Danish–English dictionary

kande

A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).

kandelaber

A candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.

kandidat

(originally, jargon) A participant in an examination. [from 1690s]

kandidatur

The state of being a candidate; candidateship.

kandisere

(transitive) To coat something with crystals, especially with sugar.

kannada

The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India.

kannelure

(architectural element, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.

kannibal

An organism which eats others of its own or similar species or kind, especially a human or other human-like creature such as a zombie who consumes human flesh.

kannibalisme

The act of eating another of one's own species.

kannik

A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

kano

(watercraft) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.

kanon

(military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.

kanonbåd

(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.

kanonisere

(chiefly, Roman Catholicism) To declare (a deceased person) as a saint, and enter them into the canon of saints.

kanonkugle

A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

kant

(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.

kantalup

Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:

kantet

Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner.

kantine

(chiefly, US, Canada) A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.

kanton

A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.

kantonesisk

(uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.

kantor

singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony

kantsten

(British spelling) .

kaolin

A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.

kaos

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

kap

(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

kapacitans

(physics, uncountable) The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F).

kapacitet

The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.

kapacitor

(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.

kapel

(UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.

kapellan

A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.

kaper

(historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy merchant ships and take possession of their cargo. [from 17th c.]

kaperkaptajn

(historical) An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship; a government-sanctioned pirate. [from 17th c.]

kaperskib

(historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy merchant ships and take possession of their cargo. [from 17th c.]

kapital

(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.

kapitalisme

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

kapitalistisk

Supporting or endorsing capitalism.

kapitæl

(countable, architectural element) The uppermost part of a column.

kapitel

A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.

kapitulation

The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.

kapitulere

(intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. [from the end of the 17th c.]

kappeklædt

Wearing a cape or capes.

kapre

To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).

kaprifolie

Italian woodbine (Lonicera caprifolium).

kapring

An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.

kapsel

(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.

kaptajn

A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.

kaptajnløjtnant

A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.

kår

Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

Karachi

The largest city in Pakistan situated along the Arabian Sea, as well as the provincial capital of Sindh Province.

karaffel

A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.

karakter

(countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.

karakteristik

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

karakteristisk

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

karamel

(countable) A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.

karaoke

(uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.

karate

An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

karavane

A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

karbon

(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.

karbonade

(cooking, dated) Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.

karbonat

Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.

karbonpapir

(countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.

karburator

(US, Canada) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition. [from 1890s]

kardinalpunkt

Something on which other things depend for support.

kardinaltal

(math) Ellipsis of cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)

kardiogram

(cardiology) The visual output an electrocardiograph produces

kardiolog

A physician who specializes in medical problems related to the heart.

kardiologi

(medicine) The study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.

kardon

Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.

kåre

To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

karfunkel

(archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.

karikatur

A caricature.

karikaturtegning

(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.

karikere

To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

Karin

A en given name.

karisma

(of people) Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.

karismatisk

Of, related to, or having charisma: having a form of compelling charm which inspires devotion in others due to their strength of character and being full of personality; charming, fascinating, magnetic

Karl

A en given name.

Karl den Store

One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.

karmisk

Of or pertaining to karma.

Karnataka

A state in southern India. Capital: Bangalore.

karneval

A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.

karoliner

(historical) A soldier (or war veteran) of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII.

Karon

(Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.

karpe

Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; specifically the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

karre

The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

karriere

One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously and/or over a long period of time.

kartager

A native or inhabitant of Carthage.

kartagisk

Of or pertaining to Carthage.

karte

(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

kartel

(economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.

karthaginienser

A native or inhabitant of Carthage.

karthaginiensisk

Of or pertaining to Carthage.

Karthago

(historical) An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia. [16th cent.]

kartoffel

(US, derogatory, racial slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).

kartografi

(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]

karton

A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

kas

(historical) The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.

Kasakhstan

A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan.

kaserne

(military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

Kashmir

A contested geographic region of South Asia in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) India, Pakistan and China.

kasino

A public building or room for gambling.

kaskade

A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.

kasket

(figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

Kasper

A en given name, more popular in the form Jasper.

kaspisk

Of or pertaining to the Caspian Sea or the region around it.

kassation

A discarded playing card in a card game.

kasse

(engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.

kassebedrager

One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles.

kassebog

A book used to record amounts of money received or paid out.

kassedame

One who works at a till or receives payments.

kassejournal

(bookkeeping) An accounting journal.

kassen

(slang, preceded by the) The television.

kassere

(transitive) To throw away, to reject.

kasserer

One who works at a till or receives payments.

kasserolle

(countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.

kassette

A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.

kassevogn

A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

Kassiopeia

(Greek mythology) Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.

kast

An act of throwing.

kastanje

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.

kastanjebrun

Of a reddish-brown colour.

kastanjerød

Of a reddish-brown colour.

kaste

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

kaste bold

(uncountable) The game of catching a ball.

kaste fækalier

(rare) To discharge feces from the digestive tract.

kaste i sig

(slang, Hawaii) To eat.

kaste op

(dated, transitive and intransitive) To chuck up the sponge; to give up; to admit defeat; to break a contract; to abandon or quit (something).

kaste over bord

To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

kaste sig

To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.

kastellan

(chiefly, _, historical) The governor or caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle or keep for its lord.

kasteskud

A shot taken at an easy or random target.

kastespyd

A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.

kastrere

(transitive) To remove the testicles of a person or animal.

kat

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

katakomb

Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.

katakombe

(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.

katalysator

(chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.

katapult

A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.

katapultere

(transitive) To increase the status of something rapidly.

katapulteres

(intransitive) To have one's status increased rapidly.

katapultering

(figuratively) An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.

katarakt

(ophthalmology, pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.

katastrofal

Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.

katastrofe

An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.

katedral

The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.

kategori

(countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals.

kategorisere

(transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.

kategorisk

Absolute; having no exception.

katekismus

A book, in question and answer form, summarizing the basic principles of Christianity.