| Q {letter}
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:: The seventeenth letter of the German alphabet
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| Qigong {n}
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:: qigong (Chinese healing practice)
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| qkm {m}
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:: abbreviation of Quadratkilometer: km²
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| qm {noun}
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:: abbreviation of Quadratmeter [i.e. m²]
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| qua {prep} [formal]
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:: by
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| quabbelig {adj}
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:: wobbly, flabby
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| Quacksalber {m} [medicine]
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:: quack, quacksalver (unqualified healer or incompetent doctor; male or unspecified sex)
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| Quacksalberei {f}
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:: quackery
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| Quaddel {f}
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:: hives, welt
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| Quader {m} [geometry]
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:: rectangular cuboid
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| quaderförmig {adj}
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:: cuboid
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| Quadrant {m}
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:: quadrant (region of the Cartesian plane)
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| Quadrant {m}
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:: quadrant (measuring device)
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| Quadrat {n}
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:: square
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| quadratförmig {adj}
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:: square (in shape)
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| Quadratfuß {m}
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:: square foot
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| quadratisch {adj}
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:: quadratic, square
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| Quadratkilometer {m}
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:: square kilometer
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| Quadratmeile {f}
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:: square mile
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| Quadratmeter {m} {n}
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:: square metre
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| Quadratur {f} [mathematics]
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:: quadrature
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| Quadratur des Kreises {f}
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:: squaring the circle
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| Quadratwurzel {f}
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:: square root
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| Quadratzentimeter {m}
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:: square centimeter
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| quadrieren {v}
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:: to square
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| Quadriga {f}
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:: quadriga
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| Quadrilliarde {num}
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:: 1027, a short scale octillion
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| Quadrillion {num}
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:: A long scale quadrillion, 1024; a short scale septillion
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| quadrillionste {ordinal num}
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:: septillionth
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| quaken {v} [ducks]
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:: to quack
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| quaken {v} [frogs]
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:: to croak
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| quäken {v}
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:: to squeak
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| Quäker {m}
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:: Quaker
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| Qual {f}
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:: agony, torment, torture (that one suffers)
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| quälen {v}
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:: to torture, torment, agonize
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| quälen {vr}
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:: to toil, struggle
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| Qualifikation {f}
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:: qualification
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| qualifizieren {vt} [to make someone competent or eligible]
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:: to qualify
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| qualifizieren {vr} [to become competent or eligible]
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:: to qualify
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| qualifizierte Mehrheit {f}
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:: qualified majority
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| Qualifizierung {f}
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:: qualification
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| Qualität {f}
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:: quality (level of excellence, level of being free from defects)
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| qualitativ {adj}
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:: qualitative
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| Qualitätsanforderung {f} [business, quality]
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:: quality requirement
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| qualitätsbewusst {adj}
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:: quality-conscious
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| Qualitätswein {m}
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:: Qualitätswein (A category within the German and Austrian official systems of wine classification)
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| Qualle {f}
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:: jellyfish
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| Qualm {m}
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:: smoke, particularly when very dense or regarded as unpleasant; fume
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| qualmen {v}
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:: to fume
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| qualmen {v} [colloquial, tobacco]
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:: to smoke
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| qualvoll {adj}
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:: excruciating, agonizing
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| Quant {n}
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:: quantum (indivisible unit of a given quantity)
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| Quäntchen {n}
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:: a small amount, scrap
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| Quantenchemie {f} [chemistry]
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:: quantum chemistry
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| Quantencomputer {m} [computer]
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:: quantum computer
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| Quanteneigenschaft {f} [physics]
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:: quantum property
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| Quantenelektrodynamik {f} [physics]
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:: quantum electrodynamics
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| Quantenfeldtheorie {f}
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:: quantum field theory, QFT
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| Quantenfluktuation {f} [physics]
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:: quantum fluctuation
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| Quantenmechanik {f} [physics]
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:: quantum mechanics
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| quantenmechanisch {adj} [physics]
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:: quantum mechanical
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| Quantenoptik {f} [physics]
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:: quantum optics
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| Quantenphysik {f} [physics]
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:: quantum physics, quantum mechanics
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| quantenphysikalisch {adj}
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:: quantum physics (attributive), quantum mechanical
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| Quantenpunkt {m}
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:: quantum dot
