Englisch > Deutsch | |
mother | |
1. Substantiv: | |
2. [1] weiblicher Elternteil: Mutter | |
[1] My mother is sixty years old. | |
Meine Mutter ist sechzig Jahre alt. | |
Englisch > Englisch | |
mother | |
1. subst. A (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant fema | |
I am visiting my mother(a) today. — My sister-in-law has just become a mother.(b) — Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother(c) are conveyed to the fetus. | |
2. subst. A female parent of an animal. | |
The lioness was a mother of four cubs. | |
3. subst. (figuratively) A female ancestor. | |
4. subst. (figuratively) A source or origin. | |
The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages. | |
5. subst. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all). | |
6. subst. (when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law. | |
Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones. | |
7. subst. (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community. | |
8. subst. (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering. | |
9. subst. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. | |
10. subst. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc. | |
11. subst. (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria. | |
12. v. (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) | |
13. v. To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture. | |
14. subst. A stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid | |
pieces of mother, adding mother to vinegar | |
15. v. To cause to contain mother, , that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar. | |
mothered oil / vinegar / wine | |
16. v. (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother. | |
17. subst. (euphemistic, coarse, slang) Motherfucker. | |
18. subst. (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. | |
19. subst. alternative form of moth-er | |
Deutsch > Englisch | |
Mutter | |
1. subst. mother | |
2. Proper noun. Mother; Mum; Mom: one's mother | |
3. n-f. nut (for a bolt) | |