# translation

lexentry: eng/den__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: den
trans_list: hol | huiskamer | leefkamer | woonkamer
sense:
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.


lexentry: eng/denature__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: denature
trans_list: denatureren
sense:
(transitive, intransitive, biochemistry) To alter its original form or state, especially of a protein, by heat, acidity etc.


lexentry: eng/denazification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: denazification
trans_list: denazificatie | denazificering
sense:
The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.


lexentry: eng/dendrite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dendrite
trans_list: dendriet
sense:
(cytology) A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.


lexentry: eng/dendrochronology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dendrochronology
trans_list: dendrochronologie
sense:
(biology, archaeology) The science that uses the spacing between the annual growth rings of trees to date their exact year of formation.


lexentry: eng/dengue__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dengue
trans_list: dengue | knokkelkoorts
sense:
An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.


lexentry: eng/dengue_fever__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dengue fever
trans_list: dengue
sense:
An acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by varieties of the species Dengue virus, and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.


lexentry: eng/denial__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: denial
trans_list: weigering
sense:
(psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.


lexentry: eng/denialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: denialism
trans_list: negationisme
sense:
The practice of rejecting propositions which are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence, and often of seeking to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.


lexentry: eng/denizen__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: denizen
trans_list: ingeburgerde
sense:
(British, historical) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.


lexentry: eng/denomination__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: denomination
trans_list: aanduiding
sense:
(countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals.


lexentry: eng/denomination__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: denomination
trans_list: kerk
sense:
(countable, religion) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a subdivision of a religion.


lexentry: eng/denotation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: denotation
trans_list: betekenis | denotatie
sense:
(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.


lexentry: eng/denounce__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: denounce
trans_list: afkeuren | beschuldigen
sense:
(transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.


lexentry: eng/denounce__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: denounce
trans_list: afkeuren
sense:
(transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.


lexentry: eng/densitometer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: densitometer
trans_list: hydrometer
sense:
A device that measures the optical density of a material; especially to test film and print quality.


lexentry: eng/density__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: density
trans_list: dichtheid
sense:
The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.


lexentry: eng/density__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: density
trans_list: dichtheid
sense:
(mathematics, statistics) The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable.


lexentry: eng/dental__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dental
trans_list: tand
sense:
(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.


lexentry: eng/dental_alveolus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dental alveolus
trans_list: alveolen
sense:
(medicine, anatomy) An alveolus (socket) in the jaw that holds a tooth. The roots of the tooth are held in the alveolar process by the periodontal ligament.


lexentry: eng/dental_dam__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dental dam
trans_list: beflapje | liklapje
sense:
(dentistry) A thin, flexible piece of latex or similar material used to isolate one or more teeth during some dental procedures.


lexentry: eng/dental_hygienist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dental hygienist
trans_list: mondhygiënist
sense:
A licensed dental professional who specializes in preventive oral health, typically focusing on techniques in oral hygiene.


lexentry: eng/denticulated__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: denticulated
trans_list: getand
sense:
(heraldry, of a, bordure, very, rare) Embattled, but with only the projecting portions visible, so that the bordure appears non-contiguous (but the spaces are part of the field, unlike compony).


lexentry: eng/dentil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dentil
trans_list: tandlijst
sense:
(architectural element) Any one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting like teeth from a molding or beneath a cornice.


lexentry: eng/dentistry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dentistry
trans_list: tandheelkunde
sense:
(uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.


lexentry: eng/dentition__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dentition
trans_list: gebit
sense:
The type, number and arrangement of the normal teeth of an organism or of the actual teeth of an individual


lexentry: eng/deny__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: deny
trans_list: weigeren
sense:
To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.


lexentry: eng/deoxyribonucleic_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deoxyribonucleic acid
trans_list: desoxyribonucleïnezuur
sense:
(biochemistry, genetics) A nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction.


lexentry: eng/deoxyribose__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deoxyribose
trans_list: deoxyribose
sense:
(carbohydrate) A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that constitute the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.


lexentry: eng/department_store__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: department store
trans_list: warenhuis
sense:
A large store containing many different departments, each of which deals in the sale of different goods or services.


lexentry: eng/departure__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: departure
trans_list: vertrek
sense:
(navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.


lexentry: eng/departure__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: departure
trans_list: vertrek
sense:
(legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another


lexentry: eng/depend__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: depend
trans_list: afhangen
sense:
(intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of like independent does) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition


lexentry: eng/depend__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: depend
trans_list: hangen
sense:
(now, literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.


lexentry: eng/dependency_injection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dependency injection
trans_list: dependency injection
sense:
(software architecture) A type-safe way of supplying an external dependency to a software component.


lexentry: eng/depict__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: depict
trans_list: beschrijven | afbeelden
sense:
To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/deplete__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deplete
trans_list: afbreken | leegmaken | opruimen
sense:
(ambitransitive) To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.