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| Quantensprung {m} [physics]
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:: quantum leap
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| quantentheoretisch {adj}
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:: quantum theory (attributive)
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| Quantentheorie {f}
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:: quantum theory
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| Quantenzahl {f} [physics]
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:: quantum number
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| quantifizierbar {adj}
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:: quantifiable
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| Quantifizierung {f}
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:: quantification
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| Quantil {n} [statistics]
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:: quantile
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| quantisieren {v}
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:: to quantize
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| Quantisierung {f}
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:: quantization
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| Quantität {f}
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:: quantity
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| Quantität {f} [grammar]
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:: quantity of syllabes (being long or short)
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| quantitativ {adj}
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:: quantitative
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| Quantum {n}
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:: quantum
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| Quappe {f}
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:: burbot, Lota lota
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| Quarantäne {f}
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:: quarantine
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| quarantänisieren {vt}
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:: to quarantine (put someone or something under quarantine)
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| Quark {m}
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:: quark (kind of cheese or cream)
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| Quark {m} [colloquial]
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:: nonsense; rubbish; baloney
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| Quark {n}
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:: a quark (particle)
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| Quarkonium {n}
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:: quarkonium
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| quarren {v}
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:: to utter a jerky rough sound
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| Quarta {f} [obsolete]
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:: the third class of Gymnasium
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| Quarta {f} [Austria, dated]
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:: the fourth class of Gymnasium
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| Quartal {n}
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:: a quarter year
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| quartalsmäßig {adj}
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:: quarterly
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| quartalsweise {adj}
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:: quarterly
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| quartär {adj}
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:: quaternary
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| Quartär {prop}
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:: the Quaternary
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| Quarte {f} [music]
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:: An interval of 5 halftones
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| Quartett {n} [music]
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:: quartet (music composition in four parts)
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| Quartett {n} [music]
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:: quartet (group of four musicians)
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| Quartett {n} [literature]
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:: quartet
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| Quartett {n} [card games]
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:: four of a kind
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| Quartier {n}
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:: accommodation, quarters
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| Quartier {n} [Switzerland]
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:: quarter (neighborhood of a city)
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| quartieren {v}
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:: to quarter
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| Quarz {m}
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:: quartz
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| quarzen {v} [slang]
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:: to smoke
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| Quarzglas {n}
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:: quartz glass
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| Quarzglas {n}
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:: fused silica
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| quarzhaltig {adj}
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:: quartziferous
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| quarzhältig {adj}
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:: alternative form of quarzhaltig
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| Quarzit {m}
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:: quartzite
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| Quarzkristall {m}
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:: quartz crystal
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| Quarzröhrchen {n}
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:: quartz tube
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| Quarzsand {m}
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:: quartz sand
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| Quarzstaublungenerkrankung {f}
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:: silicosis or silico-tuberculosis (literally, "quartz dust lung illness"—cancer of the lungs due to the effect of crystalline silicon dioxide (SiO2))
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| Quarzuhr {f}
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:: quartz clock, quartz watch
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| Quasar {m}
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:: quasar
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| quasi {adv}
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:: effectively, as it were
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| quasichemisch {adj} [physics]
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:: quasichemical
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| quasistationär {adj}
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:: quasistationary
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| quasistatisch {adj}
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:: quasistatic
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| quasseln {v}
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:: jabber, natter, palaver, yap, gab, jaw, twaddle, rattle on, rabbit on (to talk a lot or talk nonsense)
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| Quasselstrippe {f}
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:: magpie, chatterbox
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| Quasselstrippe {f}
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:: tattletale (one who gossips)
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| Quast {m} [regional]
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:: broad brush
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| Quaste {f}
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:: tassel
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| Quastenflosser {m}
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:: coelacanth (fish)
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| quastenförmig {adj}
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:: tufted
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| Quaternion {f} [mathematics]
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:: quaternion
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| Quatsch {m} [colloquial]
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:: verbal nonsense
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| Quatsch {m}
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:: used to acknowledge that the speaker has just misspoken and to introduce the correction
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| quatschen {v} [colloquial, pejorative]
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:: to talk nonsense
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| quatschen {v} [colloquial]
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:: to chatter, babble
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| Quatsch mit Soße {m} [colloquial]
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:: bollocks
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| Quattuordezillion {num}
