Dutch–English dictionary

buis

(slang, preceded by the) The television.

buiskap

(countable, nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.

buisstuk

A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

buit

An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.

buiten

(US, with article, almost always plural) A brushy, rural area or location.

buiten adem

Breathing with difficulty, in particular due to physical activity.

buiten beschouwing laten

(transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.

buiten de kust

Located in the sea away from the coast.

buiten gebruik

No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

buiten medeweten van

(followed by to) Without the knowledge of.

buiten werking

No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

buiten werking stellen

(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

buiten-

Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]

buitenaards

Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.

buitenbeentje

A person or thing that differs from the expected.

buitenboordmotor

A vessel fitted with an outboard motor.

buitenechtelijk samenwonen

The state of cohabiting or living together as man and woman while not married.

buitengebied

An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.

buitengerechtelijke

(legal, of a punishment) Carried out without legal authority.

buitengewoon

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.

buitengooien

(computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.

buitenhuis

A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.

buitenissig

Unpleasantly excessive.

buitenissigheid

The characteristic or quality of being freakish

buitenkant

The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.

buitenland

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. [from 1350–1470]

buitenlander

(sometimes, derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.

buitenlands

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

buitenlandse

A person from a foreign country.

buitenpost

A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.

buitenproportioneel

Out of proportion.

buitenschools

Outside of the normal curriculum of an educational establishment.

buitenshuis

(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode. [from 1150–1350)]

buitensluiten

(transitive, sometimes, figurative) To force to leave by crowding; to push out or away through strength of numbers.

buitenspel

(sports) An offside play.

buitensporig

Out of proportion.

buitensporigheid

Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.

buitenstaander

One who is not part of a community or organization.

buitentoilet

(North America) An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.

buitenvrouw

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

buitenwerken

(transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.

buitenwijk

A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.

buitenwijken

A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.

buitenwipper

(informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc. to decide who can enter, maintain order, and deal with patrons who cause trouble.

buitenzijde

The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.

buizen

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

buizerd

Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.

bukken

To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position.

buklaaf

(figuratively, derogatory) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.

buks

(firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

buksboom

(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

bukshout

(uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.

bul

A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.

bulder

Fitful noise and violence.

buldog

A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.

Bulgaar

(countable) A native of Bulgaria.

Bulgaars

Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.

Bulgaarse

(countable) A native of Bulgaria.

Bulgarije

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria. Capital and largest city: Sofia.

bulkend

Abounding, amply provided.

bulldozer

A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

bult

An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.

bultenaar

(derogatory, now, offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.

bumper

(automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.

bumperkleven

(automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.

bundel

(informal) A large amount, especially of money.

bundelen

(transitive) To gather into a bunch.

bungalow

A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.

burcht

A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.

burchtgraaf

(historical) The military governor of a town or castle in the Middle Ages, especially in German-speaking Europe; a nobleman of the same status.

bureau

The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.

bureaublad

(computing, GUI) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.

bureaubladachtergrond

(computing, countable, uncountable) An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.

bureaucraat

An official who is part of a bureaucracy.

bureaucratie

The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.

bureaucratisch

Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats.

bureel

(chiefly, British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.

buren

A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

burgemeester

The mayor, or head magistrate, of a town in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and certain other countries.

burgeois

(printing, dated) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

burger

Used to make the names of hamburgers served in buns with the addition of the specified foodstuff, or with that foodstuff used in place of the usual meat.

burgerklasse

(Marxism) The capitalist class.

burgerlijk

(Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually, _, pejorative) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

burgerlijke staat

One of several discrete options describing a person's relationship with a significant other, such as single, married, divorced, widowed, civil union, domestic partnership, etc.

burgerschap

The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.

burgertenue

(uncountable, AU, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.

burggraaf

A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.

burn-out

A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.

bus

(by extension, cycle racing) A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton in a race.

busbar

An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution system; typically a thick strip, or a tube, of copper or aluminium.

businessclass

(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

busje

A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.

buskruit

An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.

busschieter

(military unit) An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.

buste

A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.

bustehouder

An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts. [from 1920s]

butler

The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.

buts

A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.

button

(US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.

buur

A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

buur-

(American spelling) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.

buurman

A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

buurt

The residential area near one's home.

buurtcafé

(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.

buurvrouw

A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

buxus

(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

buxushout

(uncountable) The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.

bv.

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

Byzantijn

(historical) A native of Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul) or of the Byzantine empire

Byzantijns

Of or pertaining to Byzantium.

Byzantion

(historical) An ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul.

ca.

Abbreviation of circa.

cabaret

Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.

cabine

A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.

cabinet

A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.

cableren

(transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).

cacao

The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

cacaoboom

A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

cacaoboon

The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.

cachot

(US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

cachou

A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.

cacodemon

An evil or malevolent spirit.

cactus

(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

caddie

(by extension, golf, also, attributively) A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.

cadeau

Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

cadeau doen

(transitive) To give as a gift or donation.

caesar

A title of Roman emperors.

café

(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.

cafeïne

An alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, found naturally in tea and coffee plants, which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system. [from 1830]

cafetaria

(chiefly, US, Canada) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.

cahier

(computing, sometimes, attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

caissière

One who works at a till or receives payments.

cake

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

Calabrië

A peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy.

Calais

A city in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.

calamiteit

An event resulting in great loss.

calciet

(mineral) A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble.

calcium

The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.

calculator

A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.

calculeren

(transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

Calcutta

The capital city of West Bengal, India, formerly known in English as Calcutta.

Caledonië

A place named after the Latin name of Scotland.

caleidoscoop

An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is looked into and rotated, a succession of symmetrical designs can be seen. [from 1817]

calicokat

(countable) Ellipsis of calico cat.

calicot

(textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.

Californië

The most populous state of the United States. Capital: Sacramento. Largest city: Los Angeles.

Californiër

A native or resident of the state of California in the United States of America.

Californisch

Of or relating to California.

calpol

(North America) A white crystalline compound used in medicine as an anodyne to relieve pain and reduce fever.

calqueren

(transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.