Norwegian–English dictionary

Benin

A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.

benk

(government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.

benke

(transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.

Beograd

The capital city of Serbia; the former capital of Yugoslavia; the former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.

beredt

Inclined; apt to happen.

beregne

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

beregning

(countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.

beret

(headwear) A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.

berg

(uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.

bergart

(geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.

Bergen

A city and hamlet in North Dakota.

bergverk

An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

berike

(transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Bermuda

An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean, 580 nautical miles (1074 kilometers) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Bernhard

A en given name.

Bernt

A en given name.

berolige

(transitive) To calm or placate someone or some situation.

berømmelse

The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive.

berømt

Well known.

berømthet

The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive.

berøre

(transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with. [from 14th c.]

berserk

(historical) A Norse warrior who purportedly fought in a trance-like frenzy; a berserk.

beryktet

Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.

beryktethet

The state of being infamous.

beryll

(uncountable, mineral) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone (molecular formula Be3Al2Si6O18).

beryllium

(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol Be) with an atomic number of 4; a soft silvery-white low density alkaline earth metal with specialist industrial applications.

besetning

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

besette

(military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).

besettelse

An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.

besittelse

Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.

beskatte

(transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).

beskjeden

Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.

beskjemmet

Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.

beskrive

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.]

beskytte

(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.

beskyttelse

The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.

besøke

(transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]

besøksrett

(uncountable, legal) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.

best

(countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.

bestå

(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality

bestå av

(transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts). [from the earlier 15th c.]

bestandig

At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning.

beste

(uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.

beste-

(usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).

bestemme

(ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.

bestemmelsesord

A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.

bestemor

A mother of someone's parent.

bestemt

Specific; discrete; concrete.

bestige

(obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.

bestille

(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

bestride

(of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove.

bestselger

A book or other product that has sold in large numbers.

besvergelse

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. [from 16th c.]

betale

(transitive) To pay (a bill).

betaling

(uncountable) The act of paying.

betalingsutsettelse

(uncountable, finance) An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.

betatt

Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.

betegnelse

Signification, meaning, for example of a word or phrase.

betennelse

(pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.

betent

Resulting from or affected by inflammation.

betone

(transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.

betong

(not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).

betong-

(not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).

betrakte

(transitive) To look at attentively.

betraktning

(preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]

bety

(transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.

betydelig

Having relevant and crucial value; having import.

beundre

(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.

beundring

A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful

bevare

(transitive) To conserve.

bevegelig

(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

bevegelsesenergi

(physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

bever

(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.

bevise

(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

bevissthet

(uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

bevisstløs

Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).

bevokte

(transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

BH

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

Bhutan

A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.

Bibelen

The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.

bibliotekar

The keeper, manager of a library.

bidet

A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.

bidra

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

bidra til

(transitive) To contribute in some way to.

bie

(informal, proscribed) Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.

bifil

(of humans, or, other animals) Sexually attracted to both same-gendered and different-gendered partners. (Compare pansexual.)

bifurkere

(intransitive) To divide or fork into two channels or branches.

Bigfoot

(cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

bikini

A brief bathing suit worn by men.

bikkje

A mammal of the family Canidae:

bil

A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.

Bildehoggaren

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

Bilethoggaren

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

biljard

(games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.

bille

Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.

bilsyk

Dizzy or feeling nauseated due to riding in a vehicle; suffering from motion sickness.

bindestrek

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

bingo

Used by players of bingo to claim a win.

bio-

life

biografi

A person's life story, especially one published.

biokjemi

(uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism; the study of such chemistry.

biolog

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

biologi

The study of all life or living matter.

biom

Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.

Birgitte

A en given name.

bisamrotte

A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.

biskop

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

bisp

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

bistro

A small casual restaurant or pub, typically serving French-style cuisine.

bite

(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

bite på

(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

biting

The act of biting.

bitt

The wound left behind after having been bitten.

bjelke

Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

bjelkelag

(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

bjelle

(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.

bjørnebær

A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

blå

(particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.

bladbete

(uncountable, culinary) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.

bladsalat

An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green or purple leaves.

blåfarge

(particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.

blafre

(intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.

blåkopi

A print produced with this process.

blanda

Consisting of a variety of ingredients or parts.

blande

(transitive, or, intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

blandet

Consisting of a variety of ingredients or parts.

blanding

Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.

blank

Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.

blant

Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)

blåpapir

(countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.

blåsebelg

A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.

blasfemi

An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.

blåskjell

A saltwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Mytilida in subclass Pteriomorphia.

blære

(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

bleik

Light in color.

blek

Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.

blemme

A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.

blessa

(Perl, _, programming, transitive, past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.

bli

(transitive) To be proper for; to beseem. [from 13th c.]

bli frisk

(intransitive) To become better or healthy again.

bli solgt

(ergative) To be sold.

bli større

(transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.

bli til

The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.

blind

(not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.

blindeskrift

A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.

blindhet

The condition of being blind; unable to see.

blindpassasjer

A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.

blindspor

(figuratively) A clue, information, argument, etc. that is or is intended to be misleading, diverting attention from the real answer or issue.

blink

A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.

blinke

To flash on and off at regular intervals.