Baedeker, baedeker
n.- a guidebook to countries or a country, a guidebook to places,
a guidebook to other things such as restaurants usually for travellers
[< Karl Baedeker (1801-1859), publisher of a series of travel
guidebooks < Bädeker, Bädker, Bödeker,
Böcker, Bäker, the Low German form of the name Böttcher
"vat maker", not related to Bäcker
"baker"].
- "When he catches sight through his window of a group of
strangers, Baedekers in hand, asking directions of a policeman, he
merely hopes that they won't seek out, through this tangle of streets,
the traghetto San Gregorio...." Ian Littlewood, A Literary Companion to Venice, 1995, p.
4.
- "But as a general thing all the circus folk preferred to
roam among the native people and native scenes, and even found some
scenes that the Baedeker guidebooks neglected to mention." Gary
Jennings, The Center Ring: Spangle #2, 1999, p.
132.
- "Rimbaud never travelled with a Baedeker and showed no
interest in any particular category of art or architecture."
Graham Robb, Rimbaud: A Biography, 2001, p. 1.
- "This is as good a place as any to say that I am not
lost without a Baedeker." James Thurber, My World and Welcome to It, 1969, p.
224.
- "The man had already made all the arrangements and now
he stood waiting on the platform, smiling cheerfully, red Baedeker
guide in hand." Kevin Baker, Dreamland: A Novel, 2002, p. 68.
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- Baedeker Blitz, Baedeker
raids n.
- a series of raids conducted by the German Luftwaffe during World War II on cities
of cultural and historical interest in England reputedly chosen from
the Baedeker tourist guide to Britain.
- Bauhaus n.
- from Bau "construction, architecture, a
building" + Haus "a house, a building": an
architectural school founded in Germany in 1919, known for its
experimental use of metal, glass, etc. in buildings. See also gasthaus, hausfrau
and plattenbau.
- "As always, the atmosphere there was chaotic; all the
phones were ringing, but there was no receptionist in the little
waiting area by the elevators, which was decorated with faded,
taped-up posters for a 1929 Bauhaus Exhibition in Berlin and an old
science-fiction movie called The Forbin Project."
Michael Crichton, Disclosure, 1993.
- "When the Lovell family Chevy pulled up in front of
these blocky, Bauhaus-like structures in the steady drizzle, Marilyn's
mood sank." Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger, Apollo 13, 1995.
- "Oil paintings of benefactors hung in the lobby of
Gilman—'the idiot children of the rich,' said the dean, as he
gave me a quick tour—and in the Bush Library, a four-story
circular structure, concrete and brick and of a sturdy Bauhaus
demeanor, with high beamed ceilings, the stacks dotted with study
carrels, the building eerily empty, devoid of students." Garrison
Keillor, Wobegon Boy, 1997, p. 7.
- The Dessau Bauhaus Building 1926-1999,
by Margret Kentgens-Craig, 1999.
- Biedermeier to Bauhaus, by Sigrid Sangl,
Barbara Stoeltie and Rene Stoeltie, 2001.
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- baum marten n.
- from Baummarder "tree marten": (the brown
fur of) the European (Pine) Marten (Martes martes)
- "The pine marten (M. martes) of European and
Central Asian forests is also called baum marten and sweet
marten." "marten", Britannica.com.
- "The baum marten (or pine marten), with a yellow throat,
and the stone marten (or beech marten), with a white throat, are found
in Europe and Asia." "Marten", Microsoft® Encarta® 98 Encyclopedia.
Beck's n.
- a brand of beer from Germany [< Beck, Becke,
Becker, Böck, Bäck, Bäcker, a common German surname, Bäcker
"baker"].
- berg n.
- related to Berg "mountain": an iceberg:
Merriam-Webster says iceberg probably comes from Norwegian or
Danish isberg, but to me German Eisberg also seems
conceivable. [Middle High German berc; Old High German berg.]
See also burg.
- "Antarctica continually sheds accumulating ice as
glaciers calve bergs—some as big as Rhode Island." Eugene
Linden, Time, May 12, 1997.
- Bildungsroman,
bildungsroman n.
- from Bildungsroman "education novel": a
novel focussing on the moral and spiritual development of the main
character, an Entwicklungsroman.
- "Lewis' Bildungsroman is an ironic twist on the 19th
century romantic novels he studies in his library carrel."
