Dutch–English dictionary

tweeslachtig

Possessing qualities of both sexes.

tweespan

A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

tweesprong

(by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.

Tweestromenland

(historical) A geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.

tweetal

Two of the same kind connected or considered together.

tweetalig

A person who is able to use two languages.

tweetalige

A person who is able to use two languages.

tweetallig

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

tweetallige

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

tweeten

(ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter. [since 2007]

tweevoet

A two-legged stand.

tweevoud

(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.

tweevoudig

Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.

tweevoudige

Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.

tweewekelijks

Occurring once in a fortnight; once every two weeks.

tweezijdig

Having two sides.

twiet

The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

twijfel

(rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.

twijfelachtig

Tending to doubt.

twijfelen

(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

twijg

A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.

twijn

A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

twinkelen

(intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.

twintig

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

twintigje

(colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.

twintigste

The ordinal form of the number twenty.

twist

The state of being contentious.

twisten

(intransitive, also, figuratively) To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.

twistgierig

Prone to argue or dispute.

twistziek

Prone to argue or dispute.

twitchen

(transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

Twitter

(trademark) An online social networking and microblogging service; officially known as X since 2023.

twitteren

(ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter. [since 2007]

tycoon

A wealthy and powerful business person.

tyfit

Having the form or shape of a snake.

tyfoon

(in particular) A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.

tyfus

(pathology) Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

Tyne

A river in East Lothian council area, in southern Scotland.

type

(type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.

typefout

A typographical error. [from late 19th c.]

typemachine

A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.

typen

To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

typisch

(now, _, dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual. [from 14th c.]

typist

A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.

typiste

A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.

typmachine

A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.

typograaf

A person skilled in typography, a typesetter.

typografie

The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.

tyrannie

A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power, or this system of government; especially, one that acts cruelly and unjustly.

Tyrus

A city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.

u

The individual or group spoken or written to.

U-dal

A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.

ufo

Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.]

Uganda

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.

uier

An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.

uil

A fool, simpleton.

uilenbal

Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.

uilskuiken

A fool, simpleton.

uit

Into a state of non-operation.

uit angst dat

For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.

uit de hand gelopen

Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.

uit de scharnieren tillen

To remove the leaf of a door or a window from its supporting hinges.

uit de weg gaan

(transitive) To give up; yield to another. [with to]

uit elkaar

(archaic, literary) Into separate parts or pieces.

uit elkaar spelen

(transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.

uit elkaar vallen

(intransitive, often, figurative) To fall apart; to disintegrate.

uit het ei komen

(intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.

uit het hoofd leren

To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.

uit het hoofd praten

(transitive) To convince not to try or do.

uit het niets

(idiomatic) In an unexpected or inexplicable manner of arrival or occurrence.

uit zijn evenwicht brengen

To mentally disturb.

uit-

(sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.

uit-en-te-na

In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.

uitademen

(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.

uitademing

The act or process of exhaling; breathing out

uitbannen

(transitive) To drive out (an evil spirit) from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer.

uitbarsten

(intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).

uitbarsting

An act or instance of bursting.

uitbeelden

(transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

uitbeelding

(countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.

uitbesteden

(chiefly, US, business, management, transitive) To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.

uitbesteding

The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.

uitbetalen

(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.

uitbetaling

(countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange#Noun for goods or services, or the transaction#Noun that conveys it.

uitbijten

(transitive) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.

uitbijter

(statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.

uitblinken

(intransitive) To be much better than others.

uitblinker

One who is an inspiration to others; one who has achieved success in one's chosen field; a leading light.

uitboeten

(transitive) To expiate, atone (for).

uitbouw

An addition or extension to a building.

uitbraak

An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.

uitbraken

(transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.

uitbranden

(transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

uitbrander

(uncommon) A strong rebuke or scolding.

uitbreiden

To augment or make something greater.

uitbreiding

(translation studies) A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

uitbreken

(figurative) An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.

uitbreker

(architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.

uitbrengen

To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).

uitbroeden

(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

uitbuiten

(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

uitbuiter

One who exploits.

uitbundig

(archaic) Of a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.

uitbundigheid

Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions. [Mid 19th century.]

uitdagen

(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

uitdagend

Difficult, hard to do.

uitdager

One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.

uitdaging

A challenge to prove courage.

uitdeinen

To cause to become distended.

uitdelen

(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.

uitdeling

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution

uitdenken

To design a new process or mechanism.

uitdijen

(intransitive) To advance gradually beyond due limits.

uitdijing

(cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

uitdoen

(chiefly, clothing) To remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).

uitdossen

To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

uitdoven

(transitive) To put out; to extinguish.

uitdragen

(transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.

uitdrijving

The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.

uitdroging

The act or process of removing water from something.

uitdrukkelijk

Very specific, clear, or detailed. [from 1609]

uitdrukken

(transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.

uitdrukkend

Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

uitdrukking

A colloquialism or idiom.

uitdrukkingsloos

without expression

uitdunnen

To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

uiteen

(archaic, literary) Into separate parts or pieces.

uiteendrijven

(transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.

uiteengaan

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

uiteenlopen

(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

uiteenlopend

Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.

uiteenspatten

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

uiteenvallen

(ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.

uiteenwijken

(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

uiteenzetten

To describe or depict with words or gestures.

uiteinde

The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.

uiteindelijk

(idiomatic) anyway, in any case; indicates a statement is true regardless of other considerations; used to reinforce or explain a point.

uiten

To utter; to pronounce.

uiteraard

Surely or without any doubt.

uiterlijk

The set of artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.

uitermate

(degree) To an extreme degree.

uiterst

To the greatest, highest, or utmost degree.

uiterste

Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.

uitflappen

To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.

uitgaan

(intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.

uitgaand

(of a person) Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.

uitgaansleven

Nocturnal activities, especially visiting nightclubs.

uitgaansverbod

Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.

uitgang

(linguistics) A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix.

uitgangspunt

A point of view; a perspective.