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Englisch > Deutsch
well
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] bei guter Gesundheit
3. Adverb:
4. [1] gut
[1] Well played!
Gut gespielt!
5. Substantiv:
6. [1] Quelle
7. [2] Brunnen
8. [3] Aufzugsschacht
9. [4] Senke, Kuhle, Mulde
10. [5] übertragen: Quelle, Ursprung, Quell
11. [6] Lichtschacht
12. [7] Treppenhaus
13. [8] Gericht: Bereich im Gerichtssaal wo der Anwälte sitzen
14. [9] Physik: Feld
15. [10] Seefahrt: Pumpenraum
16. [11] Seefahrt: Stauraum, Laderaum
17. [12] Behälter für eine Flüssigkeit, Flüssigkeitsbehälter
18. [13] Radkasten
19. [14] Erdschacht, Schacht
Englisch > Englisch
well
1. adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
He does his job well.
2. adv. (manner) Completely, fully.
a well done steak
We’re well beat now.
3. adv. (degree) To a significant degree.
That author is well known.
4. adv. (degree, British, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
5. adv. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
6. adj. In good health.
I had been sick, but now I'm well.
7. adj. (hypercorrect) Good, content.
“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
8. adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
9. interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
“The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.”
“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”
“I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we're sleeping under the stars tonight.”
10. interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
11. interj. An exclamation of indignance.
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
12. interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
It was a bit... well... too loud.
13. interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
“So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.”
14. interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
Well lads. How's things?
15. subst. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
16. subst. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
17. subst. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
18. subst. (figurative) A source of supply.
19. subst. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
20. subst. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
21. subst. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported
22. subst. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
23. subst. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
24. subst. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
25. subst. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
26. subst. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
27. subst. A well drink.
They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
28. subst. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
29. subst. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
30. v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
31. v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.
Her eyes welled with tears.
Deutsch > Englisch
Brunnen
1. n-m. well