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English Wörter


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This set of flashcards helps university-level students learn English. It focuses on expanding vocabulary with words like "fundamental," "facilitate," and "external," while also covering related terms and usage examples. The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to study from the target language to the source language. Ideal for advanced learners, this flashcard set aids in improving fluency and understanding complex concepts.
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physical

Physisch

Related to physical:

according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter); involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit; relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy

1. bodily

2. physiological

3. corporeal

4. personal

5. natural

6. somatic

7. physiologic

8. fleshly

9. carnal

10. forceful

11. sensual

12. tangible

13. touchable

14. forcible

15. energetic

16. active

17. animal

18. material

19. corporal

20. strong-arm

proportion

Anteil

Related to proportion:

harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); magnitude or extent; the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole

1. proportionality

2. balance

3. symmetry

4. dimension

publish

veröffentlichen

Related to publish:

prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; have (one's written work) issued for publication; put into print

1. write

2. release

3. print

4. issue

5. put out

6. bring out

react

reagieren

Related to react:

act against or in opposition to; undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; show a response or a reaction to something

1. respond

2. oppose

register

anmelden, registrieren

Related to register:

a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device; an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room

1. registry

2. read

3. file

4. record

5. show

6. cash register

7. cross-file

rely

sich verlassen

Related to rely:

have confidence or faith in

1. trust

2. swear

3. bank

 

remove

entfernen

Related to remove:

 shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; remove from a position or an office; get rid of something abstract; remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing

1. take

2. transfer

3. absent

4. get rid of

5. slay

6. dispatch

7. hit

8. take away

9. move out

10. murder

11. take out

12. bump off

13. polish off

scheme

Schema

Related to scheme:

an elaborate and systematic plan of action; an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world; 

1. strategy

2. connive

3. Dodge

4. dodging

5. intrigue

sequence

Sequenz

Related to sequence:

ilm consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie; a following of one thing after another in time; several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys; 

1. chronological sequence

2. episode

3. succession

4. chronological succession

5. successiveness

sex

Geschlecht, Sex

Related to sex:

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; either of the two categories (male or female) 

1. sexuality

2. gender

3. sexual activity

4. arouse

5. wind up

6. turn on

7. excite

8. sex activity

9. sexual urge

shift

Verschiebung, Schicht

Related to shift:

the act of moving from one place to another; an event in which something is displaced without rotation; a group of workers who work for a specific period of time; the time period during which you are at work;

1. change

2. switch

3. switching

4. transformation

5. tilt

6. lurch

7. reposition

8. slip

9. transfer

10. wobble

11. sway

12. displacement

13. budge

14. careen

15. transmutation

16. dislodge

17. agitate

18. stir

19. pitch

20. sack

21. shimmy

22. change over

23. duty period

24. work shift

25. chemise

26. teddies

27. teddy

28. turn around

specify

angeben

Related to specify:

determine the essential quality of; decide upon or fix definitely; be specific about; select something or someone for a specific purpose; design or destine; 

1. stipulate

2. determine

3. define

4. assign

5. designate

6. particularize

7. delimit

8. intend

9. delineate

10. qualify

11. fix

12. specialize

13. set

14. condition

15. narrow

16. destine

17. delimitate

18. nail down

19. narrow down

20. peg down

21. pin down

22. set apart

sufficient

ausreichend

Related to sufficient:

of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant

1. adequate

2. enough

3. decent

4. spare

5. comfortable

task

Aufgabe

Related to task:

a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

1. chore

2. undertaking

3. job

4. project

5. labor

6. tax

technical

technisch

Related to technical:

a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it; (basketball) a foul that that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play

1. technological

2. specialized

3. theoretical

4. commercial

5. abstract

technique

Technik

Related to technique:

a practical method or art applied to some particular task; skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

1. proficiency

2. facility

technology

Technologie

the practical application of science to commerce or industry; the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems

1. engineering

2. applied science

3. engineering science

valid

gültig

Related to valid:

well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; still legally acceptable;

1. legitimate

2. validated

3. logical

4. unexpired

5. reasoned

6. binding

7. legal

8. sound

9. well-grounded

volume

Volumen

Related to volume:

he magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object; a relative amount;

1. intensity

2. loudness

3. mass

4. bulk

5. book

access

Zugriff

Related to access:

the act of approaching or entering; a way of entering or leaving; (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information; the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something

