexentry: eng/payroll__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: payroll
trans_list: Gehaltsabrechnung | Lohn- und Gehaltsabteilung
sense:
(accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.


lexentry: eng/payslip__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: payslip
trans_list: Gehaltsabrechnung | Entgeltabrechnung | Gehaltszettel
sense:
A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of money earned and tax and insurance paid.


lexentry: eng/paywall__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: paywall
trans_list: Paywall | Bezahlschranke
sense:
(informal, computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.


lexentry: eng/pe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pe
trans_list: pe
sense:
The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).


lexentry: eng/peace_pipe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peace pipe
trans_list: Friedenspfeife | Calumet | Kalumet
sense:
A tobacco pipe smoked ceremonially in certain Native American cultures that symbolizes peace among those who smoke it, and among whom it is passed around from person to person.


lexentry: eng/peace_talks__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peace talks
trans_list: Friedensgespräche
sense:
A series of formal discussions between two or more nation-states or groups of people held to resolve existing conflict between them.


lexentry: eng/peaceable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peaceable
trans_list: friedliebend
sense:
Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.). [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/peaceful_coexistence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peaceful coexistence
trans_list: friedliche Koexistenz
sense:
(politics) A situation where nation-states do not interfere with the domestic affairs of other countries, in order to avoid conflict; mutual non-interference.


lexentry: eng/peacekeeping__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peacekeeping
trans_list: Friedenserhaltung | Friedenssicherung
sense:
The act of preserving peace, specifically between hostile groups or states, especially by a sanctioned military force. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/peach__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peach
trans_list: Pfirsich | Pfirsichbaum
sense:
(countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.


lexentry: eng/peach__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: peach
trans_list: Pfirsich | Pfirsichbaum
sense:
(countable, uncountable) Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.


lexentry: eng/peachy__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: peachy
trans_list: schick | toll
sense:
(colloquial) Very good, excellent, typically used sarcastically to indicate a state of misery, resentment or great frustration.


lexentry: eng/peafowl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peafowl
trans_list: Pfau
sense:
A pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex).


lexentry: eng/peak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peak
trans_list: Maximum | Gipfel
sense:
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.


lexentry: eng/peak__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: peak
trans_list: Maximum
sense:
(mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.


lexentry: eng/peal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peal
trans_list: Dröhnen
sense:
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.


lexentry: eng/pearl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pearl
trans_list: Perle
sense:
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.


lexentry: eng/pearl__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: pearl
trans_list: Perl | Perle
sense:
(uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.


lexentry: eng/peasant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peasant
trans_list: Bauer | Bäuerin | Kleinbäuerin | Bauernschaft | Bauerntum | Kleinbauer
sense:
A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.


lexentry: eng/peat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peat
trans_list: Torf
sense:
Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/pebble-bed_reactor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pebble-bed reactor
trans_list: Kugelhaufenreaktor
sense:
A form of nuclear reactor using spherical fuel elements which are individually processed and fed through the reactor.


lexentry: eng/pebibyte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pebibyte
trans_list: Pebibyte
sense:
(computing) Strictly, 250 (10245, 1,125,899,906,842,624) bytes or 210 (1024) tebibytes, as opposed to a petabyte.


lexentry: eng/pecan_pie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pecan pie
trans_list: Pekannusskuchen
sense:
A sweet pie made from corn syrup and pecans, considered a specialty of Southern United States cuisine.


lexentry: eng/pecan_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pecan tree
trans_list: Pekannussbaum
sense:
A tree of the species Carya illinoinensis, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the pecan, and the wood of the tree, pecan wood, used in woodworking as well as smoking meats.


lexentry: eng/pecker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pecker
trans_list: Picker
sense:
Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:


lexentry: eng/pecking_order__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pecking order
trans_list: Hackordnung | Hackabstand
sense:
The usually informal hierarchy of authority or command, often partial or approximate, as determined by the especially natural propensity for domination of different members of a specific group over each other, such as older brothers and sisters over their younger siblings.


lexentry: eng/pectin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pectin
trans_list: Pektin
sense:
(carbohydrate) A polysaccharide extracted from the cell walls of plants, especially of fruits; under acidic conditions it forms a gel. It is often used in processed foods, especially jellies and jams where it causes thickening (setting).


lexentry: eng/pectineus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pectineus
trans_list: Kammmuskel
sense:
(anatomy) A flat quadrangular muscle, situated at the anterior part of the upper and medial aspect of the thigh, whose primary function is hip flexion.


lexentry: eng/pectoral_sandpiper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pectoral sandpiper
trans_list: Graubruststrandläufer | Graubrust-Strandläufer
sense:
Calidris melanotos, a small migratory wader that breeds in North America and Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania, and eats small invertebrates.


lexentry: eng/pectus_excavatum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pectus excavatum
trans_list: Trichterbrust
sense:
(medicine) A congenital deformity of the anterior wall of the chest, in which several ribs and the sternum grow abnormally, giving a caved or sunken appearance.


lexentry: eng/pedal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedal
trans_list: Pedal | Fußhebel
sense:
A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano


lexentry: eng/pedalo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedalo
trans_list: Tretboot | Pedalo
sense:
(UK, watercraft) A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation.


lexentry: eng/pedelec__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedelec
trans_list: Pedelec
sense:
(informal) A bicycle with an electric motor which assists the rider but only while they are pedalling.


lexentry: eng/pedestrian_precinct__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedestrian precinct
trans_list: Fußgängerzone
sense:
An area in a town or city intended for pedestrians only, where vehicles (in particular motor vehicles) are not normally allowed.


lexentry: eng/pediatric__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pediatric
trans_list: Pädiatrie
sense:
(American spelling) Of or pertaining to pediatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with the care and treatment of children and adolescents.


lexentry: eng/pediatrician__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pediatrician
trans_list: Kinderarzt | Kinderärztin
sense:
(American spelling) A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.


lexentry: eng/pediatrics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pediatrics
trans_list: Pädiatrie | Kinderheilkunde
sense:
(American spelling, medicine) The branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of children and adolescents.


lexentry: eng/pedicel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedicel
trans_list: Blütenstiel | Blütenstängel
sense:
(botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.


lexentry: eng/pedigree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedigree
trans_list: Ahnentafel
sense:
A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/pedigree_collapse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedigree collapse
trans_list: Ahnenschwund
sense:
(genealogy) The phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct ancestors to be smaller than that predicted by a binary tree (\sum_{i=1}^n 2^i, where n represents the number of generations).


lexentry: eng/pediment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pediment
trans_list: Giebeldreieck | Giebel | Bekrönung | Frontispiz | Fronton | Frontspieß
sense:
(architectural element) A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.


lexentry: eng/pedology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedology
trans_list: Pedologie | Bodenkunde
sense:
The sub-discipline of soil science that: studies soils as a component of natural systems or deals with soil genesis and soil classification or studies the soil profile or solum in its natural setting.


lexentry: eng/pedometer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedometer
trans_list: Schrittzähler
sense:
A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.


lexentry: eng/pedophile__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pedophile
trans_list: Pädophile | Pädophiler
sense:
(by extension, common use) An adult who is sexually attracted to or engages in sexual acts with a child.


lexentry: eng/pedophilia__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pedophilia
trans_list: Pädophilie
sense:
(by extension, proscribed) Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.


lexentry: eng/pedosexual__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pedosexual
trans_list: pädosexuell
sense:
(uncommon, of an act or behavior) Being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.


lexentry: eng/peekaboo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peekaboo
trans_list: Guck-guck-Spiel
sense:
(games) A game for a small child in which one covers one's face, then suddenly reveals it, saying "Boo!" or "Peekaboo!".


lexentry: eng/peel__Noun__3
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peel
trans_list: Brotschieber | Ofenschaufel | Ofenschieber | Backschießer
sense:
A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.


lexentry: eng/peel_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peel off
trans_list: abblättern
sense:
(intransitive) To separate off from the main body, to move off to one side; as in troop movements on a parade ground or an organized retreat, or columns in a procession.


lexentry: eng/peep__Verb__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: peep
trans_list: lugen | linsen | herausgucken | hervorgucken | illern
sense:
(intransitive, dated) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.


lexentry: eng/peephole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peephole
trans_list: Türspion | Spion
sense:
A small hole, opening, or piece of glass, especially in a door, through which one can look without being seen.


lexentry: eng/peeping_tom__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peeping tom
trans_list: Spanner | Voyeur
sense:
A person who watches another without the other's permission and usually without the other's knowledge, especially for the purpose of deriving sexual pleasure from the sight of the other.


lexentry: eng/peepshow__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: peepshow
trans_list: Peepshow
sense:
A titillating or pornographic display viewed through a small slot, generally equipped with a timer to automatically close the slot when payment has expired.


lexentry: eng/peer__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: peer
trans_list: Adelige | Adeliger | Edelfrau | Edelmann | Peer
sense:
A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.


lexentry: eng/peer_review__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peer review
trans_list: Kreuzgutachten | Peer-Review
sense:
(education) The scholarly process whereby manuscripts intended to be published in an academic journal are reviewed by independent researchers (referees) to evaluate the contribution, i.e. the importance, novelty and accuracy of the manuscript's contents.


lexentry: eng/peg__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: peg
trans_list: Bindung | Kursstützung | Währungsbindung
sense:
(finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.


lexentry: eng/peg__Noun__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: peg
trans_list: Aufmacher | Thema
sense:
(journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.


lexentry: eng/pegged_pants__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pegged pants
trans_list: Karottenhose
sense:
Trousers that are cut full in the waist and thigh area, and tapering to a cuff or gather at the ankle.


lexentry: eng/peignoir__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peignoir
trans_list: Peignoir
sense:
A long outer garment for women, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching nightgown, negligee or underwear


lexentry: eng/pellagra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pellagra
trans_list: Pellagra
sense:
(pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pellet__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pellet
trans_list: Gewölle
sense:
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.


lexentry: eng/pelmanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pelmanism
trans_list: Memory
sense:
A memory card game in which a pack of cards is spread out face-down and players try to turn up pairs with the same symbol.


lexentry: eng/peloton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peloton
trans_list: Peloton | Hauptfeld | Pulk
sense:
(cycle racing) A group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders; the pack.


lexentry: eng/pelt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pelt
trans_list: Balg | Fell | Pelz
sense:
The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).


lexentry: eng/pelvic_floor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pelvic floor
trans_list: Beckenboden
sense:
(anatomy) A muscular partition, formed by the muscle fibers of the levator ani, the coccygeus, and associated connective tissue, which spans the area underneath the pelvis.


lexentry: eng/pelvis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pelvis
trans_list: Becken
sense:
(anatomy) The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx.


lexentry: eng/pemmican__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pemmican
trans_list: Pemmikan
sense:
A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/pemphigus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pemphigus
trans_list: Pemphigus
sense:
(pathology) A severe autoimmune skin disease characterized by pustules and painful blisters, and which can be fatal.


lexentry: eng/pen__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pen
trans_list: Stift | Kugelschreiber | Kuli | Federhalter | Feder | Füllhalter
sense:
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.


lexentry: eng/penal_colony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penal colony
trans_list: Strafkolonie
sense:
A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.


lexentry: eng/penalty__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: penalty
trans_list: Strafe
sense:
(ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.


lexentry: eng/penalty_area__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penalty area
trans_list: Strafraum | Sechzehner | Sechzehnmeterraum
sense:
(football, futsal) An area of a pitch or field, inside which a penalty is given to the offensive team if a foul is made by the defensive team.


lexentry: eng/penalty_box__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penalty box
trans_list: Strafbank
sense:
(ice hockey) An enclosed bench where a player must remain for timed period (a penalty) that is assessed after an infraction.


lexentry: eng/penalty_kick__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penalty kick
trans_list: Strafstoß | Elfmeter
sense:
(soccer) A form of direct free kick, taken from the penalty spot after a defensive foul in the penalty box, with only the goalkeeper defending the goal.


lexentry: eng/penalty_mark__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penalty mark
trans_list: Elfmeterpunkt
sense:
(football) a small white spot, painted on the grass, twelve yards in front of the centre of the goal line, from which all penalty kicks are taken


lexentry: eng/penalty_shootout__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penalty shootout
trans_list: Elfmeterschießen | Penaltyschiessen
sense:
(football, field hockey) A series of penalties (penalty kicks in soccer), taken to decide a winner after a game has resulted in a tie and extra time has been played.


lexentry: eng/penalty_shot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penalty shot
trans_list: Strafstoß
sense:
(ice hockey) A penalty awarded when a team loses a clear scoring opportunity on a breakaway because of a foul committed by an opposing player. A player from the non-offending team is given an attempt to score a goal without opposition from any defending players except the goaltender.


lexentry: eng/penance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penance
trans_list: Buße | Pönitenz | Bußleistung | Bußverfahren | Bußwerk | Bußübung
sense:
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.


lexentry: eng/pencil__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pencil
trans_list: Bleistift | Buntstift | Griffel | Tafelstift
sense:
A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/pencil__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pencil
trans_list: Griffel | Tafelstift
sense:
(optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/pencil_holder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pencil holder
trans_list: Stifteköcher | Bleistifthalter | Stiftehalter
sense:
A small opened container for stationery such as pencils, ballpoint pens, rubber, correction fluid, etc.


lexentry: eng/pencil_lead__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pencil lead
trans_list: Mine
sense:
The material (usually black or dark gray) which allows a pencil to work. Usually a mixture of graphite and smaller amounts of other material, but not actual lead.


lexentry: eng/pencil_pusher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pencil pusher
trans_list: Bürohengst | Sesselfurzer | Bleistiftstemmer
sense:
(informal, often, derogatory) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.


lexentry: eng/pendant__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pendant
trans_list: Anhänger
sense:
A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/pendeloque__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pendeloque
trans_list: Briolette | Pendeloque
sense:
(also, attributive) A drop-shaped diamond or other gem used as a pendant; also, a piece of jewellery in pendant form. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pendentive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pendentive
trans_list: Pendentif | Eckzwickel
sense:
(architecture) The concave triangular sections of vaulting that provide the transition between a dome and the square base on which it is set and transfer the weight of the dome.


lexentry: eng/penduline_tit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penduline tit
trans_list: beutelmeisen
sense:
Any of the family of small passerine birds Remizidae, which nearly all make nests which hang from trees; found in Eurasia, Africa, and North America.


lexentry: eng/pendulum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pendulum
trans_list: Pendel
sense:
(clocks, mechanics) A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.


lexentry: eng/penguin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penguin
trans_list: Pinguin
sense:
Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/penicillin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penicillin
trans_list: Penicillin | Penizillin
sense:
(pharmaceutical drug) Any of a group of narrow-spectrum antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds or synthesized, that have a beta-lactam structure and are active against gram-positive bacteria and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases.


lexentry: eng/penitente__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penitente
trans_list: Büßerschnee | Zackenfirn
sense:
A tall thin blade of hardened snow or ice, found closely spaced in large quantities at high altitudes.


lexentry: eng/penny__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penny
trans_list: Penny
sense:
(historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth 1⁄240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.


lexentry: eng/pennyroyal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pennyroyal
trans_list: Flohkraut | Polei | Poleiminze
sense:
Mentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.


lexentry: eng/pension__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pension
trans_list: Pension | Rente
sense:
An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/pension__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pension
trans_list: Pension
sense:
A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/pension_fund__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pension fund
trans_list: Pensionsfonds
sense:
A pool of assets forming an independent legal entity that are bought with the contributions to a pension plan for the exclusive purpose of financing pension plan benefits.


lexentry: eng/penstock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penstock
trans_list: Druckrohrleitung
sense:
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.


lexentry: eng/pentachoron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pentachoron
trans_list: Pentachoron
sense:
(mathematics) A four-dimensional object analogous to a tetrahedron, constructed out of five tetrahedra.


lexentry: eng/pentagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pentagram
trans_list: Pentagramm
sense:
The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.


lexentry: eng/pentalogy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pentalogy
trans_list: Pentalogie
sense:
A set of five works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as five individual works.


lexentry: eng/pentane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pentane
trans_list: Pentan
sense:
(organic compound) An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C5H12; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methyl-butane (isopentane), and di-methyl-propane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions.


lexentry: eng/pentathlon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pentathlon
trans_list: Fünfkampf | Pentathlon
sense:
An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus


lexentry: eng/pentathlon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pentathlon
trans_list: Fünfkampf | Frauenfünfkampf | Pentathlon
sense:
(athletics) Ellipsis of women's pentathlon.; A 20th-century athletics discipline for women, the women's counterpart of the men's decathlon, the predecessor to the women's heptathlon, featuring five events: hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, and a run


lexentry: eng/pentathlon__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pentathlon
trans_list: Fünfkampf | Moderner Fünfkampf
sense:
(athletics) Ellipsis of modern pentathlon.; a discipline with five events based on late-19th century basic military skills


lexentry: eng/penthouse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penthouse
trans_list: Dachwohnung
sense:
(now, historical) A structure or annexe (especially one with a sloping roof) extending from the side of a building, sometimes as protection from the weather. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/penthouse__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: penthouse
trans_list: Dachwohnung | Penthouse
sense:
An apartment or suite found on an upper floor, or floors, of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious with panoramic views. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pentimento__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pentimento
trans_list: Pentiment | Pentimenti | Reuestriche
sense:
(art, literature) The presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work; especially (painting) an image which has been painted over but is still detectable.


lexentry: eng/pentode__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pentode
trans_list: Pentode
sense:
A thermionic valve similar to a tetrode with the addition of a third grid, the suppressor grid to reduce the secondary emission effect; was/is used in high quality audio and radio products.


lexentry: eng/penultimate__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: penultimate
trans_list: vorletzte | vorletzt
sense:
(UK, in, _, US, _, usually, formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.


lexentry: eng/penumbra__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: penumbra
trans_list: Penumbra
sense:
(astronomy) A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot.


lexentry: eng/people's__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: people's
trans_list: Volk
sense:
In certain socialist states: of, from, or controlled (at least in name) by the common people rather than a ruling elite.


lexentry: eng/people's_army__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: people's army
trans_list: Volksarmee
sense:
A communist-based military organization, often linked to a communist political party; the armed forces of a communist state.


lexentry: eng/people__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: people
trans_list: Volk | Leute
sense:
(countable, collective) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.


lexentry: eng/people__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: people
trans_list: Leute | Volk
sense:
A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.


lexentry: eng/people__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: people
trans_list: Volk | Leute
sense:
The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.


lexentry: eng/people_person__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: people person
trans_list: geselliger Mensch
sense:
(idiomatic) One who interacts skilfully with other people and who receives satisfaction from such interaction.


lexentry: eng/people_who_live_in_glass_houses_shouldn't_throw_stones__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
sense: Do not criticize others if you have similar weaknesses yourself.
written_rep: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
trans_list:
das sagt der Richtige | du hast es nötig | ein Esel schilt den andern Langohr | man sollte zuerst vor der eigenen Haustür fegen | wer im Glashaus sitzt, sollte nicht mit Steinen werfen


lexentry: eng/pepino_melon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pepino melon
trans_list: Birnenmelone | Melonenbirne | Pepino | Pepino-Strauch
sense:
A South American plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for its melon-like fruit, Solanum muricatum.


lexentry: eng/pepo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pepo
trans_list: Panzerbeere
sense:
A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.


lexentry: eng/pepper__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pepper
trans_list: Paprikaschote | Paprika
sense:
(UK, US, Ireland, and, Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.


lexentry: eng/pepper_mill__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pepper mill
trans_list: Pfeffermühle
sense:
A small handheld grinder containing a supply of peppercorns for grinding fresh at the table or in the kitchen.


lexentry: eng/pepper_shaker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pepper shaker
trans_list: Pfefferstreuer
sense:
A small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.


lexentry: eng/pepper_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pepper tree
trans_list: Molle | Pfefferbaum
sense:
Any of the South American trees in the genus Schinus, which have small fruits that have been used as a substitute for black pepper


lexentry: eng/peppercorn__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peppercorn
trans_list: Pfefferkorn
sense:
The seeds of the plant Piper nigrum. Commonly used as a spice, usually but not always ground or crushed.


lexentry: eng/peppermint__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peppermint
trans_list: Pfefferminze
sense:
A hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/peppermint__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: peppermint
trans_list: Pfefferminze | Pfefferminz | Pfefferminzbonbon
sense:
(countable) Any of various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb; peppermint confectionery. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pepperwort__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pepperwort
trans_list: Kressen
sense:
Any of several species of perennial plant in the genus Lepidium (originally specifically dittander, species Lepidium latifolium), which is a member of the mustard and cabbage family. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/pepsin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pepsin
trans_list: Pepsin
sense:
(enzyme) A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.


lexentry: eng/peptide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peptide
trans_list: Peptid
sense:
(organic compound) Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.


lexentry: eng/peptide_bond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peptide bond
trans_list: Peptidbindung
sense:
(chemistry) An amide bond formed between the amino and carboxyl functional groups of separate amino acids.


lexentry: eng/peptone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peptone
trans_list: Pepton
sense:
(biochemistry) Any water-soluble mixture of polypeptides and amino acids formed by the partial hydrolysis of protein.


lexentry: eng/per_bend__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: per bend
trans_list: schräggeteilt
sense:
(heraldry) (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the dexter chief (viewer's top left) along a 45 degree angle towards the sinister base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend).


lexentry: eng/per_bend_sinister__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: per bend sinister
trans_list: schräglinks geteilt
sense:
(heraldry) (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the sinister chief (viewer's top right) towards the dexter base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend sinister).


lexentry: eng/per_chevron__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: per chevron
trans_list: spitzenschnitt
sense:
(heraldry) (Partitioned) along the bent line(s) of a chevron, (especially) into two areas (formally party per chevron).


lexentry: eng/per_fess__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: per fess
trans_list: geteilt
sense:
(heraldry) (Partitioned) horizontally; (especially) partitioned horizontally into two halves (formally party per fess).


lexentry: eng/per_pale__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: per pale
trans_list: gespalten
sense:
(heraldry) (Partitioned) vertically; (especially) partitioned vertically into two halves (formally party per pale).


lexentry: eng/per_se__Adverb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: per se
trans_list: als solches | bezeichnungsgemäß | entsprechend seinem Namen
sense:
(more loosely, negative polarity) In a true or literal sense; as one would expect from the name or description.


lexentry: eng/percale__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: percale
trans_list: Perkal
sense:
(textiles) A fine, closely woven fabric, made from cotton, polyester or a mix of these, and used for sheets and clothing.


lexentry: eng/perceived_temperature__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perceived temperature
trans_list: gefühlte Temperatur
sense:
The apparent temperature of the environment; may be different from the actual temperature because of factors such as wind chill or humidity


lexentry: eng/percentile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: percentile
trans_list: Perzentil
sense:
(statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.


lexentry: eng/percontation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: percontation
trans_list: Nachforschung | Nachfrage
sense:
(formal, rare, or, obsolete) A question which cannot properly be given a one-word answer like “yes” or “no”. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/percussion__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: percussion
trans_list: Perkussion
sense:
(music) The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.


lexentry: eng/percussion_cap__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: percussion cap
trans_list: Köder
sense:
a metal cap found on muzzleloading firearms that contains chemical substances such as fulminate that explode upon impact


lexentry: eng/percussionist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: percussionist
trans_list: Schlagzeuger | Schlagwerker | Schlagzeugerin | Perkussionist | Perkussionistin | Schlagwerkerin
sense:
A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training.


lexentry: eng/peregrinate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peregrinate
trans_list: herumwandern
sense:
(intransitive) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.


lexentry: eng/perennial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: perennial
trans_list: dauerhaft | ewig
sense:
Continuing without cessation or intermission for several years, or for an undetermined or infinite period; neverending or never failing; perpetual, unceasing.


lexentry: eng/perennial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: perennial
trans_list: mehrjährig
sense:
(botany) Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.


lexentry: eng/perestroika__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perestroika
trans_list: Perestroika | Umbau | Umgestaltung
sense:
(historical, uncountable) A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.


lexentry: eng/perfect__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: perfect
trans_list: perfekt
sense:
(obsolete, _, outside set of phrases, of a person) Having thoroughly learned or memorized a lesson; of a lesson: having been thoroughly learned or memorized.


lexentry: eng/perfect_fifth__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfect fifth
trans_list: reine Quinte
sense:
(music) An interval equal to that of between the second and third harmonics of the harmonic series. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it spans seven semitones or five degrees of the diatonic scale.


lexentry: eng/perfect_pitch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfect pitch
trans_list: absolutes Gehör | Tonhöhengedächtnis
sense:
(music, uncountable) The ability to identify a note by name on hearing it, or to re-create a specified note from memory, without the benefit of an externally provided reference pitch.


lexentry: eng/perfect_storm__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: perfect storm
trans_list: Verkettung unglücklicher Umstände
sense:
(figuratively, by extension) A situation in which several problems converge and make everything worse.


lexentry: eng/perfect_tense__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfect tense
trans_list: ideal
sense:
A verb form indicating that an action or state has been completed at the present time, in the past, or shall be completed in the future.


lexentry: eng/perfection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfection
trans_list: Perfektion | Vollkommenheit
sense:
The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence


lexentry: eng/perfectionist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfectionist
trans_list: Perfektionist | Perfektionistin
sense:
Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/perfective_aspect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfective aspect
trans_list: Perfektum
sense:
(grammar) A feature of the verb which denotes viewing the event the verb describes as a completed whole, rather than from within the event as it unfolds. For example, "she sat down" as opposed to "she was sitting down". Since the focus is on the completion of what is expressed by the verb, this aspect is generally associated with the past and future tenses. This term is often used interchangeably with aorist aspect. This is not to be confused with the perfect tense.


lexentry: eng/perfidious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfidious
trans_list: perfide
sense:
Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. [from late 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/perfidy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: perfidy
trans_list: Verrat
sense:
(international law, in warfare) An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.


lexentry: eng/perforation_gauge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perforation gauge
trans_list: Zähnungsschlüssel
sense:
(philately) A device for measuring the number of perforations per 2 centimetre distance along the edge of a postage stamp.


lexentry: eng/perform__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: perform
trans_list: spielen | aufführen | auftreten
sense:
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.


lexentry: eng/perform__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: perform
trans_list: vorschützen | vorspielen | vortäuschen
sense:
(by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.


lexentry: eng/performance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: performance
trans_list: Durchführung | Leistung
sense:
The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.


lexentry: eng/performance__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: performance
trans_list: Leistung
sense:
That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.


lexentry: eng/performance_art__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: performance art
trans_list: Performance
sense:
(arts) A form of art in which the artist creates a live performance, often using a variety of media.


lexentry: eng/performance_bond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: performance bond
trans_list: Erfüllungsgarantie
sense:
(legal) A contractor's bond, guaranteeing that the contractor will perform the contract and providing that, in the event of default, the surety may complete the contract or pay damages up to the bond limit.


lexentry: eng/performance_metric__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: performance metric
sense:
(business) A measurement of performance, often financial performance, either against peers or against a predetermined target.

trans_list:
Leistungskriterium | Leistungsmaß | Leistungsmessgröße | Leistungsmetrik | Performancemaß | Performancemetrik


lexentry: eng/performant__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: performant
trans_list: Performanz-
sense:
(computing) Characterized by a level of performance or efficiency that is adequate for or exceeds the expectations of end users.


lexentry: eng/performative_utterance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: performative utterance
trans_list: performative Sprechhandlung
sense:
(philosophy, linguistics) A sentence or other linguistic expression which, when expressed in an appropriate context, actually does or accomplishes something.


lexentry: eng/perfume__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perfume
trans_list: Parfüm | Parfum | Duft | Duftstoff
sense:
A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor


lexentry: eng/pergola__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pergola
trans_list: Pergola
sense:
A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.


lexentry: eng/peridotite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peridotite
trans_list: Peridotit
sense:
(geology) A rock consisting of small crystals of olivine, pyroxene and hornblende; the major constituent of the Earth's mantle.


lexentry: eng/perihelion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perihelion
trans_list: Perihel
sense:
(astronomy) The point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, etc., where it is nearest to the Sun.


lexentry: eng/period__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: period
trans_list: Punkt. Aus. Ende | Punktum | Schluss, aus, Ende | basta | da ist nichts zu machen | keine Widerrede
sense:
(chiefly, North America) That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.


lexentry: eng/period__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: period
trans_list: Punkt
sense:
(now, chiefly, North America, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).


lexentry: eng/period__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: period
trans_list: Periode | Zeitraum
sense:
The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/period__Noun__1
sense_num: 16
written_rep: period
trans_list: Stunde | System | Periode
sense:
(geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.


lexentry: eng/periodic_table__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: periodic table
trans_list: Periodensystem
sense:
(chemistry) A tabular chart of the chemical elements according to their atomic numbers so that elements with similar properties are in the same group (column).


lexentry: eng/periodical__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: periodical
trans_list: Periodikum
sense:
A regularly issued thematic publication that contains the most current information in its field, often the primary means for communication of original scholarship or creative work at the cutting edge of research in its field.