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:: A long scale quattuordecillion, 1084
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| Qubit {n} [computing]
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:: qubit (basic unit of quantum information)
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| Québec {prop} {n}
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:: Québec (province)
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| Québec {prop} {n}
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:: Québec (capital city)
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| Quebeck {prop} {n}
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:: archaic spelling of Québec
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| Quecke {f}
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:: quitch (Elymus repens)
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| Quecksilber {n}
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:: mercury (chemical element, Hg)
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| Quecksilberdampflampe {f}
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:: mercury-vapour lamp
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| Quecksilberelektrode {f}
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:: mercury electrode
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| quecksilberhaltig {adj}
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:: mercurial (containing the metal mercury)
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| quecksilberhältig {adj}
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:: alternative form of quecksilberhaltig
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| Quecksilberlegierung {f}
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:: amalgam (mercury alloy)
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| Quecksilberorganyle {f} [organic chemistry]
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:: organomercury compound
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| Quecksilberorganyle {f} [medicine]
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:: organomercurial (drug)
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| Quecksilberoxid {n} [inorganic compound]
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:: mercuric oxide
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| Quecksilbersulfid {n} [inorganic compound]
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:: mercuric sulfide
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| Quecksilberthermometer {n}
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:: mercury thermometer, mercurial thermometer
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| Quecksilberverbindung {f}
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:: mercury compound
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| Quedlinburg {prop}
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:: A town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. A UNESCO World Heritage Site
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| Queen {f}
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:: The Queen of England (and various political superstructures which contain England)
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| Queen {f} [colloquial]
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:: woman who, in a certain environment, enjoys special attention
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| Queen {f} [homosexual slang]
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:: queen; effeminate homosexual man
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| queer {adj}
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:: alternative form of quer
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| queer {adv}
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:: alternative form of quer
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| queer {adj} [colloquial]
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:: queer
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| Quellcode {m}
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:: source code
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| Quelle {f} [origin of a river or stream]
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:: spring
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| Quelle {f}
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:: well (oil, gas)
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| Quelle {f}
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:: source
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| quellen {v}
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:: to well (issue forth, as water from the earth)
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| quellen {v}
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:: to swell, to soak (expand by soaking up a liquid)
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| Quellenangabe {f} [reference to a source for writing an academic document]
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:: reference
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| Quellfluss {m}
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:: a headstream
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| quelloffen {adj} [computing]
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:: open-source
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| Quelltext {m}
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:: source code
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| Quellwasser {n}
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:: springwater
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| Quellwolke {f}
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:: cumulus (a large white puffy cloud)
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| quengelig {adj}
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:: peevish, crotchety, obstreperous, ornery
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| quengeln {v}
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:: to whinge, to grizzle, to nag, to niggle
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| Quentchen {n} [historic]
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:: a quarter of a lot (in German known as Lot)
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| Quentchen {n}
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:: obsolete spelling of Quäntchen
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| Quenya {prop} {n}
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:: Quenya
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| quer- {prefix}
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:: Separable prefix, that denotes a physical diagonal direction of the verb
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| quer {adj} [rare]
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:: crosswise, cross
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| quer {adv}
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:: crosswise, across
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| Querdenker {m}
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:: lateral thinker
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| Quere {f}
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:: being in something's way
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| queren {v} [a street]
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:: to cross
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| querfeldein {adv}
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:: cross-country, across the countryside, across fields
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| Querflöte {f}
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:: transverse flute, Western concert flute, C flute
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| Querformat {n} [printing]
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:: horizontal format, landscape format
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| Querkopf {m}
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:: contrarian, contradicter, one who habitually and stubbornly opposes others’ opinions
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| Querkopf {m}
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:: maverick (one who does not abide by rules)
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| Quermaß {n}
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:: crosswise measurement, transverse measurement
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| Querreihe {f}
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:: transverse row
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| querschlagen {v}
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:: to ricochet
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| querschlagen {v} [nautical]
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:: to broach
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| Querschläger {m}
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:: ricochet
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| Querschnitt {m}
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:: profile
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| Querschnitt {m}
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:: cross section
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| querschnittsgelähmt {adj}
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:: paraplegic
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| Querstreifen {m}
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:: horizontal stripe
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| Querstrich {m}
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:: horizontal line (a dash, a horizontal bar, a transversal bar etc.)
