Danish–English dictionary

rejselyst

A strong impulse or longing to travel.

rejsemål

(countable) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

rejsende

One who travels, especially to distant lands.

rejsepas

An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.

rejseplan

A route or proposed route of a journey.

rejserute

A route or proposed route of a journey.

rejsning

(uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.

reklamationsret

(countable) A written guarantee, usually over a fixed period, provided to someone who buys a product or item, which states that certain repairs and/or replacement parts will be provided free of charge in case of damage or a defect.

reklame

(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

reklamefilm

A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.

reklamefilmen

An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

rekognoscering

The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.

rekonstruere

To construct again; to restore.

rekonstruktion

The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

rekord

The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

rekreation

Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.

rekruttere

To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.

rekruttering

The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.

rektangel

(geometry) Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

rektangulær

Having a shape like a rectangle.

rektor

(Christianity) A senior record keeper of a cathedral; a senior legal officer for a bishop or diocese in charge of hearing cases involving ecclesiastical law.

rekvirere

(transitive) To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies, or transport.

rekyl

(firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.

relaterede

Standing in relation or connection.

relation

The manner in which two things may be associated.

relativ

(grammar) A grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages.

relegering

The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.

relevant

Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.

relevante

Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.

religion

(uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.

religiøs person

A member of a religious order, congregation, or certain other forms of consecrated life, i.e. a monk, nun, sister, brother, friar, or other religious priest.

relikt

(formal) Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.

relikvie

(religion) A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.

rem

A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.

remis

A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

ren

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

ren og skær

(by extension) Downright; complete; pure.

renæssance

A rebirth or revival.

rende

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

rendegraver

(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).

rendezvous

A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

rengøre

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

rengøringsdame

(chiefly, British) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.

renlig

Being habitually clean, practising good hygiene.

renlighed

The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.

rensdyr

(plural: reindeer) Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.

rense

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

rensning

An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.

rente

(uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]

renters rente

(banking, finance) Interest, as on a loan or a bank account, that is calculated on the total on the principal plus accumulated unpaid interest.

renvaske

(transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

reparation

The act of repairing something.

reparere

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

repatriering

The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.

repetere

(obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.

replik

A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.

reporter

A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.

repos

A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

repræsentant

One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity. [from 17th c.]

repræsentativ

Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.

reprimande

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

reproducere

To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

reproduktion

The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.

reptil

(informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc. [from 19th c.]

republikaner

Someone who favors a republic as a form of government. [from 17th c.]

republikansk

Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism. [from 17th c.]

reserve

A reserve source or supply.

reservere

(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

reserveret

Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

reservoir

A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.

resistans

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

resistivitet

(electricity) The resistance offered at a particular temperature by an electrical conductor of any given material in a cube of unit length, expressed in ohm-metres (Ωm) in the metric system of measurement.

resistor

(electronics) An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.

resolution

A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.

respekt

(uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard

respektabel

Deserving respect.

respektabelhed

The quality of being respectable.

respektive

Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.

respektløs

Lacking respect.

respirator

A device to assist breathing.

rest

(mostly, in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.

restaurant

A room, in a home or hotel, where meals are eaten.

resterende

Which remains, especially after something else has been removed.

restitution

A return to normal health.

restriktive

Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.

resultat

The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.

resultere

(intransitive) To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.

resultere i

(ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.

resume

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

ret

(culinary) A stage of a meal.

retfærdig

Just, equitable.

retfærdiggøre

(transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.

retfærdighed

Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".

retning

A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).

retningslinje

A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.

retningsviser

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, automotive ) A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.

retorik

The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.

retorisk

Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.

retort

(chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.

retræte

(intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.

retsbygning

A public building housing courts of law.

retsforfølge

(intransitive, construed with on) To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.

retskaffen

Favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.

retslærd

(law) An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.

retslig

Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.

retsløshed

A lack of law; a lack of law and order; anarchy.

retssag

(legal) a legal case to be resolved in a court

retssal

The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.

retsvidenskab

(legal) The theoretical study of law.

rette

(transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object

rette mod

(transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).

rette sig efter

(intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.

rettergang

(legal) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).

rettroende

Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology. [from 15th c.]

retur

The act of returning.

returnere

(intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.

retvinklet

(geometry) Of an angle, measuring 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.

reumatologi

(medicine) The branch of medicine specializing in arthritis and other ailments of the joints.

Réunion

An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, located in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar.

Reval

The capital city of Estonia.

revanche

Revenge or retaliation.

reveille

(military) The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.

revidere

To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.

revisionisme

(historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.

revisor

One who audits bookkeeping accounts.

revne

An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

revolutionær

Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution

revolutionere

(transitive) To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution. [1799]

revolver

A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.

revolvermand

(historical) A person in the Old West who carried a gun and was an expert at quickly drawing it and firing.

revy

A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.

rhenium

A metallic chemical element (symbol Re) with an atomic number of 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition metal.

Rhinen

A major river in western Europe, which flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands, before emptying into the North Sea.

Rhodesia

(historical) A historical region of Southern Africa, the area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia. [used from 1895 to 1964]

Rhodos

A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.

rhombe

(geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. [from 16th c.]

ribbe

To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.

ribs

The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.

Richard

(rare, _, compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

Richmond

The capital city of Virginia.

rickshaw

A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.

ride

A seabird species in the gull family Laridae, Rissa tridactyla.

ridse

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.

ridt

An instance of riding.

rift

A chasm or fissure.

rig

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

Riga

The capital city of Latvia.

rigdom

☉ (alchemy)

rige

A German empire, kingdom or nation; its territory or government.

rigelig

Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]