Dutch–English dictionary

bietser

(mostly, pejorative) A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.

bifurcatie

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

big

A young pig.

Bigfoot

(cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

biggetje

A young pig.

bigotterie

The condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.

bij

Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place. [from ca. 1350–1470]

bij benadering

Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.

bij de beesten af

Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.

bij de hand

Nearby, within reach.

bij de konijnen af

Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.

bij de lurven pakken

(transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.

bij de vleet

Having an abundant supply.

bij elkaar

Into one place; into a single thing; combined.

bij elkaar doen

(transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).

bij het nekvel grijpen

(transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.

bij voorbaat

At an earlier or preceding time.

bij-

Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.

bijbehoren

That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition. [from c. 1300]

Bijbel

The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.

Bijbels

Of or relating to the Bible.

bijbetekenis

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

bijblijven

Followed by of or with: up to a certain level or line; equally advanced. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]

bijbrengen

(transitive) To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.

bijdrage

Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.

bijdragen

To contribute or lead to a specific result.

bijeen

Into one place; into a single thing; combined.

bijeendrijven

(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.

bijeenkomen

(intransitive) To assemble; to congregate; to combine.

bijeenkomst

A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).

bijeenroepen

(transitive) To call people together; to convene; to convoke.

bijeenroeping

The act of calling or assembling by summons.

bijeenstaan

To arrange or occur side by side.

bijeentellen

(transitive) To add together.

bijeenzetten

To arrange or occur side by side.

bijenbrood

Bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, made and stored in brood cells by forager bees, and used as food for worker bees and larvae.

bijenhouder

A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.

bijenhoudster

A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.

bijenhuif

A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.

bijenkast

A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.

bijenkorf

A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.

bijennest

Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.

bijenraat

(uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

bijenwas

A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.

bijgebouw

A building, such as a barn, shed, or garage, that is separate from, but associated with some main building.

bijgeloof

A belief or beliefs, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that events may be influenced by one's behavior in some magical or mystical way.

bijgelovig

Susceptible to superstitions.

bijgevolg

(conjunctive) As a result or consequence of something; subsequently.

bijhouden

(transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

bijkeuken

(North America) A room used as a barrier between indoors and outdoors.

bijklank

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

bijknippen

(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

bijkomend

Supplemental or added to something.

bijkomstig

Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.

bijl

An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.

bijlage

An addition, an extension.

bijles

(Ireland, United Kingdom, ) The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.

bijlichten

(transitive) To set fire to; to set burning.

bijna

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. [from before 1150]

bijnaam

A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.

bijnamen

(transitive) To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

bijscholing

(Ireland, United Kingdom, ) The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.

bijschrift

A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

bijsnijden

(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

bijstaan

(transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action). [late 16th c.]

bijstand

(uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.

bijstand verlenen

(transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.

bijstelling

The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration

bijsturen

(transitive) To give new direction to, change the direction of.

bijtanken

(ambitransitive) To refill with fuel.

bijten

The act of biting.

bijtend

Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.

bijv.

An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example.

bijvak

(North America, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

bijvallen

(Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)

bijvoegen

(transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

bijvoegsel

(legal) An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.

bijwerken

(transitive) To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.

bijwonen

(transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place). [from 17th c.]

bijziend

Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.

bijziendheid

The property of being nearsighted, myopia.

bijzin

(grammar) A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.

bijzonder

Exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority.

bijzonderheid

The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.

biker

A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.

bikini

A brief bathing suit worn by men.

bikkelen

(games) A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.

bil

(euphemism) The buttocks or anus. [1794]

biljard

(US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,0004): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015.

biljart

(games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.

biljet

A piece of currency made of paper or polymer. [from 18th c.]

biljet van twee dollar

(US, informal) A two-dollar bill.

biljoen

(dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million (times a) million (logic: 1,000,0002): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (1012); a thousand milliard.

billen

(informal, _, or, _, childish, chiefly, Commonwealth) The buttocks.

billenkoek

(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.

billijk

Factually right, correct; factual.

binair

(logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.

binaire

(logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.

binariteit

(mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

binden

(transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

bindend

(of an agreement, contract, etc.) Imposing stipulations or requirements that must be honoured.

binder

Someone who binds books; a bookbinder.

binding

(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.

bindmiddel

(chemistry) A chemical or other substance that causes two other substances to form into one.

bindsel

Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book.

bingo

(uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.

bink

(informal) An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.

binnen

At the end of (a period of time).

binnen handbereik

(idiomatic) Readily available.

binnen-

Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.

binnenbaarmoederlijk

Located or taking place inside the uterus.

binnendoen

(transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)

binnendringen

(intransitive) To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.

binnengaan

(transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

binnenhalen

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

binnenhof

An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.

binnenin

In the inner part, spatially; physically inside.

binnenkant

The interior or inner part.

binnenkort

(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.

binnenladen

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

binnenland

The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.

binnenlands

Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.

binnenlaten

(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

binnenplaats

An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.

binnenplein

An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.

binnenruimte

An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

binnenst

the very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part.

binnenstad

(chiefly, US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.

binnenste

The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.

binnenstebuiten keren

(transitive, obsolete, also, figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.

binnenstormen

(intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.

binnenvaartschip

A watercraft designed for operating on rivers.

binnenvallen

To intrude; to enter or interrupt suddenly and without invitation.

bio-

life

bioafbreekbaar

Capable of being decomposed by biological activity, especially by microorganisms.

biochemicus

A chemist whose speciality is biochemistry

biochemie

(uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism; the study of such chemistry.

biochemisch

of, or relating to biochemistry

biodiversiteit

(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.

biograaf

The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.

biografie

A person's life story, especially one published.

biologe

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

biologie

The study of all life or living matter.

biologisch

(agriculture) Of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agrichemicals, and possibly certified by a regulatory body. [from 1942]

biologisch afbreekbaar

Capable of being decomposed by biological activity, especially by microorganisms.

biologisch gevaar

A biological hazard; a source of risk due to some biological factor such as bacteria or human waste.

bioloog

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

biometrisch

Of, relating to, or using biometrics.

bionisch

(not comparable) Related to bionics.