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| Querulant {m} [psychology]
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:: querulant
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| Querulant {m}
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:: grouser, griper (stubborn person who constantly complains)
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| Querulantin {f} [psychology]
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:: female querulant
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| Querverweis {m}
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:: cross-reference
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| Querverweis {m} [computing, Internet]
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:: hyperlink
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| Quetsche {f} [Lorraine, Alsace, Luxembourg]
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:: alternative form of Zwetschge
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| quetschen {v}
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:: to squeeze, to squish
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| Quetschung {f}
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:: contusion
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| Quetzal {m}
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:: quetzal (bird)
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| Quetzal {m}
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:: quetzal (monetary unit)
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| Queue {m} {n} [billiards, snooker, pool]
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:: cue
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| Queue {f} [military, archaic]
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:: the end of a column of troops
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| Queue {f} [computing]
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:: queue (waiting list, e.g. of tasks to be done)
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| Quiche {f}
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:: quiche
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| quick {adj} [rather rare, dated]
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:: lively
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| quickfidel {adj}
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:: healthy, lively
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| Quickie {m}
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:: quickie (brief sexual encounter)
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| quicklebendig {adj}
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:: lively; alive and thriving
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| quietistisch {adj}
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:: quietistic
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| quietschbunt {adj}
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:: garish
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| Quietscheentchen {n}
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:: rubber duck (with a squeaker)
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| quietschen {v}
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:: to squeak
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| quietschend {adj}
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:: squeaky
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| quietschfidel {adj}
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:: extremely cheerful
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| quietschnass {adj} [rare]
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:: soaked, soaking wet
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| quinär {adj}
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:: quinary
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| Quinnat {m} [rare]
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:: a chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
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| Quinoa {f} {n} [botany]
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:: quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)
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| Quinoa {f} {n} [cooking]
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:: quinoa seeds
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| Quinquagesima {f} [Roman Catholicism]
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:: Quinquagesima
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| Quinquagesima {f} [obsolete]
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:: A 50-day period between Easter and Pentecost
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| Quinta {f} [obsolete]
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:: second class of Gymnasium
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| Quinta {f} [Austria, dated]
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:: fifth class of Gymnasium
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| Quinte {f} [music]
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:: An interval of six ("kleine Quinte") or seven ("große Quinte") halftones
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| Quintessenz {f}
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:: quintessence : the essence of a thing
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| Quintilliarde {num}
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:: A long scale quintilliard, 1033; a short scale decillion
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| Quintillion {num}
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:: A long scale quintillion, 1030; a short scale nonillion
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| quintillionste {ordinal num}
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:: quintillionth
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| Quirl {m} [cooking]
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:: beater
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| Quirl {m}
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:: whorl
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| quirlig {adj}
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:: lively, exuberant
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| quitt {adj} [only used in the predicative]
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:: quits, even
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| quitt {adj} [only used in the predicative, regional]
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:: rid of something, having lost something
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| Quitte {f}
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:: quince (fruit)
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| quittegelb {adj}
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:: quince-yellow
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| quittengelb {adj}
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:: alternative form of quittegelb
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| Quittung {f}
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:: receipt, voucher
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| Quiz {n}
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:: quiz, trivia
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| Quorum {n}
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:: quorum
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| quotal {adj}
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:: proportionate
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| Quote {f}
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:: a quota
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| Quotenkönig {m} [television]
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:: ratings king (male or of unspecified sex)
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| Quotient {m}
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:: quotient (number resulting from division)
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