lexentry: eng/periodontics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: periodontics
trans_list: Parodontologie | Periodontologie | Zahnfleischbehandlungen
sense:
(dentistry) The study of supporting structures of teeth—gums, alveolar bone, cementum, and the periodontal ligament—and diseases and conditions that affect them.


lexentry: eng/periodontitis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: periodontitis
trans_list: Parodontitis
sense:
(periodontology) A serious form or stage of periodontal disease which may lead to loss of bone and falling out of teeth.


lexentry: eng/perioperative__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perioperative
trans_list: perioperativ
sense:
(surgery) Relating to the period around an operation, including immediate preoperative preparation and postoperative recovery.


lexentry: eng/peripheral_device__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peripheral device
trans_list: Peripheriegerät
sense:
(computer hardware) An electronic device that is outside the computer's system unit (external to the computer's enclosing case), but used by the computer to which it is connected, such as a printer or a scanner.


lexentry: eng/periphrasis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: periphrasis
trans_list: Periphrase
sense:
The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".


lexentry: eng/periscope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: periscope
trans_list: Periskop
sense:
A form of viewing device that allows the viewer to see things at a different height level and usually with minimal visibility.


lexentry: eng/peristalsis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peristalsis
trans_list: Peristaltik
sense:
(medicine) The rhythmic, wave-like contraction and relaxation of muscles so as to propagate motion, as of food in the digestive tract.


lexentry: eng/peritoneum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peritoneum
trans_list: Bauchfell | Peritoneum
sense:
(anatomy) In mammals, the serous membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and that is folded over the viscera.


lexentry: eng/peritonitis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peritonitis
trans_list: Peritonitis | Bauchfellentzündung
sense:
(pathology) Inflammation of the peritoneum, especially when caused by an infectious organism introduced into the abdominal cavity.


lexentry: eng/perlocution__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perlocution
trans_list: Perlokution
sense:
(linguistics) The effect the terms used by a speaker can have on another speaker and their emotions and responses.


lexentry: eng/permaculture__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permaculture
trans_list: Permakultur
sense:
(agriculture) Any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems. [from 1978]


lexentry: eng/permanent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permanent
trans_list: Dauerwelle
sense:
A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.


lexentry: eng/permanent__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: permanent
trans_list: Permanente
sense:
(linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.


lexentry: eng/permanent_magnet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permanent magnet
trans_list: Dauermagnet | Permanentmagnet
sense:
(physics) A material, or piece of such material, which retains its magnetism even when not subjected to any external magnetic fields.


lexentry: eng/permanent_marker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permanent marker
trans_list: Markierstift | Permanentmarker | Permanentschreiber
sense:
a type of felt-tip pen used to create permanent water-resistant writing on a surface such as a writable DVD


lexentry: eng/permanent_residency__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permanent residency
trans_list: Niederlassungserlaubnis
sense:
A visa status which allows a person to reside indefinitely in a foreign country without acquiring citizenship in that country


lexentry: eng/permanganate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permanganate
trans_list: Permanganat
sense:
(inorganic chemistry) any salt of permanganic acid: they are purple crystalline solids, mostly soluble in water, and are strong oxidizing agents


lexentry: eng/permeability__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: permeability
trans_list: Permeabilität
sense:
(physics) A quantitative measure of the degree of magnetization of a material in the presence of an applied magnetic field (measured in newtons per ampere squared in SI units).


lexentry: eng/permeable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: permeable
trans_list: durchlässig
sense:
(by extension) Allowing the passage of persons, information, or other things, especially when such passage occurs despite hopes or expectations otherwise.


lexentry: eng/permeate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permeate
trans_list: durchsickern
sense:
(transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture


lexentry: eng/permittivity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: permittivity
trans_list: Permittivität
sense:
(physics) A property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other.


lexentry: eng/pernoctation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pernoctation
trans_list: Übernachtung
sense:
(uncountable) The action of abiding through the night at a location; (countable) an instance of this; an overnight stay.


lexentry: eng/perorate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perorate
trans_list: schwadronieren
sense:
(intransitive) To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.


lexentry: eng/peroration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peroration
trans_list: Redeschluss | Zusammenfassung
sense:
The concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.


lexentry: eng/peroxide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peroxide
trans_list: Peroxid
sense:
(inorganic chemistry) A divalent radical or anion containing two oxygen atoms linked by a covalent bond; any substance containing this group yields hydrogen peroxide when treated with an acid.


lexentry: eng/perpetual_motion_machine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perpetual motion machine
trans_list: Perpetuum mobile
sense:
(physics, pseudoscience) A hypothetical, pseudoscientific device that exhibits perpetual motion, especially one that does useful work with no input of energy.


lexentry: eng/perpetual_motion_machine_of_the_second_kind__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perpetual motion machine of the second kind
trans_list: Perpetuum mobile zweiter Art
sense:
(physics, pseudoscience) A perpetual motion machine that spontaneously converts thermal energy into mechanical work.


lexentry: eng/perpetuate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perpetuate
trans_list: verewigen | perpetuieren
sense:
(transitive) To make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.


lexentry: eng/persecute__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: persecute
trans_list: verfolgen | bedrängen | peinigen | schikanieren
sense:
To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.


lexentry: eng/perseverance_of_the_saints__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perseverance of the saints
trans_list: Beharrlichkeit der Heiligen
sense:
(theology) A Christian doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that true believers in Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross (the "saints") cannot relapse and are predestined to salvation.


lexentry: eng/persevere__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: persevere
trans_list: beharren | ausharren | durchhalten | ausdauern | nicht aufgeben | standhaft bleiben
sense:
(intransitive) To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.


lexentry: eng/persimmon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: persimmon
trans_list: Persimonenbaum
sense:
The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).


lexentry: eng/person-to-person__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: person-to-person
trans_list: Person
sense:
(of a telephone call) Such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak.


lexentry: eng/person__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: person
trans_list: Person | Mensch
sense:
(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).


lexentry: eng/person__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: person
trans_list: Person
sense:
(grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/personal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: personal
trans_list: persönlich
sense:
Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals


lexentry: eng/personal_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: personal effect
trans_list: bewegliches Eigentum | persönliche Gegenstände | persönliche Habe
sense:
(usually, in the plural) An item of personal property that one carries on one's person, including identification, jewelry, and clothing.


lexentry: eng/personal_hygiene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: personal hygiene
trans_list: Körperpflege | Personalhygiene
sense:
(health sciences) The hygienic measures concerning a person's bodily condition, notably external cleanliness.


lexentry: eng/personal_lubricant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: personal lubricant
trans_list: Gleitcreme | Gleitgel | Gleitmittel
sense:
Any lubricant used during human sexual activity to reduce friction between body parts, or between body parts and other objects.


lexentry: eng/personality__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: personality
trans_list: Persönlichkeit
sense:
(of people) A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.


lexentry: eng/personality_disorder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: personality disorder
trans_list: Persönlichkeitsstörung
sense:
(psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.


lexentry: eng/personify__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: personify
trans_list: personifizieren
sense:
(transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.


lexentry: eng/personnel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: personnel
trans_list: Personal
sense:
Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.


lexentry: eng/perspective__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: perspective
trans_list: Perspektive
sense:
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.


lexentry: eng/persuade__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: persuade
trans_list: überreden | bestechen | dazu bringen | gewinnen | verführen
sense:
(transitive, now, rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/persuasion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: persuasion
trans_list: Überzeugung | Überredung
sense:
The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/perturbation_theory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: perturbation theory
trans_list: Störungstheorie
sense:
A mathematical technique for finding an approximate solution to a problem that cannot be solved exactly, by starting from the exact solution of a related problem; used in modelling physical interactions between particles, etc.


lexentry: eng/peruke__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peruke
trans_list: Perücke
sense:
A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.


lexentry: eng/pescetarianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pescetarianism
trans_list: Pescetarismus
sense:
A dietary choice in which a person, known as a pescetarian, eats any combination of vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans and fish or seafood, but not mammals or birds. Some animal products, such as eggs and dairy, may or may not be part of the diet.


lexentry: eng/peso__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peso
trans_list: Peso
sense:
(historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.


lexentry: eng/pesticide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pesticide
trans_list: Pestizid
sense:
Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.


lexentry: eng/pesto__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pesto
trans_list: Pesto
sense:
A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino).


lexentry: eng/pet_shop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pet shop
trans_list: Tierhandlung | Zoofachgeschäft
sense:
A shop that sells animals kept as domestic pets, and products for caring for and feeding them. [from 1927]


lexentry: eng/petal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petal
trans_list: Blütenblatt | Kronblatt
sense:
(botany) One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.


lexentry: eng/petasus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petasus
trans_list: Petasos
sense:
(historical) A broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, especially for travelling, and as often pictured to be worn by Hermes (or Mercury); (later also) the brimless winged cap worn by Hermes in later artistic depictions. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/petcock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petcock
trans_list: Ablasshahn | Ablaufhahn | Benzinhahn | Entlastungsventil | Entlüftungshahn | Entlüftungsventil
sense:
A small valve, spout, or faucet operated by hand, usually used to release pressure or drain fluid. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/peter__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peter
trans_list: austrocknen
sense:
(intransitive, originally, US) Chiefly followed by out: originally (mining) , of a vein of ore: to be depleted of ore; now (generally) , to diminish to nothing; to dwindle, to trail off.


lexentry: eng/peter_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peter out
trans_list: dahinschwinden | schwinden | totlaufen | verlaufen | versanden | verschwinden
sense:
(intransitive, originally, US) Synonym of peter (“to diminish to nothing, (originally) to refer to a vein of ore”)


lexentry: eng/petition__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petition
trans_list: Petition | Eingabe
sense:
A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.


lexentry: eng/petrichor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petrichor
trans_list: Petrichor
sense:
The distinctive scent, caused by geosmin, which accompanies the first rain after a long, warm, dry spell.


lexentry: eng/petrification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petrification
trans_list: Petrifikation | Versteinerung
sense:
Turning to stone: the process of replacement of the organic residues of plants (and animals) with insoluble salts, with the original shape and topography being retained.


lexentry: eng/petrified__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petrified
trans_list: versteinert
sense:
Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.


lexentry: eng/petrify__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petrify
trans_list: versteinern
sense:
(transitive) To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.


lexentry: eng/petrochemistry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petrochemistry
trans_list: Gesteinschemie | Petrochemie
sense:
(petrochemistry) The branch of chemistry that deals with petroleum, natural gas and their derivatives.


lexentry: eng/petrodollar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petrodollar
trans_list: Petrodollar
sense:
(oil industry, mostly, in the plural, also, attributively) Money (either notionally or specifically in dollars or other currencies) earned from the sale of oil, often especially as considered among a national economy's principal revenue streams.


lexentry: eng/petrography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petrography
trans_list: Petrografie
sense:
(petrology) The branch of petrology that deals with the scientific description and classification of rocks.


lexentry: eng/petroleum_ether__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petroleum ether
trans_list: Petrolether
sense:
A volatile petroleum fraction, usually available in a number of fractions boiling between 40°C and 140°C. Used as a solvent in the laboratory and industry.


lexentry: eng/petroleum_jelly__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petroleum jelly
trans_list: Vaseline
sense:
A pale yellow semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in lubricants and ointments.


lexentry: eng/petticoat__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: petticoat
trans_list: Petticoat
sense:
(archaic, or, historical) A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.


lexentry: eng/petticoat__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: petticoat
trans_list: Unterrock | Petticoat
sense:
A light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.


lexentry: eng/petty__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petty
trans_list: kleinlich | gering | geringfügig | klein | unbedeutend | unwichtig
sense:
Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/petty_bourgeoisie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petty bourgeoisie
trans_list: Kleinbürgertum
sense:
(Marxism) A social class of that bourgeoisie that typically works alongside their employees if they have any, exemplified by shopkeepers and professionals.


lexentry: eng/petty_cash__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petty cash
trans_list: Portokasse
sense:
Cash available for trivial purchases, especially limited funds for employees to use without close supervision.


lexentry: eng/petty_larceny__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petty larceny
trans_list: Bagatelldiebstahl
sense:
(legal) A misdemeanor larceny; an act of theft wherein the amount stolen is insufficient to constitute grand larceny.


lexentry: eng/petty_officer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petty officer
trans_list: Unteroffizier
sense:
A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian, US and UK Navy and the US Coast Guard; roughly equivalent to a sergeant in the army


lexentry: eng/petty_theft__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: petty theft
trans_list: Bagatelldiebstahl
sense:
A theft of property having a value lower than a certain small amount set forth in a statute, and considered to be a less serious class of crime.


lexentry: eng/pew__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pew
trans_list: Kirchenbank | Bank
sense:
Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.


lexentry: eng/peyote__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: peyote
trans_list: peyote
sense:
A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for its psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.


lexentry: eng/phagocyte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phagocyte
trans_list: Phagozyt
sense:
(cytology) A cell of the immune system, such as a neutrophil, macrophage or dendritic cell, that engulfs and destroys viruses, bacteria and waste materials, or in the case of mature dendritic cells; displays antigens from invading pathogens to cells of the lymphoid lineage.


lexentry: eng/phalanx__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phalanx
trans_list: Phalanx
sense:
(historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.


lexentry: eng/phalarope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phalarope
trans_list: Wassertreter
sense:
Any of three small wading birds in the genus Phalaropus, of the family Scolopacidae, that have lobed toes.


lexentry: eng/phantom__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phantom
trans_list: Phantom
sense:
Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.


lexentry: eng/phantom_limb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phantom limb
trans_list: Phantomglied
sense:
(pathology) The false sensation, which is often painful, that an amputated limb is still present and attached.


lexentry: eng/phantom_pain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phantom pain
trans_list: Phantomschmerz
sense:
(medicine, pathology) A sensation of pain coming from a part of the body that has been amputated, or in which the nerves have been destroyed.


lexentry: eng/pharaoh__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharaoh
trans_list: Pharao | Pharaonin
sense:
(historical) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty


lexentry: eng/pharisaism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pharisaism
trans_list: Pharisäertum
sense:
(chiefly, Christianity) Rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners.


lexentry: eng/pharmacist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharmacist
trans_list: Apotheker | Apothekerin
sense:
(pharmacy) A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.


lexentry: eng/pharmacodynamics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharmacodynamics
trans_list: Pharmakodynamik
sense:
(pharmacology) The branch of pharmacology that studies the effects and modes of action of drugs upon the body.


lexentry: eng/pharmacokinetics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharmacokinetics
trans_list: Pharmakokinetik
sense:
(pharmacology) A branch of pharmacology concerned with the rate at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.


lexentry: eng/pharmacology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharmacology
trans_list: Pharmakologie | Arzneimittelkunde
sense:
The science of drugs, including their origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.


lexentry: eng/pharmacopoeia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharmacopoeia
trans_list: Arzneibuch
sense:
(pharmacology) An official book describing medicines or other pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation.


lexentry: eng/pharmacovigilance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharmacovigilance
trans_list: Pharmakovigilanz
sense:
(medicine, pharmacology) The detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of medicines. [from 1970s]


lexentry: eng/pharmacy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pharmacy
trans_list: Pharmazie
sense:
(uncountable) The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.


lexentry: eng/pharyngeal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pharyngeal
trans_list: pharyngal | pharyngisch
sense:
(phonetics) Articulated with the pharynx; a term usually describing a consonant which is articulated by the rear area of the tongue being raised to below the region between the uvula and the pharyngeal wall. The term cannot apply to a plosive or stop consonant.


lexentry: eng/pharynx__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pharynx
trans_list: Rachen | Pharynx
sense:
(anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.


lexentry: eng/phase__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: phase
trans_list: Phase
sense:
(astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.


lexentry: eng/phase__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: phase
trans_list: Phase
sense:
(physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.


lexentry: eng/phase_diagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phase diagram
trans_list: Phasendiagramm
sense:
(physics, chemistry) A graph, with axes representing temperature and pressure, showing the equilibrium conditions for a given substance to be a solid, liquid or gas.


lexentry: eng/phase_diagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phase diagram
trans_list: Phasendiagramm
sense:
a similar diagram for a binary mixture of substances, with axes representing composition and temperature.


lexentry: eng/phase_modulation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phase modulation
trans_list: Phasenmodulation
sense:
A method of sending information by modifying (modulating) the difference in phase (fraction of a wave length) between a signal and a reference.


lexentry: eng/phase_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phase out
trans_list: auslaufen lassen | nach und nach abschaffen / aussondern
sense:
(transitive) To remove or relinquish the use of (something) little by little, either via discrete diminishing phases or (by extension) by continuous gradations; to remove in phases, or as if by phases (gradually).


lexentry: eng/phase_space__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phase space
trans_list: Phasenraum
sense:
(mathematics, physics, dynamical system theory) Given a (dynamical) system, any topological space such that every point in the space's underlying set uniquely represents a state of the system and every possible state is represented by some point;(less formally) the underlying set of such a topological space.


lexentry: eng/phase_transition__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phase transition
trans_list: Phasenübergang
sense:
(physics) The transition between thermodynamic phases of a physical system, especially one between the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a substance.


lexentry: eng/phase_velocity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phase velocity
trans_list: Phasengeschwindigkeit
sense:
(physics) The velocity of propagation of a pure sine wave of infinite extent and infinitesimal amplitude.


lexentry: eng/pheasant's_eye__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pheasant's eye
trans_list: Adonisröschen
sense:
Any of genus Adonis of flowering plants in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), native to Europe and Asia, particularly


lexentry: eng/phencyclidine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phencyclidine
trans_list: Phencyclidin
sense:
(pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic compound derived from piperidine, used as a veterinary anesthetic and in hallucinogenic drugs such as angel dust.


lexentry: eng/phenol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phenol
trans_list: Phenol
sense:
(organic compound, uncountable) A caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C6H5OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic; once called carbolic acid


lexentry: eng/phenol__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phenol
trans_list: Phenol
sense:
(organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring (or other aromatic ring)


lexentry: eng/phenolic_resin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phenolic resin
trans_list: Phenolharz | Phenoplast
sense:
(chemistry) Any of a particular class of thermosetting resin made through the condensation of phenol (or a phenol derivative) with an aldehyde.


lexentry: eng/phenomenology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phenomenology
trans_list: Phänomenologie
sense:
(philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.


lexentry: eng/phenomenon__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: phenomenon
trans_list: Erscheinung | Phänomen
sense:
(philosophy, chiefly, Kantian, _, idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).


lexentry: eng/phenotype__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phenotype
trans_list: Phänotyp | Erscheinungsbild
sense:
(genetics, evolutionary theory) The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.


lexentry: eng/phenylalanine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phenylalanine
trans_list: Phenylalanin
sense:
(amino acid) An essential amino acid C9H11NO2 found in most animal proteins; it is essential for growth; the inability to metabolize it leads to phenylketonuria; it is a constituent of aspartame.


lexentry: eng/phenylephrine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phenylephrine
trans_list: Phenylephrin
sense:
(medicine, pharmaceutical drug) An α-adrenergic receptor agonist related to adrenaline, used as a vasoconstrictor and nasal decongestant; 3-(1-hydroxy-2-methylamino-ethyl)phenol, with the formula C9H13NO2.


lexentry: eng/pheromone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pheromone
trans_list: Pheromon
sense:
(biology) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.


lexentry: eng/philanthropy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philanthropy
trans_list: Menschenliebe | Nächstenliebe | Philantropie
sense:
(chiefly, _, uncountable) Benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of humankind.


lexentry: eng/philhellene__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: philhellene
trans_list: Philhellene | Philhellenin
sense:
(now, historical) Specifically, a supporter of Greek independence, especially during the Greek war of independence in 1821-29. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/philia__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: philia
trans_list: Philie
sense:
(countable) a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something


lexentry: eng/philistine__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philistine
trans_list: Banause | Spießer | philiströs
sense:
(derogatory) Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.


lexentry: eng/philistine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philistine
trans_list: Philister | Banause | Banausin | Ignorant | Ignorantin | Spießbürger
sense:
(derogatory) A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.


lexentry: eng/phillumenist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phillumenist
trans_list: Phillumenist | Phillumenistin
sense:
A person who collects match-related items, like matchbox labels, matchboxes, matchbooks, or matchbook covers.


lexentry: eng/philo-Semitism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philo-Semitism
trans_list: Philosemitismus
sense:
Interest in or appreciation of Jewish people, their history, or the influence of Judaism, particularly on the part of a gentile.


lexentry: eng/philologist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philologist
trans_list: Philologe | Philologin
sense:
A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.


lexentry: eng/philosopher's_stone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philosopher's stone
trans_list: Stein der Weisen
sense:
(alchemy, uncountable) A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.


lexentry: eng/philosopher__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: philosopher
trans_list: Philosoph | Philosophin
sense:
(archaic) A person who applies the principles of philosophy to the conduct of their life, as by acting calmly and rationally in the face of inevitable change.


lexentry: eng/philosopher__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: philosopher
trans_list: Philosoph | Philosophin
sense:
(archaic) A student, scholar, or expert in any branch of knowledge, especially those branches studied prior to being considered part of pure science.


lexentry: eng/philosophy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: philosophy
trans_list: Philosophie
sense:
(uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as existence and rationality.


lexentry: eng/philosophy_of_science__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philosophy of science
trans_list: Wissenschaftstheorie
sense:
(philosophy, uncountable) The study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including such questions as what distinguishes science from non-science, what are the aims of science, or what is a successful scientific explanation of a phenomenon.


lexentry: eng/philter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: philter
trans_list: Liebestrank
sense:
A kind of potion, charm, or drug; especially a love potion intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver. [from the 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/phimosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phimosis
trans_list: Phimose | Vorhautverengung
sense:
(symptom) A contraction of the foreskin (either as a stage of development or a pathological condition), which prevents it from being retracted.


lexentry: eng/phlegm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phlegm
trans_list: Phlegma
sense:
(historical) One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus. [from 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/phlegm__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phlegm
trans_list: Nasenschleim | Popel | Schleim
sense:
Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/phlegm__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: phlegm
trans_list: Phlegma | Schwerfälligkeit | Trägheit | Gemütsruhe | Gleichmut | stoische Ruhe
sense:
Calmness of temperament, composure; also seen negatively, sluggishness, indifference. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/phloem__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phloem
trans_list: Phloem
sense:
(botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.


lexentry: eng/phlogiston__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phlogiston
trans_list: Phlogiston | Caloricum
sense:
(chemistry, historical) The hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.


lexentry: eng/phlogopite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phlogopite
trans_list: Phlogopit
sense:
(mineral) A mica mineral with the chemical formula KMg3AlSi3O10(F,OH)2, a basic potassium magnesium aluminosilicate, used as an insulator


lexentry: eng/pho__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pho
trans_list: Pho | Phở
sense:
A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.


lexentry: eng/phocomelia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phocomelia
trans_list: Phokomelie | Phokomelus | Robbengliedrigkeit
sense:
A congenital disorder of the limbs, the affected person being born with abnormally short or missing bones and flipper-like hands or feet.


lexentry: eng/phoenix__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: phoenix
trans_list: Phönix
sense:
(Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.


lexentry: eng/phon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phon
trans_list: Phon
sense:
(acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.


lexentry: eng/phone__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phone
trans_list: Phon
sense:
(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.


lexentry: eng/phone_in__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phone in
trans_list: einkreisen
sense:
(transitive) To make a telephone call to a broadcasting station, especially to participate in a program being aired.


lexentry: eng/phoneme__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phoneme
trans_list: Phonem
sense:
An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.


lexentry: eng/phonemic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phonemic
trans_list: phonemisch
sense:
(linguistics) Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.


lexentry: eng/phonetics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phonetics
trans_list: Phonetik | Lautlehre
sense:
(linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.


lexentry: eng/phono-semantic_matching__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phono-semantic matching
trans_list: phono-semantische Angleichung
sense:
(linguistics) The borrowing of a word into one language from another which completely or partially preserves both the original sound and meaning but does so via substitution of etymons.


lexentry: eng/phonogram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phonogram
trans_list: Lautzeichen | Phonogramm
sense:
(linguistics) A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives.


lexentry: eng/phonology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phonology
trans_list: Phonologie | Phonemik
sense:
(uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including accent, intonation, phonemes, stress, and syllable structure, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language; (countable) the way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system. [from late 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/phonology__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phonology
trans_list: Phonologie | Phonemik
sense:
(by extension, uncountable) The study of the way components of signs function in a sign language, and which components are distinctive units within the language; (countable) the way components of signs function within a given sign language.


lexentry: eng/phonon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phonon
trans_list: Phonon
sense:
(physics) The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy (sound), considered a discrete particle rather than a wave.


lexentry: eng/phonotactics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phonotactics
trans_list: Phonotaktik
sense:
(linguistics, phonology) A branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes.


lexentry: eng/phosphatase__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phosphatase
trans_list: Phosphatase
sense:
(enzyme) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.


lexentry: eng/phosphene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phosphene
trans_list: Phosphen
sense:
A sensation of lights induced by mechanical, electrical, or magnetic stimulation (rather than optical) of the retina or visual cortex, or by random firing of cells in the visual system.


lexentry: eng/phosphine__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phosphine
trans_list: Phosphin
sense:
(organic chemistry, countable) Any alkyl or aryl derivative of this compound, PR3 (where at least one R is not H),


lexentry: eng/phospholipid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phospholipid
trans_list: Phospholipid
sense:
(organic compound) Any lipid, such as lecithin or cephalin, consisting of a diglyceride combined with a phosphate group and a simple organic molecule such as choline or ethanolamine; they are important constituents of biological membranes.


lexentry: eng/phosphor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phosphor
trans_list: Luminophor
sense:
(chemistry) Any of various compounds of transition metals or of rare earths that exhibit phosphorescence.


lexentry: eng/phosphoric__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phosphoric
trans_list: phosphorhaltig
sense:
(chemistry) Pertaining to the element phosphorus; containing phosphorus, especially in its higher valency (5). [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/phosphoric_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phosphoric acid
trans_list: Phosphorsäure
sense:
(inorganic compound) A colourless liquid, H3PO4, used in the manufacture of fertilizers, detergents and pharmaceuticals and as an additive in cola drinks.


lexentry: eng/phosphorus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phosphorus
trans_list: Phosphor
sense:
(chemistry) a chemical element (symbol P) with an atomic number of 15, that exists in several allotropic forms.


lexentry: eng/phosphorylation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phosphorylation
trans_list: Phosphorylierung
sense:
(biochemistry) the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor; often catalysed by enzymes.


lexentry: eng/photic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photic
trans_list: photisch
sense:
Of, related to, or irradiated by light; especially describing that part of the near-surface ocean is which photosynthesis is possible.


lexentry: eng/photo_finish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photo finish
trans_list: Fotofinish
sense:
(sports) The finish of a race in which the leaders are so close together that the winner cannot be identified using the naked eye but is determined by means of a photograph.


lexentry: eng/photochemical_reaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photochemical reaction
trans_list: photochemische Reaktion
sense:
(chemistry) Any chemical reaction initiated by the absorption of electromagnetic radiation to form an excited state


lexentry: eng/photoconductivity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photoconductivity
trans_list: Photoleitfähigkeit
sense:
(physics) The increase in the electrical conductivity of a material as a result of incident electromagnetic radiation.


lexentry: eng/photocopier__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photocopier
trans_list: Fotokopierer
sense:
A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.


lexentry: eng/photodiode__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photodiode
trans_list: Fotodiode
sense:
(electronics) A semiconductor two-terminal component whose electrical characteristics are light-sensitive.


lexentry: eng/photoelectric_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photoelectric effect
trans_list: photoelektrischer Effekt
sense:
(physics) The emission of electrons from the surface of a material following the absorption of electromagnetic radiation.


lexentry: eng/photograph__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photograph
trans_list: Fotografie | Foto | Photographie | Lichtbild | Bild
sense:
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.


lexentry: eng/photographic_paper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photographic paper
trans_list: Fotopapier | Photopapier
sense:
(photography) paper or card coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, typically containing silver salts


lexentry: eng/photomultiplier__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photomultiplier
trans_list: Fotovervielfacher
sense:
(physics) A device, normally in the form of a tube, that uses a photocathode to convert photons into photoelectrons which are then amplified


lexentry: eng/photon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photon
trans_list: Photon | Lichtteilchen
sense:
(particle) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.


lexentry: eng/photopaper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photopaper
trans_list: Photopapier
sense:
Photographic paper; paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, used for making photographic prints on traditional film cameras.


lexentry: eng/photorealism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photorealism
trans_list: Fotorealismus
sense:
(art) An extremely realistic style distinguished by paintings, drawings, etc. that are nearly indistinguishable from photographs, frequently produced by tracing and emulating an original photograph.


lexentry: eng/photosynthesis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: photosynthesis
trans_list: Photosynthese | Fotosynthese
sense:
(biochemistry, organic chemistry) Any process by which plants and other photoautotrophs convert light energy into chemical energy.


lexentry: eng/phototropic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phototropic
trans_list: fototrop | fototropisch
sense:
Having a tendency to move in response to light. An animal or microbe that is positively phototropic will move toward light. One that is negatively phototropic will move away from light.


