Dutch–English dictionary

wenselijk

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

wenselijkheid

The state of being desirable.

wensen

To want; to wish for earnestly.

wentelwiek

(aircraft) An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.

werdel

Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.

wereld

Concerning all parts of the world.

wereldal

(countable) The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.

wereldbeeld

A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.

wereldbeschouwing

A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.

wereldbol

The planet Earth.

wereldbrand

A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

wereldburger

A person regarded as part of the global citizenry; specifically, one who takes the view that they belong to no particular country or state.

werelddeel

Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.

wereldlijk

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

wereldstad

A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.

wereldstekker

Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.

wereldvreemd

(idiomatic) No longer conversant with something, especially facts, reality, or the world; not aware or realistic.

wereldwijd

Concerning all parts of the world.

wereldwijde

Spanning the world; global.

wereldwijs

Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

wereldzee

(countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

werk

Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.

werk aannemen

(intransitive) To accept employment.

werkbaar

Available for use; accessible or employable.

werkbank

A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.

werkdag

Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:

werkelijk

Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.

werkelijk?

(informal) Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism.

werkelijkheid

An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.

werken

(intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).

werkend

In good working order.

werkethos

The value that one ought to work hard at one's job or duties.

werkgever

A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.

werking

(mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).

werkkamer

A room, such as a workshop or studio, where work is done.

werkkracht

(especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.

werkloos

Having no job despite being able and willing to work.

werkloosheid

The state of having no job; joblessness.

werkloosheidsuitkering

(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.

werklozen

(with the) The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.

werklust

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.

werkman

(especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.

werkmens

A man who labours for wages.

werkneemster

A person who provides labor to a company or another person.

werknemer

A person who provides labor to a company or another person.

werkpak

(uncountable) Heavy denim fabric, often blue; blue jean material.

werkplaats

A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.

werkplek

The place where someone works.

werkschuw

Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.

werkstation

(computing) A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.

werkster

A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.

werkstuk

(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.

werktuig

Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

werktuigbouwkundige

A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.

werktuiglijk

Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.

werkwoord

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

werkwoordelijk

(grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.

werkzaam

Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.

werpen

To throw down or aside. [from 15th c.]

werper

(baseball, softball) The player who delivers the ball to the batter.

werpspoel

(weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

wervel

(skeleton) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.

wervelen

(transitive) To agitate, bewilder, fluster.

wervelend

Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex. [from 17th c.]

werveling

A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.

wervelstorm

(broadly) Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.

wervelwind

A whirlwind.

werven

(by extension, ambitransitive) To advertise a non-religious belief, way of living, cause, point of view, (scientific) hypothesis, social or other position, political party, or other organization; to convince someone to join such a cause or organization or support such a position; to recruit someone.

werving

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

wesp

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

west

Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.

westelijk

Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.

westelijke

Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.

Westen

The western world; i.e. Western Europe, the US and Canada (sometimes includes Latin America), and Australia and New Zealand.

westerling

A native or inhabitant of the West, of the Western world—Europe and the Americas. (Also written capitalized as Westerner.)

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westerzijde

The western side of a building, street, area etc.

westkant

The western side of a building, street, area etc.

westwaarts

Towards the west; westwards.

westzijde

The western side of a building, street, area etc.

wet

(law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.

wet van Ohm

(physics) Ohm's observation that the direct current flowing in an electrical circuit consisting only of resistances is directly proportional to the voltage applied.

wetboek

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

weten

(transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.

wetende

(archaic) Unto this; up until now; hereto.

wetenschap

(uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

wetenschapper

One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

wetenschapster

One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

wetgeefster

Someone who creates or enacts laws.

wetgevend

Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.

wetgevende macht

A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.

wetgever

Someone who creates or enacts laws.

wetgeving

The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws.

wethouder

A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.

wetsontwerp

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

wetsteen

A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

wetsvoorstel

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

wettelijk

Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.

wetteloos

Not restrained by the law or by discipline; disorderly, unruly.

wetteloosheid

Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.

wetten

To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.

wettig

(legal) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.

wettigheid

Lawfulness.

weven

(transitive) To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

wever

A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.

wezel

(countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.

wezen

To occupy a place.

wezenlijk

Necessary.

whatsapp

A message sent via WhatsApp.

WhatsAppbericht

A message sent via WhatsApp.

whatsappen

(transitive) To contact (someone) via WhatsApp.

whiplash

(countable) The lash of a whip.

whiskey

(Ireland, US, England) A drink of whiskey.

wichelaar

A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.

wichelarij

Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.

wichelen

(transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.

wichtig

Having a lot of weight; heavy.

Wie

A surname from Dutch.

wie dan ook

Any person; anybody.

wiebelen

(intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.

wied

(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

wieden

(transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.

wieg

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

wiegelied

A cradlesong, a soothing song to calm children or lull them to sleep.

wiegeliedje

A cradlesong, a soothing song to calm children or lull them to sleep.

wiegen

(transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).

wiegewacht

A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.

wiel

A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.

wiellader

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

wielmaker

A person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones.

wielrennen

(uncountable) The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles.

wielrenner

A person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling.

wielrenster

A person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling.

wielrijden

(intransitive) To ride a bike.

wielrijder

A person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling.

wielrijdster

A person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling.

wiens

(interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.

wier

(interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.

wierook

Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.

wiet

(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

wig

A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

wigwam

A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.

wij

The institution which the speaker/writer is acting for. (This is the editorial we, used by writers and others when speaking with the authority of their publication or organisation.)

wijd

(of, clothing) Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.

wijd uiteen

(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. [from 1150–1350]

wijdbeens

With one’s legs on either side.

wijden

(transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.

wijding

The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

wijdlopig

(of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

wijdverspreid

Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.