lexentry: eng/depleted_uranium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: depleted uranium
trans_list: verarmd uranium
sense:
Uranium that contains a reduced (depleted) amount of the fissile isotope U-235 compared to natural uranium; it is a byproduct of uranium enrichment; it is used in applications where the nuclear properties of the uranium are not important, and the uranium is instead being used for its mechanical or chemical properties.


lexentry: eng/deployment__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: deployment
trans_list: parool
sense:
(computing) Ellipsis of software deployment, the installation of software, in particular on servers.


lexentry: eng/deponent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deponent
trans_list: deponent
sense:
(grammar, of a verb) Having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).


lexentry: eng/depopulation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: depopulation
trans_list: ontvolking
sense:
The act of depopulating or condition of being depopulated; the destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.


lexentry: eng/depose__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: depose
trans_list: getuigen
sense:
(law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.


lexentry: eng/deposit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deposit
trans_list: afzetting | neerzetting
sense:
(geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.


lexentry: eng/deposit__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: deposit
trans_list: aanbetaling
sense:
(finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.


lexentry: eng/deposit__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: deposit
trans_list: statiegeld | borg
sense:
A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit


lexentry: eng/deprecate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: deprecate
trans_list: als verouderd verklaren
sense:
(transitive, chiefly, computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.


lexentry: eng/deprecation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: deprecation
trans_list: bidden
sense:
(countable) A praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.


lexentry: eng/depreciation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: depreciation
trans_list: depreciatie
sense:
(accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.


lexentry: eng/depression__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: depression
trans_list: depressie
sense:
(psychology, usually, uncountable) A state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future; any of several mental disorders with this state of mind as a central feature.


lexentry: eng/depression__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: depression
trans_list: depressie
sense:
(psychology, countable) A period of low morale or unhappiness (a period of experiencing the above-mentioned state of mind) which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.


lexentry: eng/deprivation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deprivation
trans_list: beroving | gemis | afneming | ontberingen | ontneming
sense:
(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.


lexentry: eng/deprive__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deprive
trans_list: beroven | ontnemen
sense:
(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.


lexentry: eng/depth_charge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: depth charge
trans_list: dieptebom | waterbom
sense:
(military, nautical, aviation) A form of bomb, launched from a ship or dropped from an aircraft, that is designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater for the purposes of attacking a submerged enemy, especially a submarine.


lexentry: eng/deputation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deputation
trans_list: deputatie
sense:
The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.


lexentry: eng/deputy__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: deputy
trans_list: vertegenwoordiger | vertegenwoordigster
sense:
(US) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.


lexentry: eng/dereference__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dereference
trans_list: volgen
sense:
(programming) To access the value or object located in a memory location addressed by a pointer or another value interpreted as such; to access a value being referenced by something else.


lexentry: eng/dereference__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dereference
trans_list: volgen
sense:
(computing, *nix) To operate on the file or directory pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than on the link itself.


lexentry: eng/derivation__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: derivation
trans_list: afleiding
sense:
(mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.


lexentry: eng/derivative__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: derivative
trans_list: afleiding
sense:
(calculus) One of the two fundamental objects of study in calculus (the other being integration), which quantifies the rate of change, tangency, and other qualities arising from the local behavior of a function.


lexentry: eng/derivative__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: derivative
trans_list: afleiding
sense:
(of a function of a single variable f(x)) The derived function of f(x): the function giving the instantaneous rate of change of f; equivalently, the function giving the slope of the line tangent to the graph of f. Written f'(x) or \frac{df}{dx} in Leibniz's notation, \dot{f}(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).


lexentry: eng/derivative__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: derivative
trans_list: afgeleide
sense:
(of more general classes of functions) Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.


lexentry: eng/derivative__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: derivative
trans_list: afgeleide
sense:
The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.


lexentry: eng/derivatives_market__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: derivatives market
trans_list: derivatenmarkt
sense:
(economics) A market where various financial derivatives such as forwards, futures, options, and swaps are bought and sold.


lexentry: eng/derived_function__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: derived function
trans_list: afgeleide
sense:
(calculus) Of a function, another function, the value of which for any value of the independent variable is the instantaneous rate of change of the given function at that value of the independent variable.


lexentry: eng/derrick__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: derrick
trans_list: boortoren
sense:
A framework that is constructed over a mine or oil well for the purpose of boring or lowering pipes.


lexentry: eng/dervish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dervish
trans_list: derwisj
sense:
(Islam) An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.


lexentry: eng/descend__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: descend
trans_list: afdalen | neerdalen
sense:
(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.


lexentry: eng/descend__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: descend
trans_list: afstammen
sense:
To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.


lexentry: eng/descend__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: descend
trans_list: afstammen
sense:
(intransitive, often, passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.