lexentry: eng/phrasal_verb__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phrasal verb
trans_list: mehrgliedriges Verb | Partikelverb
sense:
(linguistics, more loosely) A phrase, consisting of a verb and either or both of a preposition or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.


lexentry: eng/phrase__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phrase
trans_list: Phrase
sense:
(grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.


lexentry: eng/phrase_book__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phrase book
trans_list: Sprachführer | Gesprächsbuch
sense:
A usually pocket-sized book consisting of everyday expressions and vocabulary in two languages and intended for travellers who wish to communicate with locals while in other countries.


lexentry: eng/phrasing__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: phrasing
trans_list: Ausdrucksweise | Phrasierung
sense:
(music) The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.


lexentry: eng/phreatic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phreatic
trans_list: phreatisch | phreatische Explosion
sense:
(geology) Of or pertaining to ground water; (volcanology) involving explosively rapid heating of ground water by magma.


lexentry: eng/phrenology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phrenology
trans_list: Phrenologie
sense:
(medicine, biology, historical) The science or now discredited pseudo-science, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.


lexentry: eng/phugoid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phugoid
trans_list: Phygoide
sense:
(aeronautics, aviation) The motion of an aircraft, missile, or other flying object continuously oscillating in a vertical plane due to the object pitching up and climbing, thus slowing down; then pitching down and descending, thus speeding up.


lexentry: eng/phylactery__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phylactery
trans_list: Phylakterion | Denkzettel
sense:
(Judaism) Either of the two small leather cases, containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer; the tefilla.


lexentry: eng/phylactery__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: phylactery
trans_list: Spruchband
sense:
(art, historical) A speech scroll, an illustrative device depicting speech, song or other sound as if written on a scroll.


lexentry: eng/phyllo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phyllo
trans_list: Filoteig
sense:
A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked.


lexentry: eng/phyllotaxis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phyllotaxis
trans_list: Phyllotaxis
sense:
(botany) The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement.


lexentry: eng/phylloxera__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phylloxera
trans_list: Reblaus
sense:
An insect, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae of the family Phylloxeridae (not the genus Phylloxera), that is very destructive to grape vines; also, the diseased condition of a vine caused by this insect. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/phylogenetics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phylogenetics
trans_list: Phylogenese
sense:
(biology, systematics) The study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms, through computational methods that focus on observed heritable traits.


lexentry: eng/phylum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phylum
trans_list: Stamm
sense:
(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank


lexentry: eng/physalis__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: physalis
trans_list: Kapstachelbeere | Physalis
sense:
Fruit of such a plant, a yellow-orange berry, typically firm in texture with a mild, refreshing acidity.


lexentry: eng/physical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: physical
trans_list: physisch | körperlich | materiell | stofflich
sense:
Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind; tangible, concrete; real. Having to do with the material world. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/physical_chemistry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physical chemistry
trans_list: physikalische Chemie
sense:
(physical chemistry) The science that uses theories and techniques from physics to study chemical systems.


lexentry: eng/physical_culture__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physical culture
trans_list: Breitensport
sense:
(historical) A 19th- and 20th-century popular movement of light gymnastics for the purpose of health and fitness.


lexentry: eng/physical_education__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physical education
trans_list: Sportunterricht
sense:
An element of an educational curriculum concerned with bodily development, physical health and wellness, strength, physical co-ordination, and agility.


lexentry: eng/physical_examination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physical examination
trans_list: ärztliche Untersuchung
sense:
(medicine) The examination of the patient's body with the use of such methods as inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation.


lexentry: eng/physical_law__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: physical law
trans_list: Naturgesetz | physikalisches Gesetz
sense:
A universal statement about the operation of nature, based on empirical observations of physical behavior, tested using the scientific method.


lexentry: eng/physical_quantity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physical quantity
trans_list: physikalische Größe
sense:
(physics) A physical property that can be measured or calculated from other physical property and expressed as the product of a numerical value and a physical unit.


lexentry: eng/physician__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physician
trans_list: Ärztin | Doktorin | Medizinerin
sense:
A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.


lexentry: eng/physicist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physicist
trans_list: Physiker | Physikerin
sense:
A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.


lexentry: eng/physics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physics
trans_list: Physik
sense:
The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.


lexentry: eng/physiocrat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physiocrat
trans_list: Physiokrat
sense:
(economics, now, historical) Any of a group of economists in 18th-century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/physiognomist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physiognomist
trans_list: Gesichtsleser | Gesichtsleserin | Physiognomiker | Physiognomikerin
sense:
One who studies, or is an expert in, physiognomy; one who studies the outer appearance of the person (primarily the face) to acquire knowledge of the inner personality.


lexentry: eng/physiognomy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physiognomy
trans_list: Physiognomik
sense:
The art or pseudoscience of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face.


lexentry: eng/physiography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physiography
trans_list: Physiographie
sense:
(geography) The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns.


lexentry: eng/physiology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: physiology
trans_list: Physiologie
sense:
A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.


lexentry: eng/phytic_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phytic acid
trans_list: Phytinsäure
sense:
(organic compound) The compound inositol hexaphosphoric acid present in cereals etc as alkali and alkaline earth salts; it is a source of phosphorus for ruminants but is indigestible for carnivores


lexentry: eng/phytoequivalence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: phytoequivalence
trans_list: Phytoäquivalenz
sense:
(pharmacology, herbal medicine) A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.


lexentry: eng/pi__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pi
trans_list: Pi | Kreiszahl
sense:
(mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.


lexentry: eng/piano__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piano
trans_list: Klavier | Piano | Flügel
sense:
(musical instruments) a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings [from 1803]


lexentry: eng/piano_nobile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piano nobile
trans_list: Beletage
sense:
(architecture) The floor of a building where the principal bedrooms and main reception rooms are found, very often on the first or second floor in older buildings.


lexentry: eng/piano_stool__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piano stool
trans_list: Klavierstuhl
sense:
A round wooden stool used by piano players. It is less stable than the rectangular piano bench. The height can be adjusted by simply spinning the seat clockwise or counterclockwise, respectively.


lexentry: eng/piastre__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piastre
trans_list: Piaster
sense:
(now, _, historical) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.


lexentry: eng/piastre__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: piastre
trans_list: Piaster
sense:
A form of currency currently used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern and East African countries of Egypt, Jordan (partly including Palestine), Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria.


lexentry: eng/pica__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pica
trans_list: Pik
sense:
(pathology, usually, uncountable) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.


lexentry: eng/piccolo__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: piccolo
trans_list: Piccoloflöte | Pikkoloflöte
sense:
A piccolo flute
 A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.


lexentry: eng/piccolo__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: piccolo
trans_list: Piccolo
sense:
A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.


lexentry: eng/pick-me-up__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pick-me-up
trans_list: Mageneinrenker
sense:
(informal) A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pick__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pick
trans_list: pflücken
sense:
To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.


lexentry: eng/pick_one's_nose__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pick one's nose
trans_list: in der Nase bohren | in der Nase herumbohren | popeln | sich in der Nase pulen
sense:
(idiomatic) To insert a finger or other object into one's nostril to remove obstructions, especially dried mucus.


lexentry: eng/pick_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 14
written_rep: pick up
trans_list: abschleppen | aufgabeln | jemanden abkriegen | jemanden aufreißen | verführen
sense:
(transitive, and, intransitive, _, with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.


lexentry: eng/pickaxe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pickaxe
trans_list: Spitzhacke | Pickel
sense:
A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.


lexentry: eng/pickelhaube__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pickelhaube
trans_list: Pickelhaube
sense:
(historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/picket__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: picket
trans_list: Vorposten
sense:
(military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.


lexentry: eng/picket__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: picket
trans_list: Streikposten
sense:
A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.


lexentry: eng/pickguard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pickguard
trans_list: Schlagbrett
sense:
(music) A piece of durable flat material placed on the body of a guitar (or similar instrument) beneath the strings to protect the surface from being scratched by a plectrum (or similar device).


lexentry: eng/pickle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pickle
trans_list: Gewürzgurke | Essiggurke | Frechdachs | eingelegte Gurke | saure Gurke
sense:
(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.


lexentry: eng/pickle__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pickle
trans_list: pökeln | einlegen
sense:
(transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.


lexentry: eng/pickle__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pickle
trans_list: beizen
sense:
(transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.


lexentry: eng/pickled_egg__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pickled egg
trans_list: Solei
sense:
(British) An egg, usually from a hen, that has been pickled in vinegar, giving the outside a brown colour.


lexentry: eng/pickling__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pickling
trans_list: abbeizen
sense:
A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) or other metallic objects is chemically removed by strong acids.


lexentry: eng/pickup__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pickup
trans_list: Vorspeise
sense:
An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.


lexentry: eng/pickup__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pickup
trans_list: Schleppnetz
sense:
An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter.


lexentry: eng/pickup__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: pickup
trans_list: Gegenstand
sense:
(video games) An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.


lexentry: eng/pico-__Prefix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pico-
trans_list: pico- | piko-
sense:
In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10−12 (short scale trillionth or long scale billionth). Symbol: p


lexentry: eng/picric_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: picric acid
trans_list: Pikrinsäure
sense:
(organic compound) 2,4,6-trinitrophenol, C6H2(NO2)3, prepared by the nitration of phenol or of aspirin; a toxic, yellow, explosive substance used in dyes, explosives, and as an antiseptic


lexentry: eng/picture-in-picture__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: picture-in-picture
trans_list: BiB | Bild im Bild
sense:
(television) A feature of some television receivers and similar devices, where one program or channel is displayed on the full TV screen while another is displayed in an inset window.


lexentry: eng/picture__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: picture
trans_list: Bild | Gemälde | Abbild | Abbildung
sense:
A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.


lexentry: eng/picture_card__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: picture card
trans_list: Anstreicher
sense:
A playing card which has a picture on it (usually Jack, Queen or King (coat card), but sometimes including Ace or Joker).


lexentry: eng/picturesque__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: picturesque
trans_list: malerisch | pittoresk
sense:
Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful.


lexentry: eng/pidgin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pidgin
trans_list: Pidgin | Pidginsprache | Pidgin-Sprache
sense:
(linguistics) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.


lexentry: eng/pie__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pie
trans_list: Torte
sense:
A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.


lexentry: eng/pie__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pie
trans_list: torten
sense:
(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).


lexentry: eng/piece__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: piece
trans_list: Spielfigur | Offizier
sense:
(chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.


lexentry: eng/piece__Noun__1
sense_num: 14
written_rep: piece
trans_list: Figur | Stück
sense:
(baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.


lexentry: eng/piece_rate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piece rate
trans_list: Stückgeldakkordlohn | Stückgeldsatz
sense:
The monetary amount paid per unit of production in the reward scheme of piece work, contrasting with hourly wage and salary.


lexentry: eng/piece_work__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piece work
trans_list: Akkord | Akkordarbeit | Stücklohn | Stückakkord | Stückarbeit
sense:
Work that a worker is paid for according to the number of units produced, rather than the number of hours worked; work done and paid for by the piece or by the job.


lexentry: eng/pieceworker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: A worker who is paid according to the number of units of work produced.
written_rep: pieceworker
trans_list:
Akkordarbeiter | Akkordarbeiterin | Stückarbeiter | Stückarbeiterin | Stücklohnarbeiter | Stücklohnarbeiterin


lexentry: eng/pied_avocet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pied avocet
trans_list: Säbelschnäbler
sense:
Recurvirostra avosetta, a black and white wading bird of temperate Europe and western and central Asia, wintering in Africa and south Asia.


lexentry: eng/pieing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pieing
trans_list: Tortenattentat | Tortenwurf | Tortung
sense:
An instance of throwing a pie at someone, often a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest.


lexentry: eng/pier__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pier
trans_list: Kai | Anlegestelle | Seebrücke
sense:
A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.


lexentry: eng/pier__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pier
trans_list: Pfeiler
sense:
(architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.


lexentry: eng/pierogi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pierogi
trans_list: Pirogge
sense:
(North America) A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling.


lexentry: eng/pietism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pietism
trans_list: Pietismus
sense:
(Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.


lexentry: eng/pig_Latin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pig Latin
trans_list: Hühnersprache | Ketelkloppersprook | Mattenenglisch | Pig Latin
sense:
A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case "-way" [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change. {| class="examples floatright" style="background-color: #f8f9fa;border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; border-collapse:separate;-moz-box-sizing: content-box; margin: 6px 0 16px 23px; padding: 5px; width: 18em;"
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lexentry: eng/pig__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pig
trans_list: Schwein | Hausschwein | Sau | Docke | Kosel | Mocke
sense:
Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.


lexentry: eng/pig__Noun__1
sense_num: 13
written_rep: pig
trans_list: Schwein | Bulle | Bullenschwein | Büttel | Greifer | Greiferin
sense:
(engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.


lexentry: eng/pig_in_a_poke__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pig in a poke
trans_list: die Katze im Sack kaufen
sense:
(idiomatic) Something whose true value is concealed or unknown and may be lower than expected by the buyer or claimed by the seller, especially something offered for sale.


lexentry: eng/pig_iron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pig iron
trans_list: Roheisen
sense:
A type of crude, brittle iron shaped like a block, unsuitable for working but suitable for casting, commonly used as an industrial raw material.


lexentry: eng/pigeon_racing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pigeon racing
trans_list: Brieftaubensport | Taubensport
sense:
The sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons (racing pigeons), which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance.


lexentry: eng/pigeonhole__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pigeonhole
trans_list: Fach
sense:
(by extension) One of an array of compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.


lexentry: eng/piggy_bank__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piggy bank
trans_list: Sparschwein | Spardose | Sparbüchse | Büchse
sense:
A small container, sometimes in the form of a pig, to store small saved coins in. Often the "bank" must be broken open to retrieve the contents.


lexentry: eng/pigtail__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pigtail
trans_list: Anschlussdraht | Anschlussfaser | Haarzopf | Zopf | Zöpfchen
sense:
A braided plait of hair; now especially, either of two braids or "tails" on the side of the head. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/pigtail__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: pigtail
trans_list: Anschlussdraht | Anschlussfaser
sense:
(medicine) Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.


lexentry: eng/pika__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pika
trans_list: Pfeifhase
sense:
Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.


lexentry: eng/pikachurin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pikachurin
trans_list: Pikachurin
sense:
(biochemistry) A dystroglycan-interacting polysaccharide which has an essential role in the precise interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites.


lexentry: eng/pike__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pike
trans_list: Pike | Spieß
sense:
(military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.


lexentry: eng/pilaf__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pilaf
trans_list: Pilaw
sense:
A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.


lexentry: eng/pilaster__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pilaster
trans_list: Pilaster
sense:
(structural, _, architecture) A column or short wing wall attached to the foundation wall which provides lateral support, or to support a vertical load that does not fall on the foundation wall.


lexentry: eng/pile__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pile
trans_list: Pfahl
sense:
A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.


lexentry: eng/pile__Noun__2
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pile
trans_list: Keil
sense:
(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.


lexentry: eng/pile__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pile
trans_list: anhäufen | aufstapeln | beigen | schichten | stapeln
sense:
(transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate


lexentry: eng/pile_driver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pile driver
trans_list: Ramme
sense:
A machine for forcing a pile, a long beam, into the ground as part of the construction of a foundation; usually by raising a weight and then dropping it on the beam.


lexentry: eng/pill__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pill
trans_list: Pille | Tablette
sense:
(broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.


lexentry: eng/pill__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pill
trans_list: Pille
sense:
(informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.


lexentry: eng/pill__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: pill
trans_list: Fussel
sense:
(textile) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.


lexentry: eng/pill_bug__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pill bug
trans_list: Rollassel
sense:
(US) Any of very many terrestrial crustaceans, of the family Armadillidiidae, a subgroup of the woodlice, that can roll themselves up into a protective ball.


lexentry: eng/pill_tile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pill tile
trans_list: Pillenbrett | Tabulierbrett
sense:
(pharmacy) An implement sometimes graduated with a linear scale and sometimes decorated designed to cut out with it tablets and ointments from an amorphous medicament mass


lexentry: eng/pillarize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pillarize
trans_list: versäulen
sense:
(society, ergative) To divide into social pillars, in which each social group has its own social institutions.


lexentry: eng/pillock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pillock
trans_list: Trottel
sense:
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang) A stupid or annoying person; a simpleton; a fool.


lexentry: eng/pillory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pillory
trans_list: Schandpfahl | Pranger
sense:
A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.


lexentry: eng/pillow_fort__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pillow fort
trans_list: Kissenburg
sense:
An inhabitable structure built from pillows, blankets, bed sheets, and sofa cushions, usually as part of a child's play.


lexentry: eng/pillow_talk__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pillow talk
trans_list: Bettgeflüster
sense:
(idiomatic) Conversation shared by bedmates, particularly intimate conversation after or before sexual intercourse.


lexentry: eng/pillow_word__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pillow word
trans_list: Attribut
sense:
In Japanese waka poetry, a poetic device where a certain introductory phrase is commonly used to allude to something else.


lexentry: eng/pilot__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pilot
trans_list: Lotse
sense:
A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.


lexentry: eng/pilot__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: pilot
trans_list: Pilot
sense:
(television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.


lexentry: eng/pilot_balloon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pilot balloon
trans_list: Pilotballon
sense:
(meteorology) A small unmanned balloon whose ascent is followed by a theodolite to obtain data for the computation of the speed and direction of winds in the upper air.


lexentry: eng/pilot_boat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pilot boat
trans_list: Lotsenboot
sense:
A kind of boat used to transport pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.


lexentry: eng/pimp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pimp
trans_list: Zuhälter | Kuppler | Lude
sense:
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.


lexentry: eng/pimpernel__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pimpernel
trans_list: Gauchheil
sense:
Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/pimping__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pimping
trans_list: aufmotzen
sense:
The process of modifying a vehicle (usually a car), predominantly focusing on its appearance and audiovisual system as opposed to performance.


lexentry: eng/pimple__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pimple
trans_list: Pickel | Oas
sense:
(dermatology) An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.


lexentry: eng/pin-up__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pin-up
trans_list: Pin-up
sense:
A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall.


lexentry: eng/pin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pin
trans_list: Stecknadel | Nadel
sense:
A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.


lexentry: eng/pin__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: pin
trans_list: Kegel
sense:
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.


lexentry: eng/pin__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: pin
trans_list: Anstecker | Anstecknadel | Pin
sense:
(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.


lexentry: eng/pin__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: pin
trans_list: Fesselung
sense:
(chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.


lexentry: eng/pin_header__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pin header
trans_list: Stiftleiste
sense:
(electronics) A type of electrical connector, consisting of one or more rows of male pins evenly spaced apart.


lexentry: eng/pin_money__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pin money
trans_list: Nadelgeld
sense:
(historical) An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/pinacol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinacol
trans_list: Pinakol
sense:
(organic chemistry) any tetra-substituted derivative of ethylene glycol, of general formula R2C(OH)-C(OH)R2, especially the simplest example where R is methyl


lexentry: eng/pinafore__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinafore
trans_list: Kittelschürze | Latzkleid | Trägerkleid
sense:
A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes, and most often worn by young girls as an overdress.


lexentry: eng/pinball__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinball
trans_list: Flipper | Flipperspiel
sense:
(games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.


lexentry: eng/pinch__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pinch
trans_list: Prise | Messerspitze
sense:
A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.


lexentry: eng/pinch__Verb__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: pinch
trans_list: erwischen | schnappen
sense:
(horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.


lexentry: eng/pincushion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pincushion
trans_list: Nadelkissen
sense:
(sewing) A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.


lexentry: eng/pine_nut__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pine nut
trans_list: Pinienkern
sense:
The edible seed of any of several species of evergreen pine, especially Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra, and Pinus cembroides.


lexentry: eng/pineal_gland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pineal gland
trans_list: Zirbeldrüse
sense:
(anatomy, neuroanatomy) A small, pinecone-shaped endocrine gland found near the centre of the brain that produces melatonin.


lexentry: eng/pinery__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinery
trans_list: Ananasgewächshaus | Ananashaus | Ananasplantage | Ananastreibhaus
sense:
A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.


lexentry: eng/pinesap__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinesap
trans_list: Fichtenspargel
sense:
A myco-heterotroph (Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be a saprophyte, having racemes of drooping flowers.


lexentry: eng/ping__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ping
trans_list: pingen
sense:
(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.


lexentry: eng/pingo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pingo
trans_list: Pingo
sense:
(geomorphology) A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year. [from 1920s]


lexentry: eng/pink_noise__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pink noise
trans_list: rosa Rauschen
sense:
A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency (1/f).


lexentry: eng/pink_slime__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pink slime
trans_list: rosa Schleim
sense:
(informal, dysphemistic) A meat byproduct produced from scraps by heating and then treating with ammonia to produce a food additive. [from 2002]


lexentry: eng/pinko__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinko
trans_list: Rosa
sense:
(informal, often, derogatory, chiefly, US) A socialist, particularly one who is not wholly communist. [from mid-1930s]


lexentry: eng/pinna__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinna
trans_list: Ohrmuschel | äußeres Ohr
sense:
(anatomy) The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal.


lexentry: eng/pinnacle__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pinnacle
trans_list: Fiale | Pinakel
sense:
(architectural element) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.


lexentry: eng/pinnate__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pinnate
trans_list: Fieder- | fiederblättrig | gefiedert | paarig gefiedert
sense:
(botany) Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis


lexentry: eng/pinniped__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinniped
trans_list: Flossenfüßer | Robbe
sense:
Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the superfamily (formerly considered a suborder) Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.


lexentry: eng/pinocytosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinocytosis
trans_list: Pinozytose
sense:
(biology) A form of endocytosis in which material enters a cell through its membrane and is incorporated in vesicles for digestion.


lexentry: eng/pins_and_needles__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pins and needles
trans_list: Ameisenlaufen
sense:
(informal) A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations.


lexentry: eng/pinwheel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pinwheel
trans_list: Windrad
sense:
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.


lexentry: eng/pion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pion
trans_list: Pion
sense:
(particle) Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.


lexentry: eng/pioneer__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pioneer
trans_list: Pionier
sense:
(obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.


lexentry: eng/pioneer__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: pioneer
trans_list: Pionier
sense:
(Communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.


lexentry: eng/pioneering__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pioneering
trans_list: bahnbrechend | richtungsweisend | wegweisend
sense:
Involving accomplishments or activities that have not been done before, or developing or using new methods or techniques.


lexentry: eng/pious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pious
trans_list: scheinheilig
sense:
Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.


lexentry: eng/pipe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipe
trans_list: Flöte
sense:
(musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/pipe__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pipe
trans_list: Rohr
sense:
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/pipe_bomb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipe bomb
trans_list: Rohrbombe
sense:
(explosives) An improvised explosive device consisting of blasting powder or other explosive material encased in a metal pipe to increase the blast effect.


lexentry: eng/pipe_cleaner__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipe cleaner
trans_list: Pfeifenreiniger
sense:
A piece of flexible wire in which tufted fabric is twisted and which is used to clean out the stem of a tobacco pipe or other narrow tube. It can be also used for arts and crafts.


lexentry: eng/pipe_organ__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipe organ
trans_list: Orgel
sense:
(musical instrument) The largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console which produces its sound by sending air through whistles and/or reeds called organ pipes, by direct mechanical action, or modernly, electrically.


lexentry: eng/pipe_wrench__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipe wrench
trans_list: Einhand-Rohrzange
sense:
An adjustable wrench (British spanner) with a toothed jaw for gripping pipe, frequently used by a plumber or pipe fitter, to loosen and tighten pipes with threaded connections.


lexentry: eng/pipefish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipefish
trans_list: Seenadel
sense:
A small fish of subfamily Syngnathinae in the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.


lexentry: eng/pipette__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipette
trans_list: Pipette
sense:
(sciences) A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pipeweed__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pipeweed
trans_list: Rohr
sense:
Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.


lexentry: eng/pipit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pipit
trans_list: Pieper
sense:
Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.


lexentry: eng/piquet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piquet
trans_list: Pikett | Piquet
sense:
(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.


lexentry: eng/piracy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piracy
trans_list: Piraterie | Seeräuberei
sense:
(nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.


lexentry: eng/piranha__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piranha
trans_list: Piranha
sense:
(ichthyology) Any of the carnivorous or frugivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers and belonging to the subfamily Serrasalminae.


lexentry: eng/pirate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pirate
trans_list: Pirat | Seeräuber | Korsar
sense:
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.


lexentry: eng/pirate__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pirate
trans_list: Pirat | Raubkopierer
sense:
(by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.


lexentry: eng/pirate_radio__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pirate radio
trans_list: Piratensender
sense:
Broadcasting without having the necessary license that covers the territory where the signals are received.


lexentry: eng/pirate_ship__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pirate ship
trans_list: Piratenschiff
sense:
Any ship manned by pirates, especially a large wooden sailing ship armed with cannons and flying a Jolly Roger, as stereotyped in literature and film.


lexentry: eng/pirozhki__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pirozhki
trans_list: Pirogge | Piroschki
sense:
Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these.


lexentry: eng/piscatory_ring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piscatory ring
trans_list: Fischerring
sense:
(Roman Catholicism) A ring worn by popes, representing the first pope and Christian apostle Peter, who had been a fisherman.


lexentry: eng/piss__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: piss
trans_list: Fusel | Plörre
sense:
(occasionally, vulgar, countable, _, and, _, uncountable) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/piss_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piss off
trans_list: verpissen
sense:
(Commonwealth, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To leave, to go away. [from mid-20th c.]


lexentry: eng/pissaladière__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pissaladière
trans_list: Pissaladière
sense:
A pie from southern France, similar to pizza, without tomatoes or cheese, usually topped with onions, anchovies and black olives.


lexentry: eng/pistil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pistil
trans_list: Stempel | Pistill
sense:
(botany) A discrete organ in the center of a flower capable of receiving pollen and producing a fruit, it is divided into an ovary, style and stigma. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/piston__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piston
trans_list: Kolben | Piston | Zündhütchenträger
sense:
(mechanics) A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)


lexentry: eng/piston_engine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piston engine
trans_list: Kolbenmotor | Kolbenmaschinen
sense:
Any of several types of engine having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons, in which a crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down within cylinders; many internal combustion engines and many steam engines have such a mechanism.


lexentry: eng/pit__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: pit
trans_list: Ausgrabung | Grabestelle | Grabung | Grabungsloch
sense:
(archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.


lexentry: eng/pit__Noun__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: pit
trans_list: Kampfplatz
sense:
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.


lexentry: eng/pit__Noun__1
sense_num: 13
written_rep: pit
trans_list: Grube | Loch | Vertiefung
sense:
Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.


lexentry: eng/pit__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pit
trans_list: Boxenstopp einlegen | Boxenstopp machen | an die Box fahren
sense:
(intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.


lexentry: eng/pit_stop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pit stop
trans_list: Boxenstopp
sense:
(motor racing) A stop made during an automobile race at the pit to refuel and perform other periodic maintenance on the vehicle.


lexentry: eng/pit_viper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pit viper
trans_list: Grubenottern
sense:
Any of various venomous snakes, of the subfamily Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or fossa on either side of the head that enables them to detect prey by infrared.


lexentry: eng/pitch__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pitch
trans_list: Sportplatz
sense:
(sports, UK, Australia, NZ) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)


lexentry: eng/pitch__Noun__2
sense_num: 07
written_rep: pitch
trans_list: Abstand | Teilung
sense:
The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.


lexentry: eng/pitch__Verb__2
sense_num: 09
written_rep: pitch
trans_list: stampfen | neigen
sense:
(ambitransitive, aviation, or, nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.


lexentry: eng/pitch_accent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitch accent
trans_list: Tonakzent
sense:
(phonology) Any of a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.


lexentry: eng/pitch_pine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitch pine
trans_list: Pech-Kiefer
sense:
Any of various other pine trees from which pitch can be obtained, or which have very resinous wood, including members of species:


lexentry: eng/pitched_battle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitched battle
trans_list: Feldschlacht
sense:
(military) A battle which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; a sustained, intense and confrontational fight.


lexentry: eng/pitcher__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitcher
trans_list: Krug | Kanne | Karaffe
sense:
A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.


lexentry: eng/pitcher_plant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitcher plant
trans_list: Kannenpflanze | Kobralilie | Schlauchpflanze
sense:
Any of various insectivorous plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora, Nepenthes, or Cephalotus that have pitcher-like leaves or parts of leaves with slippery sides that attract and trap insects.


lexentry: eng/pitchfork__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitchfork
trans_list: Mistgabel | Heugabel
sense:
An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).


lexentry: eng/pitchman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitchman
trans_list: Marktschreier
sense:
A salesman, especially one who aggressively markets wares from a street stall, or a carnival or side show act.


lexentry: eng/pitfall__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pitfall
trans_list: Fallstrick
sense:
(figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.


lexentry: eng/pitfall__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pitfall
trans_list: Fallgrube | Fanggrube | Wildgrube
sense:
(literal) A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from.


lexentry: eng/pith__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pith
trans_list: Mark
sense:
The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.


