Danish–English dictionary

kjerne

A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.

kjole

(clothing) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.

kjove

Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.

kladde

A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.

klage

(intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

klageråb

A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish. [from 15th c.]

klagesang

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]

klam

Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

klamphugger

(obsolete) A person who cobbles; a clumsy workman.

klang

The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

klangfarve

The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

klappe

(transitive, intransitive) To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.

klapperslange

Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

klapre

An intermittent noise, as from vibration.

klapsalve

Applause.

klapvogn

(US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.

klar

(idiomatic) Ready; in a state of preparation or waiting; in position or anticipation.

klare

(transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).

klare op

(intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.

klare sig

(ambitransitive) To suffice.

klargøre

To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).

klarhed

The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.

klarinet

(woodwind instrument) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

klarsyn

(parapsychology) The power to see or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.

klarsynet

Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

klart

(manner) In a clear manner.

klase

A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

klasse

(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

klassekammerat

A student who is in the same class at school.

klasselokale

A room, often in a school, where classes take place.

klassens klovn

(idiomatic) A student who frequently makes jokes or pokes fun; a wiseacre.

klasseværelse

A room, often in a school, where classes take place.

klassificere

to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize

klat

A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

klatmaleri

A crude or amateurish painting.

klaustrofobi

The fear of closed, tight places.

klausul

(legal) A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

klaver

(musical instruments) A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings. [from 1803]

klaviatur

(music) A component of many instruments, including the piano, organ, and harpsichord, consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.

klæbe

(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.

klæbende

Adhesive, sticking to something.

klæde

(transitive) To clothe or adorn.

klæde sig af

(intransitive) To remove one’s clothing. [from 17th c.]

klæder

(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.

klædeskab

A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.

klem

Slightly turned or opened.

klementin

A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.

klemme

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Kleopatra

A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.

kleptokrati

A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.

kleptoman

One who steals compulsively.

kliche

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

klichéagtig

(informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.

klid

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

klient

A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

klientel

The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.

klik

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

klikke

(transitive, GUI) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.

klimaændring

Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.

klimaforandring

Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.

klinge

The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

klingonsk

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

klinik

A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

kliniker

(chiefly, US) Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.

klinke

(gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.

klint

A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.

Klio

(Greek god) The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

klippe

(transitive) To cut the hair or beard of (a person).

klipper

(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.

klippespringer

A small antelope native to eastern and southern Africa having a dense, brown, speckled coat (Oreotragus oreotragus).

klipse

To fasten with a clip.

klirre

(transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

klistermærke

An adhesive label or decal.

klistre

(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.

klit

(geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.

klitoris

(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. [from 17th c.]

klo

To use the claws to seize, to grip.

klode

The planet Earth.

klods om benet

(figurative) Ellipsis of millstone round one's neck, a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible).

klog

Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.

klogskab

(uncountable) The quality or state of being prudent: circumspection and good judgment in knowing how best to act; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.

klokke

(percussion instrument) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

Klokkeblomst

Anything whose existence or power depends on the faith of believers.

klokken

(countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.

klokkeslag

(music) A bow or pluck of a string or strings of a stringed instrument; also, the manner in which a musical instrument is played; hence, a melody, a tune.

klokkespil

(musical instrument) A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries.

klokketårn

(architecture) A tower or steeple typically containing bells, especially as part of a church.

klor

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

klorid

(chemistry) Any salt of hydrochloric acid.

kloroform

(organic compound) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

klorofyl

(biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

kloster

A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

klovn

A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.

klovneri

(often, in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.

klø

To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.

kløft

A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

kløve

(transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

kløver

A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.

kløverblad

The trefoil leaf of any small clover, especially Trifolium repens, or such a leaf from a clover-like plant, commonly used as a symbol of Ireland.

klud

(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

kludre med

(informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.

klumme

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

klummeskriver

A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

klump

(countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.

klynge

A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.

klynke

To cry or sob softly and intermittently.

knag

(slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.

knage

A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

knald

(chemistry) An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.

knalde

(intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.

knaldhætte

Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive.

knaldroman

(film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.

knallert

A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

knap

(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.

knaphul

(chiefly, British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.

knaphulsblomst

(chiefly, British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.

knappenål

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

knas

A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.

knase

A crunching noise.

knasende

Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.

knast

The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

knæbøjning

(exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

knæbukser

Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

knægt

(informal, sometimes mildly derogatory) A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).

knæhase

(anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

knække

(transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.

knæle

(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

knæler

Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.

knæskal

(anatomy) The flat, roundish bone in the knee.

kneb

An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

knebel

A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

knejpe

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

knep

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

kneppe

(chiefly, US, colloquial, transitive) To have sex with.

knib

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

knibe

(countable) A difficult situation.

kniplepind

A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.

knipling

(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.

knippe

(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf \mathcal{F} whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover \{U_i \} of U:

knippel

(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

kniv

A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.

knivsmed

One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery.

kno

Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.

knogle

(slang, countable) A telephone.

knoglebrud

(medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.

knold

A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.

knop

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

Knud

(historical) A en given name used in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century.

knude

A tangled clump of hair or similar.

knudepunkt

A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.