lexentry: eng/descendant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: descendant
trans_list: afstammeling | nakomeling | nazaat | telg
sense:
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.


lexentry: eng/descender__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: descender
trans_list: staart
sense:
(typography) The part of a letter or number that is drawn below the baseline (the bottom of most lowercase letters).


lexentry: eng/description__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: description
trans_list: beschrijving | descriptie
sense:
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.


lexentry: eng/descry__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: descry
trans_list: ontdekken
sense:
(transitive) To see, especially from afar; to discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.


lexentry: eng/desert__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desert
trans_list: woestijn | woestenij
sense:
A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.


lexentry: eng/desert__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desert
trans_list: deserteren | achterlaten | verlaten
sense:
To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.


lexentry: eng/desert_island__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desert island
trans_list: onbewoond eiland
sense:
A deserted island, an uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics and (now, frequently, _, misunderstood, _, as) a small and almost entirely sandy desert.


lexentry: eng/deserter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deserter
trans_list: deserteur
sense:
(military) A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving


lexentry: eng/desertification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desertification
trans_list: verwoestijning | woestijnvorming
sense:
The process by which a geographic region becomes a desert, resulting from natural changes in climate or by human activity.


lexentry: eng/desiccate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desiccate
trans_list: dehydreren | deshydrateren | drogen | ontwateren | uitdrogen | verdrogen
sense:
(transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree. [from late 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/desideratum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desideratum
trans_list: wens
sense:
Something that is wished for, or considered desirable, particularly when thought to be essential. [from mid 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/design__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: design
trans_list: ontwerp
sense:
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.


lexentry: eng/design__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: design
trans_list: ontwerpen
sense:
(obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.


lexentry: eng/designate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: designate
trans_list: aanduiden als | benoemen | bepalen | noemen
sense:
To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description


lexentry: eng/designated_driver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: designated driver
trans_list: bob
sense:
A person who avoids drinking alcohol at a social engagement for the purpose of driving their companions home.


lexentry: eng/desire_line__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desire line
trans_list: olifantenpad
sense:
A path that pedestrians or vehicles take informally rather than taking a sidewalk or set route, for example, a well-worn ribbon of dirt cutting across a patch of grass, or a path in the snow.


lexentry: eng/desk__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desk
trans_list: schrijftafel | bureau | lessenaar
sense:
A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.


lexentry: eng/desk__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: desk
trans_list: schrijftafel | bureau | lessenaar | deelredactie | deskredactie
sense:
A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.


lexentry: eng/desktop__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: desktop
trans_list: bureaublad | desktop
sense:
(computing, GUI) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.


lexentry: eng/desktop_computer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desktop computer
trans_list: desktopcomputer
sense:
A computer of a size designed to be used on a desk or table, as opposed to larger machines, such as mainframes, and smaller machines, such as laptops and palmtops.


lexentry: eng/desktop_publishing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desktop publishing
trans_list: desktoppublishing
sense:
(computer graphics) The use of page layout software on a desktop computer to produce publishable documents.


lexentry: eng/desman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desman
trans_list: desman
sense:
Either of two species, Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus, of aquatic or semiaquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe.


lexentry: eng/despair__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: despair
trans_list: wanhopen
sense:
(intransitive) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. [(often) with of]


lexentry: eng/desperate_times_call_for_desperate_measures__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desperate times call for desperate measures
trans_list: nood breekt wet | nood breekt wetten
sense:
In adverse circumstances, actions that might have been rejected under other circumstances may become the best choice.


lexentry: eng/despotism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: despotism
trans_list: despotisme
sense:
Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.


lexentry: eng/dessertspoon__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dessertspoon
trans_list: theelepel
sense:
(rare) An item of cutlery; a spoon, larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon, used for eating dessert.


lexentry: eng/destalinization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: destalinization
trans_list: destalinisatie
sense:
The process, begun by Nikita Khrushchev, of discrediting and then reforming the policies of Joseph Stalin.


lexentry: eng/destination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: destination
trans_list: bestemming
sense:
(countable) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.


lexentry: eng/destitution__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: destitution
trans_list: armoede | berooidheid
sense:
An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.


lexentry: eng/destroy__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: destroy
trans_list: vernietigen | verwoesten | vernielen | kapot maken | slopen | tenietdoen
sense:
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.


lexentry: eng/desuetude__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desuetude
trans_list: onbruik
sense:
(uncountable) The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence; (countable) an instance of this.


lexentry: eng/desulfurize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desulfurize
trans_list: ontzwavelen
sense:
(American spelling, transitive) To remove the sulfur from something (such as petroleum or flue gases).


lexentry: eng/desultory__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: desultory
trans_list: onsamenhangend
sense:
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.


lexentry: eng/detachment__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: detachment
trans_list: detachering | detachement
sense:
(uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.