lexentry: eng/piton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piton
trans_list: Felshaken
sense:
(climbing) A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).


lexentry: eng/pituitary_gland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pituitary gland
trans_list: Hypophyse | Hirnanhangdrüse | Hirnanhang | Hirnanhangsdrüse
sense:
(anatomy) An endocrine gland, about the size of a pea, that sits in a small, bony cavity at the base of the brain whose secretions control the other endocrine glands and influence growth, metabolism, and maturation.


lexentry: eng/pivot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pivot
trans_list: Angelpunkt | Drehpunkt | Zapfen
sense:
A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.


lexentry: eng/pivot__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pivot
trans_list: Angelpunkt
sense:
(figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.


lexentry: eng/pivot_table__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pivot table
trans_list: Pivot-Tabelle
sense:
(computing) A summary table used for automatic sorting, counting and averaging of the data in another table or spreadsheet.


lexentry: eng/pixel_hunt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pixel hunt
trans_list: Pixeljagd
sense:
(video games) a search for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game


lexentry: eng/pizza__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pizza
trans_list: Pizza
sense:
(uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.


lexentry: eng/pizza_oven__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pizza oven
trans_list: Pizzaofen
sense:
(informal) A wood-fired brick oven with a stone floor in the baking chamber. (From being an oven found in traditional pizzerias, and an accessory built in backyards for pizza)


lexentry: eng/pizza_oven__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pizza oven
trans_list: Pizzaofen
sense:
A specialized infrared oven; a squat thin oven which fits a single pizza, that uses high intensity infrared lamps to rapidly blast and bake a pizza.


lexentry: eng/piñata__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: piñata
trans_list: Pinata | Piñata
sense:
(Latin American culture) A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out.


lexentry: eng/placard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: placard
trans_list: Plakat
sense:
A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.


lexentry: eng/placate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: placate
trans_list: besänftigen | begütigen | beruhigen | beschwichtigen
sense:
(transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.


lexentry: eng/place__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: place
trans_list: Bude
sense:
(often, in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.


lexentry: eng/place__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: place
trans_list: platzieren | stellen | einordnen
sense:
(ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).


lexentry: eng/place_mat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: place mat
trans_list: Set | Platzdeckchen
sense:
A protective mat, usually heat-resistant, placed under a single person's tableware (including cutlery) at the dining table.


lexentry: eng/place_of_articulation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: place of articulation
trans_list: Artikulationsort | Artikulationsstelle
sense:
(phonetics, of a consonant) The point of contact, where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an active (moving) articulator (typically some part of the tongue) and a passive (stationary) articulator (typically some part of the roof of the mouth).


lexentry: eng/place_of_worship__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: place of worship
trans_list: Kultplatz
sense:
A place, usually a building such as a church, mosque, synagogue or temple where believers can practise their faith.


lexentry: eng/place_setting__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: place setting
trans_list: Besteck
sense:
Items of cutlery, crockery and glassware, and sometimes a place mat, arranged for a person at a dining table.


lexentry: eng/place_value__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: place value
trans_list: Stellenwert
sense:
(arithmetic) The value of a digit of numbers. For example, ones, tens, hundreds in the decimal counting; ones, sixes, thirty-sixes in the senary counting.


lexentry: eng/placebo-controlled__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: placebo-controlled
trans_list: placebokontrolliert
sense:
(medicine, science, research) including a comparison (control) group with placebo. (describing clinical trials)


lexentry: eng/placebo_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: placebo effect
trans_list: Placeboeffekt
sense:
(pharmacology) The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.


lexentry: eng/placeholder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: placeholder
trans_list: Platzhalter
sense:
Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.


lexentry: eng/placement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: placement
trans_list: Platzierung
sense:
The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.


lexentry: eng/placenta__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: placenta
trans_list: Plazenta | Mutterkuchen
sense:
(botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.


lexentry: eng/placozoan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: placozoan
trans_list: Placozoen | Plattentier
sense:
(zoology) Any of a group of balloon-shaped marine organisms, of the phylum Placozoa, considered to be the simplest living animals.


lexentry: eng/plagal_cadence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plagal cadence
trans_list: cadenza plagale | plagale Kadenz
sense:
(music) A falling cadence in which a subdominant chord precedes the tonic; especially used in an ending Amen.


lexentry: eng/plagiarism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plagiarism
trans_list: Plagiat
sense:
(uncountable) Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.


lexentry: eng/plagiarist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plagiarist
trans_list: Plagiator | Plagiatorin
sense:
One who plagiarizes; or lifts the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his or her own, thus engaging in plagiarism; a literary thief


lexentry: eng/plagiarize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plagiarize
trans_list: plagiieren | abkupfern | geistigen Diebstahl begehen | guttenbergen
sense:
(ambitransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.


lexentry: eng/plagioclase__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plagioclase
trans_list: Plagioklas
sense:
(mineral) Any of a group of aluminum silicate feldspathic minerals ranging in their ratio of calcium to sodium.


lexentry: eng/plague__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plague
trans_list: Pest
sense:
(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.


lexentry: eng/plague__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plague
trans_list: Plage | Seuche
sense:
(pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.


lexentry: eng/plague__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: plague
trans_list: Plage | Geißel
sense:
A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.


lexentry: eng/plaice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plaice
trans_list: Scholle
sense:
Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.


lexentry: eng/plaid__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plaid
trans_list: Plaid | Schulerdecke | Umhangtuch
sense:
A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands. [from 16thc.]


lexentry: eng/plainclothes__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plainclothes
trans_list: in Zivil
sense:
(usually, of a police officer) Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.


lexentry: eng/plainsong__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plainsong
trans_list: Cantus planus
sense:
(music) A form of monophonic chant in unison using the Gregorian scale, sung in various Christian churches.


lexentry: eng/plaintiff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plaintiff
trans_list: Kläger | Klägerin
sense:
(law, UK, _, historic, otherwise, current) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.


lexentry: eng/plan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plan
trans_list: Plan
sense:
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.


lexentry: eng/plan__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: plan
trans_list: Plan
sense:
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.


lexentry: eng/planarian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planarian
trans_list: Planarie
sense:
Any of various flatworms of the order Tricladida living in marine, freshwater, or terrestrial environments.


lexentry: eng/planche__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planche
trans_list: Bilderbogen
sense:
(gymnastics) A position where the gymnast is horizontal and face-down, using only the hands as support.


lexentry: eng/plane__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plane
trans_list: Ebene
sense:
(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).


lexentry: eng/planemo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planemo
trans_list: Objekt planetarer Masse
sense:
(astronomy) an astronomical object with enough mass to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium, but not enough to initiate core fusion at any time in its existence. That is, it is rounded in shape and is smaller than a star. Planemos include planets, dwarf planets, and the larger moons of the Solar System (satellite planets), but also sub-brown dwarfs and rogue planets between the stars.


lexentry: eng/planer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planer
trans_list: Hobel | Raubank
sense:
(woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.


lexentry: eng/planet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planet
trans_list: Planet | Wandelstern
sense:
(now, historical, or, astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. [from 14thc.]


lexentry: eng/planet__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: planet
trans_list: Planet | Wandelstern
sense:
(astronomy, historical) Any body that orbits the Sun, including the asteroids (as minor planets) and sometimes the moons of those bodies (as satellite planets)


lexentry: eng/planet__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: planet
trans_list: Planet | Wandelstern
sense:
(astronomy, current) A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. [from 2006]


lexentry: eng/planet_gear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planet gear
trans_list: global
sense:
(engineering) An epicyclic gear; the middle gears in a planetary gear system, spun by the central sun gear


lexentry: eng/planetarium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planetarium
trans_list: Planetarium
sense:
A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.


lexentry: eng/planetary_nebula__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planetary nebula
trans_list: planetarischer Nebel
sense:
(astronomy) A nebulosity surrounding a dying red giant, consisting of material expelled by the star.


lexentry: eng/planetesimal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planetesimal
trans_list: Planetesimal
sense:
(astronomy) Any of many small, solid astronomical objects that orbit a star and form protoplanets through mutual gravitational attraction.


lexentry: eng/planisphere__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: planisphere
trans_list: Planisphäre
sense:
(astronomy) Any of several charts of the celestial sphere having an overlay or window that may be adjusted to show the stars visible at a particular time, or from a particular place.


lexentry: eng/plank__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plank
trans_list: Schwerpunkt
sense:
(figurative) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.


lexentry: eng/planned_obsolescence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planned obsolescence
trans_list: Produktvergreisung | geplante Obsoleszenz | geplanter Verschleiß
sense:
A policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period.


lexentry: eng/planner__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: planner
trans_list: Notizbuch
sense:
A notebook or software in which one keeps reminders of items such as appointments, tasks, projects, and contacts.


lexentry: eng/planning_permission__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: planning permission
trans_list: Baugenehmigung | Baubewilligung
sense:
(Britain, construction, law) Legal permission granted by a government authority to construct on one's land, or to change the use of the land. [from mid 1940s]


lexentry: eng/plant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plant
trans_list: Pflanze | Gewächs
sense:
(botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.


lexentry: eng/plant__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plant
trans_list: Pflanze
sense:
(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.


lexentry: eng/plant__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: plant
trans_list: Pflanze
sense:
(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.


lexentry: eng/plant__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: plant
trans_list: Kombination
sense:
(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.


lexentry: eng/plant__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plant
trans_list: pflanzen
sense:
(ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.


lexentry: eng/plant__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: plant
trans_list: platzieren
sense:
(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.


lexentry: eng/plantain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plantain
trans_list: Wegerich
sense:
A plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm (4") long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.


lexentry: eng/plantaris__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plantaris
trans_list: Fußsohlenmuskel
sense:
(muscles) A muscle running at the posterior compartment of the calf from the knee to over the hump of the heel.


lexentry: eng/plantation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plantation
trans_list: Plantage
sense:
A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.


lexentry: eng/planter__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: planter
trans_list: Freizeitgärtner
sense:
(historical) Any of the early English or Scottish settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.


lexentry: eng/plantigrade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plantigrade
trans_list: Sohlengänger | Fersengänger
sense:
(zoology) A plantigrade animal; an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.


lexentry: eng/plaque__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plaque
trans_list: Plakette
sense:
(countable) Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.


lexentry: eng/plaque__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: plaque
trans_list: Plaque | Zahnbelag
sense:
(uncountable, dentistry) An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria, on teeth, which may develop into dental calculus (tartar).


lexentry: eng/plasma_accelerator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasma accelerator
trans_list: Kielfeld-Beschleuniger
sense:
(physics) A particle accelerator that uses plasma as the medium of the accelerating field instead of a vacuum, to obtain a larger accelerating gradient.


lexentry: eng/plasma_cell__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasma cell
trans_list: Plasmazelle
sense:
(immunology) A form of B cell that produces antibodies after having reacted with its specific antigen in follicle centers.


lexentry: eng/plasma_display__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasma display
trans_list: Plasmabildschirm
sense:
A flat-screen display, for television or personal computers, consisting of a matrix of cells filled with an inert, ionized gas; three cells (red, green and blue) constituting a single pixel


lexentry: eng/plasma_lamp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasma lamp
trans_list: Plasmalampe
sense:
A kind of gas-discharge lamp: a clear glass container, often an orb, filled with a mixture of various noble gases at low pressure, and driven by high frequency alternating current at high voltage.


lexentry: eng/plasmid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasmid
trans_list: Plasmid
sense:
(cytology) A loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from and replicates independently of the chromosomes, most commonly found in bacteria, but also in archaeans and eukaryotic cells, and used in genetic engineering as a vector for gene transfer.


lexentry: eng/plasmolysis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasmolysis
trans_list: Plasmolyse
sense:
(biology) the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss


lexentry: eng/plasmon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plasmon
trans_list: Plasmon
sense:
(physics, astronomy) The quantum of waves produced by the collective effects of large numbers of electrons when disturbed from equilibrium.


lexentry: eng/plasmonic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasmonic
trans_list: plasmonisch
sense:
(physics, nanotechnology) Of or pertaining to plasmons, the quasiparticles resulting from the quantization of plasma oscillations.


lexentry: eng/plaster__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: plaster
trans_list: Putz | Verputz | Gips | Gipsputz | Kalkputz | Lehmputz
sense:
(uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; render, stucco.


lexentry: eng/plaster_cast__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plaster cast
trans_list: Gipsverband | Gips
sense:
(surgery) A cast made of a stiff material (often plaster of Paris and gauze) in order to immobilize a broken bone for the period of healing.


lexentry: eng/plaster_of_Paris__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plaster of Paris
trans_list: Gips | Gipsmörtel | Gipsputz | Stuckgips
sense:
A hemihydrate of calcium sulfate, made by calcining gypsum, that hardens when moistened and allowed to dry; used to make casts, molds and sculpture.


lexentry: eng/plasterboard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasterboard
trans_list: Gipskarton
sense:
A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core.


lexentry: eng/plastic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: plastic
trans_list: plastisch
sense:
(biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/plastic__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: plastic
trans_list: Plastik | Kunststoff
sense:
(figurative, slang) insincerity; fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.


lexentry: eng/plastic_art__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plastic art
trans_list: Plastik
sense:
An art form which involves physical manipulation of a three-dimensional medium by moulding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics.


lexentry: eng/plastic_bag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plastic bag
trans_list: Plastiktüte | Plastiksack | Plastiksackerl | Plastikbeutel
sense:
A type of packaging made of thin, flexible, plastic film, starch, or plastic textile, used for containing and transporting food, waste, and consumer goods. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/plasticizer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plasticizer
trans_list: Weichmacher
sense:
Any of various substances added to a material (such as plastic or concrete) in order to make it more pliable.


lexentry: eng/plastid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plastid
trans_list: Plastid | Plastide
sense:
(cytology) Any of various organelles found in the cells of plants and algae, often used for photosynthesis.


lexentry: eng/plastination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plastination
trans_list: Plastination
sense:
(anatomy) A technique for preserving bodies or body parts by replacing the water and fat with certain plastics.


lexentry: eng/plate__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: plate
trans_list: Platte | Belag | Beschichtung | Schicht
sense:
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating


lexentry: eng/plate__Noun__1
sense_num: 16
written_rep: plate
trans_list: Tafel | Abbildung
sense:
(printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.


lexentry: eng/platelet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platelet
trans_list: Thrombozyt | Blutplättchen
sense:
(hematology, cytology) A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots.


lexentry: eng/platen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platen
trans_list: die Walze
sense:
(printing) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.


lexentry: eng/platform__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: platform
trans_list: Bahnsteig | Plattform | Podest | Perron
sense:
A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.


lexentry: eng/platform__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: platform
trans_list: Plattform
sense:
(Internet) Ellipsis of digital platform: a software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, cloud computing etc.


lexentry: eng/platform__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: platform
trans_list: Plattform
sense:
(computing) Ellipsis of computing platform: a particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software.


lexentry: eng/platform_edge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platform edge
trans_list: Bahnsteigkante
sense:
A special zone at the edge of the metro platform that passengers are not allowed to enter, except when the vehicle stands still and is available for getting in or out.


lexentry: eng/platform_game__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platform game
trans_list: Plattformer | Plattformspiel
sense:
(video game genre) A video game of the genre characterized by jumping (or otherwise moving) to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles.


lexentry: eng/platform_shoe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platform shoe
trans_list: Plateauschuh
sense:
A type of footwear with very thick soles and heels to make the wearer appear much taller than they actually are.


lexentry: eng/platitude__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platitude
trans_list: Plattitüde | Floskel | Gemeinplatz | Klischee
sense:
(countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.


lexentry: eng/platoon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platoon
trans_list: Zug | Kolonne | Sanitätszug
sense:
(military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.


lexentry: eng/platykurtic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platykurtic
trans_list: platykurtic
sense:
(statistics) Of a distribution: having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.


lexentry: eng/platypus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: platypus
trans_list: Schnabeltier
sense:
A semi-aquatic, egg-laying monotreme mammal with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet – males have poisonous spurs on the inside of the back legs; Ornithorhynchus anatinus.


lexentry: eng/plausibility__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: plausibility
trans_list: Plausibilität
sense:
(now in more positive sense) The fact of being believable; believability, credibility. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/plausible_deniability__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plausible deniability
trans_list: glaubhafte Abstreitbarkeit | glaubhafte Bestreitbarkeit
sense:
(politics, business, military, espionage) The organization of clandestine activity in such a way that knowledge of its existence may be denied by those in authority.


lexentry: eng/play-acting__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: play-acting
trans_list: Schauspielerei
sense:
(figuratively) The act of engaging in pretence or insincere behavior, often in order to mislead someone or gain an advantage.


lexentry: eng/play__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: play
trans_list: Stück
sense:
(countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.


lexentry: eng/play__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: play
trans_list: spielen
sense:
(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.


lexentry: eng/play__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: play
trans_list: spielen | abspielen
sense:
(transitive, of a person) To operate (a device or media) so as to cause sound (especially music) or moving pictures to be produced.


lexentry: eng/play__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: play
trans_list: hinters Licht führen | täuschen | verarschen
sense:
(transitive, of a, theatrical company, or, band, etc.) To perform or give performances in or at (a venue or location).


lexentry: eng/play__Verb__1
sense_num: 15
written_rep: play
trans_list: spielen | abspielen
sense:
(AAVE, intransitive) To kid; to joke; to say something for amusement; to act, or to treat something, unseriously.


lexentry: eng/play_by_ear__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: play by ear
trans_list: nach Gehör spielen
sense:
(transitive, and, intransitive, of, music) To play guided by one's musical ear, rather than from a written score.


lexentry: eng/play_by_ear__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: play by ear
sense:
(transitive, and, intransitive, idiomatic) To do by guessing, intuition, or trial and error; to react to events as they occur, often with risk of negative outcomes; to improvise.

trans_list:
improvisieren | es auf sich zukommen lassen | es nehmen, wie es kommt | kucken | sehen | spontan entscheiden


lexentry: eng/play_doctor__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: play doctor
trans_list: Doktorspiele spielen
sense:
(sexuality, usually of minors) To explore or sexually engage with another person's private parts, particularly in the context of roleplay of a medical nature.


lexentry: eng/play_gooseberry__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: play gooseberry
trans_list: den Anstandswauwau spielen
sense:
(dated, UK, _, slang) To be an unwanted third party accompanying two lovers, to serve as a chaperon.


lexentry: eng/play_hooky__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: play hooky
trans_list: schwänzen | blaumachen
sense:
(idiomatic, US) To play truant; to avoid (informally: skip) school, work, or other duties (stay away from these without permission nor an excuse); to skive or to bunk off (UK);


lexentry: eng/play_house__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: play house
trans_list: [[Vater-Mutter-Kind]] spielen
sense:
(children's games) To pretend to be a family in the household, acting out housekeeping and different family roles.


lexentry: eng/play_money__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: play money
trans_list: Spielgeld
sense:
Noticeably fake bills or coins intended for use as toy currency, especially with board games, rather than currency in a legitimate exchange market.


lexentry: eng/play_with_fire__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: play with fire
trans_list: mit dem Feuer spielen
sense:
(idiomatic) To put oneself in a precarious situation with a high risk of getting harmed, particularly emotionally or financially.


lexentry: eng/playboy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: playboy
trans_list: Playboy | Lebemann | Salonlöwe
sense:
A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.


lexentry: eng/playground__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: playground
trans_list: Spielplatz | Kinderspielplatz | Schulhof | Spielwiese
sense:
(outdoors) A large open space for children to play in, usually having dedicated play equipment (such as swings and slides). [1780]


lexentry: eng/playground__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: playground
trans_list: Spielwiese
sense:
(figuratively) Any physical or metaphysical space in which a person or organization has free rein to do as they please.


lexentry: eng/playing_card__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: playing card
trans_list: Spielkarte | Karte
sense:
Any of the usually 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play numerous games, featuring either one to 10 pips or a picture and belonging of one of four suits.


lexentry: eng/playing_field__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: playing field
trans_list: Spielfeld
sense:
(figuratively) Any place or context within which competitive activity takes place, such as market competition between companies.


lexentry: eng/playlist__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: playlist
trans_list: Wiedergabeliste | Playlist
sense:
(computing) A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.


lexentry: eng/plea_bargain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plea bargain
trans_list: Verständigung
sense:
(US, legal) An agreement in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge instead of not guilty to a greater one


lexentry: eng/pleach__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleach
trans_list: Geflecht
sense:
An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.


lexentry: eng/pleach__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleach
trans_list: flechten
sense:
(transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.


lexentry: eng/please_repeat_after_me__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: please repeat after me
trans_list: sprechen Sie mir bitte nach
sense:
A request for the interlocutor to repeat what the speaker says next. Often used in language training.


lexentry: eng/please_turn_left__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: please turn left
trans_list: bitte biegen Sie links ab
sense:
When giving directions to a person (for example, a taxi driver), indicates that he or she should turn left.


lexentry: eng/please_turn_right__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: please turn right
trans_list: bitte biegen Sie rechts ab
sense:
When giving directions to a person (for example, a taxi driver), indicates that he or she should turn right.


lexentry: eng/pleasure_garden__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleasure garden
trans_list: Lustgarten
sense:
A park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos.


lexentry: eng/pleasure_principle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleasure principle
trans_list: Lustprinzip
sense:
(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.


lexentry: eng/pleat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleat
trans_list: Falte
sense:
(sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.


lexentry: eng/plebiscite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plebiscite
trans_list: Plebiszit | Volksabstimmung
sense:
(law, politics) A direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.


lexentry: eng/plectrum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plectrum
trans_list: Plektrum | Plektron
sense:
(music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.


lexentry: eng/pledge__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pledge
trans_list: Fuchs
sense:
(college slang) A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.


lexentry: eng/plenary_indulgence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plenary indulgence
trans_list: vollkommener Ablass
sense:
(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.


lexentry: eng/plenipotentiary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plenipotentiary
trans_list: Bevollmächtigter | Generalbevollmächtigter
sense:
A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter. [from c. 1645]


lexentry: eng/pleonasm__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pleonasm
trans_list: Pleonasmus
sense:
(countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.


lexentry: eng/pleophony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleophony
trans_list: Volllaut
sense:
(phonology) The phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages.


lexentry: eng/pleroma__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pleroma
trans_list: Pleroma
sense:
(Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ.


lexentry: eng/pleroma__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleroma
trans_list: Pleroma
sense:
(Gnosticism, historical) Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.


lexentry: eng/pleura__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pleura
trans_list: Pleura
sense:
(anatomy) Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.


lexentry: eng/plexiglass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plexiglass
trans_list: Acrylglas | Plexiglas
sense:
polymethyl methacrylate (polymer of methyl methacrylate), a tough transparent plastic used sometimes in lieu of glass.


lexentry: eng/pliers__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pliers
trans_list: Zange | Kneifzange
sense:
A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.


lexentry: eng/plodder__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plodder
trans_list: Arbeitstier
sense:
A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.


lexentry: eng/plot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plot
trans_list: Handlung | Plot
sense:
(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]


lexentry: eng/plot__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: plot
trans_list: Komplott
sense:
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]


lexentry: eng/plot_hole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plot hole
trans_list: Ungereimtheit
sense:
(authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.


lexentry: eng/plot_twist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plot twist
trans_list: unerwartete Wendung | Plottorsion | Plottwist | überraschende Wendung der Handlung
sense:
A change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot of a film, novel, or other narrative work.


lexentry: eng/plotter__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plotter
trans_list: Plotter
sense:
(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.


lexentry: eng/plough__Verb__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: plough
trans_list: pflügen
sense:
(joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.


lexentry: eng/pluck__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pluck
trans_list: schlagen | zupfen
sense:
(transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.


lexentry: eng/plug__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plug
trans_list: Stecker
sense:
(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.


lexentry: eng/plug__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plug
trans_list: Schleichwerbung machen
sense:
(transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.


lexentry: eng/plum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plum
trans_list: Pflaume | Zwetschge
sense:
An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour. [from 8th c.]


lexentry: eng/plum__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plum
trans_list: Leckerbissen
sense:
A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/plum_rains__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plum rains
trans_list: Baiu | Tsuyu
sense:
Also occasionally in the singular form plum rain: the East Asian rainy season from early summer to midsummer in the fourth and fifth lunar months (early June to early or mid-July); also, the rain which falls during this season.


lexentry: eng/plumage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plumage
trans_list: Gefieder | Federkleid | Federschmuck | Vogelgefieder
sense:
(ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.


lexentry: eng/plumber's_snake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plumber's snake
trans_list: Rohrreinigungsspirale
sense:
A long, flexible tool, often with rotating blades at its forward end, which is inserted into a plumbing pipe system and used to remove clogs or other obstructions.


lexentry: eng/plumber__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plumber
trans_list: Klempner | Installateur | Klempnerin | Spengler
sense:
One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.


lexentry: eng/plumbing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plumbing
trans_list: Installation | Rohrleitung | Verrohrung
sense:
The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.


lexentry: eng/plumbism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plumbism
trans_list: Bleivergiftung
sense:
(medicine) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. Symptoms include lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop.


lexentry: eng/plume__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plume
trans_list: Feder
sense:
(archaic, literary, and, poetic) A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.


lexentry: eng/plume__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plume
trans_list: Federbusch | Federschmuck | Hutfeder
sense:
(archaic, literary, and, poetic) A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.


lexentry: eng/plume__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: plume
trans_list: Plume
sense:
(geology) Short for mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).


lexentry: eng/plummet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plummet
trans_list: Lot | Senkblei | Senklot | Blei | Senker
sense:
(archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.


lexentry: eng/plunge_pool__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plunge pool
trans_list: Gumpe
sense:
A pool that is small in diameter, but deep, usually resulting from erosion by a natural force such as a waterfall or rapids.


lexentry: eng/pluperfect_tense__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pluperfect tense
trans_list: Plusquamperfekt | vollendete Vergangenheit | Vorvergangenheit
sense:
(grammar, of a verb) Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.


lexentry: eng/plural__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plural
trans_list: Plural | Mehrzahl
sense:
(grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.


lexentry: eng/plural__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: plural
trans_list: Plural | Pluralform | Mehrzahl
sense:
(grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.


lexentry: eng/plurale_tantum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plurale tantum
trans_list: Pluraletantum | Pluralwort
sense:
(grammar) A noun (either in certain of its senses or in all its senses) that does not generally have a singular form.


lexentry: eng/pluralism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pluralism
trans_list: Pluralismus
sense:
(sociology) A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.


lexentry: eng/plus_sign__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plus sign
trans_list: Pluszeichen | Additionszeichen
sense:
(arithmetic) The symbol + used to denote the operation of additio1, to indicate that a number is positive, and so on.


lexentry: eng/pluton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pluton
trans_list: Pluton
sense:
(mineralogy) A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma


lexentry: eng/plutonium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: plutonium
trans_list: Plutonium
sense:
The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 94 and symbol Pu: a silvery-gray fissile radioactive actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.


lexentry: eng/pluviograph__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pluviograph
trans_list: Pluviograph
sense:
An instrument for measuring the amount of water that has fallen (i.e. a rain gauge), with a feature to register the data in real time to demonstrate rainfall over a short period, often an automated graphing instrument.


lexentry: eng/ply__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: ply
trans_list: Halbzug
sense:
(artificial intelligence, combinatorial, _, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.


lexentry: eng/ply__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ply
trans_list: biegen | falten
sense:
(transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.


lexentry: eng/pneumatics__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pneumatics
trans_list: Pneumatik | Pneumatologie
sense:
(theology, obsolete) The study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and human beings.


lexentry: eng/pneumonia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pneumonia
trans_list: Lungenentzündung | Pneumonie
sense:
An acute or chronic inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, or sometimes by physical or chemical irritants.


lexentry: eng/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
trans_list: Quarzstaublunge | Quarzstaublungenkrankheit | Silikose
sense:
(nonce) A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.


lexentry: eng/pneumothorax__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pneumothorax
trans_list: Pneumothorax
sense:
(medicine) Presence of air inside the pleural cavity, usually caused by injury either to the lung or the chest wall.


lexentry: eng/po-faced__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: po-faced
trans_list: grimmig | mürrisch | streng
sense:
(British) Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish. [from 1930s]


lexentry: eng/poach__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poach
trans_list: pochieren
sense:
(transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).


lexentry: eng/poach__Verb__2
sense_num: 05
written_rep: poach
trans_list: abwerben
sense:
(business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.


lexentry: eng/poacher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poacher
trans_list: Wilderer | Wilddieb | Freischütz
sense:
A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.


lexentry: eng/pochard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pochard
trans_list: Tafelente
sense:
Any of various diving ducks of the subfamily Aythyinae (genera Aythya and Netta), especially the common pochard, Aythya ferina.


lexentry: eng/pocket_call__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pocket call
trans_list: Hosentaschenanruf
sense:
An unintentional telephone call made from a cell phone in one's (pants/trouser) pocket due to body movement.


lexentry: eng/podcast__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: podcast
trans_list: Podcast | Audio-Internetsendung
sense:
A programme, especially an audio programme, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]


lexentry: eng/podiatrist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: podiatrist
trans_list: Podologe | Podologin | Fußpfleger | Fußpflegerin | Fußspezialist | Fußspezialistin
sense:
(medicine) A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.


