Danish–English dictionary

tiltrækkende

Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.

tiltrækningskraft

The tendency to attract.

tiltro

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

tilværelse

(Ontology) The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

Tim

A en given name of biblical origin, also borne by early Christian saints.

timbre

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

Timbuktu

(figurative) Any proverbially distant or remote place.

time

(time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).

timeglas

A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows.

timeløn

(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

timeplan

A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur. [from 19th c.]

timer

A device used to measure amounts of time.

timian

Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.

Timotheus

A en given name of biblical origin, also borne by early Christian saints.

tin

An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin and 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony.

tinding

(anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.

ting

(chiefly, historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.

tingest

(informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

tinghus

A public building housing courts of law.

tinnitus

(otolaryngology, pathology) The experience of auditory sensations, such as a ringing or pulsating sound, occurring in the absence of any external stimulus.

tip

A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [from mid-19th c.]

tip-

With familial designations, used to denote a removal of one generation

tipi

A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.

tirade

A long, angry or violent speech.

tiramisu

An Italian semifreddo dessert, originally from Veneto, made from ladyfinger biscuits, cocoa, mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine, eggs (or sometimes cream), sugar and espresso coffee.

tirsdag

The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.

tis

Urine. [from 15th c.]

tissekone

(childish) The female genitalia.

tissemand

(North America, colloquial) The penis.

tit

Done or occurring often; common.

titan

A chemical element, atomic number 22; it is a strong, corrosion-resistant transition metal, used to make light alloys for aircraft etc.

titrering

(analytical chemistry) The determination of the concentration of some substance in a solution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using a burette) until a reaction is shown to be complete, for instance by the colour change of an indicator.

Titus

The seventeenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to Titus.

Titusbrevet

The seventeenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to Titus.

tja

An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).

Tjajkovskij

A transliteration of the Russian surname Чайко́вский (Čajkóvskij), usually applying to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

tjald

Any of several black or pied coastal wading birds in the genus Haematopus that have a long red or orange bill and feed on shellfish.

tjære

(transitive) To coat with tar.

Tjeka

(historical) The first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations, created in 1917.

tjekke

(countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

tjekker

(countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

tjekkisk

Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.

tjekkoslovak

A native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia

Tjekkoslovakiet

A former country in Central Europe, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

tjekkoslovakisk

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Czechoslovakia or its people.

tjener

One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.

tjeneste

To take out of service or to render unusable.

tjenestemand

A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.

tjenlig

Having a practical or beneficial use.

tjern

(US, chiefly, Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds.

Tjernobyl

A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.

tjetjener

A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.

Tjetjenien

A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny.

tjetjensk

Of or relating to the Chechen people.

tjørn

Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches

to

The digit/figure 2.

to gange

Two times.

to uger

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _, in North America) A period of 2 weeks.

tobakshandler

A person who sells tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, snuff and sundry items.

todelt

(graph theory, of a graph) Having vertices that can be divided into two independent sets (see bigraph)

tog

A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession. [from 15th c.]

toga

A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome.

togfører

(rail transport) A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.

Togo

A country in West Africa. Official name: Togolese Republic.

togvej

(rail transport) A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.

toilet

A toilet that uses water to flush urine and feces through a pipe to another location, typically a sewer main in urban settings or a septic tank elsewhere.

toiletkumme

(NZ) A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.

toiletpapir

A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.

toilette

(now, historical, or, archaic) Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. [from 17th c.]

toksisk

(toxicology, pharmaceutical drug) Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.

Tokyo

A prefecture and capital city of Japan.

told

An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit

toldfrihed

A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.

toldgodtgørelse

A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.

tolerant

Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.

tolerere

(transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

tolk

A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

tolv

The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.

tolvte

The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.

tom

(archaic) White or pale; without colour.

tom plads

An empty space; a void, for example on a paper [since the 16th century].

tomat

A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

tombola

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.

tomler

A person or thing that hitchhikes.

tomme fraser

(uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.

tommelfinger

The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.

Tommelise

A fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl.

tommeltot

The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.

tomt

A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

ton

Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:

tonalitet

(music) The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.

tone

Tone, as of a conversation.

tonefald

(language, literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.

tonegang

The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.

tonerække

A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).

Tonga

A country and archipelago of Polynesia in Oceania. Official name: Kingdom of Tonga. Capital and largest city: Nuku'alofa.

tonus

(language, dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

top

A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.

topløs

(chiefly, of a female) Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.

topmøde

(by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely) , an important or high-level gathering or meeting.

topografi

The features themselves; terrain.

topografisk

Of or relating to topography.

topologi

(mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical object (of arbitrary dimensionality) that are unchanged by continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending, etc., without tearing or gluing).

toponymi

(semantics) Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.

toppunkt

The highest point, top or apex of something.

topskarv

Gulosus aristotelis (syn. Phalacrocorax aristotelis), a member of the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant) family of seabirds.

Tor

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

torden

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

tordenvejr

A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.

tordmåned

The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.

torg

An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

torn

(botany) A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.

tornado

(meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

Toronto

The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city Canada.

torp

(archaic, now, chiefly, _, in, _, placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.

torpedo

(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon. [from 1805]

torsdag

The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.

torsk

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

torsket

Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.

torso

The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.

tortere

(transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.

torturere

(transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.

torv

The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.

Toscana

An administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna.

toskansk

Of, from or relating to Tuscany, Italy.

tosse

(informal, offensive, derogatory) An insane or very foolish person.

tossehoved

(pejorative) A dunce, mentally dull or stupid person.

tosset

(informal, offensive, derogatory, of a person) Insane.

total

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

totalitarisme

A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

totalitær

Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.

totem

Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.

toti

The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

tov

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

tø

(intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.

tøffel

(footwear) A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

tøj

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

tøjlesløs

Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.

tøjr

A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.

tøjte

(archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress.

tømme

(transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.

tømmer

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

tømmermænd

Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.

tømrerarbejde

(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.

tømrerhåndværk

(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.

tømrerværksted

(countable) A carpenter's workshop.

tømring

(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.

tønde

(countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

tørfisk

A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.

tørke

A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.