Danish–English dictionary

tække

The tendency to attract.

tækker

A person who installs thatch as a roofing material.

tællelig

Capable of being counted; having a quantity.

tæller

One who counts.

tælling

The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

tæmme

(transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.

tænde

(chiefly, electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

tænde for

(electronics) To turn power off and back on

tænder

Any device that is used to ignite something, especially a fuel mixture, or a charge of explosive

tændrør

(manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.

tændsats

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

tændstik

A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

tændstikæske

A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.

tændt

Illuminated.

tænke

(intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

tænke over

(intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.

tæppe

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

tærske

(transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.

tærskel

(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.

tærskelværdi

(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.

tæske

(transitive) To strike forcefully.

tæt

Having relatively high density.

te

Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.

teaktræ

(countable) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona.

team

A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

teater

(countable) A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.

teatralsk

Of or relating to the theatre.

techno

(music genre) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.

teenage

Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

teenageår

The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.

teenager

A person between thirteen and nineteen years old.

teenagere

A person between thirteen and nineteen years old.

tegl

A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.

tegn

(countable, uncountable) A visible fact that shows that something exists or may happen.

tegnebog

(US, UK) A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.

tegnefilm

Any of several types of film / movie, the frames of which are drawn by hand in order to give a sense of movement when projected in rapid sequence.

tegner

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

tegneserie

(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

tegning

A diagram in a scientific concept.

tegnsætning

A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).

Teheran

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

tehus

A cafe or restaurant that serves tea, usually with light food.

teistisk

Of or relating to theism.

tekande

A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.

teknik

(uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]

tekniker

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

teknisk

(securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.

tekno-

Relating to technology.

teknokratisk

Of, or relating to a technocrat or technocracy.

teknologi

(uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.

teknologisk

Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.

tekop

A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.

tekst

(colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

tektonisk

(geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.

tele-

over a distance

telefax

A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

telefon

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).

telefonere

(ambitransitive) To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone.

telefonrør

The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.

telegraf

(chiefly, _, historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.

telegram

A message transmitted by telegraph.

teleplasma

(parapsychology) A visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.

teleportation

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

teleskop

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

television

(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

telex

A network of teletypes.

telt

A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

telte

(intransitive) To go camping.

telugu

A Dravidian language of India.

tema

The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.

tematisk

Relating to or having a or a topic.

temmelig

To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather. [from 19th c.]

tempel

A house of worship, especially:

temperament

A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

temperere

To heat and spice something, such as wine.

tempus

(linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

ten

Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.

tendens

A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.

tender

(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.

Tennessee

A state of the United States.

tennis

(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

tenor

(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.

tentakel

(zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

tenvægt

A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle. [from c. 1460]

teo-

(religion) god; deity

teokrati

Government under the control of a state religion.

teolog

One who studies theology.

teologi

(uncountable) The study of religion or religions.

teologisk

Of or relating to theology.

teoretiker

Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.

teoretisk

Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.

tepotte

A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.

terapeut

Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.

terapi

Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

term

A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.

terminal

A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.

terminologi

(uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.

terminologisk

Of, or relating to terminology.

termisk

Pertaining to heat or temperature.

termit

A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.

termitter

A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.

termodynamik

(physics) The science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

termokande

A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.

termometer

An apparatus used to measure temperature.

termostat

A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting.

tern

(textiles, usually, pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.

terne

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

ternet

Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches.

terning

(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

terpentin

A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.

Terpsichore

(Greek god) The goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne.

terrasse

A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.

terræn

An area of land or the particular features of it.

terrestrisk

Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants, earthly.

territorial

Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.

terrorisme

(historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

terrorist

A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.

terroristisk

Of or relating to terrorism.

tertiær

Of third rank or order; subsequent.

terts

(music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

terzet

a three-line stanza in a poem

terzine

a three-line stanza in a poem

tesaurus

A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.

tese

(rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.

tesis

(rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.

teskefuld

A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.

test

(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).

test-

Pertaining to a trial or test.

testamentere

(transitive) To leave (property) in a will.

teste

(UK, Canada, ambitransitive) To oversee a test or exam.

testosteron

(steroid hormone) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.

tetration

(arithmetic) The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ^ba denoting a to the power of a to the power of \ldots to the power of a, in which a appears b times.

teutoner

A member of any Germanic-language-speaking people, especially a German.

Texas

A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.

Thailand

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Thailand. Capital: Bangkok. Former name: Siam.

thailandsk

Of or relating to Siam; Thai.

thailænder

(historical, plural "Siamese" or "Siameses") An inhabitant of Siam.

Thalia

(Greek god) The Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.

thallium

A metallic chemical element (symbol Tl) with atomic number 81: a gray post-transition metal that discolors when exposed to air.

Thanatos

(psychoanalysis) The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

Themsen

(with the) A river in the U.S. State of Connecticut flowing 24 km (15 mi.) past New London to Long Island Sound.

Theodor

A en given name; the name of a saint, pope, several emperors, etc.

Theodora

A en given name, most famously borne by two empresses of Byzantium.

Therese

A en given name, the Spanish and Italian form of Theresa.

Theseus

A legendary Ancient Greek hero most famous for defeating the minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete.

Thessaloniki

A port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.

theta

The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.

thi

(formal, literary) Because.

Thomasen, Thomassen, Thomsen, Thomssen

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Thor

(Norse mythology, and, paganism) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.