1. admittance

2. entree

3. approach

4. get at

5. memory access

adequate

angenessene

Related to adequate:

about average; acceptable; enough to meet a purpose; (sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task

AdjectivesNounsAdverbsVerbs
1. sufficient

2. satisfactory

3. enough

4. decent

5. competent

6. passable

7. capable

8. up to

9. adequate to

10. equal to

11. fair to middling

annual

Jährlich

Related to annual:

a reference book that is published regularly once every year; a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year; occurring or payable every year; completing its life cycle within a year

1. yearly

2. yearbook

3. one-year

apparent

ersichtlich

Related to apparent:

clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; readily apparent to the eye

1. obvious

2. evident

3. seeming

4. ostensible

5. visible

6. manifest

7. superficial

8. plain

9. seeable

10. patent

approximate

Ungefähr

Related to approximate:

located close together; very close in resemblance; not quite exact or correct

1. estimate

2. inexact

3. gauge

4. guess

5. close

6. near

7. rough

8. approximative

9. close together

10. come close

11. judge

attitude

Haltung

Related to attitude:

a theatrical pose created for effect; a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference

1. posture

2. mental attitude

3. position

attribute

Attribut, Eigenschaft

Related to attribute:

an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity; a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; attribute or credit to

1. ascribe

2. impute

3. assign

4. dimension

5. property

civil

bürgerlich, höflich

Related to civil:

applying to ordinary citizens; of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state; of or in a condition of social order; not rude

1. civilian

2. civilized

3. civic

4. polite

code

Code, Schlüssel

Related to code:

a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy; (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions;

1. cipher

2. codification

3. cypher

4. encode

5. encrypt

6. inscribe

7. computer code

8. encipher

9. write in code

commit

verpflichten

Related to commit:

cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; make an investment; give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; confer a trust upon

1. perpetrate

2. devote

3. Invest

4. dedicate

5. give

6. entrust

7. charge

8. send

9. pull

10. institutionalize

11. confide

12. put

13. trust

14. place

15. intrust

communicate

kommunizieren

Related to communicate:

transmit thoughts or feelings; transmit information; administer communion; in church; be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; join or connect; receive Communion, in the Catholic church

1. convey

2. transmit

3. intercommunicate

4. commune

5. pass

6. pass on

7. put across

concentrate

konzentrieren

Related to concentrate:

a concentrated example; a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water; the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore

1. focus

2. centralize

3. condense

4. reduce

5. pore

6. contract

7. center

8. rivet

9. boil down

10. decoct

11. dressed ore

12. centre

confer

verleihen

Related to confer:

present; have a conference in order to talk something over

1. bestow

2. consult

3. confabulate

4. see

5. confab

6. cf

7. see also

contrast

Kontrast

Related to contrast:

the act of distinguishing by comparing differences; the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)

1. counterpoint

2. demarcation

3. line

4. direct contrast

5. dividing line

cycle

Zyklus

Related to cycle:

a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; a periodically repeated sequence of events; a series of poems or songs on the same theme; an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs

1. pedal

2. bike

3. hertz

4. bicycle

5. motorcycle

6. wheel

7. rhythm

8. Hz

9. round

10. cps

11. cycle per second

12. cycles/second

debate

Debatte

Related to debate:

the formal presentation of and opposition to a stated proposition (usually followed by a vote); a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal;

1. argument

2. disputation

3. argue

4. moot

5. consider

6. deliberate

7. turn over

8. fence

9. contend

10. public debate

despite

Trotz

Related to despite:

contemptuous disregard; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

 

dimension

Dimension

Related to dimension:

he magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height); one of three cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space; magnitude or extent

1. attribute

2. proportion

3. property

domestic

inländisch

Related to domestic:

converted or adapted to domestic use; of or relating to the home; produced in a particular country; of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; of or involving the home or family

1. National

2. household

3. internal

4. tame

5. home

6. housewifely

7. municipal

8. domesticated

9. interior

10. husbandly

11. tamed

12. native

13. domestic help

14. home-loving

15. house servant

emerge

entstehen

Related to emerge:

come out into view, as from concealment; become known or apparent; come up to the surface of or rise; happen or occur as a result of something; come out of

1. come forth

2. come out

3. issue

error

Fehler

Related to error:

(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed; departure from what is ethically acceptable; a misconception resulting from incorrect information;

1. mistake

2. misplay

3. fault

4. wrongdoing

5. erroneous belief

6. erroneousness

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