lexentry: eng/detective__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: detective
trans_list: detective | rechercheur | speurder
sense:
(law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.


lexentry: eng/detector__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: detector
trans_list: detector
sense:
A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.


lexentry: eng/detention__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: detention
trans_list: detentie | houderschap
sense:
(pedagogy) A punishment given to a student for a minor infraction, typically requiring the student to report to a designated room during recess or outside of school hours to work on homework or perform busywork.


lexentry: eng/detention__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: detention
trans_list: detentie | houderschap
sense:
(civil law) The bare physical control without the mental element of intention required for possession.


lexentry: eng/detention_centre__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: detention centre
trans_list: detentiecentrum | gesloten asielopvang | gesloten asielzoekerscentrum
sense:
(Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.


lexentry: eng/determinant__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: determinant
trans_list: determinant
sense:
(linear algebra) A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix; the unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value 1 for the unit matrix; abbreviated as: det.


lexentry: eng/determination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: determination
trans_list: vastberadenheid
sense:
(countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.


lexentry: eng/determine__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: determine
trans_list: bepalen
sense:
To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.


lexentry: eng/determiner__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: determiner
trans_list: determinator
sense:
A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.


lexentry: eng/determiner__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: determiner
trans_list: determinator
sense:
A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.


lexentry: eng/determinism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: determinism
trans_list: determinisme
sense:
(philosophy) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.


lexentry: eng/deterritorialization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deterritorialization
trans_list: deterritorialisering
sense:
The eradication of social, political, or cultural practices from their native places and populations.


lexentry: eng/detonation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: detonation
trans_list: knal
sense:
(chemistry) An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.


lexentry: eng/detrain__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: detrain
trans_list: uitstappen
sense:
(rail transport, transitive) To remove (a passenger or passengers) from a train; to evacuate (passengers) from a train.


lexentry: eng/devastate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: devastate
trans_list: verwoesten
sense:
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.


lexentry: eng/developer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: developer
trans_list: projectontwikkelaar | promotor
sense:
A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.


lexentry: eng/developing_country__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: developing country
trans_list: ontwikkelingsland | groeiland
sense:
(economics) A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes, pejorative) a country with less industrial base, and thus often consequently widespread poverty and low Human Development Index (HDI).


lexentry: eng/deviance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: deviance
trans_list: afwijking
sense:
(sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.


lexentry: eng/device_driver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: device driver
trans_list: stuurprogramma
sense:
(computing) Software, usually supplied with the operating system or by a hardware manufacturer, that communicates between the operating system of a personal computer and a specific hardware device.


lexentry: eng/devil's_advocate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: devil's advocate
trans_list: advocaat van de duivel
sense:
(idiomatic) One who debates from a viewpoint which one may not actually hold, usually to determine its validity or simply for the sake of argument.


lexentry: eng/devil__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: devil
trans_list: duivel | deugniet
sense:
A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.


lexentry: eng/devil__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: devil
trans_list: duivel | duvel
sense:
A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.


lexentry: eng/devilment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: devilment
trans_list: boosaardigheid | duivelse streek
sense:
(uncountable) Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.


lexentry: eng/devoice__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: devoice
trans_list: dempen
sense:
(transitive, phonetics) To pronounce a sound with little or no vibration of the vocal cords, especially a sound that is normally pronounced with such vibration (i.e. a voiced sound).


lexentry: eng/devolve__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: devolve
trans_list: delegeren
sense:
(especially, of a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.) To transfer authority and responsibility for (something) to (another entity).


lexentry: eng/dew__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dew
trans_list: dauw
sense:
(uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.


lexentry: eng/dexter__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dexter
trans_list: rechts
sense:
(archaic, outside, heraldry) Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.)


lexentry: eng/dexter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dexter
trans_list: echt
sense:
(archaic, outside, heraldry) The right side (of a building, an equation, a heraldic shield [from the wearer's perspective], etc).


lexentry: eng/dextrorotatory__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dextrorotatory
trans_list: klokgewijs
sense:
(chemistry, of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise. Notation: (+) or formerly lowercase d-#Prefix.


lexentry: eng/diabetes__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diabetes
trans_list: diabetes | suikerziekte
sense:
(disease) Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/diabetes_mellitus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diabetes mellitus
trans_list: suikerziekte
sense:
A medical disorder commonly called diabetes, characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating. It is classified in two types, which are different etiologically but similar in clinical effects: type 1 and type 2.


lexentry: eng/diacritical_mark__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diacritical mark
trans_list: diakritisch teken
sense:
(orthography, typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.


lexentry: eng/diaeresis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diaeresis
trans_list: trema
sense:
(orthography) The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.


lexentry: eng/diaeresis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diaeresis
trans_list: diërese | diëresis
sense:
A separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong, that is, beginning with one sound and ending with another) into two distinct syllables; distraction.