Alessandra Stanley, "Quixotic Quest", review of Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner, Time, Mar. 19, 1990, p. 83.
-
The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman
in European Culture, by Franco Moretti, 2000.
- The Female Bildungsroman in English: An
Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, by Laura Sue Fuderer, 1991.
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- Birkenstock n.
usually pl. Birkenstocks
- from Birkenstock "Birkenstock": brand name
of a leather and cork sandal made in Germany by the Birkenstock
company, which goes back to Johann Adam Birkenstock in 1774 [<
German Birke "birch" + Stock "stick,
staff"]. See also alpenstock.
- "Thin ankles will look like trees stuck in concrete in
clumpy shoes such as Birkenstock clogs." Trinny Woodall &
Susannah Constantine, What You Wear Can Change You Life, 2005,
p. 151.
- "The woman was short, small and slender, with curly gray
hair cut close to her head, in a loose green sack of a dress, a
necklace made of chunky glass beads, and Birkenstocks over black
tights." Jennifer Weiner, Goodnight Nobody: A Novel, 2005, p. 192.
- "She's stomping around my room in her Mao jacket and
Birkenstocks, shaking her glossy curls, her eyes, behind the lenses of
her glasses (I guess revolutionaries working to empower the masses
don't wear contacts), filled with bitter tears." Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, Volume V: Princess
in Pink, 2004, p. 207.
- "She wears thick baggy clothing and wool socks and
Birkenstocks and she wears silver rings on her fingers and a turquoise
pendant around her neck." James Frey, A Million Little Pieces, 2003, p. 48.
- "Believe it or not, your feet may grow as much as a full
size during pregnancy. If all else fails, think Birkenstocks!"
Ann Douglas, The Mother of All Pregnancy Books: The
Ultimate Guide to Conception, Birth, and Everything in Between, 2002,
p. 253.
"He was the first one with
Birkenstocks, the first with bell-bottoms, the first with sideburns
off, and the first with diversity." Michael Crichton, Disclosure, 1993.- "One guy went home before the meeting to change into
Dockers and a button-down shirt to be more 'appropriate,' only to
discover that his associates and a few of the senior staff were
attending in T-shirts and Birkenstocks." Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought:
Succeeding in the Digital Economy, 1999.
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- blende n.
- from blenden "to blind": an ore especially
of certain metallic sulfides, having a fairly bright luster [German blenden
< Old High German blenten, related to Old English blind].
See also hornblende.
- "Sphalerite, also known as zinc blende, is a very
important zinc ore and is mined in many parts of the world."
"Sphalerite", Microsoft® Encarta® 98 Encyclopedia.
- blitz, Blitz
n., v.t.
- from Blitz "lightning": a fast intensive
campaign; a blitzkrieg; an air raid; a rush
of the passer by the defensive linebackers in American football; a type
of chess game in which one has little time to move, similar to rapid
and lightning chess. See also Baedeker
Blitz.
- "M-O [Mass-Observation] really came into its own during
World War II, with its observations of the behaviour of ordinary
Londoners during the Blitz." Stephen Moss, A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of
Birdwatching, 2004, p. 128.
- "Ever since Israel blitzed the Arabs in 1967's Six Day
War—taking the Sinai and Gaza from Egypt, the Golan Heights from
Syria and the West Bank from Jordan—the concept of 'land for
peace' has been the cornerstone of all efforts to negotiate an end to
the Arab-Israeli conflict." Christopher Dickey & Daniel
Klaidman, "A Blueprint For Peace", Newsweek, Apr. 22, 2002, p. 17.
- From the Crash to the Blitz: 1929-1939,
by Cabell B.H. Phillips, 2000.
- "... one of the guests (a famous celebrity who shall
remain nameless) got so blitzed on booze, and God knows what else,
that she passed out right in the middle of the living room
floor." Fran Drescher, Enter Whining, 1996, p. 48.
- "Deutsche Telekom goes public with a successful sales
blitz." James O. Jackson, Time, Dec. 2, 1996.
- "Bullock's quest for the truth began, he told me, in the
midst of the Blitz." Ron Rosenbaum, "Explaining
Hitler", The New Yorker, May 1995.
- "In a blitz of polar air one night they lost thirty head
of cattle and chipped them from the ice a week later like the fallen
statures of an ancient creed." Nicholas Evans, The
Horse Whisperer, 1995, p. 128.
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- blitzkrieg n.,
v.t.
