German definition

German





Home | Index


We love those sites:

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.]
     Of or pertaining to Germany.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}.
  


     {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical
        pod and a scew point.
  
     {German carp} (Zool.), the crucian carp.
  
     {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica},
        var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food.
  
     {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds.
  
     {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore
        in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary.
        --Raymond.
  
     {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract.
        
  
     {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly
        cooked.
  
     {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and
        tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in
        the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying
        proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag
        at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to
        make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical
        with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much
        used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings
        of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other
        white alloys.
  
     {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a
        forge, with charcoal for fuel.
  
     {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German
        type, used in English printing for ornamental headings,
        etc., as in the words,
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: This line is German Text.
  
     {German tinder}. See {Amadou}.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  German \Ger"man\, a. [OE. german, germain, F. germain, fr. L.
     germanus full, own (said of brothers and sisters who have the
     same parents); akin to germen germ. Cf. {Germ}, {Germane}.]
     Nearly related; closely akin.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion.
                                                    --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Brother german}. See {Brother german}.
  
     {Cousins german}. See the Note under {Cousin}.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. {Germans}[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis
     origin.]
     1. A native or one of the people of Germany.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The German language.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3.
        (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding
            in capriciosly involved figures.
        (b) A social party at which the german is danced.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     {High German}, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern
        Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th
        to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the
        15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of
        Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature.
        The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern
        literary language, are often called Middle German, and the
        Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is
        also used to cover both groups.
  
     {Low German}, the language of Northern Germany and the
        Netherlands, -- including {Friesic}; {Anglo-Saxon} or
        {Saxon}; {Old Saxon}; {Dutch} or {Low Dutch}, with its
        dialect, {Flemish}; and {Plattdeutsch} (called also {Low
        German}), spoken in many dialects.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  German
       adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Germany or its
              people or language; "German philosophers"; "German
              universities"; "German literature"
       2: of a more or less German nature; somewhat German; "Germanic
          peoples"; "his Germanic nature"; "formidable volumes
          Teutonic in their thoroughness" [syn: {Germanic}, {Teutonic}]
       n 1: a person of German nationality
       2: the standard German language; developed historically from
          West Germanic [syn: {High German}, {German language}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  German
       
           \j*r'mn\ A human language written (in latin
          alphabet) and spoken in Germany, Austria and parts of
          Switzerland.
       
          German writing normally uses four non-{ASCII} characters:
          "aouß", the first three have "umlauts" (two dots over the
          top): A O and U and the last is a double-S ("scharfes S")
          which looks like the Greek letter beta (except in capitalised
          words where it should be written "SS").  These can be written
          in ASCII in several ways, the most common are ae, oe ue AE OE
          UE ss or sz and the {TeX} versions "a "o "u "A "O "U "s.
       
          See also {ABEND}, {blinkenlights}, {DAU}, {DIN}, {gedanken},
          {GMD}, {kluge}.
       
          {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:soc.culture.german}.
          {(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faq)},
          {(ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.Z)}.
       
          (1995-03-31)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  GERMAN, relations, germanus. Whole or entire, as respects genealogy or 
  descent; thus, "brother-german," denotes one who is brother both by the 
  father and mother's side cousins-germane" those in the first and nearest 
  degree, i. e., children of brothers or sisters. Tech. Dict.; 4 M. & C. 56. 
  
  

















Powered by Blog Dictionary [BlogDict]
Kindly supported by Vaffle Invitation Code Get a Freelance Job - Outsource Your Projects | Threadless Coupon
All rights reserved. (2008-2024)