lexentry: eng/diaeresis__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: diaeresis
trans_list: diërese | diëresis
sense:
(prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.


lexentry: eng/diagenesis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diagenesis
trans_list: diagenese
sense:
(geology) All the chemical, physical, and biological changes sediment goes through during and after lithification, not including weathering or other surface changes.


lexentry: eng/diagnosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: diagnosis
trans_list: diagnose
sense:
The process of, or an instance of, identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).


lexentry: eng/diagnostics__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diagnostics
trans_list: diagnose
sense:
(of devices) The process of determining the state of or capability of a component to perform its function(s).


lexentry: eng/diagonalize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diagonalize
trans_list: diagonaliseren
sense:
(mathematics, transitive) To convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix by multiplying it by a second matrix and its inverse.


lexentry: eng/diagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diagram
trans_list: diagram
sense:
A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.


lexentry: eng/dial__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dial
trans_list: kanaalkiezer
sense:
A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.


lexentry: eng/dial_tone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dial tone
trans_list: kiestoon
sense:
A telephony signal, usually in the form of a sound, used to indicate that the telephone exchange is working, has recognized an off-hook, and is ready to accept a call.


lexentry: eng/dialect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dialect
trans_list: dialect | streektaal | mondaard
sense:
(linguistics, strict sense) A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).


lexentry: eng/dialect__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dialect
trans_list: dialect | streektaal | mondaard
sense:
(linguistics, broad sense) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.


lexentry: eng/dialect_continuum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dialect continuum
trans_list: dialectcontinuüm
sense:
(linguistics) A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.


lexentry: eng/dialect_levelling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dialect levelling
trans_list: dialectnivellering
sense:
(linguistics) the reduction of dialectal diversity within a language due to the propagation of a single prestige variety


lexentry: eng/dialectical_behavior_therapy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dialectical behavior therapy
trans_list: dialectische gedragstherapie
sense:
(psychology) A type of psychotherapy that combines elements of cognitive behavioral therapy with mindfulness practices.


lexentry: eng/dialectical_materialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dialectical materialism
trans_list: dialectisch materialisme
sense:
(philosophy) The concept of reality in which material things are in the constant process of change brought about by the tension between conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas.


lexentry: eng/dialectics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dialectics
trans_list: dialectiek
sense:
(philosophy, uncountable) A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas.


lexentry: eng/dialogue__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dialogue
trans_list: dialoog | gesprek
sense:
(authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.


lexentry: eng/dialogue_tag__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dialogue tag
trans_list: citaatinbedder | citaatuitluider
sense:
(narratology, authorship) A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)


lexentry: eng/dialysis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dialysis
trans_list: kunstnier
sense:
(chemistry) A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.


lexentry: eng/dialysis__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dialysis
trans_list: kunstnier
sense:
(medicine) The use of this method for the removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure: hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.


lexentry: eng/diamagnetism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diamagnetism
trans_list: diamagnetisme
sense:
(physics) a weak form of magnetism that is only observed in the presence of an external magnetic field; due to an induced magnetic field in an opposite direction


lexentry: eng/diamond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diamond
trans_list: diamant
sense:
(uncountable) A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.


lexentry: eng/diamond_crossover__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diamond crossover
trans_list: afrit
sense:
(rail transport) superimposed pair of railway crossovers, resembling a letter X, permitting to travel in either direction between a pair of parallel tracks


lexentry: eng/diamond_jubilee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diamond jubilee
trans_list: diamanten jubileum
sense:
The diamond anniversary of a coronation, originally the 75th anniversary of a monarch's rule but now often the 60th instead.


lexentry: eng/diapause__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diapause
trans_list: diapauze
sense:
(biology, entomology, ichthyology) A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes)


lexentry: eng/diaper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diaper
trans_list: luier | pamper
sense:
(North America, Philippines, India) An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent or wets the bed, out of convenience, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.


lexentry: eng/diaper_bag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diaper bag
trans_list: luiertas
sense:
(North America) A bag used during outings for the storage of items and supplies needed to take care of a baby, such as diapers, wet wipes, toiletries, food and toys.


lexentry: eng/diaphoneme__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diaphoneme
trans_list: diafoneem
sense:
(phonology) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.


lexentry: eng/diaphragm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diaphragm
trans_list: middenrif | diafragma
sense:
(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.


lexentry: eng/diaphragm__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: diaphragm
trans_list: diafragma | membraan
sense:
(mechanics) A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies.


lexentry: eng/diapositive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diapositive
trans_list: dia | diapositief
sense:
(photography, graphic arts) An image suitable to overlay (superimpose) over another (as for example a gel for an overhead projector, a slide that complements another slide as a superimposition for it, or a digital virtual equivalent of these); its coloration is adjusted to contrast with the underlying image (for example, text may be white instead of black in areas where the background is dark).


