Swedish–English dictionary

tand

A tooth on a gear.

tand-

(phonetics) Articulated with the tip of the tongue touching the upper front teeth or with the blade of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, so that the tip of the tongue rests near the teeth.

tända

(transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

tända eld på

(figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.

tändare

A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.

tandborste

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.

tandbrygga

(dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.

tandemalj

The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.

tandfyllning

(dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.

tändhatt

a metal cap found on muzzleloading firearms that contains chemical substances such as fulminate that explode upon impact

tandkött

(often, in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

tandkräm

A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.

tandkrona

(anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.

tandläkare

A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.

tändmaterial

Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.

tändning

The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.

tandoor

A cylindrical clay oven used in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent to make flat bread or to cook meat.

tandpetare

A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.

tandprotes

An artificial replacement of one or more teeth.

tändrör

(manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.

tandrot

The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.

tandröta

(dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

tandställning

(orthodontics) A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.

tändsticka

A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

tändsticksask

A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.

tandtråd

A cord of thin filaments used to clean the gaps between the teeth.

tandvård

(uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.

tandvårds-

(dentistry, relational) Of or concerning dentistry.

tandvärk

(medicine) A pain or ache in a tooth.

tändved

Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.

tandvetenskap

The study of the structure and development of teeth

tång

A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.

tangens

(music) A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.

tangent

(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

tangentbord

(computing, etc.) A set of keys laid out in a grid-like pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer etc.

Tanger

A port city, the capital of the region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.

tangerin

A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.

tangerinträd

A tree that produces tangerines.

tanig

Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak. [from 16th c.]

Tanja

A en given name.

tänjbar

Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.

tänjbarhet

(physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded

tank

A closed container for liquids or gases.

tanka

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

tänka om

(ambitransitive) To consider a matter again.

tänka över

(intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

tänka sig

(transitive) To take up as an example.

tänka ut

(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).

tänkbar

Capable of being conceived or imagined.

tanke

An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory. [from 16th c.]

tankedoktrin

An abstract structure, such as a school of thought, an argument, a theoretical position, etc.

tankefoster

(informal) A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.

tankeläsare

A practitioner of mentalism.

tankesätt

A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.

tänkespråk

A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim. [from mid-16th c.]

tankfull

Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

tanklös

Having the qualities of a scatterbrain: absent-minded, forgetful, easily distracted.

tankspridd

Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

tankstreck

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

tänkvärdheter

(idiomatic) Information or knowledge that is worthy of contemplation.

tänkvärt

(idiomatic) Information or knowledge that is worthy of contemplation.

tant

The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

Tanzania

A country in East Africa. Official name: United Republic of Tanzania.

tapas

A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.

tape

(US, medical) Surgical tape, such tape made specifically for medical purposes.

tapering

A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).

tapet

(uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.

tapetsera

(transitive) To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.

tapetserare

Someone who upholsters furniture, especially a trained craftsman who does so as an occupation.

tapioka

A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.

tapp

(anatomy) Any of the photoreceptor cells in the retina that are responsible for colour vision in relatively bright light.

täppa

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up).

tappa andan

Having difficulty breathing; gasping.

tappa bort

(transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.

tapper

Resolute or strenuously active.

tapperhet

(usually, uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.

tappkota

(skeleton) The second cervical vertebra of the spine

tappning

The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.

täppt

Full or packed (with some material or substance).

tår

A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.

tarantism

An extreme urge to dance, popularly thought to have been caused by the bite of a tarantula (Lycosa tarantula) and prevalent in southern Italy in the 15th through 17th centuries.

tärd

Emaciated and haggard.

tårdrypande

Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.

tårfylld

Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.

tariff

(countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.

tarmben

(anatomy) The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone.

tärna

(transitive) To cut into cubes.

tärning

Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

taro

Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

tårta

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

tartan

(uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.

tårtpapper

(Judaism) A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women.

tarvlig

Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.

Tarzan

(fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised from a baby to adulthood in the African jungle by apes.

taskmört

(informal, chiefly, childish) A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.

taskspelare

A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.

tåspets

(usually, in the plural) The tip of the toe.

tass

(printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.

tassa

(intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.

tassande

The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

tät

Having relatively high density.

tatariska

An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

täthet

(physics) A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.

Tatjana

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Татья́на (Tatʹjána).

tätort

(geography) A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village

tätt

Densely crowded or packed.

tatta

(intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.

tattare

(dated, chiefly, British, and, Irish, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups; a gypsy.

tatuera

To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).

tatuerad

Having one or more tattoos.

tau

The letter Τ//τ in the Greek alphabet; being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, and the twenty-first letter of the Old and Ancient Greek alphabets.

taumaturg

A performer of thaumaturgy; a performer of miracles; a magician.

taumaturgi

The working of miracles, wonderworking; magic, witchcraft, wizardry.

tavelsudd

(North America, Philippines) An object used to erase something written either by chalk on a chalkboard, by a marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc.

tavla

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

tävlare

A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.

tävling

(countable) A contest for a prize or award.

tävlingshäst

A horse that competes in races.

tävlingsinriktad

(of someone's character) Inclined to compete.

tax

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

taxa

(countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.

taxi

A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

taxichaffis

(colloquial) A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi.

taxidermist

One who practices taxidermy, the stuffing of animals.

taxmannen

(sometimes, derogatory) A tax collector.

taxonomi

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

te

(mathematics) Used to form a term denoting the ordinal numeral corresponding to the value, being a natural number, of a mathematical expression.

teal

(countable, uncountable) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.

team

A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

teamarbete

The cooperative effort of a team of people to achieve a common goal.

teater

Non-mainstream theatre.

teaterbåt

(US) A river steamboat having a resident theatre.

teaterpjäs

(countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.

teaterstycke

(countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.

teatral

Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

teatralisk

(by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.

techno

(music genre) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.

tecken

(countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.

teckenförklaringar

(cartography) A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.

teckna sig för

(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.

tecknad serie

(animation) A cartoon series.

tecknare

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

tecknat

Any of several types of film / movie, the frames of which are drawn by hand in order to give a sense of movement when projected in rapid sequence.

teckning

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

teckningskol

(countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.

teddy

A type of all-in-one women's undergarment.

tee

(golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.

Teheran

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

tehus

A cafe or restaurant that serves tea, usually with light food.

teist

One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.