lexentry: eng/podium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: podium
trans_list: Podium
sense:
A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit; any low platform or dais.


lexentry: eng/podium__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: podium
trans_list: Podest | Treppchen | Podium
sense:
(sports, and, other competitions) A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.


lexentry: eng/poetic_licence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poetic licence
trans_list: Narrenfreiheit
sense:
Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by a writer to achieve a desired effect.


lexentry: eng/poetry__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: poetry
trans_list: Poesie
sense:
(figurative) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.


lexentry: eng/pogo_stick__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pogo stick
trans_list: Springstock | Hüpfstock
sense:
A toy, used for hopping up and down on, consisting of a pole with a T-bar handle at one end, and spring-loaded footpads on the other.


lexentry: eng/poikilothermy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poikilothermy
trans_list: Kaltblütigkeit | Poikilothermie
sense:
(biology) The quality of having a body temperature that varies or fluctuates, depending on the temperature of the environment; cold-bloodedness.


lexentry: eng/poinsettia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poinsettia
trans_list: Weihnachtsstern
sense:
A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers surrounded by large bright red leaves; native to Mexico and Central America and widely cultivated as a garden plant.


lexentry: eng/point-blank__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: point-blank
trans_list: mir nichts, dir nichts
sense:
(ballistics) The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.


lexentry: eng/point__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point
trans_list: Punkt
sense:
(mathematics, science) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/point__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: point
trans_list: Komma | Punkt | Standpunkt
sense:
(automotive, mostly, in the plural) Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.


lexentry: eng/point__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: point
trans_list: Punkt
sense:
(typography) a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era). [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/point__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point
trans_list: zeigen | weisen
sense:
(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.


lexentry: eng/point_blank__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point blank
trans_list: in Kernschussweite
sense:
Horizontally (as the angle at which a projectile is launched); directly or straight (at the target).


lexentry: eng/point_guard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point guard
trans_list: Point Guard
sense:
(basketball) A guard who is usually the shortest of the five basketball positions, and specializes in handling the ball, distributing it to the other players and generally running the team's offense.


lexentry: eng/point_of_departure__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: point of departure
trans_list: Ausgangspunkt | Ausgangsposition
sense:
(formal, figuratively) of abstract processes that can be compared to a voyage: initial circumstances. Frequent collocations include, but are not limited to:


lexentry: eng/point_of_inflection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point of inflection
trans_list: Wendepunkt
sense:
(mathematics) A point on a curve at which the sign of the curvature changes; at this point the second derivative of the underlying function will be zero, but positive on one side and negative on the other.


lexentry: eng/point_of_interest__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: point of interest
trans_list: Sonderziel
sense:
A location that is worth visiting because it is a tourist attraction or the base for some type of service such as a restaurant or shop.


lexentry: eng/point_of_no_return__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point of no return
trans_list: Umkehrgrenzpunkt
sense:
(aviation) The point in an aircraft's flight when there is insufficient fuel to reverse direction and return to the place of origin.


lexentry: eng/point_of_sale__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point of sale
trans_list: Kasse | Verkaufsort | Verkaufsplatz | Verkaufsstelle
sense:
(retail) The location at which payment for goods is made in an establishment that sells goods or services.


lexentry: eng/point_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: point out
trans_list: hinweisen
sense:
(transitive, idiomatic) To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.


lexentry: eng/pointed_cabbage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pointed cabbage
trans_list: Spitzkohl
sense:
An F1 hybrid variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) that forms compact conical rather than rounded heads and is noted for its delicate flavor.


lexentry: eng/pointer__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pointer
trans_list: Zeiger | Pointer | Nadel
sense:
A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.


lexentry: eng/pointing-trowel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pointing-trowel
trans_list: Fugeisen | Fugeneisen | Fugenkelle
sense:
A fine trowel, (metal) tool used in construction to shape mortar neatly into the seams which joint bricks, stones etc. in masonry.


lexentry: eng/pointing__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pointing
trans_list: Fugenmasse | Fugenmörtel
sense:
(usually singular or collective, sometimes, proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.


lexentry: eng/pointing__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: pointing
trans_list: Hinweisen | Zeigen
sense:
(art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.


lexentry: eng/pointlessness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pointlessness
trans_list: Ziellosigkeit
sense:
(countable) The lack of meaning, purpose, or ideas; the characteristic or condition of being pointless.


lexentry: eng/points__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: points
trans_list: Weiche
sense:
(rail transport, UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, India) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.


lexentry: eng/poison_ivy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poison ivy
trans_list: Giftsumach
sense:
Any of three ivy-like species of Toxicodendron, known for their ability to cause an itching rash and blistering for most people, through urushiol, an oil that is a skin irritant.


lexentry: eng/poisoned_chalice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poisoned chalice
trans_list: Danaergeschenk | Bärendienst | vergiftetes Geschenk
sense:
(idiomatic) Something which is initially regarded as advantageous but which is later recognized to be disadvantageous or harmful; an apparently beneficial or benign instrument or scheme for causing death or harm.


lexentry: eng/poker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poker
trans_list: Schürhaken | Schüreisen
sense:
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. [from earlier 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/pokeweed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pokeweed
trans_list: Kermesbeere
sense:
A poisonous North American plant, Phytolacca americana, with reddish stems, broad leaves, clusters of white flowers, and dark purple berries.


lexentry: eng/polar__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polar
trans_list: polar
sense:
(geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.


lexentry: eng/polar__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polar
trans_list: polar
sense:
(mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.


lexentry: eng/polar_bear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polar bear
trans_list: Eisbär | Polarbär
sense:
A hypercarnivorous species of bear, Ursus maritimus, whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle.


lexentry: eng/polar_circle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polar circle
trans_list: Polarkreis
sense:
(geography) Either of the two parallels of the Earth located at the latitude of 66° 33′ 44″ N and 66° 33′ 44″ S.


lexentry: eng/polar_night__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polar night
trans_list: Polarnacht
sense:
A period of darkness that occurs in winter in polar regions north from the Arctic Circle and south from the Antarctic Circle, and during which the sun stays below the horizon.


lexentry: eng/polar_vortex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polar vortex
trans_list: Polarwirbel
sense:
A large-scale cyclone located in the middle and upper troposphere and stratosphere that surround the polar highs and lay in the wake of the polar front.


lexentry: eng/polarimeter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polarimeter
trans_list: Polarimeter
sense:
An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarized light as it passes through a sample of an optically active compound; cf. colmascope.


lexentry: eng/polariton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polariton
trans_list: Polariton
sense:
(physics) Any of a class of quasiparticles comprising elements of electromagnetic waves and excited states of matter.


lexentry: eng/polarity__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: polarity
trans_list: Polarität
sense:
(chemistry) The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. Wp


lexentry: eng/polarization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polarization
trans_list: Polarisierung
sense:
(chemistry, physics) the separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system


lexentry: eng/polarization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polarization
trans_list: Polarisierung
sense:
(physics) the production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points


lexentry: eng/pole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pole
trans_list: Stange | Stab
sense:
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.


lexentry: eng/pole__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pole
trans_list: Pol | Polstelle
sense:
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).


lexentry: eng/pole__Noun__2
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pole
trans_list: Pol
sense:
(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.


lexentry: eng/pole__Noun__2
sense_num: 05
written_rep: pole
trans_list: Pol | Polstelle
sense:
(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z) \rightarrow \infty as z \rightarrow a.


lexentry: eng/pole_position__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pole position
trans_list: Poleposition
sense:
(motor racing) The top qualifying position for a race, on the inside of the front row at the starting line.


lexentry: eng/pole_star__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pole star
trans_list: Polarstern
sense:
(star) The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet.


lexentry: eng/pole_vault__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pole vault
trans_list: Stabhochsprung
sense:
(athletics) a jumping event contested in track and field which requires an athlete to carry a fiberglass pole down a runway, plant the pole into a vaulting box and vault over a fiberglass bar, landing on a matted pit


lexentry: eng/polearm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polearm
trans_list: Stangenwaffe
sense:
A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.


lexentry: eng/polemical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polemical
trans_list: polemisch
sense:
(somewhat, _, derogative) Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.


lexentry: eng/polenta__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polenta
trans_list: Polenta
sense:
Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.


lexentry: eng/police__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: police
trans_list: Polizei
sense:
(North America, &, _, historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.


lexentry: eng/police_brutality__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: police brutality
trans_list: Polizeibrutalität | Polizeigewalt
sense:
The use of excessive, unjustified force, typically of a physical nature, but also including verbal abuse and psychological intimidation, by a police officer while carrying out law enforcement duties.


lexentry: eng/police_procedural__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: police procedural
trans_list: Krimi
sense:
A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Unlike in other types of crime fiction, the perpetrator may be known at the outset of the story.


lexentry: eng/police_state__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: police state
trans_list: Polizeistaat
sense:
(usually, pejorative) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people.


lexentry: eng/police_station__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: police station
trans_list: Polizeiwache | Polizeirevier | Polizeidienststelle | Polizeistation | Polizeipräsidium
sense:
A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.


lexentry: eng/policy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: policy
trans_list: Politik | Handlungsgrundsatz | Richtlinie | Verfahrensweise | Vorgehensweise
sense:
A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/policy__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: policy
trans_list: Politik | Geschicklichkeit | Handlungsgrundsatz | Richtlinie | Umsicht | Verfahrensweise
sense:
Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/poliomyelitis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poliomyelitis
trans_list: Poliomyelitis | Kinderlähmung
sense:
(pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.


lexentry: eng/politburo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: politburo
trans_list: Politbüro
sense:
The governing council and chief policymaking body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other Marxist-Leninist political systems.


lexentry: eng/political__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: political
trans_list: politisch
sense:
(pejorative) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral; or, more generally, power, standing, influence or conflict) calculation.


lexentry: eng/political__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: political
trans_list: politisch
sense:
Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power, standing, influence or conflict.


lexentry: eng/political_asylum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: political asylum
trans_list: Asyl | politisches Asyl
sense:
The protection, by a sovereign state, of a person who is persecuted in their own country for their political opinions or activity


lexentry: eng/political_commissar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: political commissar
trans_list: Politkommissar | Politoffizier
sense:
(communism, military) A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization.


lexentry: eng/political_economy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: political economy
trans_list: politische Ökonomie
sense:
(economics, politics) Interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science in explaining how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system — capitalist, socialist, mixed, and so on — influence each other.


lexentry: eng/political_party__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: political party
trans_list: politische Partei | Partei
sense:
A political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government.


lexentry: eng/politico__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: politico
trans_list: Politikaster | Politprofi
sense:
(colloquial, often, _, derogatory) Someone involved in the professional life of a politician or a political campaign to varying degrees.


lexentry: eng/polity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polity
trans_list: Gemeinwesen
sense:
(politics, religion, usually, uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.


lexentry: eng/pollen_tube__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pollen tube
trans_list: Pollenschlauch
sense:
the tube that develops from the wall of a pollen grain and, in seed plants, provides a passage through which the male nuclei reach the embryo sac to effect fertilization


lexentry: eng/pollination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pollination
trans_list: Bestäubung
sense:
(botany) The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.


lexentry: eng/polling_day__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polling day
trans_list: Wahltag
sense:
(politics) the day voting takes place in a local, general, or national election, apart from postal votes made beforehand.


lexentry: eng/polling_station__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polling station
trans_list: Wahllokal
sense:
(Britain, Canada, Australia) a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station


lexentry: eng/pollinium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pollinium
trans_list: Pollinium
sense:
(palynology) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids, which is dispersed as a single unit during pollination.


lexentry: eng/pollution__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pollution
trans_list: Verschmutzung | Umweltverschmutzung | Verunreinigung | Pollution
sense:
Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/polo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polo
trans_list: Polo
sense:
(uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.


lexentry: eng/polo_shirt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polo shirt
trans_list: Poloshirt | Polohemd
sense:
A casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar and a small number of buttons extending a short distance below the collar (and not all the way down the front of the shirt).


lexentry: eng/poltergeist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poltergeist
trans_list: Poltergeist | Klopfgeist
sense:
(parapsychology) An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.


lexentry: eng/polyamide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyamide
trans_list: Polyamid
sense:
(organic chemistry) Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.


lexentry: eng/polyamorous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyamorous
trans_list: polyamor | polyamorös
sense:
Having relationships with multiple partners, with the knowledge and consent of all involved; engaging in polyamory.


lexentry: eng/polyamory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyamory
trans_list: Polyamorie
sense:
Any of various practices involving romantic or sexual relationships with multiple partners with the knowledge and consent of all involved.


lexentry: eng/polyandry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyandry
trans_list: Polyandrie | Vielmännerei
sense:
The having of a plurality of husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a woman to more than one man, or the practice of having several husbands, at the same time.


lexentry: eng/polycarbonate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polycarbonate
trans_list: Polykarbonat
sense:
(chemistry) Any of a range of polymers of aromatic carbonates; they are used to make light, flexible alternatives to glass. Abbreviation: PC


lexentry: eng/polycondensation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polycondensation
trans_list: Polykondensation
sense:
(chemistry) Any condensation reaction, of a monomer having two functional groups, which leads to the formation of a polymer (a polycondensate).


lexentry: eng/polycule__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polycule
trans_list: Polykül
sense:
All of the people linked through their relationships, usually romantic and/or sexual, to one or more members of a polyamorous group.


lexentry: eng/polydactyly__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polydactyly
trans_list: Polydaktylie
sense:
(medicine, teratology) A congenital condition in which a person or animal has more than the usual number of digits (fingers or toes) on at least one of their hands or feet.


lexentry: eng/polyethylene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyethylene
trans_list: Polyethylen | Polyäthylen | Plastik
sense:
(organic compound) A polymer consisting of many ethylene monomers bonded together; used for kitchenware, containers etc.


lexentry: eng/polyethylene_terephthalate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyethylene terephthalate
trans_list: Polyethylenterephthalat
sense:
(organic compound) A thermoplastic resin of the polyester family used particularly in the manufacture of plastic bottles (PET) and fabrics (Terylene).


lexentry: eng/polygamy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: polygamy
trans_list: Polygamie | Vielehe | Mehrehe
sense:
(often, especially in common use) Synonym of polygyny (“marriage of a man to more than one wife, the practice of having several wives at the same time”)


lexentry: eng/polyglot__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: polyglot
trans_list: mehrsprachig | polyglott
sense:
Containing, or made up of, several languages; specifically, of a book (especially a bible): having text translated into several languages.


lexentry: eng/polyglot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyglot
trans_list: Polyglotte
sense:
A publication in several languages; specifically, a book (especially a bible) containing several versions of the same subject matter or text in several languages.


lexentry: eng/polygon_mesh__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polygon mesh
trans_list: Polygonnetz
sense:
(computer graphics) A collection of vertices, edges and faces that defines the shape of a polyhedral object.


lexentry: eng/polygonum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polygonum
trans_list: Vogelknöteriche
sense:
(botany) Any of many plants, of the family Polygonaceae, embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.


lexentry: eng/polygyny__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polygyny
trans_list: Polygynie
sense:
The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.


lexentry: eng/polylectic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polylectic
trans_list: polylektisch
sense:
(entomology) Of or relating to an insect (especially a bee) which collects pollen from the flowers of a variety of unrelated plants.


lexentry: eng/polymer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polymer
trans_list: Polymer
sense:
(organic chemistry) A long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules.


lexentry: eng/polymerase__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polymerase
trans_list: Polymerase
sense:
(enzyme) Any of various enzymes that catalyze the formation of polymers of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of RNA or DNA respectively as a template.


lexentry: eng/polymerase_chain_reaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polymerase chain reaction
trans_list: Polymerasekettenreaktion
sense:
(genetics, molecular biology, organic chemistry) A technique in molecular biology for creating multiple copies of DNA from a sample; used in genetic fingerprinting etc.


lexentry: eng/polymethyl_methyacrylate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polymethyl methyacrylate
trans_list: Acrylglas | Plexiglas
sense:
(chemistry) A tough, transparent thermoplastic polymer of methyl methyacrylate; it is used as a substitute for glass under the proprietary names of Perspex, Plexiglass and Lucite


lexentry: eng/polymorphism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: polymorphism
trans_list: Polymorphismus | Polymorphie
sense:
(biology) The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.


lexentry: eng/polymorphism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: polymorphism
trans_list: Polymorphie | Polymorphismus
sense:
(object-oriented programming) The feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for an instance of a method to have several definitions.


lexentry: eng/polymorphism__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: polymorphism
trans_list: Polymorphie
sense:
(crystallography) The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.


lexentry: eng/polymorphism__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: polymorphism
trans_list: Polymorphismus | Vielgestaltigkeit
sense:
(genetics) The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.


lexentry: eng/polynitrogen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polynitrogen
trans_list: Polystickstoff
sense:
(inorganic chemistry) Any of several unstable allotropes of nitrogen that have more than two atoms in each molecule


lexentry: eng/polynomial__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polynomial
trans_list: Polynom
sense:
(algebra, strict sense) An expression consisting of a sum of a finite number of terms, each term being the product of a constant coefficient and one or more variables raised to a non-negative integer power, such as a_n x^n + a_{n-1}x^{n-1} + ... + a_0 x^0.


lexentry: eng/polynya__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polynya
trans_list: Polynja
sense:
(hydrology, oceanography) A naturally formed transient area of open water surrounded by sea ice, especially in polar or subpolar seas. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/polyomino__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyomino
trans_list: Polyomino
sense:
(geometry) A plane polyform made by joining one or more squares edge to edge in various arrangements; a similar polyform made from triangles or hexagons (or any polygon that can tile a plane)


lexentry: eng/polyphony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyphony
trans_list: Polyphonie | Mehrstimmigkeit
sense:
(music) Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).


lexentry: eng/polypropylene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polypropylene
trans_list: Polypropylen
sense:
A thermoplastic resin made by the polymerization of propylene, and used for films, fibres, or moulding materials. Also known as polypropene.


lexentry: eng/polyptoton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyptoton
trans_list: Polyptoton
sense:
(rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which words from the same root are used together, or a word is repeated in a different inflection or case.


lexentry: eng/polyseme__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyseme
trans_list: Polysem
sense:
(semantics) A word or phrase that has multiple meanings, or, more specifically, multiple etymologically related meanings.


lexentry: eng/polysemy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polysemy
trans_list: Polysemie | Mehrdeutigkeit
sense:
(semantics) The property of a word, sign or symbol that can represent multiple meanings, including multiple similar ones.


lexentry: eng/polysynthetic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polysynthetic
trans_list: polysynthetisch
sense:
(grammar, of languages) Characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of morphemes. Typically, the morphemes are bound.


lexentry: eng/polytechnic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polytechnic
trans_list: Fachhochschule
sense:
(UK, dated) An educational institute that teaches applied arts and sciences rather than academic subjects.


lexentry: eng/polytope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polytope
trans_list: Polytop
sense:
(geometry) A finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes (a geometric shape with flat sides, existing in any number of dimensions); the geometrical entity represented by the general term of the infinite sequence "point, line, polygon, polyhedron, ...".


lexentry: eng/polytunnel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polytunnel
trans_list: Folientunnel | Foliengewächshaus
sense:
A tunnel made of polyethylene, used to grow plants that require a higher temperature and/or humidity than that which is available in the environment.


lexentry: eng/polyunsaturated__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyunsaturated
trans_list: mehrfach ungesättigt
sense:
(chemistry) Of or relating to long chain organic compounds that have multiple double bonds; polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential to human nutrition.


lexentry: eng/polyurethane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyurethane
trans_list: Polyurethan
sense:
(organic chemistry) Any of various polymeric resins containing urethane links; used in very many industrial and domestic applications.


lexentry: eng/polyvinyl_chloride__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: polyvinyl chloride
trans_list: Polyvinylchlorid
sense:
A thermoplastic resin produced by the polymerization of vinyl chloride; used as an electrical insulator and in many other applications. Can be compounded into flexible and rigid forms through the use of plasticizers, stabilizers, fillers and other modifiers.


lexentry: eng/pomander__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pomander
trans_list: Bisamapfel
sense:
(countable, uncountable, historical) A mixture of aromatic substances, made into a ball and carried by a person to impart a sweet smell or as a protection against infection. [from late 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/pome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pome
trans_list: Apfelfrucht | Kernobst
sense:
(botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.


lexentry: eng/pomegranate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pomegranate
trans_list: Granatapfel | Grenadine
sense:
The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.


lexentry: eng/pomelo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pomelo
trans_list: Pampelmuse | Pomelo
sense:
The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh.


lexentry: eng/pommel_horse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pommel horse
trans_list: Pauschenpferd | Seitpferd
sense:
An apparatus for gymnastic exercises with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright pommels, as hand grips, near the centre; held upright with adjustable legs.


lexentry: eng/pompadour__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pompadour
trans_list: Banane
sense:
A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.


lexentry: eng/pompom__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pompom
trans_list: Pompon
sense:
A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading.


lexentry: eng/pompon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pompon
trans_list: Pompon
sense:
A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading.


lexentry: eng/pond_hockey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pond hockey
trans_list: Pond Hockey
sense:
(sports) A form of ice hockey played outdoors on the surface of a frozen lake or pond, or other body of water.


lexentry: eng/pondweed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pondweed
trans_list: Laichkraut
sense:
opposite-leaved pondweed, Groenlandia densa, only plant of its genus, found chiefly in the Mediterranean region.


lexentry: eng/poniard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poniard
trans_list: Dolch
sense:
(now, chiefly, historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/pontoon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pontoon
trans_list: Ponton
sense:
A flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage.


lexentry: eng/ponytail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ponytail
trans_list: Pferdeschwanz | Rossschwanz
sense:
A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.


lexentry: eng/pood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pood
trans_list: Pud
sense:
An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).


lexentry: eng/poodle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poodle
trans_list: Pudel
sense:
A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy.


lexentry: eng/poof__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poof
trans_list: puff
sense:
Onomatopoeia indicating a small explosion with a cloud of smoke; as caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.


lexentry: eng/pool__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pool
trans_list: Lache | Pfütze
sense:
A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.


lexentry: eng/pool_noodle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pool noodle
trans_list: Poolnudel | Schwimmnudel
sense:
A long, slender tube or rod, extruded from buoyant foam and usually brightly coloured, used as an exercise tool or toy in swimming pools.


lexentry: eng/pooper__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pooper
trans_list: Miesmacher | Spielverderber
sense:
(slang) One who poops out on an activity; one who dampens the mood by lack of participation or negative attitude. Mostly used in the phrase party pooper.


lexentry: eng/poor_box__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poor box
trans_list: Almosenbüchse | Opferbüchse
sense:
A locked box with a slot for depositing coins into, usually placed in churches to accept donations for the needy.


lexentry: eng/pop-up__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pop-up
trans_list: Pop-up
sense:
(internet) A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.


lexentry: eng/pop-up_advertisement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pop-up advertisement
trans_list: Popup
sense:
(Internet, advertising) An advertisement that takes the form of a window that appears automatically on a computer screen when certain websites are visited.


lexentry: eng/pop__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pop
trans_list: Sprudel | Sprudelwasser
sense:
(uncountable, regional, Midwest US, Canada, Inland North, Midlands, Northwestern US) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.


lexentry: eng/pop__Verb__1
sense_num: 13
written_rep: pop
trans_list: einwerfen
sense:
(transitive, slang) To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).


lexentry: eng/pop_art__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pop art
trans_list: Pop-Art
sense:
(arts) A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture, often using techniques from commercial art and advertising.


lexentry: eng/pop_gun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pop gun
trans_list: Kindergewehr | Kinderspielpistole | Pufferchen
sense:
A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string.


lexentry: eng/pop_music__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pop music
trans_list: Popmusik
sense:
Music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music.


lexentry: eng/pope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pope
trans_list: Papst | Päpstin
sense:
(Roman Catholicism, _, &, _, generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.


lexentry: eng/poplit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poplit
trans_list: Kniekehle
sense:
The shallow depression (fossa) located at the back of the knee joint; the popliteal fossa or “knee pit”.


lexentry: eng/popliteus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: popliteus
trans_list: Kniekehlenmuskel
sense:
(anatomy) A small muscle at the back of the knee that aids in bending the knee and in the rotation of the lower leg.


lexentry: eng/poppy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poppy
trans_list: Mohn | Mohnblume
sense:
Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.


lexentry: eng/popsicle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: popsicle
trans_list: Eis am Stiel | Stieleis | Wassereis
sense:
(chiefly, _, US, Canada) Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving.


lexentry: eng/popular_culture__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: popular culture
trans_list: Popkultur
sense:
The prevailing vernacular culture in any given society, including art, cooking, clothing/fashion, entertainment, fads, films, mass media, music, sports, and style.


lexentry: eng/popular_music__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: popular music
trans_list: populäre Musik
sense:
(music) Any genre of music that has wide appeal amongst the general public of a society, typically distributed widely by the music industry; typically as seen in contrast to classical music and folk music.


lexentry: eng/popular_science__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: popular science
trans_list: Populärwissenschaft
sense:
An interpretation of science intended for a general audience, rather than for other scientists or students.


lexentry: eng/popular_science__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: popular science
trans_list: populärwissenschaftlich
sense:
(attributive) Of, or having to do with science, but aimed at ordinary people as opposed to scientists; intended for general consumption.


lexentry: eng/popularity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: popularity
trans_list: Popularität | Beliebtheit
sense:
The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large


lexentry: eng/population__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: population
trans_list: Bevölkerung
sense:
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.


lexentry: eng/population__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: population
trans_list: Einwohnerzahl | Population | Bevölkerungszahl
sense:
(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.


lexentry: eng/population__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: population
trans_list: Grundgesamtheit | Bevölkerung
sense:
(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.


lexentry: eng/population_density__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: population density
trans_list: Bevölkerungsdichte
sense:
Average population per unit area; especially, the average number of people who live per square kilometer (or square mile) of land.


lexentry: eng/population_inversion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: population inversion
trans_list: Besetzungsinversion
sense:
(physics) The creation of a system in which more atoms or molecules are in an excited state than in a ground state.


lexentry: eng/population_pyramid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: population pyramid
trans_list: Alterspyramide | Bevölkerungspyramide
sense:
(demography) A graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex; it typically forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.


lexentry: eng/populism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: populism
trans_list: Populismus
sense:
(philosophy) A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.


lexentry: eng/populist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: populist
trans_list: Populist
sense:
A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).


lexentry: eng/porcelain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porcelain
trans_list: Porzellan
sense:
(usually, uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.


lexentry: eng/porcelain__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: porcelain
trans_list: Porzellan
sense:
(countable, now, _, usually, in the plural) An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.


lexentry: eng/porch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porch
trans_list: Veranda | Vorbau | Vordach
sense:
(architectural element) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.


lexentry: eng/porcupine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porcupine
trans_list: Stachelschwein | Baumstachelschwein | Baumstachler | Quastenstachler | Urson
sense:
Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.


lexentry: eng/porcupine_fish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porcupine fish
trans_list: Igelfisch
sense:
Any of several tropical fish species in the family Diodontidae that are covered with sharp spines and inflate themselves when threatened. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/pore__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pore
trans_list: Pore
sense:
By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.


lexentry: eng/pork-barrelling__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pork-barrelling
trans_list: Kirchturmpolitik
sense:
(politics) The practice of an elected politician giving favours or money to some or all voters in the politician's electorate, or to certain organizations, as compensation or payback for support from those voters or organizations in the past.


lexentry: eng/pork_barrel__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pork barrel
trans_list: Kirchturmpolitik
sense:
(chiefly, US politics, often, attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pornocracy__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pornocracy
trans_list: Mätressenherrschaft | Pornokratie | Hurenherrschaft
sense:
(Roman Catholicism, historical, sometimes, capitalized) The period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscūrum (Latin for “dark age”), and also as the “Rule of the Harlots”, which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti, a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family. [from mid-19th c.]


lexentry: eng/pornography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pornography
trans_list: Pornografie
sense:
The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature. [from mid-19th c.]


lexentry: eng/porosity__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: porosity
trans_list: Porösität | Porosität
sense:
(countable) A measure of how porous a material is; the ratio of the volume of pores to the total volume


lexentry: eng/porphyria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porphyria
trans_list: Porphyrie
sense:
(pathology) Any of several usually hereditary abnormalities of porphyrin metabolism characterized by excretion of excess porphyrins in the urine.


lexentry: eng/porphyrin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porphyrin
trans_list: Porphyrin
sense:
(organic compound) Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing pyrrole rings arranged in a square or other similar shape; they are important in biochemistry in a form with a metal atom in the central cavity (hemoglobin with iron, chlorophyll with magnesium, etc.).


lexentry: eng/porphyrogenite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porphyrogenite
trans_list: Purpurgeburt
sense:
(historical) An honorific title given to a son of a reigning emperor in the Byzantine Empire, notably borne by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.


lexentry: eng/porridge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: porridge
trans_list: Brei | Grütze
sense:
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.


lexentry: eng/port__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: port
trans_list: Port | Backbord
sense:
(nautical, aviation, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.