- from Blitzkrieg "lightning war": a swift
surprise offensive; blitz.
- "Everybody had humped it all day, taking down trees and
whacking off the branches, kicking and stumbling through the brush in
a blitzkrieg of mosquitoes and hard-earned sweat, and now they'd
passed round the smokes and the pot and the last of the sticky red
wine, the pale green half-gallon jugs already filled back up with Tom
Krishna's gaseous home-brewed beer that looked like motor oil
drippings and didn't taste a whole lot better." T.C. Boyle, Drop
City, 2004, p. 280.
- The Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and
Training in the German Army, 1920-1939, by Robert Michael Citino,
1999.
- "Just two days after issuing a statement downplaying the
suit, AOL—famous for blitzkrieg marketing
tactics—reconsidered and announced a full retreat: the company
will throttle back efforts to sign up new subscribers and invest $350
million to upgrade its networks." Daniel Eisenberg and Anita
Hamilton, Time, Jan. 27, 1997.
"Most of the quality
were staying an extra day, just to avoid the stampede; but the smaller
delegations, co-ops, representatives, and consortia preferred to
blitzkrieg the bellhops and crowd the cashier rather than pay for
another exorbitant night at the Chateau Hôtel Casino."
Dafydd ab Hugh, Balance of Power (Star Trek: The Next
Generation), 1995.- Hitler's Blitzkrieg Campaigns: The
Invasion and Defense of Western Europe, 1939-1940, by J.E. and H.W.
Kaufmann, 1993.
- "The blitzkrieg to cut Finland in half was to be
abandoned after the heavy losses and the Finns could gradually be
withdrawn to other fronts." Eloise Engle & Lauri Paananen, The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on
Finland 1939-1940, 1973, p. 104.
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bratwurst n.- from Bratwurst "meat sausage": a kind of
sausage ideally made of pure pork that is usually fried [< German Brät,
Brat "finely chopped, raw sausage meat before filling into
skins" < Middle High German brate < Old High German
brato "pure meat (not mixed with other ingredients), soft
parts" (related to German Braten "roast meat",
not related to braten "to fry" as some dictionaries
state and many German speakers themselves also believe) + Wurst
"sausage"]. See also wurst and knackwurst.
- "So they're getting in their bratwurst and their baked
beans in the backyard [barbecue]... They're smelling the beans and the
brats." Garrison Keillor, "The News from Lake Wobegon", A Prairie
Home Companion, Sept. 6, 2008.
- "I had seen all of my relatives, eaten a yard of
bratwurst, fished for crappies, heard dozens of stories of shame and
degradation, and was cured of my fevered thoughts about Jean."
Garrison Keillor, Wobegon Boy, 1997, p. 105.
- "Half an hour after the plane landed, I was in a south
Minneapolis backyard sitting on green grass next to a bed of irises,
feasting on sweet corn and bratwurst, drinking green nectar, talking
about old times like they were back again." Garrison Keillor,
insert in Lake Wobegon Loyalty Days, CD, 1989.
- "It says here you exposed yourself in the
cafeteria."
"I was joking with the lunch lady. It was a bratwurst."
"Bratwurst? Aren't we the optimist?"
10 Things I Hate About You, starring
Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles & David Krumholtz, 1999.
- "'Bratwurst and sauerkraut,'
said Marietta, twirling a strand of blond hair between her fingers. 'Wiener schnitzel and
kreplach.'" Tama Janowitz, By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee, 1996,
chapter 1.
- "[The bag] looked like a bratwurst and he guessed it
weighed about ten pounds." Stephen King, Desperation, 1996.
- "German beer became a national drink, and a number of
German dishes captured the American fancy, including bratwurst, Wiener schnitzel, German potato
salad, and apple strudel." Don
Heinrich Tolzmann, "German Americans", Microsoft® Encarta® 98 Encyclopedia.
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- Bremsstrahlung,
bremsstrahlung n.
- from Bremsstrahlung "braking radiation": in
physics, the electromagnetic radiation produced by the sudden
retardation of a charged particle in an intense electric field (as of
an atomic nucleus); the process that produces such radiation [German bremsen
"to brake" < Bremse "a brake" < Late
Middle Low German bremse "nose clamp for horses"
< Middle Low German premse, premese < pramen
"to press" + Strahlung "radiation" < strahlen
"to radiate" < Strahl "ray" < Middle
High German stral, strale < Old High German strala
"arrow, stripe"]. This entry suggested by Georg Kreyerhoff.
