Norwegian–English dictionary

kjerring

(pejorative) An ugly old woman.

kjertel

(zoology) A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).

kjettarskap

(religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance or conflict with established religious beliefs.

kjetteri

(by extension) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.

kjeve

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

kjole

(clothing) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.

kjøkken

(countable, uncountable) A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

kjølhale

(nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.

kjølne

(intransitive) To become cold.

kjønn

(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. [from 14th c.]

kjønnsben

The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.

kjønnslepper

folds of tissue at opening of vulva

kjønnslig

Having sex appeal; attractive.

kjøpe

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

kjøpe seg

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

kjøre forbi

To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).

kjøre over fartsgrensen

To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.

kjøre utfor

Going down a slope or a hill.

kjøretøy

A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.

kjøter

(dated, or, humorous) A contemptible or inferior dog.

kjøttbolle

A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.

kladde

(transitive) To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.

klage

(countable) A complaint or annoyance.

klagemål

(countable) A complaint or annoyance.

klagesang

A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.

klagesong

A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.

klamydia

(uncountable) Any of several common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted diseases caused by the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis.

klanderverdig

Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.

klandrende

Marked by harsh abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing.

klangfarge

The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

klapperslange

Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

klar

(of a voice or sound) Having a sharp, clear tone.

klare

(transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.

klargjøre

(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.

klargjøring

A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration

klarhet

The quality of being bright.

klarinett

(woodwind instrument) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

klarsynt

(obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.

klarsynthet

(parapsychology) The power to see or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.

klase

A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

klaustrofobi

The fear of closed, tight places.

klær

Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.

kle

(also, reflexive, and, figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. [from 15th c.]

kle av

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.

kle på seg

(also, reflexive, and, figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. [from 15th c.]

klekke

(intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.

klem

(UK) An affectionate embrace, a hug, such as is given to family members and close friends (less intimate than a snuggle, and typically of shorter duration).

klemme

(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.

klenge

To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.

klesplagg

A single item of clothing.

klesvask

A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

klimaendring

Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.

klingon

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

klingonsk

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

klinke

(gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.

klinkekule

(countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. [from 17th c.]

klippe

A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.

klippefull

Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.

klisjé

(rhetoric) Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude. [from 19th c.]

klissete

Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

klitoris

(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. [from 17th c.]

klok

Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.

klokke

(percussion instrument) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

klokker

A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.

klone

(transitive) To create a clone of.

klor

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

kloss

A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

klossete

Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept. [from 1670s]

kloster

A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.

klosterkirke

The church of a monastery. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

klovn

A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.

klønete

Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.

kløtsjpedal

The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.

kløversyre

(gardening) Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Oxalis

kløyvd

Split, sundered, or divided.

kløyve

(transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

klubb

(countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

klukke

(intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.

klukklatter

A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.

klukkle

(intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles.

klumsete

Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.

kluss

Fuss, ado.

klynk

The act of snivelling.

klynke

(pejorative, intransitive) To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying.

kna

(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

knappenål

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

knasende

Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.

knaske

(often with "on") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.

kne

(anatomy) In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.

knebukser

(historical) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.

knegg

The cry of a horse.

knele

(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

kneler

Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.

knep

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

knerte

(sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.

knipe

A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

knipling

(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.

knippe

(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf \mathcal{F} whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover \{U_i \} of U:

knise

To laugh gently in a playful, nervous, or affected manner.

knising

A high-pitched, silly laugh.

knoke

Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.

knop

A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

knott

Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.

knull

(slang, vulgar) An act of sex.

knulle

(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).

knuse

To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.

knusende

That crushes; overwhelming.

Knut

(historical) A en given name used in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century.

knute

A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

knyte

(transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.

knyttneve

A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

ko

(biology) A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.

koagulere

(intransitive) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.

koala

A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

koalisjon

A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

kobbel

A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

kobber

(uncountable) A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.

koblingspedal

The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.

kobolt

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

koffert

A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

kogge

(historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.

kogger

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

kokain

(uncountable, organic compound, pharmaceutical drug) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.

kokett

Of or relating to a young, flirtatious girl.

kokettere

To act as a flirt or coquet.

kokk

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

kokosnøtt

A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.

koks

(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

kolera

(pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

kolesterol

(biochemistry) A sterol lipid synthesized by the liver and transported in the bloodstream to the membranes of all animal cells; it plays a central role in many biochemical processes and, as a lipoprotein that coats the walls of blood vessels, is associated with cardiovascular disease.

kolibri

Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

kollaborere

To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

kollapse

(transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.

kollasj

A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.

kolle

A small mound or rounded hill.

kollisjonspute

(automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.

kollokasjon

(linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.

Köln

The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the Rhine River.

kolon

The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.

kolonial

Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.

koma

A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

komedie

(countable, drama) a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone

komet

A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.

komité

A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.

komma

(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

komme

(transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.

komme i fullt firsprang

(intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

komme inn

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

komme seg

(ambitransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.

komme til krefter

(ambitransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.