lexentry: eng/port__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: port
trans_list: Hafen | Backbord
sense:
An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.


lexentry: eng/port__Noun__2
sense_num: 06
written_rep: port
trans_list: Port | Hafen
sense:
A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia


lexentry: eng/port__Verb__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: port
trans_list: Hafen | Port | Backbord
sense:
(military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.


lexentry: eng/port_city__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: port city
trans_list: Hafenstadt
sense:
A city built around a port, for its defence, to provide infrastructural support, or as parasitic urban sprawl.


lexentry: eng/port_of_call__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: port of call
trans_list: Anlaufhafen
sense:
(nautical) any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies


lexentry: eng/portability__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: portability
trans_list: Rufnummernmitnahme
sense:
(software) The ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms.


lexentry: eng/portable_art__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: portable art
trans_list: Kleinkunst
sense:
(archaeology) Small pieces of prehistoric art that could be carried, as opposed to art applied to walls or cliffs, for example.


lexentry: eng/portable_executable__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: portable executable
trans_list: Portable Executable
sense:
(software) A file format used for executable programs, DLLs, fonts, etc. in Microsoft Windows and some other operating systems.


lexentry: eng/portable_toilet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: portable toilet
trans_list: Dixi-Klo | Baustellenklo | Dixi | Dixiklo | Dixi® | Mobil-WC
sense:
A movable toilet, particularly a portable outhouse used where other lavatories are unavailable (as at a construction site) or insufficient (as at special events).


lexentry: eng/portal_vein__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: portal vein
trans_list: Pfortader
sense:
(anatomy) A short, wide vein located in the abdominal cavity formed by the union of the superior mesenteric and splenic veins that channels blood from the gastrointestinal tract and spleen to capillary beds in the liver.


lexentry: eng/portamento__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: portamento
trans_list: Accent und Mordant
sense:
(music) A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass.


lexentry: eng/portcullis__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: portcullis
trans_list: Fallgatter
sense:
(historical) An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth I, struck for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.


lexentry: eng/portfolio__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: portfolio
trans_list: Portefeuille
sense:
(politics) The post and the responsibilities of a cabinet minister or other head of a government department. [from 1930s]


lexentry: eng/portfolio__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: portfolio
trans_list: Portfolio
sense:
(business) A collection of assets; (figurative) any collection of things considered as investments or assets.


lexentry: eng/portmanteau_word__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: portmanteau word
trans_list: Kofferwort | Schachtelwort | Kontamination | Portmanteau | Portmanteau-Wort | Verschmelzung
sense:
(linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.


lexentry: eng/portrait__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: portrait
trans_list: Hochformat
sense:
(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.


lexentry: eng/poser__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: poser
trans_list: Künstlermodell | Modell
sense:
Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.


lexentry: eng/poseur__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poseur
trans_list: Poseur | Angeber | Angeberin | Poser | Poserin | Poseurin
sense:
One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.


lexentry: eng/position_paper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: position paper
trans_list: Grundsatzpapier | Positionspapier
sense:
(philosophy, government) An essay or report which expresses a position, conclusion, or recommendation concerning a contested issue or undecided question and which usually contains arguments or reasons in support of this position.


lexentry: eng/position_vector__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: position vector
trans_list: Ortsvektor | Positionsvektor
sense:
(geometry) Of a point, a vector going from the origin to that point; equivalently, the transpose of the point.


lexentry: eng/positional_notation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: positional notation
trans_list: Stellenwertsystem
sense:
A notation for numbers in which the value of a digit depends on its position in the string, examples of which include the decimal system and the binary system


lexentry: eng/positive__Adjective__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: positive
trans_list: positiv
sense:
(grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.


lexentry: eng/positive__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: positive
trans_list: Positiv | Positivfilm
sense:
(photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.


lexentry: eng/positive_degree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: positive degree
trans_list: Positiv
sense:
(grammar) That state of an adjective or adverb indicating simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as in wise, noble.


lexentry: eng/positive_reinforcement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: positive reinforcement
trans_list: positive Verstärkung
sense:
The giving of encouragement to a person who exhibits a particular behaviour with the result that such behaviour is repeated.


lexentry: eng/positivism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: positivism
trans_list: Positivismus
sense:
(philosophy) A doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.


lexentry: eng/positronium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: positronium
trans_list: Positronium
sense:
(physics, chemistry) An exotic atom (specifically, an onium) consisting of a positron (anti-electron) and an electron, as a particle–anti-particle bound pair with no nucleus.


lexentry: eng/posology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: posology
trans_list: Posologie
sense:
(countable, uncountable, pharmacy, pharmacology) The study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination of appropriate dosages. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/posse__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: posse
trans_list: Clique | Trupp
sense:
(colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/possess__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: possess
trans_list: besitzen
sense:
Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).


lexentry: eng/possessee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: possessee
trans_list: Ergänzung
sense:
(grammar) Verb complement in some languages or some constructions of a given language; the noun which is possessed.


lexentry: eng/possessive_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: possessive case
trans_list: Genitiv
sense:
(grammar) case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya.


lexentry: eng/possessive_suffix__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: possessive suffix
trans_list: Possessivsuffix
sense:
(linguistics) A suffix that indicates possession, occurs in some Uralic, Turkic, Semitic and Indo-European languages.


lexentry: eng/possibles_bag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: possibles bag
trans_list: Jagdtasche
sense:
A hunter's day-bag of highly varying designs and materials, but usually a kind of a satchel intended for carrying whatever small gear is necessary for the day's hunt.


lexentry: eng/possibly__Adverb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: possibly
trans_list: möglicherweise | eventuell | unmöglich | vielleicht
sense:
(modifying a verb) In the realm of possibility; indicates that the action may successfully be performed (is not impossible) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker that might limit the performance.


lexentry: eng/possum__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: possum
trans_list: Possum
sense:
Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.


lexentry: eng/post-production__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post-production
trans_list: Postproduktion | Nachproduktion
sense:
(cinematography, television) The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product.


lexentry: eng/post-traumatic_stress_disorder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post-traumatic stress disorder
trans_list: posttraumatische Belastungsstörung
sense:
(psychology) A psychological condition that develops following some stressful situation or event, with symptoms such as sleep disturbance, recurrent dreams, flashbacks, hypervigilance, depression, dissociation, withdrawal or lack of concentration.


lexentry: eng/post-truth__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post-truth
trans_list: postfaktisch
sense:
(chiefly, politics, media) Beyond or superseding the importance of truth; pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected; (usually, pejorative) not caring about factual accuracy.


lexentry: eng/post-war__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post-war
trans_list: Nachkriegs- | nachkrieglich
sense:
Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.


lexentry: eng/post__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post
trans_list: flugs | geschwind | postwendend | schnurstracks
sense:
With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.


lexentry: eng/post__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post
trans_list: Post
sense:
(obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. [16th–17th c.]


lexentry: eng/post__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: post
trans_list: Post
sense:
(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.


lexentry: eng/post__Noun__2
sense_num: 06
written_rep: post
trans_list: Post
sense:
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/post__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: post
trans_list: posten | anprangern | hochladen
sense:
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.


lexentry: eng/post__Verb__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: post
trans_list: schicken
sense:
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/post_chaise__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post chaise
trans_list: Postkutsche
sense:
(historical) An enclosed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, used to transport mail and passengers.


lexentry: eng/post_office__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post office
trans_list: Postamt | Post
sense:
(countable) A place (building, office, shop, or counter) concerned with the business of delivering letters, post or mail and selling stamps, etc.


lexentry: eng/post_office_box__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: post office box
trans_list: Postfach
sense:
A uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office that may be hired as collection point for mail.


lexentry: eng/postage_due_stamp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postage due stamp
trans_list: Portomarke
sense:
(philately) An adhesive stamp affixed by a post office to an item of mail, indicating that insufficient or no postage has been prepaid.


lexentry: eng/postage_stamp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postage stamp
trans_list: Briefmarke | Postwertzeichen | Marke | Freimarke | Wert | Wertzeichen
sense:
A small piece of printed paper stuck on an item to be mailed, indicating that postage has been paid.


lexentry: eng/postal_address__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postal address
trans_list: Postanschrift
sense:
The address (of a person or business) to which mail is delivered, as distinct from the actual street address.


lexentry: eng/postalveolar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postalveolar
trans_list: Postalveolar | Postalveolarlaut
sense:
(phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, such as English sh in the word shoe.


lexentry: eng/postcard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postcard
trans_list: Postkarte
sense:
A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to be written on and mailed without an envelope. In the case of a picture postcard, one side displays a picture or photograph.


lexentry: eng/postcode__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postcode
trans_list: Postleitzahl | PLZ
sense:
(Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.


lexentry: eng/postcolonialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postcolonialism
trans_list: Postkolonialismus
sense:
An era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised countries gained their independence.


lexentry: eng/postdoctoral__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postdoctoral
trans_list: Postdoc-
sense:
After receiving a doctorate; especially of academic research or study beyond the level of a doctoral degree.


lexentry: eng/poster_child__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poster child
trans_list: Paradebeispiel
sense:
(chiefly, North America, idiomatic) One who is a prototypical or quintessential example of something.


lexentry: eng/posterior__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: posterior
trans_list: hinterer | rück-
sense:
(anatomy) Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.


lexentry: eng/posterior_chamber__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: posterior chamber
trans_list: hintere Augenkammer
sense:
(anatomy, ophthalmology) A narrow space inside the eye between the iris and the lens, filled with aqueous humour.


lexentry: eng/posterior_scalene_muscle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: posterior scalene muscle
trans_list: hinterer Treppenmuskel
sense:
(muscle) A muscle arising from the transverse processes of the fourth to sixth cervical vertebrae, inserting on the outer surface of the second rib, and functioning to raise the second rib and to bend and slightly rotate the neck.


lexentry: eng/postformative__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: postformative
trans_list: postformativ
sense:
Occurring after the formation (chiefly written post-formative, said in Islamic studies of the period following the Golden Age of Islam 786–861 CE).


lexentry: eng/postglacial_rebound__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postglacial rebound
trans_list: Landhebung
sense:
The rise of the lithosphere in areas which were depressed by the weight of a continental ice sheet during the last ice age.


lexentry: eng/posthistory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: posthistory
trans_list: Nachgeschichte
sense:
The history of events that occur after (and are consequences of) an event (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).


lexentry: eng/postindustrial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postindustrial
trans_list: nachindustriell
sense:
Describing the economy of a nation in which manufacturing industry becomes less important and the service and information industries become more important.


lexentry: eng/postlude__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postlude
trans_list: Nachspiel | Postludium
sense:
(music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.


lexentry: eng/postmark__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postmark
trans_list: Poststempel
sense:
A marking made by a postal service on a delivery, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, mostly serving to cancel a postage stamp.


lexentry: eng/postmodern__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: postmodern
trans_list: nachmodern | postmodern
sense:
Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.


lexentry: eng/postmodernism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postmodernism
trans_list: Postmodernismus | Postmoderne
sense:
Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.


lexentry: eng/postpostmodern__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postpostmodern
trans_list: nachpostmodern | postpostmodern
sense:
Having the characteristics of a movement or style (of art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy) that has moved beyond postmodernism.


lexentry: eng/postsynaptic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postsynaptic
trans_list: postsynaptisch
sense:
(cytology) In a synapse, of or pertaining to the neuron that bears receptors for neurotransmitter released into the synaptic cleft by the presynaptic neuron.


lexentry: eng/postulate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: postulate
trans_list: Postulat
sense:
Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.


lexentry: eng/pot__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: pot
trans_list: Einsatz
sense:
(gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.


lexentry: eng/pot_calling_the_kettle_black__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pot calling the kettle black
trans_list: ein Esel schimpft den anderen Langohr
sense:
(idiomatic) A situation in which somebody comments on or accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares.


lexentry: eng/pot_roast__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pot roast
trans_list: Schmorfleisch
sense:
A dish made by browning a roast-sized piece of beef (often taken from the tougher chuck cut) to induce a Maillard reaction, then slow-cooking in liquid in a covered dish.


lexentry: eng/pot_shot__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pot shot
trans_list: Heruntergeputze | Herunterputzen | scharfe Attacke
sense:
By analogy, insulting or hurtful words carelessly or randomly said; opportunistic attack, especially criticism.


lexentry: eng/potash__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potash
trans_list: Pottasche
sense:
The water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer.


lexentry: eng/potassium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium
trans_list: Kalium
sense:
A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.


lexentry: eng/potassium_aluminium_sulfate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium aluminium sulfate
trans_list: Kaliumaluminiumsulfat
sense:
(inorganic compound) The sulfate double salt of potassium and aluminium KAl(SO4)2; occurs naturally as alum


lexentry: eng/potassium_carbonate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium carbonate
trans_list: Kaliumcarbonat
sense:
(inorganic compound) The alkaline salt K2CO3, that is the major constituent of potash; it is used in the production of glass and some soaps.


lexentry: eng/potassium_chloride__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium chloride
trans_list: Kaliumchlorid
sense:
(inorganic compound) The potassium salt of hydrochloric acid, KCl; it is used as a fertilizer, and in lethal injections


lexentry: eng/potassium_cyanide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium cyanide
trans_list: Kaliumcyanid | Zyankali
sense:
(inorganic compound) The potassium salt of hydrocyanic acid, KCN; the colourless crystals are soluble in water, and it is extremely poisonous, and is used in electroplating, the extraction of gold and silver from their ores, and in photography.


lexentry: eng/potassium_dichromate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium dichromate
trans_list: Kaliumdichromat
sense:
(inorganic compound) A potassium salt of chromic acid, K2Cr2O7; the orange crystals are soluble in water, and it is used as an oxidizing agent and in photography.


lexentry: eng/potassium_hydroxide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium hydroxide
trans_list: Kaliumhydroxid | kaustisches Kali | Ätzkali
sense:
(inorganic compound) The alkaline base KOH, once known as caustic potash; it has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of bleach.


lexentry: eng/potassium_nitrate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium nitrate
trans_list: Kalisalpeter | Salpeter
sense:
(inorganic chemistry) KNO3, a naturally occurring salt, notably used as an ingredient of gunpowder; also used a food preservative and as an ingredient in toothpaste for sensitive gums; historically used in the production of nitric acid (HNO3).


lexentry: eng/potassium_permanganate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potassium permanganate
trans_list: Kaliumpermanganat
sense:
(chemistry) KMnO4, the most readily available commercial permanganate; it is used as an oxidizing agent both in industry and in the analytical laboratory.


lexentry: eng/potato__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potato
trans_list: Kartoffel | Erdapfel | Bramburi | Erdbirne | Grumbeere | Grundbirne
sense:
The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.


lexentry: eng/potato_bread__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potato bread
trans_list: Kartoffelbrot
sense:
A type of bread made with potatoes, often served shallow-fried as part of a cooked breakfast, common in Northern Ireland and Scotland.


lexentry: eng/potato_chip__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potato chip
trans_list: Kartoffelchip
sense:
(British, Australia) One of a batch of pieces of potato cut into elongated cubes and fried; a chip or chipped potato, usually larger than American french fries.


lexentry: eng/potato_crisp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potato crisp
trans_list: Chip | Kartoffelchip
sense:
(mostly, British) A thin slice of potato that has been fried, typically packaged and sold as a snack.


lexentry: eng/potato_starch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potato starch
trans_list: Kartoffelstärke
sense:
(gastronomy) A widely diffused vegetable substance found in the extracted material of potatoes used in cooking.


lexentry: eng/poteen__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: poteen
trans_list: Potcheen | Poteen
sense:
(Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.


lexentry: eng/potential__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: potential
trans_list: Potential
sense:
(physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.


lexentry: eng/potential__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: potential
trans_list: Potential
sense:
(physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.


lexentry: eng/potential_difference__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potential difference
trans_list: Potentialdifferenz
sense:
the difference in potential energy between two points in an electric field; the difference in charge between two points in an electrical circuit; voltage


lexentry: eng/potential_energy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potential energy
trans_list: Lageenergie | potentielle Energie
sense:
The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).


lexentry: eng/potentiometer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: potentiometer
trans_list: Potentiometer
sense:
(electronics) A user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.


lexentry: eng/pothole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pothole
trans_list: Schlagloch
sense:
A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.


lexentry: eng/poult__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poult
trans_list: Bub
sense:
A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/poultice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: poultice
trans_list: Wickel | Kataplasma | Packung | Umschlag
sense:
A soft, moist mass, usually wrapped in cloth and warmed, that is applied topically to a sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to soothe it.


lexentry: eng/pounce__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pounce
trans_list: Löschsand | Schreibsand
sense:
(historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.


lexentry: eng/pound__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pound
trans_list: Pfund
sense:
A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.


lexentry: eng/pound_cake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pound cake
trans_list: Rührkuchen
sense:
(US) A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.


lexentry: eng/pour__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pour
trans_list: gießen | schütten | einschenken | eingießen | einschütten
sense:
(transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.


lexentry: eng/powder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: powder
trans_list: Pulver | Puder
sense:
The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.


lexentry: eng/powder__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: powder
trans_list: Pulver | Puder
sense:
(cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.


lexentry: eng/powdered_sugar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: powdered sugar
trans_list: Puderzucker | Staubzucker
sense:
(US) Very finely ground sugar to which cornstarch is added to prevent lumping, mostly used in icings and confections to produce a smooth texture.


lexentry: eng/power__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: power
trans_list: Leistung | Kraft
sense:
(physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.


lexentry: eng/power__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: power
trans_list: Leistung | Kraft
sense:
(statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.


lexentry: eng/power__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: power
trans_list: Potenz | Leistung
sense:
A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): x^n, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x \times x \times \cdots \times x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.


lexentry: eng/power_behind_the_throne__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power behind the throne
trans_list: graue Eminenz
sense:
(idiomatic) Someone who appears to be without special status, but who has great covert influence on a person in authority.


lexentry: eng/power_broker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power broker
trans_list: graue Eminenz
sense:
A person or group having the ability to influence important decisions, especially in public policy, politics, and business.


lexentry: eng/power_car__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power car
trans_list: Lokomotive
sense:
A vehicle that propels, and commonly also controls, a passenger train or tram, often as the lead vehicle.


lexentry: eng/power_dissipation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power dissipation
trans_list: Leistungsaufnahme
sense:
The process in which an electric or electronic device produces heat (or other waste energy) as an unwanted byproduct of its primary action.


lexentry: eng/power_forward__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power forward
trans_list: Power Forward
sense:
(basketball) A forward who is the taller of the two forward positions, and is often responsible for scoring near the basket, collecting rebounds and blocking shots in defense.


lexentry: eng/power_law__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power law
trans_list: Potenzgesetz
sense:
(mathematics) A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x) = ax^k). [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/power_line__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power line
trans_list: Stromleitung
sense:
An electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or buried underground, used for the carrying of electricity either from a power source such as a generating station to a substation, or from a substation to a building such as a plant, commercial building or a home.


lexentry: eng/power_politics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power politics
trans_list: Machtpolitik
sense:
A form of international relations in which sovereign entities protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression.


lexentry: eng/power_rack__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power rack
trans_list: Kniebeugenständer
sense:
A metal cage consisting of support pillars with adjustable bars and hooks, using for supporting a barbell during heavy weightlifting exercises.


lexentry: eng/power_set__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power set
trans_list: Potenzmenge
sense:
(set theory, of a set S) The set whose elements comprise all the subsets of S (including the empty set and S itself).


lexentry: eng/power_steering__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power steering
trans_list: Servolenkung
sense:
(automotive) A system for reducing the driver's effort to steer, by using a power source to assist in turning the wheels.


lexentry: eng/power_strip__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power strip
trans_list: Mehrfachsteckdose | Steckdosenleiste
sense:
A block of electrical sockets that attaches to the end of a flexible cable and allows multiple electrical devices to be plugged in.


lexentry: eng/power_supply__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: power supply
trans_list: Netzteil
sense:
That part of a piece of electronic apparatus that provides appropriate voltages for the rest of the electronics from the connected AC source.


lexentry: eng/power_tool__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power tool
trans_list: Elektrogerät | Elektrowerkzeug
sense:
Any of a wide class of tools powered by a motor (usually an electric motor); most especially such tools as are handheld, portable, and not stationary.


lexentry: eng/power_vacuum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: power vacuum
trans_list: Machtvakuum
sense:
A lack of centralised political authority, especially following a conflict, revolution, change of power, etc.


lexentry: eng/powers_that_be__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: powers that be
trans_list: die da oben | die zuständigen Stellen
sense:
(idiomatic) The holders of power or the authorities in a given situation, especially if seen as being faceless or unreasonably bureaucratic.


lexentry: eng/powertrain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: powertrain
trans_list: Antriebsstrang
sense:
The group of components in a vehicle that generate power and deliver it to the road surface, water, or air.


lexentry: eng/practical__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: practical
trans_list: Praktikum
sense:
(British) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability


lexentry: eng/practice__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: practice
trans_list: Praxis | Ausüben | Ausübung | Praktizieren
sense:
(uncountable, especially, medicine, arts) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.


lexentry: eng/practicum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: practicum
trans_list: Praktikum
sense:
(US) A college course designed to give a student supervised practical knowledge of a subject previously studied theoretically.


lexentry: eng/pragmatic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pragmatic
trans_list: pragmatisch
sense:
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.


lexentry: eng/pragmatism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pragmatism
trans_list: Pragmatismus
sense:
The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.


lexentry: eng/pragmatism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pragmatism
trans_list: Pragmatismus
sense:
(philosophy) The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.


lexentry: eng/pragmatism__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pragmatism
trans_list: Pragmatismus
sense:
(politics) The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones.


lexentry: eng/pragmatist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pragmatist
trans_list: Pragmatiker
sense:
One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.


lexentry: eng/prairie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prairie
trans_list: Prärie
sense:
An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.


lexentry: eng/prairie_dog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prairie dog
trans_list: Präriehund
sense:
Any of genus Cynomys, small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America.


lexentry: eng/pram__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pram
trans_list: Prahm
sense:
(nautical, historical) A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour.


lexentry: eng/prank_call__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prank call
trans_list: Telefonstreich
sense:
A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else.


lexentry: eng/praseodymium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: praseodymium
trans_list: Praseodym
sense:
A chemical element (symbol Pr) with an atomic number of 59, a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal, valued for its magnetic, electrical, chemical, and optical properties.


lexentry: eng/prawn_cocktail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prawn cocktail
trans_list: Krabbencocktail
sense:
A salad dish made from cooked, peeled, chilled prawns with a Marie Rose sauce, served on lettuce with lemon.


lexentry: eng/pray__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pray
trans_list: beten
sense:
(religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.


lexentry: eng/prayer_flag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prayer flag
trans_list: Gebetsfahne | Gebetsflagge
sense:
A colourful rectangular cloth hung from a thread and strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes.


lexentry: eng/prayer_wheel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prayer wheel
trans_list: Gebetsmühle
sense:
(Buddhism) A rotating cylinder either inscribed with or containing prayers, mainly used by Tibetan Buddhists.


lexentry: eng/praying_mantis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: praying mantis
trans_list: Gottesanbeterin | Fangschrecke
sense:
Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the order Mantodea that have a prayer-like stance.


lexentry: eng/pre-Columbian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pre-Columbian
trans_list: präkolumbisch
sense:
Referring to the cultures of the Americas before the European influence, specifically to the era before the continent was visited by Christopher Columbus.


lexentry: eng/pre-Socratic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pre-Socratic
trans_list: vorsokratisch
sense:
(historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).


lexentry: eng/pre-Socratic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pre-Socratic
trans_list: Vorsokratiker | Vorsokratikerin
sense:
(historical) Any of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BCE), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BCE), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BCE), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BCE), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BCE), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BCE), Parmenides (early-5th century BCE), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BCE), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BCE), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BCE).


lexentry: eng/pre-drink__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pre-drink
trans_list: vorglühen
sense:
(intransitive) To drink cheaper take-away alcohol prior to drinking in more expensive clubs and bars


lexentry: eng/preacher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preacher
trans_list: Prediger
sense:
Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel and especially a clergyman or clergywoman.


lexentry: eng/preaching_band__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preaching band
trans_list: Beffchen
sense:
(Christianity, in the plural) Two bands (strips of linen) worn as formal neckwear by members of the Christian clergy.


lexentry: eng/preadolescence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preadolescence
trans_list: Präadoleszenz
sense:
The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about 9 and 11 for girls, and 10 and 12 for boys.


lexentry: eng/preamble__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preamble
trans_list: Präambel
sense:
A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.


lexentry: eng/preamplifier__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preamplifier
trans_list: Vorverstärker
sense:
A voltage amplifier for amplifying a low-level input signal; its output is the input to a higher-level amplifier.


lexentry: eng/preaspiration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preaspiration
trans_list: Präaspiration
sense:
(phonetics) A period of voiceless breathing that precedes some consonants in some languages—a sort of mirror-image of aspiration.


lexentry: eng/prebiotic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prebiotic
trans_list: Präbiotikum
sense:
(chiefly, in plural) A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/precariat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precariat
trans_list: Prekariat
sense:
(sociology, collective) People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security.


lexentry: eng/precarity__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: precarity
trans_list: Prekarisierung
sense:
(sociology) A condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.


lexentry: eng/precedent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precedent
trans_list: Präzedenz | Präzedenzfall
sense:
An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.


lexentry: eng/precedent__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: precedent
trans_list: Präjudiz | Präzedenzfall
sense:
(legal) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.


lexentry: eng/precession__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: precession
trans_list: Präzession
sense:
(physics, countable) The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis.


lexentry: eng/precinct__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: precinct
trans_list: Polizeirevier
sense:
(US, law enforcement) A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.


lexentry: eng/precious_metal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precious metal
trans_list: Edelmetall
sense:
A rare metallic chemical element of high economic value, such as gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium.


lexentry: eng/precious_stone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precious stone
trans_list: Edelstein
sense:
Any gem, such as a diamond or ruby, that is expensive because of its rarity or desirability; especially one set into a piece of jewelry.


lexentry: eng/precipitant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precipitant
trans_list: Verursacher
sense:
Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly, psychology) , something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.


lexentry: eng/precipitation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precipitation
trans_list: Niederschlag
sense:
(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.


lexentry: eng/precipitation__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: precipitation
trans_list: Präzipitation
sense:
(countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.


lexentry: eng/precipitation_hardening__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precipitation hardening
trans_list: Ausscheidungshärtung
sense:
(of metal) Age hardening; a heat treatment technique to increase the yield strength of malleable materials.


lexentry: eng/precipitation_reaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precipitation reaction
trans_list: Fällungsreaktion
sense:
(chemistry) Any reversible reaction in which a product is continuously removed by precipitation, driving the reaction in one direction


lexentry: eng/precise__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: precise
trans_list: exakt
sense:
(sciences, engineering, of data points, strictly) Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value).


lexentry: eng/precognition__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precognition
trans_list: Präkognition
sense:
(parapsychology) Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/preconception__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preconception
trans_list: Vorurteil
sense:
An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice.


lexentry: eng/precondition__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: precondition
trans_list: Voraussetzung | Vorbedingung
sense:
A medical illness, ailment, or adverse condition that exists before an insurance policy takes effect.


lexentry: eng/precontract__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: precontract
trans_list: Vorvertrag
sense:
(legal) A contract preceding another, especially a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it.


lexentry: eng/precursor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: precursor
trans_list: Präkursor | Vorläufer | Vorläufersubstanz | Edukt | Vorform | Vorläuferverbindung
sense:
(chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.


lexentry: eng/predate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predate
trans_list: vorverlegen
sense:
To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)


lexentry: eng/predator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predator
trans_list: Raubtier | Prädator | Beutegreifer | Raubfisch
sense:
Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other non-plant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.


lexentry: eng/predecessor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predecessor
trans_list: Vorgänger | Vorgängerin | Vorläufer
sense:
One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.


lexentry: eng/predecessor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: predecessor
trans_list: Vorläufer
sense:
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.


lexentry: eng/predicate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predicate
trans_list: Prädikat | Satzaussage
sense:
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.


lexentry: eng/predicate__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: predicate
trans_list: Prädikat
sense:
(logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.


lexentry: eng/predicate_calculus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predicate calculus
trans_list: Prädikatenlogik
sense:
(logic) The branch of logic that deals with quantified statements such as "there exists an x such that..." or "for any x, it is the case that...", where x is a member of the domain of discourse.


lexentry: eng/predicate_logic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predicate logic
trans_list: Prädikatenlogik
sense:
(logic) The generic term for symbolic formal systems like first-order logic, second-order logic, many-sorted logic or infinitary logic.


lexentry: eng/predication__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: predication
trans_list: Prädikation
sense:
(computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.


lexentry: eng/predicative__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predicative
trans_list: prädikativ | Prädikativ
sense:
(grammar, of an adjectival or nominal phrase) Modifying a noun while in a predicate phrase, which predicate phrase is other than the noun phrase and occurs after a verb, as a predicate; contrasted with attributive.