- "We can study along the same lines [as Thomson
scattering] classical bremsstrahlung, i.e., radiation by a charge
suddenly accelerated." Claude Itzykson & Jean-Bernhard Zuber,
Quantum Field Theory, 1986, p. 39.
- "The power radiated in Bremsstrahlung (B) and
radiative recombination (R) is also shown." Martin V.
Zombeck, Handbook of Space Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 1990, p. 280.
- Polarization Bremsstrahlung (Physics of
Atoms and Molecules), V.N. Tsytovich & I.M. Oiringel, 1993.
- "The unique construction of thin layered lead
encapsulated in acrylic completely attenuates Beta emission and errant
Bremsstrahlung." Cone Instruments Nuclear Medicine
Supplies and Accessories, hospital supply catalog, 2001/2002.
- "Phosphorus-32 produces Bremsstrahlung, a high energy
secondary photon radiation." Radiation Safety, scientific supply
catalog, 2002.
- Buba, BuBa n.
- See Bundesbank.
- bund, Bund, often pl. bunds n.
- a German government bond denominated in deutschemarks [< Bund-
("federation") in Bundesbank,
influenced by English bond]. This entry suggested by Josef Weidacher.
- "However, as the rapid convergence of Eurozone bond
yields shows, monetary union has greatly reduced what investors call
country risk, so that all Eurozone members' bonds are now regarded as
being (almost) as good as the old German bunds." Niall Ferguson,
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire,
2004, p. 232.
- "Once you've learned the ropes, consider moving up to
stock index futures or the futures on the German Bund, both among the
favorite vehicles of professional day-traders." Alexander Elder,
Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete
Guide to Trading, 2002, p. 145.
- "In the United States, it [the safest bond] had to be
the thirty-year Treasury; in Germany, the ten-year Bund." Roger
Lowenstein, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of
Long-Term Capital Management, 2001, p. 145.
- "For example, consider a trader who is active in the
Bund option market, and who is trying to find a simple way to
integrate a volatility skew into his theoretical pricing model."
Sheldon Natenberg, Option Volatility & Pricing:
Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques, 1994, p. 408.
Bundesbank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Buba, BuBa n.- "Federal Bank": the German central bank [< Bundes-
"federal" + Bank "bank"].
- "In contrast, the Deutsche Bundesbank controlled policy
without government interference (Schaling 1995; 95-6)." Kelly H.
Chang, Appointing Central Bankers: The Politics
of Monetary Policy in the United States and the European Monetary
Union, 2003, p. 1.
- "The French seldom disagreed with the BuBa's 'sound
money' policies." John Gillingham, European Integration, 1950-2003:
Superstate or New Market Economy?, 2003, p. 234.
- "Buba Knows Best?" Daniel Yergin & Joseph
Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for
the World Economy, 2002, p. 345.
- "What if he asks me a question about interest rates?
What if he wants to talk about the Bundesbank or American growth
prospects? But all he says is 'Harrods, please,' to the driver."
Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic, 2001, p.
152.
- "One time, I had a really large position in Deutsche marks when the Bundesbank
came in and decided to punish the speculators." Jack D. Schwager,
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top
Traders, 1993, p. 36.
- "Hans Zietmeyer, the high priest of the Bundesbank,
chimed in just solemnly." Jordan Bonfante, "A German
Requiem", Time, July 6, 1998.
- History of the Bundesbank: Lessons for
the European Bank, by Jakob De Haan, 2000.
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- bunds n.pl.
- See bund.
- burg, -burg
n.
- related to Burg "castle, fortress": city,
town. Actually comes from Middle English burg, burgh, burch;
Old English burg; Anglo-Saxon burg, burh, buruh,
related to Old High German burg "fortified place (on a
hill)". Probably also related to Old English beorg
"hill" and Old High German berg
"hill, mountain". The meaning has therefore changed from
"hill" to "fortress on the high" to "walled
town" to "town". Thus the place-name endings -berg,
-burg, -burgh, -boro, etc. are basically only spelling variants.
- "'Just let me check here—this one house—and
then this burg is history,' he said, and turned into the driveway of a
small ranch-style home on the left side of the street." Stephen
King, Desperation, 1996.
- burger, -burger n.
- See hamburger.
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