lexentry: eng/diarrhea__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diarrhea
trans_list: diarree
sense:
(symptom) A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very soft or watery bowel movements.


lexentry: eng/diaspora__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diaspora
trans_list: diaspora
sense:
(collective) The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).


lexentry: eng/diastole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diastole
trans_list: diastole
sense:
(chiefly, uncountable, physiology) The phase or process of relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, between contractions, during which they fill with blood; an instance of the process.


lexentry: eng/diatom__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diatom
trans_list: diatomee | kiezelwier
sense:
Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.


lexentry: eng/diatonic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diatonic
trans_list: diatonisch
sense:
(music) Relating to or characteristic of a musical scale which contains seven pitches and a pattern of five whole tones and two semitones; particularly, of the major or natural minor scales.


lexentry: eng/diazepam__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diazepam
trans_list: diazepam
sense:
(pharmaceutical drug) A tranquilizing muscle relaxant drug (trademark Valium) used mainly to relieve anxiety.


lexentry: eng/dibber__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dibber
trans_list: pootstok
sense:
A tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc.


lexentry: eng/dice_snake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dice snake
trans_list: dambordslang | dobbelsteenslang
sense:
Natrix tessellata, a European non-venomous snake belonging to the family of Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae.


lexentry: eng/dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
trans_list: 4,4’-(2,2,2-trichloroethaan-1,1-diyl)bis(chloorbenzeen)
sense:
(organic compound) A chlorinated hydrocarbon originally used as an insecticide, often abbreviated as DDT.


lexentry: eng/dick__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dick
trans_list: lul
sense:
(countable, vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive) A highly contemptible or obnoxious person; a jerk; traditionally, especially, a male jerk.


lexentry: eng/dictation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dictation
trans_list: dictee
sense:
(countable, uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.


lexentry: eng/dictation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dictation
trans_list: dictee
sense:
(countable, uncountable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.


lexentry: eng/dictatorship_of_the_proletariat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dictatorship of the proletariat
trans_list: dictatuur van het proletariaat
sense:
(Marxism) A socio-political power, as opposed to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, characterized by a struggle to achieve a communist society.


lexentry: eng/dictionary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dictionary
trans_list: woordenboek | dictionaire
sense:
A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information. [ca. 1480]


lexentry: eng/dictionary_attack__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dictionary attack
trans_list: woordenboekaanval
sense:
(computing, cryptography) An attempt to illegally access a computer network, website, etc., that uses a list of words (from a dictionary) to try to guess decryption keys or passwords. [from 1980s]


lexentry: eng/didgeridoo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: didgeridoo
trans_list: didgeridoo
sense:
A musical instrument, endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.


lexentry: eng/die__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: die
trans_list: dobbelsteen | teerling | mal | matrijs | plint | rafelsteen
sense:
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.


lexentry: eng/die__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: die
trans_list: sterven
sense:
(intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.


lexentry: eng/die_a_thousand_deaths__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: die a thousand deaths
trans_list: duizend doden sterven
sense:
(idiomatic) To suffer repeatedly (often mentally rather than physically); to suffer extreme embarrassment or anxiety.


lexentry: eng/diehard__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: diehard
trans_list: zeker
sense:
Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.


lexentry: eng/dieldrin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dieldrin
trans_list: dieldrin
sense:
(organic compound) A cyclodiene insecticide, related to aldrin, that is a persistent organic pollutant.


lexentry: eng/dielectric__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dielectric
trans_list: isolator
sense:
(metamaterial) An electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.


lexentry: eng/diencephalon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diencephalon
trans_list: tussenhersen
sense:
(neuroanatomy, anatomy) The region of the human brain, specifically the human forebrain, that includes the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the epithalamus, the prethalamus or subthalamus, and the pretectum.


lexentry: eng/diesel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diesel
trans_list: diesel
sense:
A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed.


lexentry: eng/diesel_engine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diesel engine
trans_list: dieselmotor
sense:
(mechanical engineering) An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.


lexentry: eng/diet__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: diet
trans_list: dieet
sense:
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.


lexentry: eng/diet__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diet
trans_list: landdag | parlement | rijksdag
sense:
(usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.


lexentry: eng/dietary_fibre__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dietary fibre
trans_list: voedingsvezel
sense:
Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract.


lexentry: eng/dietary_supplement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dietary supplement
trans_list: voedingssupplement
sense:
(medicine) Any substance, such as a vitamin or mineral, taken as a supplement to food to replace nutrients that would otherwise be missing in a person's diet.


lexentry: eng/diethyl_ether__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diethyl ether
trans_list: diethylether
sense:
(organic compound) A clear, colorless, highly flammable liquid with a low boiling point and chemical formula CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3. Used as a solvent and in the past as a general anesthetic.