lexentry: eng/predicative__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predicative
trans_list: Prädikativ | Prädikativum
sense:
(grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which complements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.


lexentry: eng/predicative_adjective__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predicative adjective
trans_list: Prädikatsadjektiv | adjektivisches Prädikativum
sense:
(grammar) An adjective that is not part of the noun clause it modifies, but is linked to it with a copula.


lexentry: eng/predicative_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predicative case
trans_list: Prädikativ
sense:
(grammar) A term that may sometimes be used to describe the case marking a predicative nominative (a noun that renames the subject often following a linking verb), or for the adjective that agrees with it (predicative adjective).


lexentry: eng/predict__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predict
trans_list: vorhersagen | prophezeien
sense:
(transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.


lexentry: eng/predictive_text__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predictive text
trans_list: Texterkennung
sense:
(computing) A system for inputting text on a device where individual buttons correspond to several characters that attempts to guess which word was intended (typically out of a writable vocabulary), as opposed to a system where disambiguation is achieved through repeated presses of the same key.


lexentry: eng/predisposition__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: predisposition
trans_list: Neigung | Veranlagung
sense:
The state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a behavior or a health condition.


lexentry: eng/preeclampsia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preeclampsia
trans_list: Präeklampsie
sense:
(pathology) A complication of pregnancy, affecting about 2-20% of women, depending on location, characterized by hypertension and damage to the linings of the blood vessels of the brain, liver, lungs and kidneys, which can lead to multiple organ failure, convulsions, coma and death. The only cure is delivery of the child.


lexentry: eng/preeminent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preeminent
trans_list: herausragend | hervorragend | überragend
sense:
Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/preemption__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preemption
trans_list: Präemption
sense:
(computing) The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.


lexentry: eng/preemptive_right__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preemptive right
trans_list: Vorkaufsrecht
sense:
(legal) The right of shareholders to maintain a constant percentage of a company's shares by receiving a proportionate fraction of any new shares issued, thus preempting any dilution


lexentry: eng/preen__Verb__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: preen
trans_list: herausputzen
sense:
(of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.


lexentry: eng/preestablished_harmony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preestablished harmony
trans_list: prästabilierte Harmonie
sense:
(philosophy) Gottfried Leibniz's philosophical theory of causation, according to which every substance affects only itself, but all the substances in the world (both bodies and minds) nevertheless seem to interact with each other causally because they have been programmed in advance by God to harmonize with each other.


lexentry: eng/preface__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preface
trans_list: Vorrede | Vorwort
sense:
A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions.


lexentry: eng/preface__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: preface
trans_list: Präfation
sense:
(Christianity) A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.


lexentry: eng/prefect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prefect
trans_list: Präfekt
sense:
(historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.


lexentry: eng/prefecture__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prefecture
trans_list: Präfektur
sense:
The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.


lexentry: eng/prefer__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prefer
trans_list: bevorzugen | vorziehen | präferieren
sense:
(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/preferred_stock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preferred stock
trans_list: Vorzugsaktie
sense:
(finance) Stock with a dividend, usually fixed, that is paid out of profits before any dividend can be paid on common stock and that has priority to common stock in liquidation.


lexentry: eng/prefix__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prefix
trans_list: Präfix | Vorsilbe
sense:
(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.


lexentry: eng/prefix__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prefix
trans_list: mit einem Präfix versehen | präfigieren | voranstellen
sense:
(transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start. [from 16thc.]


lexentry: eng/preformative__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: preformative
trans_list: präformativ
sense:
(grammar, chiefly in Semitic languages) of a letter, syllable, etc.: attached to the beginning of a word as a formative element.


lexentry: eng/prefrontal_cortex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prefrontal cortex
trans_list: präfrontaler Cortex
sense:
(neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the frontal lobes of the mammalian brain, lying in front of the motor and premotor areas.


lexentry: eng/pregabalin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pregabalin
trans_list: Pregabalin
sense:
(pharmaceutical drug) An anticonvulsant drug used for neuropathic pain and as an adjunct therapy for seizures.


lexentry: eng/pregnancy_test__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pregnancy test
trans_list: Schwangerschaftstest
sense:
a piece of test equipment that determines whether a woman, or by extension, a female animal is pregnant


lexentry: eng/pregnant__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pregnant
trans_list: bedeutungsvoll
sense:
(comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.


lexentry: eng/prehensile__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prehensile
trans_list: Greif-
sense:
(zoology) Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.


lexentry: eng/prehung__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prehung
trans_list: bereit
sense:
(of a door or window) Delivered to the customer as installation-ready unit, already attached to its frame.


lexentry: eng/preimage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preimage
trans_list: Urbild
sense:
(mathematics) For a given function, the set of all elements of the domain that are mapped into a given subset of the codomain; (formally) given a function ƒ : X → Y and a subset B ⊆ Y, the set ƒ−1(B) = {x ∈ X : ƒ(x) ∈ B}.


lexentry: eng/preindustrial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preindustrial
trans_list: vorindustriell
sense:
Of or relating to the period before the Industrial Revolution and the global industrialisation that followed.


lexentry: eng/prejudice__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prejudice
trans_list: Vorurteil
sense:
(countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.


lexentry: eng/prelate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prelate
trans_list: Prälat
sense:
A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.


lexentry: eng/prelude__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prelude
trans_list: Präludium | Vorspiel
sense:
(music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece. [from 1650s]


lexentry: eng/premature_birth__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: premature birth
trans_list: Frühgeburt
sense:
(medicine) Childbirth occurring earlier than 37 completed weeks of gestation, but later than 20th week, which is regarded a miscarriage.


lexentry: eng/premature_ejaculation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premature ejaculation
trans_list: vorzeitiger Samenerguss
sense:
A medical condition where a man, when initiating sexual intercourse, will experience an orgasm and expel semen after a time period far below the average, generally defined as one minute or less.


lexentry: eng/premedication__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premedication
trans_list: Prämedikation | Vormedikation | medikamentöse Vorbehandlung
sense:
(medicine) The administration of a drug (or mixture of drugs) prior to an anesthetic, especially to induce sedation; the drug so administered.


lexentry: eng/premeditate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premeditate
sense:
(ambitransitive) To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.

trans_list:
im Vorhinein planen | im Vorhinein überlegen | vorher bedenken | vorher überlegen | vorsätzlich planen


lexentry: eng/premenstrual_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premenstrual syndrome
trans_list: prämenstruelles Syndrom
sense:
The physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation; premenstrual tension. [1953]


lexentry: eng/premiere__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premiere
trans_list: Premiere | Erstaufführung | Uraufführung
sense:
The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.


lexentry: eng/premise__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premise
trans_list: Prämisse | Voraussetzung
sense:
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.


lexentry: eng/premise__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: premise
trans_list: Prämisse
sense:
(usually, in the plural, legal) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.


lexentry: eng/premolar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premolar
trans_list: Prämolar | Vormahlzahn
sense:
A tooth situated in front of the molar teeth; especially a tooth in humans with two cusps which is between the canines and the molars (Latin: singular dens premolaris, plural dentes premolares)


lexentry: eng/premonition__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: premonition
trans_list: Vorahnung
sense:
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.


lexentry: eng/premonition__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: premonition
trans_list: Vorahnung
sense:
A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).


lexentry: eng/prenuptial_agreement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prenuptial agreement
trans_list: Ehevertrag
sense:
A legal document, signed by both parties before marriage, stating the legal claims on each other's estate upon a subsequent divorce.


lexentry: eng/prep_school__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prep school
trans_list: Gymnasium
sense:
(US) A private or public school intended to prepare its students to get into prestigious universities.


lexentry: eng/preparatory__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preparatory
trans_list: vorbereitend
sense:
Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.


lexentry: eng/prepayment_penalty__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prepayment penalty
trans_list: Vorfälligkeitsentschädigung
sense:
An additional fee charged for paying off part of or the entirety of a loan ahead of the scheduled due date in order to compensate for the loss of interest income suffered by the creditor in such case.


lexentry: eng/prepend__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prepend
trans_list: voranstellen
sense:
(computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.


lexentry: eng/preposition__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preposition
trans_list: Präposition | Verhältniswort | Vorwort | Lagewort
sense:
(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.


lexentry: eng/prepositional_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prepositional case
trans_list: Präpositional | Präpositionalfall | Präpositionalkasus
sense:
(grammar) noun case serving as object of a preposition. Prepositions that often govern the prepositional case include "about", "in", "on", and "near". Russian is an example of a language that uses the prepositional case.


lexentry: eng/prepositional_phrase__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prepositional phrase
trans_list: Präpositionalphrase
sense:
(grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement; may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.


lexentry: eng/prepostmodern__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prepostmodern
trans_list: präpostmodern | vorpostmodern
sense:
Having the characteristics of a movement or style (of art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy) that came before postmodernism; modern.


lexentry: eng/preprocessor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preprocessor
trans_list: Präprozessor
sense:
(computing) program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program


lexentry: eng/preproduction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preproduction
trans_list: Vorproduktion
sense:
All the preliminary arrangements that are made before the start of a project, especially before the filming of a movie.


lexentry: eng/prequel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prequel
trans_list: Prequel | Vorläufer | Vorgeschichte | Vorgänger
sense:
(narratology) In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel.


lexentry: eng/prerequisite__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prerequisite
trans_list: Voraussetzung | Vorbedingung | Teilnahmevoraussetzung
sense:
In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.


lexentry: eng/prerogative__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prerogative
trans_list: Prärogative | Vorrecht | Regal
sense:
A right, or power that is exclusive to a monarch etc, especially such a power to make a decision or judgement.


lexentry: eng/prerogative__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: prerogative
trans_list: Begabung | Gabe | Talent
sense:
A property, attribute or ability which gives one a superiority or advantage over others; an inherent advantage or privilege; a talent.


lexentry: eng/prescient__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prescient
trans_list: vorausschauend | hellsichtig | vorausahnend | vorherwissend
sense:
Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/prescribe__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prescribe
trans_list: verschreiben | verordnen
sense:
(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).


lexentry: eng/prescribe__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prescribe
trans_list: verordnen | vorschreiben | verschreiben
sense:
To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.


lexentry: eng/prescriber__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prescriber
trans_list: Verordner | Verordnerin
sense:
A person who prescribes medication (usually a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner).


lexentry: eng/prescription__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prescription
trans_list: Rezept | Verschreibung
sense:
(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.


lexentry: eng/prescription__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: prescription
trans_list: Rechtssetzung
sense:
(legal) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.


lexentry: eng/prescription_drug__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prescription drug
trans_list: verschreibungspflichtiges Arzneimittel | verschreibungspflichtiges Medikament
sense:
(pharmacology) A licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained.


lexentry: eng/prescriptive__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prescriptive
trans_list: durch Vorgaben | durch Vorgaben diktiert | durch Vorschriften | normgebunden | vorschreibend
sense:
Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.


lexentry: eng/prescriptivism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prescriptivism
trans_list: Präskriptivismus
sense:
(linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.


lexentry: eng/preseason__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preseason
trans_list: Vorsaison
sense:
(sports) The period before the start of a sporting season, during which players undergo training and venues are prepared


lexentry: eng/presence_of_mind__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: presence of mind
trans_list: Geistesgegenwart
sense:
Focused alertness, good sense, quick-thinking resourcefulness, or stability of feeling and thought, especially in spite of circumstances which are distracting, stressful, or otherwise challenging.


lexentry: eng/present__Adjective__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: present
trans_list: gegenwärtig | jetzig | Gegenwart
sense:
Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.


lexentry: eng/present_continuous__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: present continuous
trans_list: Verlaufsform der Gegenwart
sense:
(grammar) A tense that describes an ongoing action in the present. In English it is formed by use of a form of be with a present participle.


lexentry: eng/present_participle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: present participle
trans_list: Partizip Präsens | Partizip I | Mittelwort der Gegenwart | Partizipium präsentis
sense:
(grammar) A nonfinite verb form that indicates an ongoing action or state and which can function as an adjective.


lexentry: eng/present_perfect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: present perfect
trans_list: Perfekt | Perfektum
sense:
(grammar) A perfect tense that expresses action in the past (usually completed) with consequences in the present time.


lexentry: eng/present_tense__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: present tense
trans_list: Präsens | Gegenwart
sense:
(grammar) A grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.


lexentry: eng/presenteeism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: presenteeism
trans_list: Präsentismus
sense:
(chiefly, UK) The fact of being present at work, especially if one is too sick to be productive, or working beyond the expected hours. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/presenter__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: presenter
trans_list: Präsentator
sense:
(software engineering) A conceptual layer in GUI-based software that assumes the functionality of the "middleman".


lexentry: eng/presentism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: presentism
trans_list: Präsentismus
sense:
(philosophy) The view that neither the future nor the past exist (events and entities that are wholly past or wholly future do not exist at all).


lexentry: eng/president-elect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: president-elect
sense:
(sum of parts) A person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office. [from 18th c.]

trans_list:
Präsident in spe | Präsidentin in spe | designierte Präsidentin | designierter Präsident | gewählte Präsidentin | gewählter Präsident


lexentry: eng/president__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: president
trans_list: Präsident
sense:
Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.


lexentry: eng/press__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: press
trans_list: drücken | pressen
sense:
(ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.


lexentry: eng/press__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: press
trans_list: bügeln
sense:
(transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.


lexentry: eng/press_kit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: press kit
trans_list: Pressemappe
sense:
A packaged set of promotional and news materials to inform the media about a person, band or product. The kit will often include a CD or demo along with reviews, photos, and background information. The kit is distributed to media sources, such as radio stations and newspapers.


lexentry: eng/pressure__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: pressure
trans_list: Druck
sense:
(physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.


lexentry: eng/pressure_cooker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pressure cooker
trans_list: Schnellkochtopf | Dampfdrucktopf | Dampfkochtopf
sense:
(cookware) A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.


lexentry: eng/pressure_point__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pressure point
trans_list: Druckpunkt
sense:
(martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.


lexentry: eng/pressure_suit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pressure suit
trans_list: Druckanzug
sense:
(aviation, astronautics) A sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.


lexentry: eng/pressurized_water_reactor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pressurized water reactor
trans_list: Druckwasserreaktor
sense:
A form of nuclear power plant in which heat from the reactor is transferred via a continuous flow of pressurized water


lexentry: eng/prestige__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prestige
trans_list: Prestige | Ansehen | Geltung | Wertschätzung
sense:
The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.


lexentry: eng/presume__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: presume
trans_list: annehmen | vermuten | mutmaßen
sense:
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/presumption__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: presumption
trans_list: Vermutung
sense:
(legal) An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.


lexentry: eng/presumption_of_innocence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: presumption of innocence
trans_list: Unschuldsvermutung
sense:
(legal) The precept that someone will not be convicted of a crime unless (the judge, prosecutor, officer) proves guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and is non liquet, with there being no present burden of proof duty subjected on the accused to prove innocence.


lexentry: eng/presumptuous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: presumptuous
trans_list: überheblich | anmaßend | spekulierend
sense:
Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right.


lexentry: eng/presuppose__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: presuppose
trans_list: voraussetzen | erfordern
sense:
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.


lexentry: eng/presymptomatic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: presymptomatic
trans_list: präsymptomatisch
sense:
(medicine) relating to the early stages of a disease, before all symptoms have developed and therefore accurate diagnosis is not possible


lexentry: eng/pretender__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pretender
trans_list: Anwärter | Anwärterin
sense:
A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.


lexentry: eng/preterite-present_verb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preterite-present verb
trans_list: Präteritopräsens | Präteritopräsentium
sense:
(grammar) A type of verb specific to Germanic languages in which the forms of the present tense resemble the forms normally found in the preterite (or past) tense of strong verbs. In modern English these are principally can, may, shall, will; one can also include the other verbs that do not (or not always) take -s in the third-person singular: dare, must, need, ought. The only non-modal preterite-present verb is an archaic verb wit.


lexentry: eng/preterite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preterite
trans_list: Präteritum
sense:
(grammar) A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.


lexentry: eng/pretext__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pretext
trans_list: einen Vorwand verwenden | etwas vorgeben | etwas vorschützen | etwas vorspiegeln | so tun, als ob
sense:
To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.


lexentry: eng/prettify__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prettify
trans_list: ausschmücken
sense:
To make pretty or prettier, to make more attractive, especially only in a superficial way. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/pretty_penny__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pretty penny
trans_list: Sümmchen | erkleckliches Sümmchen | hübsches Sümmchen
sense:
(idiomatic, informal) Chiefly preceded by a: a considerable amount of money; a high income or price.


lexentry: eng/prevalence__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prevalence
trans_list: Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit | Prävalenz
sense:
(epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.


lexentry: eng/prevaricate__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prevaricate
trans_list: Ausflüchte machen | ausweichen
sense:
(intransitive) To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.


lexentry: eng/prevarication__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: prevarication
trans_list: Ausflucht | Tatsachenverdrehung | Wahrheitsverzerrung
sense:
(law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.


lexentry: eng/preverb__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: preverb
trans_list: Präverb
sense:
(grammar) Any of a class of words in the Chinese language whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions, and postpositions of other languages.


lexentry: eng/preverbal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: preverbal
trans_list: präverbal
sense:
(psychology, linguistics) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.


lexentry: eng/preview__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: preview
trans_list: Vorschau | Vorblick
sense:
(computing) a facility for seeing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.


lexentry: eng/prey__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: prey
trans_list: Beute
sense:
(archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war.


lexentry: eng/priapism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: priapism
trans_list: Priapismus
sense:
(pathology) A potentially painful or harmful medical condition in which the erect penis (erection) does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation), often as a result of a spinal injury.


lexentry: eng/price-conscious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: price-conscious
trans_list: preisbewusst
sense:
Aware of how much things cost and thus avoiding buying expensive items; looking for value for money.


lexentry: eng/price-earnings_ratio__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: price-earnings ratio
trans_list: KGV
sense:
(finance) The ratio of share price to earnings per share used as an indication of the relative value of the share.


lexentry: eng/price_gouging__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: price gouging
trans_list: Wucher
sense:
(business, economics) The act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices.


lexentry: eng/price_skimming__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: price skimming
trans_list: Abschöpfungsstrategie | Skimming-Strategie
sense:
(business) A price-setting strategy in which a new product or service is offered at the highest practical price (to capture consumer surplus or exploit a monopolistic position), and that price is then lowered over time.


lexentry: eng/price_war__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: price war
trans_list: Preiskrieg
sense:
A situation where commercial competitors repeatedly undercut each other's prices in order to attract buyers.


lexentry: eng/prick__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: prick
trans_list: Arschloch | Lümmel | Nervensäge
sense:
(slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/prickly_lettuce__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prickly lettuce
trans_list: Stachel-Lattich
sense:
Lactuca serriola, an annual or biennial plant in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family, the closest wild relative of cultivated lettuce.


lexentry: eng/prickly_saltwort__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prickly saltwort
trans_list: Kali-Salzkraut
sense:
Salsola kali (syn. Kali turgidum), a coastal, halophilic, annual plant, with succulent, spiny leaves.


lexentry: eng/pride__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pride
trans_list: Hochmut | Stolz
sense:
The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.


lexentry: eng/pride__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pride
trans_list: Stolz
sense:
(having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.


lexentry: eng/pride__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pride
trans_list: Hochmut | Dünkel | Trotz
sense:
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.


lexentry: eng/pride__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: pride
trans_list: Stolz
sense:
That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.


lexentry: eng/pride_parade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pride parade
trans_list: CSD | Pride Parade | Pride-Parade
sense:
An annual parade, held in communities in many parts of the world, celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex pride and culture and the acceptance of people belonging to sexual minorities.


lexentry: eng/prie-dieu__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prie-dieu
trans_list: Betpult
sense:
A piece of furniture on which someone can pray, consisting of a cushioned area to kneel on, with a built-in ledge for books. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/priest__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: priest
trans_list: Priester | Pfarrer | Pfaffe | Priesterin | Pastor | Pastorin
sense:
A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.


lexentry: eng/prig__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prig
trans_list: Musterknabe | Tugendbold
sense:
A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.


lexentry: eng/prima_donna__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prima donna
trans_list: Primadonna
sense:
(derogatory) A person who considers himself or herself much more important than others, has high expectations of others and becomes angry when his or her standards or demands are not met.


lexentry: eng/primacy__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: primacy
trans_list: Primas
sense:
(religion) The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church.


lexentry: eng/primal_scene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primal scene
trans_list: Urszene
sense:
(psychoanalysis) In Freudian theory, the first time a child witnesses (and understands) its parents copulating.


lexentry: eng/primary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary
trans_list: Vorwahl
sense:
(political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.


lexentry: eng/primary_care__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary care
trans_list: medizinische Erstkontaktstelle
sense:
(healthcare) The medical attention that a patient receives upon first contact with a healthcare system; either a general practitioner or the A&E or ER department of a hospital.


lexentry: eng/primary_colour__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary colour
trans_list: Grundfarbe | Primärfarbe
sense:
(British spelling) Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours


lexentry: eng/primary_education__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary education
trans_list: Grundschulunterricht
sense:
The basic schooling given to children up to the age of puberty, including reading, writing, and basic mathematics.


lexentry: eng/primary_ideal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary ideal
trans_list: primäres Ideal
sense:
(algebra, ring theory) Given a commutative ring R, any ideal I such that for any a,b ∈ R, if ab ∈ I then either b ∈ I or an ∈ I for some integer n > 0.


lexentry: eng/primary_industry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary industry
trans_list: Hauptwirtschaftszweig
sense:
(economics) An industry that processes raw materials for conversion by secondary industry into goods or services sold by tertiary industry to provide goods or services to consumers.


lexentry: eng/primary_key__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary key
trans_list: Primärschlüssel
sense:
(computing, databases) In the design of a database table, the primary key (abbreviated PK) is selected among the non-empty set of candidate keys. The PK is a column (or an irreducible group of columns) able to identify every row of the table.


lexentry: eng/primary_producer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: primary producer
trans_list: Produzent
sense:
(biology) An autotrophic organism producing complex organic matter, using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.


lexentry: eng/primary_school__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primary school
trans_list: Grundschule | Volksschule
sense:
(British, Australian, sometimes, Philippines, schools) A formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.


lexentry: eng/primary_source__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: primary source
trans_list: Primärquelle
sense:
(historiography) A historical object, especially a written document, that was created at or near the time of the events studied.


lexentry: eng/primate__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primate
trans_list: Primas | Primat
sense:
(ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.


lexentry: eng/primate__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: primate
trans_list: Primas | Primat
sense:
(ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.


lexentry: eng/prime__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: prime
trans_list: prim-
sense:
(mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).


lexentry: eng/prime_meridian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prime meridian
trans_list: Nullmeridian
sense:
The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.


lexentry: eng/prime_minister__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prime minister
trans_list: Premierminister | Premierministerin
sense:
The chief member of the cabinet and head of the government, especially in a parliamentary democracy; often the leader of the majority party.


lexentry: eng/prime_mover__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prime mover
trans_list: Antriebsaggregat | Antriebsmaschine | Kraftmaschine
sense:
A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work


lexentry: eng/prime_number__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prime number
trans_list: Primzahl
sense:
(number theory) Any natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers.


lexentry: eng/prime_suspect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prime suspect
trans_list: Hauptverdächtiger
sense:
(legal) A person who is considered by the law enforcement agency investigating a crime to be the most likely suspect.


lexentry: eng/prime_time__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prime time
trans_list: Hauptsendezeit | Prime Time
sense:
(television, radio) The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm.


lexentry: eng/primer__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primer
trans_list: Zündkapsel
sense:
Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive.


lexentry: eng/primeval_forest__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primeval forest
trans_list: Urwald
sense:
A forest unaffected by humans, typically containing large live trees, large dead trees, and large logs.


lexentry: eng/primigravida__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primigravida
trans_list: Erstgebärende | Primigravida | erstmals Schwangere
sense:
(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal who is pregnant for the first time, or who has been pregnant once. [from late 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/primipara__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primipara
trans_list: Erstgebärende | Primipara
sense:
(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/primitive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primitive
trans_list: Primitivum | Radicalwort | Radix | Stamm | Stammwort | Urwort
sense:
(linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.


lexentry: eng/primitive_root__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primitive root
trans_list: Primitivwurzel
sense:
(mathematics, number theory) For a given modulus n, a number g such that for every a coprime to n there exists an integer k such that gk ≡ a (mod n); a generator (or primitive element) of the multiplicative group, modulo n, of integers relatively prime to n.


lexentry: eng/primitivism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: primitivism
trans_list: Primitivismus
sense:
Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms.


lexentry: eng/primogeniture__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: primogeniture
trans_list: Erstgeburtsrecht | Primogenitur
sense:
The principle that the eldest child, traditionally the eldest male, has an exclusive right of inheritance.


lexentry: eng/primordial_sea__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primordial sea
trans_list: Ursuppe
sense:
The oceans of the earth at a time early in its history. The term generally implies either the time before or during the development of multi-cellular life forms (i.e., during the Precambrian), or alternatively before the development of the first land-based life forms (i.e. during the early Paleozoic).


lexentry: eng/primordial_soup__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primordial soup
trans_list: Ursuppe
sense:
(informal, evolutionary theory) The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.


lexentry: eng/primorial__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: primorial
trans_list: Primorial | Primfakultät
sense:
(number theory) Any number belonging to the integer sequence whose nth element is the product of the first n primes.


lexentry: eng/prince-primate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prince-primate
trans_list: Fürstprimas
sense:
(Roman Catholicism, historical) An honorary title given to an especially prominent archbishop with certain secular prerogatives, in particular:


lexentry: eng/prince__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: prince
trans_list: Prinz | Königsenkel | Königssohn
sense:
A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/prince_bishop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prince bishop
trans_list: Fürstbischof | Fürsterzbischof
sense:
A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese.


lexentry: eng/prince_consort__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prince consort
trans_list: Prinzgemahl
sense:
The husband of a queen regnant who is not a king in his own right, or is accorded this title in a monarchy in which only male monarchs may bear the title "king."


lexentry: eng/prince_regent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prince regent
trans_list: Prinzregent
sense:
A prince who rules a country as a regent in place of a monarch who is unfit to rule for a particular reason.


lexentry: eng/princess__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: princess
trans_list: Prinzessin | Fürstin | Königstochter | Königsenkelin
sense:
A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/principal__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: principal
trans_list: Geschäftsherr | Prinzipal | Vollmachtgeber
sense:
(legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.


lexentry: eng/principal__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: principal
trans_list: Rektor | Schuldirektor | Schulvorsteher | Rektorin | Schulleiter | Schulleiterin
sense:
(architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.


lexentry: eng/principal_photography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: principal photography
trans_list: Dreharbeiten
sense:
(cinematography) The phase of film production during which the film is actually shot, as distinct from pre-production and post-production.


lexentry: eng/principality__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: principality
trans_list: Fürstentum
sense:
(theology, countable) A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the fifth level of angels, ranked above powers and below dominions. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/principate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: principate
trans_list: Prinzipat
sense:
(Ancient Rome) The early period of the Roman Empire, during which some characteristics of the government of the Roman Republic were retained; the reign of any particular emperor during said period.


lexentry: eng/principle_of_least_astonishment__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: principle of least astonishment
trans_list: Prinzip der geringsten Überraschung
sense:
(software, user interface, design) A principle that the design should match the user's experience, expectations, and mental models.


lexentry: eng/print__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: print
trans_list: drucken
sense:
(transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.


lexentry: eng/print__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: print
trans_list: drucken | in Druckschrift schreiben
sense:
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.


lexentry: eng/printed_circuit_board__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: printed circuit board
trans_list: Leiterplatte | Platine
sense:
(electronics) A flat board that holds chips and other electronic components in layers that interconnect via copper pathways, often called traces.


lexentry: eng/printed_matter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: printed matter
trans_list: Drucksache
sense:
Printed material produced by printers and publishers, including books, magazines, brochures, booklets, publicity material and newspapers, especially in relation to less expensive postage rates for such material.


lexentry: eng/printer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: printer
trans_list: Drucker | Druckerin
sense:
The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymy) any printing business.


lexentry: eng/printer__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: printer
trans_list: Drucker
sense:
(now chiefly, _, 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.


lexentry: eng/printing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: printing
trans_list: Druck | Drucken
sense:
(uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.


lexentry: eng/printing_form__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: printing form
trans_list: Drucktype
sense:
An object, usually in the shape of a block or a plate, used in printing to apply ink on the printed surface.


lexentry: eng/prion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prion
trans_list: Prion
sense:
(molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.


lexentry: eng/prior__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prior
trans_list: a priori
sense:
(Bayesian, _, statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.


lexentry: eng/prior__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prior
trans_list: Vorstrafe
sense:
(Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly, in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/prior_art__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prior art
trans_list: Stand der Technik
sense:
(patent law) In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality, and to which the patent application is compared to determine if it in fact describes a new invention.


lexentry: eng/prior_knowledge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prior knowledge
trans_list: Vorbildung
sense:
(criminal law) Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful.


