Dutch–English dictionary

met stomheid geslagen

Thoroughly confused, puzzled

met stukjes en beetjes

Into pieces or parts.

met succes

In a successful manner; with success; without failing.

met tussenpozen

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

met uitzondering van

to the exclusion of; not including

met valschermen afwerpen

To deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

met voorbedachte rade

(legal) Done with intent.

met wanhoop vervullen

To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy.

met was insmeren

(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

met wellust bekijken

To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.

met wortel en al uitroeien

(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.

met zand bedekken

(transitive) To cover with sand.

met zijn tijd mee

Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]

metaal

(music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drumbeats and distorted guitars.

metabolisme

(physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

metabool

Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.

metadata

Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.

metaforisch

Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.

metafysica

branch of philosophy that studies first principles

metafysisch

Of or pertaining to metaphysics.

metagegevens

Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.

metal

(music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drumbeats and distorted guitars.

metallurgie

The science of metals; their extraction from ores, purification and alloying, heat treatment, and working.

metamorfose

(pathology) A change, usually degenerative, in the structure of a specific body tissue.

metamour

(uncommon) In a polyamorous relationship, one's partner's partner, with whom one is not directly involved.

metastaseren

(intransitive, medicine, of a disease or tumor) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.

metaversum

(science fiction, Internet, computing) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.

meteen

Immediately; now; right away.

metempsychose

Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. [from 16th c.]

meten

(transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.

meteoor

A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star. [from 16th c.]

meteoriet

A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.

meteorisch

Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.

meteorologie

The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.

meteorologisch

Of or pertaining to meteorology.

meteorologische

Of or pertaining to meteorology.

meteoroloog

A person who studies meteorology.

meter

Used to form the names of measuring devices.

metgezel

A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies

methaan

(organic compound, uncountable) The simplest aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH₄, being a constituent of natural gas, and one of the most abundant greenhouse gases.

methamfetamine

A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.

methode

Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. [from earlier 17th c.]

methyl-

(organic chemistry) Used to form terms describing the attachment of a methyl group

meticuleus

Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

métier

(uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.

meting

The act or result of measuring.

metonymia

(rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.

metriek

Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.

metro

(informal) The London Underground.

metroman

(dated) A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general.

metronoom

(music) A device, containing an inverted pendulum, used to mark time by means of regular ticks at adjustable intervals; an electronic equivalent that emits flashes.

metropolis

(history, especially, Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.

metropool

(ecclesiastical) The jurisdiction of an archbishop.

metroseksueel

(dated) A man — typically urban, heterosexual, and affluent — who is concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general.

metrostel

(Canada, US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.

metrum

US standard spelling of metre (“the rhythm or measure in language”).

metselaar

A craftsman who builds walls and suchlike out of bricks.

metser

A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick

meubel

(now usually, _, uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

meubelen

(transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

meubelstuk

(now usually, _, uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

meubileren

(transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

meug

The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

meute

A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

mevr.

Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.

mevrouw

Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.

Mexicaan

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.

Mexicaans

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.

Mexicaanse

A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.

mezelf

(proscribed) Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself. [from 10th c.]

mezzanine

An intermediate floor or storey in between the main floors of a building; specifically, one that is directly above the ground floor which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, and so resembles a large balcony overlooking the ground floor; an entresol.

mi

Abbreviation of mile.

Miami

A number of townships in the United States, including five in Ohio, listed under Miami Township.

miauw

Used to indicate the cry of a cat.

miauwen

(intransitive) Of a cat, to make its cry.

mica

(mineral) Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

Michaël

A surname transferred from the given name.

Michel

A surname transferred from the given name.

Michelle

A en given name.

Michiel

A surname transferred from the given name.

micro-economie

(economics) The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.

microbe

(microbiology) Any microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.

microbieel

Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.

microbiologie

(biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.

microbrouwerij

A small commercial brewery, often one serving a single pub at which it is physically located; in the United States, often used to indicate a brewery that produces fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer annually.

microfilm

A continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size.

microfilmen

(transitive) To reproduce (documents) on such film.

microfoon

A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.

microgolf

An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves.

microscoop

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

microscopie

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

middag

The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.

middageten

A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).

middagmaaltijd

A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).

middel

Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium. [from 14th c.]

middeleeuwer

Someone living in the Middle Ages.

middeleeuws

A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).

middelen

(uncountable) Financial resources; wealth. [circa 1600]

Middellandse Zee

A region of Southern Europe and North Africa and Western Asia. The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

middellijn

(geometry) The length of such a line.

middelmatig

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

middelmatigheid

(uncountable) The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.

middelpunt

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

middelpuntvliedend

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

midden

(engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.

middenblad

The single larger sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication, folded so as to open wider than a standard page spread.

middenrif

(anatomy) In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs.

middenstander

A retail sales company or salesman.

midzomer

The middle of summer.

midzomerdag

Midsummer Day, the English quarter day.

mier

Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.

mierenegel

Any of the species of small spined monotremes in the family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea.

miereneter

Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).

mierenhoop

A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.

mierennest

A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.

mierenneuken

(figurative) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.

mierenneuker

One who nitpicks (finds fault in unimportant details).

mierik

(countable) A plant of the mustard family, Armoracia rusticana, cultivated for its edible root.

mierikswortel

(uncountable) A pungent condiment made from the root of the plant.

mierzoet

Excessively sweet.

mieters

(US, _, slang) Exhausted.

miezeren

(impersonal) To rain lightly.

migraine

(pathology) A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.

migrant

Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.

migrante

Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.

migratie

An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.

migreren

(intransitive) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.

mihoen

A noodle made of rice (usually from rice flour).

mij

As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.

mijden

(by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]

mijlpaal

A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.

mijlsteen

A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.

mijmeren

(intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.

mijmering

A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. [from 1657]

mijn

(military) A mine that is placed on land and designed to explode when stepped upon or touched.

mijn schuld

An instance of mea culpa; an apology.

mijnbouw

The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

mijne

That or those belonging to me.

mijnen leggen

To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.

mijnenlegger

A ship capable of laying mines.

mijnenveld

An area in which land mines or naval mines have been laid.

mijnheer

A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.

mijnheer pastoor

(Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.

mijns inziens

according to me

mijnwagen

A similar vehicle for carrying materials.

mijnwerker

A person who works in a mine.

mijt

Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).

mijter

A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.

mijzelf

(proscribed) Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself. [from 10th c.]

mik

(nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down