lexentry: eng/difference_quotient__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: difference quotient
trans_list: differentiaalquotiënt
sense:
(geometry) The slope of the secant line passing through the points \left( a, \, f(a) \right) and \left( a+h, \, f(a+h) \right). As the horizontal distance h>0 between the points approaches zero, the slope of this secant line approaches the slope of the tangent line to f(x) at x=a, which is equal to the derivative of f(x) at x=a.


lexentry: eng/differentiable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: differentiable
trans_list: differentieerbaar
sense:
(calculus, not comparable) Having a derivative, said of a function whose domain and codomain are manifolds.


lexentry: eng/differential__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: differential
trans_list: differentiaal
sense:
(calculus) A quantity representing an infinitesimal change in a variable, now only used as a heuristic aid except in nonstandard analysis but considered rigorous until the 20th century; a fluxion in Newtonian calculus, now usually written in Leibniz's notation as \operatorname{d}\!x.


lexentry: eng/differential_diagnosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: differential diagnosis
trans_list: differentiaaldiagnose | differentiële diagnose
sense:
(medicine) The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms.


lexentry: eng/differential_gear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: differential gear
trans_list: differentieel
sense:
An arrangement of bevel gears permitting the rotation of two shafts at two different speeds whilst supplying the same torque; used on the drive axles or between the driven wheels of automobiles to aid cornering.


lexentry: eng/differentiate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: differentiate
trans_list: differentiëren
sense:
(transitive, intransitive, often in the, _, passive, biology) To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.


lexentry: eng/differentiation__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: differentiation
trans_list: afleiding
sense:
(mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.


lexentry: eng/diffraction_grating__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diffraction grating
trans_list: tralie
sense:
(physics) a surface having many closely spaced lines or slits; used to produce optical spectra by mutual interference


lexentry: eng/diffuse__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diffuse
trans_list: omroepen
sense:
(transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.


lexentry: eng/diffuse__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: diffuse
trans_list: omroepen
sense:
(intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.


lexentry: eng/dig__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dig
trans_list: opgraving
sense:
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.


lexentry: eng/dig__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dig
trans_list: graven | delven
sense:
(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.


lexentry: eng/digest__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: digest
trans_list: compendium | overzicht
sense:
Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.


lexentry: eng/digest__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digest
trans_list: ordenen
sense:
(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.


lexentry: eng/digest__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: digest
trans_list: verteren
sense:
(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.


lexentry: eng/digest__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: digest
trans_list: overdenken | verteren
sense:
(transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.


lexentry: eng/digestion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digestion
trans_list: vertering | spijsvertering
sense:
The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.


lexentry: eng/digestive_tract__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digestive tract
trans_list: maag-darmkanaal | spijsverteringskanaal
sense:
(anatomy) A system of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste.


lexentry: eng/digger_wasp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digger wasp
trans_list: graafwesp
sense:
Any of several solitary, predatory wasps, of the families Sphecidae or Crabronidae, that nest in the soil.


lexentry: eng/digital__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: digital
trans_list: discreet | digitaal
sense:
Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.


lexentry: eng/digital_camera__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digital camera
trans_list: digitale camera
sense:
An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.


lexentry: eng/digital_divide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digital divide
trans_list: digitale kloof
sense:
(information technology, sociology, neologism) The gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies (and the computer literacy to use them) and those without it.


lexentry: eng/digital_humanities__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digital humanities
trans_list: digitale geesteswetenschappen
sense:
An academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy.


lexentry: eng/digital_on-screen_graphic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digital on-screen graphic
trans_list: bug
sense:
(television) a type of small logo placed in a corner of the television screen to identify a television channel.


lexentry: eng/digital_twin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digital twin
trans_list: digitale tweeling
sense:
(especially, manufacturing, simulators, gaming) A digital model of an intended or existing real-world physical product, system, or process (a physical twin); it serves as the effectively indistinguishable digital counterpart of it for practical purposes, such as simulation, computer-aided manufacturing, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.


lexentry: eng/digitalis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digitalis
trans_list: vingerhoedskruid
sense:
Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).


lexentry: eng/digitigrade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digitigrade
trans_list: teenganger
sense:
(zoology, chiefly, in the plural) A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.


lexentry: eng/digitize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digitize
trans_list: digitaliseren
sense:
(transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.


lexentry: eng/digits__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digits
trans_list: nummer
sense:
(US, _, slang, dated) Synonym of telephone number; especially, the one that belongs to a potential dating partner.


lexentry: eng/digress__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: digress
trans_list: afdwalen
sense:
(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.


lexentry: eng/digression__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: digression
trans_list: uitweiding
sense:
(generally, _, uncountable) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.


lexentry: eng/dilapidation__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: dilapidation
trans_list: bouwvalligheid | verkrotting | verloedering | verval
sense:
(in the plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.


