Dutch–English dictionary

kant-en-klaar

Very quickly and easily prepared.

kantaloep

Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:

kantelen

(transitive) To set (something) at an angle; to tilt.

kanteloep

Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:

kantelpunt

A critical moment in time.

kantine

(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.

kantlijn

(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.

kanton

A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).

Kantonees

(uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.

Kantonese

(countable, chiefly, in the plural) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.

kantoor

An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).

kantoortuin

An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort.

kanunnik

A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

kap

(Australia, British, NZ, South Africa, Commonwealth, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car, also known as a hood in chiefly Canada and the US.

kapasie

Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

kapel

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]

kapelaan

A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.

kapen

To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).

kaper

(nautical) Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century, who were similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation.

kaphandschoen

Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.

kaphout

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

kaping

The act of one who hijacks (in any sense).

kapitaal

(slang, dated) used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.

kapitalisme

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

kapitalist

The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person.

kapitaliste

A person who is a supporter of capitalism.

kapitalistisch

Supporting or endorsing capitalism.

kapiteel

(countable, architectural element) The uppermost part of a column.

kapitein

An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.

kapitein-luitenant ter zee

A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.

kapittel

A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.

kapmes

A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.

kapot

Non-functional; not functioning properly.

kapot maken

(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.

kapotgaan

(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

kapotmaken

(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

kapotslaan

(transitive) To beat up (a person) more than usually severely.

kappa

The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

kappen

(transitive) To style or arrange hair.

kapper

A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.

kappertje

The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.

kapriool

A playful leap or jump.

kapsalon

(countable) The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.

kapseizen

(transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).

kapsel

A hairdo.

kapsones

Excessive pride, presumption, or arrogance (originally toward the gods).

kapster

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

kar

(British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.

karabijn

A rifle with a short barrel.

Karachi

The largest city in Pakistan situated along the Arabian Sea, as well as the provincial capital of Sindh Province.

karaf

A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.

karakter

(countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.

karakterdanser

(euphemistic) A stripper.

karaktereigenschap

An attribute of someone's personality.

karakteriseren

To express the essential nature of something.

karakteristiek

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

karakteristieke

The condition of being salient.

karakterloos

Flat; lacking character or definition.

karakterreeks

(countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

karamel

(countable) A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.

karaoke

(uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.

karaoken

(intransitive) to perform karaoke

karavaan

A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

karbonade

(cooking, dated) Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.

karbouw

An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.

kardinaalrood

A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)

kardinaalsmuts

Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

kardoen

Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.

Karel

A en given name.

Karel de Grote

One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.

kariboe

Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.

karig

Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate. [From early 17th c.]

karikaturiseren

To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

karikatuur

A caricature.

karkas

(literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. [from late 14th c.]

karmijn

A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.

karmijnen

Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

karmijnrood

Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

karmozijn

A deep, slightly bluish red.

karmozijnen

Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

karmozijnrood

Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

karn

A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.

Karnataka

A state in southern India. Capital: Bangalore.

karnemelk

The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.

karnen

(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

karper

Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; specifically the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

kart

A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

karteldarm

(anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)

kartelig

Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.

karton

A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

kartouwe

A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.

karwei

A tedious and laborious task.

kas

A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.

Kasjmir

A contested geographic region of South Asia in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) India, Pakistan and China.

kasjoe

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

kaskraker

(informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.

kassa

A place in a restaurant, bar, or shop etc, typically containing a cash register, where a customer can pay the bill.

kassalade

A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

kassei

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

kasseisteen

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

kassier

One who works at a till or receives payments.

kast

(US) A chest of drawers for clothes.

kastanje

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.

kastanjebruin

Of a reddish-brown colour.

kastanjebruine

Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

kaste

Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.

kasteel

A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.

kastelein

One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

kastijden

(transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.

kastijding

(archaic) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof

kastwoord

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

kasuaris

Any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous.

kat

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

kat in de zak

(slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.

katachtige

Any large felid animal, especially one of the Panthera genus, including tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards.

katafalk

A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.

katalysator

(chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.

katapult

A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.

kater

(South Africa, slang) A very bad hangover.

katern

(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

katheter

(medicine) A small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug, create an opening, distend a passageway, or remove fluid.

Kathmandu

The capital city of Nepal.

kathode

(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage with respect to anode of the same polarized device (depending on whether the device is a load or a source, respectively).

katholicisme

The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.

katholiek

Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.

Katholizism

The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.

katje

(botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.

katoen

(uncountable) Thread of such fiber.

katoenen

Made of cotton.

katrol

(engineering, countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).

kattenjong

(by extension) An adult cat; also (often, childish) , sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.

kattenkruid

Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.

kattenkwaad

(uncountable) Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.

kattin

An adult female cat capable of breeding.

katwilg

(countable, uncountable) Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.

kauwen

To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.

kaviaar

Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.

Kazachstan

A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan.

Kazan

The capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

kazerne

(military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

kazoo

(musical instrument) A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.

kazuifel

An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations. [from 17th c.]

kebab

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

keelamandel

(anatomy, immunology) Ellipsis of palatine tonsil.

keelklank

A harsh and throaty spoken sound

keelontsteking

An inflammation of the larynx, typically resulting in hoarseness.

keelpastille

A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.

keelzak

(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.

keep

A finch, Fringilla montifringilla of northern Eurasia, the male having a black head in summer and an orange breast with white belly and a long white rump.

keeper

(sports) A designated player that attempts to prevent the opposing team from scoring by protecting a goal.