Dutch–English dictionary

absolutie

(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

absolutisme

(political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism. [First attested in the early 19th century.]

absoluut

Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory. [first attested in the mid 1500s]

absolveren

(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

absorbens

Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

absorberen

(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. [first attested c. 1350 to 1470.]

absorberend

Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

absorptie

(physical chemistry, physics) the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]

abstinent

Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.

abstinentie

Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism). [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

abstineren

(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

abstract

Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

abstract begrip

An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

abstract iets

An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

abstract kunstwerk

(arts) An abstract work of art. [First attested in the early 20th century.]

abstracte term

An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

abstractie

An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

abstraheren

(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

absurd

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. [from mid-16th c.]

Abt

A number of places in the United States:

Abts

A number of places in the United States:

abusievelijk

Unintentionally; because of an oversight.

acacia

(countable) A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

academicus

(obsolete) A member of an academy, university, or college. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.]

academie

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

academisch

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. [from late 16th century]

accent

(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

accent aigu

(orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.

accentteken

(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

accentueren

(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.

acceptabel

Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.

acceptatie

(law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.

accepteren

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

accessoire

Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.

accijns

(archaic, uncountable) Toll, tax, or tribute.

acclamatie

A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.

acclimatisatie

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.

acclimatiseren

(transitive) To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate.

accolade

(historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.

accommodatie

(countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

accommoderen

(transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.

accompagnement

(music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

accordeon

A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).

accountant

A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).

accreditatie

The giving of credentials.

accu

(British) A wet-cell storage battery.

accumulatie

(finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.

accumuleren

(intransitive) To increase, to rise

accuraat

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

acedia

(now, literary) Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy. [from 13th c.]

aceton

(organic compound) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.

acetyleen

A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.

Achab

A king of Israel, mentioned in the Bible.

Achilles

(Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.

acht

A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

achtbaan

An amusement ride consisting of a train on a track that rises, falls, twists and turns.

achteloos

Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. [from 16thc.]

achteloosheid

Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.

achten

(ambitransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

achtenswaardig

Meriting praise; worthy of high praise

achter

Behind; later in time; following.

achter aan

In pursuit of, seeking.

achter elkaar

Greater in height than breadth.

achter komen

(transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.

achteraan

(nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way. [First attested in the late 17th century.]

achteraf

(temporal location) At a later or succeeding time; after that;

achterbaks

Not honourable; unworthy of honour.

achterblijven

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

achterblijver

One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.

achterdeur

(figurative) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.

achterdochtig

Distrustful or tending to suspect.

achtereenvolgend

following, in succession, without interruption

achtereind

The rear, back-end.

achtereinde

The rear, back-end.

achtergrond

Background, context, framework, surroundings.

achterhaald

(idiomatic) Out of date; old-fashioned; obsolete; outmoded; outdated.

achterhand

(informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.

achterhoede

(military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

achterhoedespeler

(sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.

achterkant

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

achterklap

(uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially about someone not present.

achterland

A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible.

achterlaten

(transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]

achterlating

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16th century.]

achterlicht

One of a pair of red lights mounted on the rear of a vehicle, so it can be seen from the rear at night.

achterliggend

implicit

achterlijk

Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.

achterlijke

A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.A mug

achterlijker dan

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. [First attested around the late 15th century.]

achternaam

The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s).

achternajagen

(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.

achternazitten

(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.

achterplan

The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.

achterschip

(nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

achterstallig

Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.

achterstand

Work to be done, obligation.

achterste

(informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.

achterstellen

To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.

achtersteven

(nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

achtertuin

(AU, Canadian, NZ, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.

achteruit

(nautical) On the aft side; in the stern. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

achteruit gaan

(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

achteruit rijden

(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

achteruitgaan

(intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

achteruitgang

Downward movement, fall.

achtervanger

(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

achtervoegsel

(computing) Ellipsis of file extension.

achtervolgen

(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.

achtervolger

One who surreptitiously follows another.

achtervolging

(real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.

achterwaarts

(archaic, Geordie) Towards the back or rear; backwards. [First attested prior to 1150.]

achterwerk

(informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.

achterzijde

The rear, back-end.

achthoek

(geometry, also, attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.

achtig

Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).

achting

Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or regard.

achtkamp

(athletics) A sporting event consisting of eight different sports or contests.

achtste

The ordinal form of the number eight.

achtste cicero

(uncountable, US, _, printing, rare, dated) A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+1⁄2-point type.

achtste noot

(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

achtste petit

(uncountable, US, _, printing, rare, dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.

achttien

The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.

achttiende

The ordinal form of the number eighteen.

achtvoudig

By a factor of eight.

aciditeit

The quality or state of being acid.

acne

A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.

acoliet

(Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.

Acre

A port city in northern Israel, holiest city in the Baháʼí Faith.

acribisch

Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

acrobaat

An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.

acrobate

An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.

acroniem

(linguistics) An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.

acryl

(organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from acrylic acid :- CH2=CH-CO-

acrylverf

(painting) A paint containing an acrylic resin.

acrylverftekening

(painting) A paint containing an acrylic resin.

acteren

(intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.

acteur

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

actie

Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.

actief

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

activa

(accounting) The left side of a balance sheet.

activeren

(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.

activisme

The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.

activist

One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.

activiste

One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.

activiteit

(uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.

actrice

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

actualiseren

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

actuaris

A professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions.

actueel

(now, rare) in action at the time being; now existing; current. [from 18th c.]

acupunctuur

The insertion of needles into the (living) tissue of the body affecting the Qi or energy along energetic pathways of the body called meridians. This modality is traditionally used as a form of internal medical treating all disease and illnesses, in Western countries it is widely used for the purposes of pain relief.