lexentry: eng/priority_seat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: priority seat
trans_list: Behindertensitzplatz | Schwerbehindertensitzplatz
sense:
A seat on public transport reserved for use by people with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant women and others in need.


lexentry: eng/prism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prism
trans_list: Prisma
sense:
(geometry) A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same polygonal shape and size, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides.


lexentry: eng/prism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prism
trans_list: Prisma
sense:
(optics) A transparent block in the shape of a prism (sense 1), typically with triangular ends, used to reflect or refract light.


lexentry: eng/prison__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prison
trans_list: Gefängnis | Knast | Kerker | Zuchthaus
sense:
A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.


lexentry: eng/prison_guard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prison guard
trans_list: Gefängniswärter | Justizvollzugsbeamte | Schließer
sense:
(law enforcement) An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.


lexentry: eng/prisoner_of_war__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prisoner of war
trans_list: Kriegsgefangener | Kriegsgefangene
sense:
A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/privacy_policy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: privacy policy
trans_list: Datenschutzerklärung | Datenschutzrichtlinie
sense:
(legal) A statement detailing policies that an organization or party uses to collect or hide information about an end user or customer of the organization, particularly where it concerns private information.


lexentry: eng/privatdozent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: privatdozent
trans_list: Privatdozent
sense:
In some European countries, an academic who holds all formal qualifications (doctorate and habilitation) to become a tenured university professor.


lexentry: eng/private_car__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private car
trans_list: Privatauto | Privatwagen
sense:
A car that is for personal use and owned privately, as opposed to a company car or official car etc.


lexentry: eng/private_international_law__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private international law
trans_list: Internationales Privatrecht | Kollisionsrecht
sense:
The law of a state that decides the law of which state is applied to legal relationships in civil and commercial matters that contain foreign elements.


lexentry: eng/private_law__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private law
trans_list: Privatrecht
sense:
(legal) The area of law pertaining to the relationships between private persons (natural or legal persons including corporations), as opposed to relations between the state and private persons.


lexentry: eng/private_life__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private life
trans_list: Privatleben
sense:
The aspects of one's life that are personal, such as family, friends and other personal relationships, as opposed to the elements that make up one's public or professional life.


lexentry: eng/private_member's_bill__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private member's bill
trans_list: Gesetzesentwurf
sense:
(legal, British, Canadian, Australian) A proposed law introduced by a member of a legislature who is not acting on behalf of the executive government.


lexentry: eng/private_parts__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private parts
trans_list: Geschlechtsteil | Scham | Schamteil
sense:
(euphemistic) Those parts of the human body commonly expected to be covered by clothing when in public; especially, the pubic area.


lexentry: eng/private_property__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private property
trans_list: Privatbesitz | Privateigentum
sense:
(law, property law) Property to which individuals or corporations have certain exclusive property rights, but do not necessarily possess.


lexentry: eng/private_sector__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: private sector
trans_list: Privatsektor
sense:
(business) All organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.


lexentry: eng/privateer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: privateer
trans_list: Kaperschiff
sense:
(historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy merchant ships and take possession of their cargo. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/privateer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: privateer
trans_list: Freibeuter
sense:
(historical) An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship; a government-sanctioned pirate. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/privation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: privation
trans_list: Entbehrung | Einschränkung | Mangel
sense:
(philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.


lexentry: eng/privative_adjective__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: privative adjective
trans_list: privatives Adjektiv
sense:
(grammar) An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.


lexentry: eng/privilege__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: privilege
trans_list: Privileg | Vergünstigung
sense:
(countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/privilege__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: privilege
trans_list: privilegieren
sense:
(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize


lexentry: eng/privilege__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: privilege
trans_list: privilegieren
sense:
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.


lexentry: eng/prize__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prize
trans_list: Beute
sense:
(military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.


lexentry: eng/prize__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prize
trans_list: Preis
sense:
An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.


lexentry: eng/pro-choice__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: pro-choice
trans_list: Pro-Choice
sense:
Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.


lexentry: eng/pro_forma__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pro forma
trans_list: der Form halber | der Form wegen | pro forma
sense:
Occurring, undertaken, or performed as a perfunctory matter, in the interest of form, or for the sake of formality.


lexentry: eng/probability_density_function__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probability density function
trans_list: Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktion
sense:
(probability theory) Any function whose integral over a set gives the probability that a random variable has a value in that set.


lexentry: eng/probability_distribution__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probability distribution
trans_list: Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilung
sense:
(statistics) A distribution of all possible values of a random variable together with an indication of their probabilities.


lexentry: eng/probability_measure__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probability measure
trans_list: Wahrscheinlichkeitsmaß
sense:
(mathematics) A mathematical measure on a probability space that can take on values between 0 and 1, with 0 corresponding to the empty set and 1 to the entire space.


lexentry: eng/probability_theory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probability theory
trans_list: Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
sense:
(mathematics) The mathematical study of probability (the likelihood of occurrence of random events in order to predict the behavior of defined systems).


lexentry: eng/probate_court__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probate court
trans_list: Nachlassgericht
sense:
(legal) A court, sometimes called "Orphans' Court" (tribunal) whose function is to administer estates (property of a decedent) and prove wills


lexentry: eng/probation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probation
trans_list: Probezeit
sense:
A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may be removed if certain conditions are not met.


lexentry: eng/probation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: probation
trans_list: Bewährung
sense:
(legal) A type of sentence where convicted criminals are permitted to continue living in a community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions.


lexentry: eng/probation_officer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probation officer
trans_list: Bewährungshelfer
sense:
A law enforcement officer who supervises offenders who have been released from incarceration and, often, recommends sentencing in courts of law.


lexentry: eng/probative__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probative
trans_list: beweiskräftig
sense:
(legal) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.


lexentry: eng/probe__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: probe
trans_list: Sonde
sense:
(aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/probe__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: probe
trans_list: Sonde
sense:
(sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/probe__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: probe
trans_list: Sonde
sense:
(astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/probiotic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: probiotic
trans_list: Probiotikum
sense:
(bacteriology) A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt, containing live bacteria for therapeutic reasons.


lexentry: eng/problem_child__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: problem child
trans_list: Problemkind | Sorgenkind
sense:
(euphemistic) A child who is particularly difficult to raise or educate, especially due to a lack of self-control and disruptive and antisocial behavior.


lexentry: eng/problem_child__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: problem child
trans_list: Sorgenkind
sense:
(idiomatic, by extension) Someone or something persistently difficult or vexing; a frequent source of trouble or annoyance.


lexentry: eng/problematic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: problematic
trans_list: fatal | haarig | heikel | problematisch
sense:
(sociology) Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism).


lexentry: eng/proboscis_monkey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proboscis monkey
trans_list: Nasenaffe
sense:
Nasalis larvatus, a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey with an unusually large nose, endemic to Borneo.


lexentry: eng/procedural_law__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: procedural law
trans_list: Verfahrensrecht | Prozessrecht | formelles Recht
sense:
(legal) The law that comprises the rule by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil or criminal proceedings.


lexentry: eng/procedure__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: procedure
trans_list: Prozedur
sense:
(uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.


lexentry: eng/proceeding__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: proceeding
trans_list: Handlung
sense:
(always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.


lexentry: eng/process__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: process
trans_list: verdauen
sense:
(transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.


lexentry: eng/process_server__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: process server
trans_list: Gerichtsvollzieher
sense:
(law enforcement) A deliverer of processes or summonses, the formal announcements of the beginning of a legal action; a huissier de justice or other equivalent position in other legal systems.


lexentry: eng/process_worker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: process worker
trans_list: Maschinenbeaufsichtiger | Maschinenüberwacher | Prozessüberwacher
sense:
An unskilled or semiskilled worker who is responsible for running processing machinery in a factory.


lexentry: eng/processed_cheese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: processed cheese
trans_list: Schmelzkäse
sense:
Any of several types of natural cheese that are pasteurized to lengthen storage life and combined with emulsifiers to aid smoothness. In some cases processed cheeses contain added colorings and preservatives.


lexentry: eng/procession__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: procession
trans_list: Prozession | Umzug
sense:
A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.


lexentry: eng/proclaim__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: proclaim
trans_list: proklamieren
sense:
(dated, or, historical) To make [something] the subject of an official proclamation bringing it within the scope of emergency powers


lexentry: eng/proclivity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proclivity
trans_list: Vorliebe | Hang | Neigung | Schwäche
sense:
A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.


lexentry: eng/procope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: procope
trans_list: Prokope
sense:
(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Apheresis, the loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word.


lexentry: eng/procrustean_bed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: procrustean bed
trans_list: Prokrustesbett
sense:
An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.


lexentry: eng/proctor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proctor
trans_list: Klausuraufsicht
sense:
(North America, Philippines) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.


lexentry: eng/procyonid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: procyonid
trans_list: Kleinbär
sense:
(zoology) Any member of the family Procyonidae, a New World family of the order Carnivora, including the raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles.


lexentry: eng/prodigal_son__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prodigal son
trans_list: Heimkehrer | Zurückkehrer | verlorener Sohn
sense:
Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behaviour.


lexentry: eng/prodrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prodrome
trans_list: Prodrom
sense:
(medicine) An early sign or symptom (or set of signs and symptoms) warning of the onset of a disease.


lexentry: eng/produce__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: produce
trans_list: Ertrag | Obst und Gemüse
sense:
Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.


lexentry: eng/produce__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: produce
trans_list: vorlegen
sense:
(transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.


lexentry: eng/producer__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: producer
trans_list: Produzent | Produzentin | Hersteller | Herstellerin
sense:
(UK, Irish, slang) An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven (in the UK) or ten (in Ireland) days to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.


lexentry: eng/producer_good__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: producer good
trans_list: Intermediat | Zwischenprodukt
sense:
(economics) An item of goods, such as partly finished goods, used as an input in the production of other goods.


lexentry: eng/product__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: product
trans_list: Produkt
sense:
(mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.


lexentry: eng/product__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: product
trans_list: Produkt
sense:
Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.


lexentry: eng/product_placement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: product placement
trans_list: Produktplatzierung | Product-Placement | Schleichwerbung
sense:
(marketing) A form of advertising where a brand or product is incorporated into non-advertising media such as films.


lexentry: eng/productive__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: productive
trans_list: produktiv
sense:
(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.


lexentry: eng/profanity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profanity
trans_list: Gotteslästerlichkeit | Profanität | Respektlosigkeit
sense:
(uncountable) The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.


lexentry: eng/profess__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profess
trans_list: sich bekennen
sense:
(transitive, chiefly, passive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/profess__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: profess
trans_list: bekennen
sense:
(transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/profession__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profession
trans_list: Bekenntnis
sense:
The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/profession_of_faith__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profession of faith
trans_list: Glaubensbekenntnis
sense:
(religion) A creed; a (typically formulaic) statement of the beliefs of one's religion, often recited during public prayers or liturgies.


lexentry: eng/professional_wrestling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: professional wrestling
trans_list: Catchen | Wrestling
sense:
A form of sports entertainment characterized by the performance of choreographed wrestling matches with predetermined outcomes.


lexentry: eng/professionalism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: professionalism
trans_list: Professionalismus
sense:
The status, methods, character or standards expected of a professional or of a professional organization, such as reliability, discretion, evenhandedness, and fair play.


lexentry: eng/professor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: professor
sense:
(US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.

trans_list:
Professor | Professorin | Hochschullehrer | Hochschullehrerin | Professorsgattin | Hochschulprofessor


lexentry: eng/professorial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: professorial
trans_list: professoral
sense:
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.


lexentry: eng/profile__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: profile
trans_list: Benutzerprofil | Profil
sense:
(Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.


lexentry: eng/profiler__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: profiler
trans_list: Fallanalytiker | Fallanalytikerin | Profiler | Profilerin | Profilersteller | Profilerstellerin
sense:
A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.


lexentry: eng/profinite_group__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profinite group
trans_list: proendliche Gruppe
sense:
(topology, category theory) A topological group that is isomorphic to the inverse limit of some inverse system of discrete finite groups; equivalently, a topological group that is also a Stone space.


lexentry: eng/profit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profit
trans_list: Gewinn
sense:
(accounting, economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.


lexentry: eng/profit_warning__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profit warning
trans_list: Gewinnwarnung
sense:
(stock market) An announcement by a company to its shareholders and other investors that its profits are likely to be less than expected.


lexentry: eng/profiteering__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: profiteering
trans_list: Geschäftemacherei | Wucherei
sense:
The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically or opportunistically.


lexentry: eng/profound__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: profound
trans_list: tiefgehend
sense:
Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough


lexentry: eng/progeria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: progeria
trans_list: Progerie
sense:
(pathology) An extremely rare genetic condition wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at an early age.


lexentry: eng/progesterone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: progesterone
trans_list: Progesteron
sense:
(steroid hormone, uncountable) A steroid hormone, secreted by the ovaries, whose function is to prepare the uterus for the implantation of a fertilized ovum and to maintain pregnancy.


lexentry: eng/prognosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prognosis
trans_list: Prognose | Vorhersage
sense:
A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on what is presently known; a prediction. [from mid 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/prognosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prognosis
trans_list: Prognose
sense:
(medicine) A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge. [from mid 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/prograde__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prograde
trans_list: prograd | rechtläufig
sense:
(astronomy) Moving in a forward direction, especially with respect to other bodies in the same system.


lexentry: eng/program__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: program
trans_list: Programm
sense:
(politics) A set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate.


lexentry: eng/program__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: program
trans_list: Programm
sense:
(computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.


lexentry: eng/program__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: program
trans_list: programmieren
sense:
(transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.


lexentry: eng/program_music__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: program music
trans_list: Programmmusik
sense:
(music) A form of art music, generally without vocal parts, that attempts to convey a scene, image, or mood.


lexentry: eng/program_trading__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: program trading
trans_list: Hochfrequenzhandel
sense:
(business, finance, computing) High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by brokerage firms' computer programs that continually monitor market conditions.


lexentry: eng/programmable_logic_controller__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: programmable logic controller
trans_list: Speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung
sense:
A programmable electronic device used in industrial automation to provide logic and sequencing controls for machinery.


lexentry: eng/programming_language__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: programming language
trans_list: Programmiersprache
sense:
(programming) A code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain computing tasks.


lexentry: eng/progress_bar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: progress bar
trans_list: Fortschrittsanzeige | Fortschrittsbalken | Ladebalken | Statusbalken
sense:
(graphical user interface) A bar that indicates the progression of a task by gradually filling its empty space with solid colour.


lexentry: eng/project__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: project
trans_list: ausstrahlen | darstellen | präsentieren
sense:
(transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.


lexentry: eng/project_management__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: project management
trans_list: Projektmanagement
sense:
(operations) The discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that a project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.


lexentry: eng/projectile_vomit__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: projectile vomit
trans_list: strahlkotzen
sense:
To vomit with great expulsive force, so that the material expelled is projected away from the source.


lexentry: eng/projection__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: projection
trans_list: Projektion
sense:
The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.


lexentry: eng/projection__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: projection
trans_list: Projektion
sense:
(psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own. This includes making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.


lexentry: eng/projection__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: projection
trans_list: Projektion | Kartenprojektion
sense:
(cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.


lexentry: eng/projection__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: projection
trans_list: Projektion | Projektor
sense:
(linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.


lexentry: eng/projectionist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: projectionist
trans_list: Filmvorführer | Filmvorführerin
sense:
A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation at a movie theatre or drive-in theatre.


lexentry: eng/projective_variety__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: projective variety
trans_list: projektive Varietät
sense:
(algebraic geometry) A Zariski closed subvariety of a projective space; the zero-locus of a set of homogeneous polynomials that generates a prime ideal.


lexentry: eng/projector__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: projector
trans_list: Projektor
sense:
An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/prokaryote__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prokaryote
trans_list: Prokaryot
sense:
An organism whose cell (or cells) are characterized by the absence of a nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles.


lexentry: eng/prolactin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prolactin
trans_list: Prolaktin
sense:
(hormone) A peptide gonadotrophic hormone secreted by the pituitary gland; it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation in females.


lexentry: eng/prolative_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prolative case
trans_list: Prolativ
sense:
(grammar) A declension, in some languages, of a noun or pronoun that has the basic meaning of "by way of".


lexentry: eng/prolegomenon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prolegomenon
trans_list: Prolegomenon
sense:
(usually, in the plural) A prefatory discussion; a formal essay or critical discussion serving to introduce and interpret an extended work.


lexentry: eng/prolepsis__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prolepsis
trans_list: Prolepse | Prolepsis
sense:
(grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.


lexentry: eng/proletariat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proletariat
trans_list: Proletariat
sense:
(often, derogatory, also, figuratively) The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.


lexentry: eng/proletariat__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: proletariat
trans_list: Proletariat
sense:
(Marxism) Wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie.


lexentry: eng/proletariat__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: proletariat
trans_list: Proletariat
sense:
(chiefly, Ancient Rome, historical) The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.


lexentry: eng/proliferation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proliferation
trans_list: Vermehrung | Knospung | Sprossung
sense:
(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.


lexentry: eng/proliferation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: proliferation
trans_list: Vergrößerung | Verstärkung | Wucherung | Zunahme
sense:
(countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.


lexentry: eng/proliferation__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: proliferation
trans_list: Proliferation | Verbreitung
sense:
(uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.


lexentry: eng/prolific__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prolific
trans_list: fruchtbar
sense:
Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.


lexentry: eng/proline__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proline
trans_list: Prolin
sense:
(amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C5H9NO2 found in most animal proteins, especially collagen; its cyclic structure leads to kinks in the peptide chain of proteins.


lexentry: eng/prom__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prom
trans_list: Abiball | Abschlussball | Ball | Prom | Promenade
sense:
(US) A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g,. near the end of the academic year.


lexentry: eng/promenade__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: promenade
trans_list: Promenade
sense:
A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.


lexentry: eng/prominence__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: prominence
trans_list: Protuberanz
sense:
(astronomy) A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.


lexentry: eng/promise__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: promise
trans_list: Versprechen
sense:
(countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.


lexentry: eng/promise__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: promise
trans_list: versprechen | zusagen
sense:
(ambitransitive) To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.


lexentry: eng/promissory_note__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: promissory note
trans_list: Eigenwechsel | Solawechsel
sense:
(finance) A document saying that someone owes a specific amount of money to someone else, often with the deadline and interest fees; the primary purposes of a promissory note are to evidence the debt obligation incurred, and to establish terms for payment thereof.


lexentry: eng/promote__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: promote
trans_list: umwandeln
sense:
(transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.


lexentry: eng/prompt__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prompt
trans_list: Eingabeaufforderung
sense:
(computing) A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.


lexentry: eng/prompt__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prompt
trans_list: vorsagen | anleiten | anstacheln | antreiben | veranlassen | vormachen
sense:
(transitive, theater, and, television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.


lexentry: eng/prompter's_box__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prompter's box
trans_list: Souffleurkasten
sense:
The raised box in the apron of a stage, opening towards the actors. The prompter sits inside with the prompter's book, ready to give cues for missed or forgotten lines.


lexentry: eng/prone__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prone
trans_list: in Bauchlage
sense:
Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.


lexentry: eng/pronoia__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: pronoia
trans_list: Pronoia
sense:
(historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land, fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of military service.


lexentry: eng/pronominal_adverb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pronominal adverb
trans_list: Pronominaladverb
sense:
(grammar) An adverb which contains a pronominal element; generally such an adverb replaces a phrase of preposition + pronoun.


lexentry: eng/pronominal_verb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pronominal verb
trans_list: Pronominalverb | Pronominalverbum | pronominales Verb
sense:
(linguistics, grammar) A form of verb that has an attached pronoun in some languages (e.g. French, Spanish).


lexentry: eng/pronoun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pronoun
trans_list: Pronomen | Fürwort | Personenwort | Pronom | Personwort
sense:
(grammar) A type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.


lexentry: eng/pronunciation_spelling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: pronunciation spelling
trans_list: aussprachegetreue Schreibung
sense:
(countable, uncountable) Spelling intended to represent a pronunciation, which may or may not be the standard spelling of the word.


lexentry: eng/proof__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proof
trans_list: Beweis
sense:
(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.


lexentry: eng/proof__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: proof
trans_list: polierte Platte
sense:
(numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.


lexentry: eng/proof__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: proof
trans_list: Beweis
sense:
(countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.


lexentry: eng/proof_by_contradiction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proof by contradiction
trans_list: Beweis durch Widerspruch | Widerspruchsbeweis
sense:
(mathematics, logic) Proof of a statement adduced by deriving a contradiction from the statement's negation.


lexentry: eng/proofing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proofing
trans_list: Stückgare
sense:
A step in creating yeast breads and baked goods, during which the yeast is allowed to leaven the dough.


lexentry: eng/proofread__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proofread
trans_list: Korrektur lesen
sense:
(transitive, and, intransitive) To check a written text for errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation.


lexentry: eng/prop__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prop
trans_list: Requisit | Accessoire | Ausstattung | Requisite
sense:
(theater, film) An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.


lexentry: eng/propaganda__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propaganda
trans_list: Propaganda
sense:
(as a neutral word, _, dated) Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.


lexentry: eng/propaganda_of_the_deed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propaganda of the deed
trans_list: Propaganda der Tat
sense:
A politically motivated act of violence, meant to broadcast an ideological message and serve as catalyst to ignite a spirit of socialist revolution among the proletariat against perceived oppressors.


lexentry: eng/propagate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: propagate
trans_list: verbreiten
sense:
(transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.


lexentry: eng/propagate__Verb__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: propagate
trans_list: sich vermehren
sense:
(biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.


lexentry: eng/propagule__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propagule
trans_list: Brutknospe | Brutkörper | Brutorgan
sense:
(biology) A reproductive particle released by an organism in order to propagate itself, by means such as dispersal or infection, to the next stage in its life cycle.


lexentry: eng/propel__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propel
trans_list: antreiben
sense:
(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or physical action; to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive forward.


lexentry: eng/propellant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propellant
trans_list: Brennstoff
sense:
fuel, oxidizer, reaction mass or mixture for one or more engines (especially internal combustion engines or jet engines) that is carried within a vehicle prior to use


lexentry: eng/propeller__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: propeller
trans_list: Schraube | Propeller | Luftschraube | Schiffschraube
sense:
A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.


lexentry: eng/propeller_shaft__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: propeller shaft
trans_list: Gelenkwelle
sense:
(automotive) the shaft which connects the gearbox to the differential on the axle of a rear-wheel-drive or four-wheel-drive vehicle.


lexentry: eng/proper__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: proper
trans_list: Eigenname
sense:
(grammar) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter. [14th c.]


lexentry: eng/proper_noun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proper noun
trans_list: Eigenname | Nomen proprium
sense:
(grammar) A word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.


lexentry: eng/property_rights__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: property rights
trans_list: Eigentumsrecht
sense:
(legal) The exclusive rights pertaining to the ownership and possession of a given piece of property.


lexentry: eng/property_tax__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: property tax
trans_list: Grundsteuer
sense:
A tax, usually ad valorem, charged on the basis of the fair market value of property. The scope of taxable property varies by jurisdiction and it may include personal property in addition to real estate.


lexentry: eng/propfan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propfan
trans_list: Propellergebläse | Propfan
sense:
(aviation) A modified turbofan jet engine with the propeller outside the engine duct of an aircraft.


lexentry: eng/propitiation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propitiation
trans_list: büßen
sense:
The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but also involving the appeasement of anger.


lexentry: eng/propolis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propolis
trans_list: Propolis
sense:
An aromatic glue-like substance produced by honeybees from tree resin, waxes, and their own secretions, used in the construction of their hives.


lexentry: eng/proportional__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proportional
trans_list: proportional
sense:
(mathematics) At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first. Symbol: ∝.


lexentry: eng/proportional_representation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proportional representation
trans_list: Proporzwahl | Verhältniswahl
sense:
A voting principle aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (usually political parties) obtain in elections, and the percentage of seats they receive in the elected body.


lexentry: eng/proposal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proposal
trans_list: Heiratsantrag
sense:
(legal) The offer by a party of what they have in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.


lexentry: eng/propositional_logic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propositional logic
trans_list: Aussagenlogik
sense:
(logic) A formal deductive system in which formulae representing propositions can be formed by combining atomic propositions using logical connectives.


lexentry: eng/propranolol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propranolol
trans_list: Propranolol
sense:
(pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic compound which acts as a beta blocker and is used mainly in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia.


lexentry: eng/proprietary__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: proprietary
trans_list: geschützt | proprietär
sense:
Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.


lexentry: eng/propriety__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: propriety
trans_list: Anstand | Anständigkeit | Form | Redlichkeit | Schicklichkeit | Tugendhaftigkeit
sense:
(often, in the plural) Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/propulsion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propulsion
trans_list: Antrieb
sense:
The process of propelling, driving, or pushing, typically forward or onward; a propulsive force or impulse.


lexentry: eng/propylene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: propylene
trans_list: Propylen
sense:
(organic compound) The organic chemical compound propene. An alkene which is a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C3H6.


lexentry: eng/prorogue__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prorogue
trans_list: vertagen
sense:
(transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/prosaic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: prosaic
trans_list: prosaisch
sense:
(main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.


lexentry: eng/proscenium__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: proscenium
trans_list: Bühnenfassade
sense:
(in an ancient, _, theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.


lexentry: eng/prosecution__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: prosecution
trans_list: Strafverfolgungsbehörde | verfolgende Behörde
sense:
(legal) In many countries, a legal body and institution, usually part of the state apparatus, empowered to perform prosecution. Prosecutor's Office. See Prosecutor.


lexentry: eng/prosecutor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prosecutor
trans_list: Staatsanwalt | Staatsanwältin | Anklägerin | Ankläger | Amtsanwalt
sense:
(law) a person, as a complainant, victim, or chief witness, who institutes prosecution in a criminal proceeding.


lexentry: eng/proselytize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: proselytize
trans_list: bekehren | missionieren | seinen Glauben predigen | seinen Glauben verkünden
sense:
(ambitransitive, broadly) To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.


lexentry: eng/proselytize__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: proselytize
trans_list: (als) (Anhänger) gewinnen | bekehren | für seine Sache gewinnen | überzeugen
sense:
(by extension, ambitransitive) To advertise a non-religious belief, way of living, cause, point of view, (scientific) hypothesis, social or other position, political party, or other organization; to convince someone to join such a cause or organization or support such a position; to recruit someone.


lexentry: eng/prosimian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prosimian
trans_list: Halbaffen
sense:
A primate that is not a monkey or an ape, generally nocturnal with large eyes and ears. Such primates were formerly grouped in the suborder Prosimii, but are now considered a paraphyletic group and not a clade.


lexentry: eng/prosopagnosia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prosopagnosia
trans_list: Prosopagnosie
sense:
(neurology, pathology, psychology) A form of visual agnosia characterized by difficulty with face recognition despite intact low-level visual processing.


lexentry: eng/prosopopoeia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prosopopoeia
trans_list: die Verkörperung, die Personifizierung
sense:
(rhetoric) An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this.


lexentry: eng/prospectus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prospectus
trans_list: Prospekt
sense:
A document, distributed to prospective members, investors, buyers, or participants, which describes an institution (such as a university), a publication, or a business and what it has to offer.


lexentry: eng/prosper__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prosper
trans_list: florieren | gedeihen | prosperieren
sense:
(intransitive) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.


lexentry: eng/prostaglandin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prostaglandin
trans_list: Prostaglandin
sense:
(biochemistry) Any of a group of naturally occurring lipids derived from the C20 acid prostanoic acid; they have a number of physiological functions and may be considered to be hormones.


lexentry: eng/prostate_gland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prostate gland
trans_list: Vorsteherdrüse
sense:
(anatomy) A gland in male mammals surrounding the urethra just below the urinary bladder that controls the release of urine from the bladder and produces a secretion that is the fluid part of semen.


lexentry: eng/prosthodontics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prosthodontics
trans_list: Zahnersatz
sense:
Prosthetic dentistry: a specialty of dentistry concerned with the restoration or replacement of damaged or missing teeth or portions thereof.


lexentry: eng/prostitute__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prostitute
trans_list: Prostituierte | Dirne | Hure | Freudenmädchen | Nutte | Buhldirne
sense:
A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/prostitute__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: prostitute
trans_list: prostituieren | anschaffen
sense:
(transitive, reflexive) To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/prostitute__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: prostitute
trans_list: prostituieren
sense:
(transitive, derogatory) To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.


lexentry: eng/protagonist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: protagonist
trans_list: Protagonist | Held | Hauptfigur | Protagonistin
sense:
(authorship) The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.


lexentry: eng/protecting_group__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: protecting group
trans_list: Schutzgruppe
sense:
(organic chemistry) Any chemical entity that is temporarily reacted with a functional group so as to protect it from a subsequent reaction


lexentry: eng/protection_money__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: protection money
trans_list: Schutzgeld
sense:
Money paid, especially at regular intervals, to criminals or to corrupt officials who threaten to cause harm to the payer or to his or her business if the money is not paid.


lexentry: eng/protection_racket__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: protection racket
trans_list: Schutzgelderpressung
sense:
(crime) A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property.


