Dutch–English dictionary

seut

(colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.

Sevilla

The capital city of Andalusia, Spain.

sex-appeal

(informal, uncountable) Sex appeal.

sexappeal

Sexual attractiveness. [from 1910s]

sexiness

The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal.

sextiljoen

(US, British, Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.

sexualiteit

Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity.

sexuele betrekkingen

Sexual intercourse usually involving humans.

sexy

(of a person) Sexy, attractive.

sexyheid

The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal.

Seychellen

An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.

sfeer

A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.

sferisch

Spherical, ball-shaped.

sfinx

(mythology) A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.

shag

Coarse shredded tobacco.

Shakespearein

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.

shampoo

An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.

shanty

A song sailors sing, especially in rhythm to work, to help coordinate hauling (pulling) at the same time, or to set the pace for continuous activities.

sharia

(Islam) A body of religious law forming a part of the Islamic tradition based on the scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith.

Sheaboom

The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed.

Sheherazade

A en given name.

shell

(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.

Sherazade

A en given name.

sheriff

(US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.

sherpa

(countable) A local mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Nepalese Sherpa people so employed.

shigellose

(medicine) A form of dysentery caused by intestinal infection with Shigella bacteria

shilling

The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.

Shintoïsme

Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.

shirt

(clothing) An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

shoarma

A Middle Eastern sandwich-like wrap of shaved lamb, goat, chicken, turkey, beef, or a mixture of these.

shock

A sudden, heavy impact.

shoetoe

(informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.

Shona

A language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

shoppen

(intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

short

Pants or trousers worn for sports or in warmer weather that do not go lower than the knees.

shovel

A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, tracked loader, wheel loader, etc.

show

(obsolete) A show or spectacle.

shrank

(US, Pennsylvania Dutch English) A large highly decorative German/Dutch-style piece of furniture, which combines aspects of a clothing wardrobe, curio, and cabinet.

shunt

An electrical shunt.

shuttle

(countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. [from early 16th c.]

sialia

Any of various North American birds of the genus Sialia in the thrush family. Their plumage is blue or blue and red.

siamees

(plural "Siameses") A Siamese cat.

sibbe

(countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.

Siberië

The region of Russia in Asia, stretching from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean.

Siberiër

(ethnology) A person from Siberia.

Siberisch

Of or relating to Siberia.

Siberische

(ethnology) A person from Siberia.

sibilant

(phonetics) A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

sibillijns

One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.

sibling

A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.

sic

Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.

Siciliaans

Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.

Sicilië

The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily.

sidderen

(intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

siddering

A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.

sier-

An ornamental plant.

sieraad

A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.

sierlijk

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

sierlijst

(architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.

sierplant

An ornamental plant.

sieuw mai

A traditional steamed Chinese pork dumpling served in dim sum.

siew maai

A traditional steamed Chinese pork dumpling served in dim sum.

sigaar

A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

sigaret

A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.

sightseeing

The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.

sigma

The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient.

signaal

A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.

signaalvlag

(nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.

significant

Significant; substantial.

Sigrid

A en given name.

sijpelen

To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.

sik

A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.

sikh

An adherent of Sikhism.

sikkel

(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

sikkelvormige rij huizen

A curved pastry.

Silas

A en given name of Biblical origin.

silene

(botany) Any of several plants of the genus Silene.

silhouet

An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be. [mid 19th c.]

silicium

(chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.

silicone

(chemistry) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.

silt

(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

simonie

The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.

simpel

(now, colloquial, euphemism) Feeble-minded; foolish.

simpele

(slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.

simpele ziel

(pejorative) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

simplex

(algebraic, _, topology, geometry) A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of n+1 affinely independent points in n-dimensional space.

simplistisch

Overly simple.

Simson

(biblical character) An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress.

simultaan

Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

sinaasappel

(countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.

sinaasappelboom

(countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).

sinaasappelhuid

The dimpled appearance of skin caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous adipose tissue, especially on a woman's hips and thighs.

sinds

From the time that.

sindsdien

(duration) Continuously since a specified time or event.

sinecure

A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.

Singapore

An island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony and state of Malaysia (1963-1965). Official name: Republic of Singapore.

singel

A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.

single

(North America) An unmarried woman.

singleton

(computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.

singulariteit

(physics) A location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system.

singulier

(linear algebra, of matrix) Having no inverse.

sinister

Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

sinopel

(tincture) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

Sint

A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.

sint-jakobsschelp

Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.

sintel

A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.

sintels

The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.

sinus

(trigonometry, mathematics) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.

sip

Despondent; moody; sullen.

sire

A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.

sirocco

A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.

siroop

Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.

sis

A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.

sisklank

(phonetics) A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

sissen

(intransitive) To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping.

sisser

(literally) A firework that has been wet and therefore fails to go off correctly.

site

(Internet) A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

situatie

Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.

sixtijns

Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus.

sjaal

A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.

sjabbat

Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.

sjabbes

Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.

sjabloon

Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline. [from 14th c.]

sjacheren

(transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.

sjah

A king of Persia or Iran.

sjalom

(Judaism) A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell.

sjamaan

A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds; sometimes also a healer.

Sjanghai

A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.

sjasliek

A form of shish kebab, originally made of marinated lamb meat.

Sjeherazade

A en given name.

sjerp

(clothing) A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.

sjerpa

(countable) A local mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Nepalese Sherpa people so employed.

sjia

(with article, collective) The followers of this branch of Islam; the Shiites.

sjiek

(chiefly, uncountable) Good form; style.

sjorren

(transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.

Sjors

A en given name; also used in the conjoined name George Ann(e).

Sjota

A male given name of Georgian origin.

ska

(music genre) A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

skalian

A dredging machine.

skateboarden

To skateboard.

skaten

To skateboard.

skater

A person who skates.

skelet

A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.

skeptisch

Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe. [from 16th c.]

sketch

A gimmick.

ski

One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.

skiën

(transitive) To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).

skiër

One who skis.

skiester

One who skis.

skiff

A small rowing boat, for one person.