Swedish–English dictionary

teistisk

Of or relating to theism.

tejpa

To bind with adhesive tape.

tekaka

(chiefly, North America, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.

tekanna

A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.

teknik

(uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]

tekniker

A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.

teknisk

(securities and other markets) Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.

tekniskt

Based on precise facts, which, however, may be contrary to common belief or casual terminology.

tekno-

Relating to technology.

teknokratisk

Of, or relating to a technocrat or technocracy.

teknologi

(uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.

teknologisk

Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.

tekopp

A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.

tektonik

(geology) The study of crustal plates and other large-scale structural features of the Earth.

tektonisk

Of or relating to construction or to architecture.

telefax

A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

telefon

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).

telefonavlyssna

(transitive) To install or to use such a connection.

telefonavlyssning

A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.

telefonera

(ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.

telefonlur

The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.

telefonsamtal

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

telefonväxel

(telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

telegraf

(chiefly, _, historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.

telegrafera

To use a telegraph, send a message by telegraph.

telegram

A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

telemetri

(spaceflight, telecommunications) The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.

telepati

(parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

teleportering

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

teleprinter

(historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.

teleprompter

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.

teleskop

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

television

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

televisjon

(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

telex

A network of teletypes.

Tellus

The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.

telugu

A Dravidian language of India.

tema

A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.

tematisk

Relating to or having a or a topic.

tempel

A house of worship, especially:

temperament

A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

temperatur

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

temporal

Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.

temporär

(euphemistic) Lasting for a short time only.

tempus

(linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

tendens

A tendency or a course of events.

tender

(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

tendera

(followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. [from mid-14th c.]

tenn

An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin and 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony.

tennis

(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

tenta

(education) A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.

tentakel

(zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

tentamen

(education) A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.

tentamensvakt

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A person who supervises students during an examination; a proctor

teo-

(religion) god; deity

Teodor

A en given name; the name of a saint, pope, several emperors, etc.

Teodora

A en given name, most famously borne by two empresses of Byzantium.

teolog

One who studies theology.

teologi

(uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general. [from mid-14th c.]

teologisk

Of or relating to theology.

teoretiker

Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.

teoretisera

(intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.

teoretisk

Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

teoretiskt

in theory though not necessarily in reality.

tequila

An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana.

terapeut

Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.

terapi

Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

terebint

A Mediterranean tree (Pistacia terebinthus and, possibly, Pistacia palaestina)

Terens

A en given name.

Teresia

A en given name, the Spanish and Italian form of Theresa.

teriyaki

A cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade.

term

A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.

termin

Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.

terminologisk

Of, or relating to terminology.

termisk

Pertaining to heat or temperature.

termisk energi

(engineering) A form of energy; sensible energy; heat

termit

A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.

termodynamik

(physics) The science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

termometer

An apparatus used to measure temperature.

termonukleär

Of, or relating to the fusion of atomic nuclei at high temperatures.

termos

A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents

termostat

A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting.

ternär

Made up of three things.

terpentin

A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.

Terpsichore

(Greek god) The goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne.

terrakotta

A hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.

terräng

An area of land or the particular features of it.

terrass

A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.

terrassera

To form something into a terrace.

territoriell

Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.

territorium

(ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.

terrorisera

To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.

terrorism

(historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

terrorist

A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.

terroristisk

Of or relating to terrorism.

ters

(music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

tertiär

(geology) The first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.

terzin

a three-line stanza in a poem

tes

(rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.

tesaurus

A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.

tesked

A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.

teskedsmått

A unit of measure, equivalent to one-third of a tablespoon or roughly five milliliters.

tesla

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.

test

(legal) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).

test-

Pertaining to a trial or test.

testa

To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.

testament

One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament.

testamente

(law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).

testamentera

(legal) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.

testamentsgåva

A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will.

testosteron

(steroid hormone) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.

tetra

Any of numerous species of small freshwater fish of the South American family Characidae and West African family Alestidae, popular in home aquariums.

tetraering

(arithmetic) The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ^ba denoting a to the power of a to the power of \ldots to the power of a, in which a appears b times.

tetrering

(arithmetic) The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ^ba denoting a to the power of a to the power of \ldots to the power of a, in which a appears b times.

Tetris

A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.

teuton

A member of any Germanic-language-speaking people, especially a German.

tex

A milligram per meter, a unit of linear mass density for thread or fiber.

tex.

An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example.

Texas

A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.

texta

(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.

textad

(of a film) in which the dialogue is translated into another language, and displayed, in text, at the bottom of the screen.

texteditor

(computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.

textremsa

(cinematography, television) Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.

tf

Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

thai

Of or pertaining to Thailand.

Thailand

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Thailand. Capital: Bangkok. Former name: Siam.

thailändare

(countable) A person living in or coming from Thailand.

thailändsk

Of or pertaining to Thailand.

thailändska

(countable) A person living in or coming from Thailand.

Thanatos

(psychoanalysis) The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

Thanksgiving

(Canada, US) The long weekend which includes Thanksgiving Day; Thanksgiving weekend.

Themsen

(with the) A river in the U.S. State of Connecticut flowing 24 km (15 mi.) past New London to Long Island Sound.

Therese

A en given name, the Spanish and Italian form of Theresa.

Theron

Theron of Akragas (died 473 BC), a tyrant of Akragas in Sicily.

Theseus

A legendary Ancient Greek hero most famous for defeating the minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete.

Thessaloniki

A port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.

theta

The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.

Thomas

An Apostle, best remembered for doubting the resurrection of Jesus.

Thomasson

A surname originating as a patronymic.

thorax

(anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.

Thrakien

A historical region of Southeast Europe, now divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

thriller

(film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.

tia

(informal, UK, Irish) A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note.

tibast

Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.

Tibern

The river that flows through Rome in Italy.

tibetan

(countable) A native of Tibet

tibetansk

Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.

tibetanska

Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.

tick

A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.

ticka

Any of various fungi of the family Polyporaceae, whose fruiting bodies form on trees and resemble shelves or brackets.