lexentry: eng/dilatory__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dilatory
trans_list: vertragend
sense:
Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or adjourn decision.


lexentry: eng/dilemma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dilemma
trans_list: dilemma
sense:
A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.


lexentry: eng/dilettante__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dilettante
trans_list: amateur | liefhebber
sense:
(sometimes, derogatory) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.


lexentry: eng/diligence__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: diligence
trans_list: diligence | postkoets
sense:
(historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.


lexentry: eng/dill__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dill
trans_list: dille
sense:
Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.


lexentry: eng/dimension__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: dimension
trans_list: dimensie | afmeting
sense:
(geometry) The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.


lexentry: eng/dimension__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: dimension
trans_list: dimensie
sense:
(physics) One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.


lexentry: eng/dimensional__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dimensional
trans_list: dimensionaal
sense:
(mathematics) Appended to cardinal numbers or algebraic symbols to form adjectives meaning "having the stated number of dimensions".


lexentry: eng/diminish__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: diminish
trans_list: verminderen | verlagen | afnemen | verkleinen
sense:
(transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).


lexentry: eng/diminutive__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: diminutive
trans_list: diminutief | verkleinings-
sense:
(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.


lexentry: eng/dimorphism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dimorphism
trans_list: dimorfisme
sense:
(geology) A property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms.


lexentry: eng/dimple__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dimple
trans_list: kuiltje
sense:
Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.


lexentry: eng/dinar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dinar
trans_list: middageten
sense:
(currency) The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, Tunisia and (as denar) North Macedonia.


lexentry: eng/diner__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: diner
trans_list: mensa1
sense:
(US) A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.


lexentry: eng/ding-dong_ditch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ding-dong ditch
trans_list: belletje lellen | belletje trekken
sense:
(US, Canada) A children's prank in which a doorbell of a home is rung, and then the pranksters run or cycle away before the occupants of the home open the door.


lexentry: eng/ding__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: ding
trans_list: beboeten
sense:
(transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.


lexentry: eng/dinghy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dinghy
trans_list: jol | kleine kano | rubberboot
sense:
(nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.


lexentry: eng/dingo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dingo
trans_list: dingo
sense:
A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo).


lexentry: eng/dinner_table__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dinner table
trans_list: eettafel
sense:
(usually, with the) The table at dinnertime conceived as a place; it often is the same table at which all meals are served, being at dinnertime the dinner table, at lunchtime the lunch table, and at breakfast time the breakfast table; it is usually either the kitchen table or the dining room table.


lexentry: eng/dinosaur__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dinosaur
trans_list: dinosaurus
sense:
(proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon.


lexentry: eng/diocese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diocese
trans_list: bisdom
sense:
(historical) An administrative division of the later Roman Empire, established by the Herodian tetrarchy.


lexentry: eng/diode__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diode
trans_list: diode
sense:
(electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.


lexentry: eng/dioecious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dioecious
trans_list: tweehuizig
sense:
(botany) Having the male and female reproductive organs on separate plants (of the same species) rather than different parts of the same plant.


lexentry: eng/diopside__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diopside
trans_list: diopsied
sense:
(mineral) A monoclinic pyroxene mineral, a magnesium calcium silicate with the chemical formula CaMgSi2O6, found in igneous and metamorphic rocks.


lexentry: eng/dipeptide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dipeptide
trans_list: dipeptide
sense:
(biochemistry, organic chemistry) An organic compound formed from two amino acids joined by a peptide bond.


lexentry: eng/diphtheria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diphtheria
trans_list: difterie
sense:
(pathology) A serious infectious disease leading to inflammation of mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae.


lexentry: eng/diphthong__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diphthong
trans_list: diftong | tweeklank
sense:
(phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.


lexentry: eng/diplodocus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diplodocus
trans_list: diplodocus
sense:
Any of several herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs, of the genus Diplodocus, known as fossils from the late Jurassic in North America.


lexentry: eng/diploid__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diploid
trans_list: diploïd
sense:
(genetics) Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid.


lexentry: eng/diploma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diploma
trans_list: diploma
sense:
A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.


lexentry: eng/diplomacy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diplomacy
trans_list: diplomatie
sense:
The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organizations, or even between polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals.


lexentry: eng/diplomat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diplomat
trans_list: diplomaat
sense:
A person, such as an ambassador, who is accredited to represent a government officially in its relations with other governments or international organisations


lexentry: eng/diplomatic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: diplomatic
trans_list: diplomatiek
sense:
Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.


lexentry: eng/diploë__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diploë
trans_list: diploë
sense:
(dated, mostly before 1920) The thin layer of soft, spongy or cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull.


lexentry: eng/dipped_headlight__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dipped headlight
trans_list: stadslicht
sense:
The main light on a motor vehicle, with the beam in a lower angle position, to enable oncoming traffic to see.


lexentry: eng/dipper__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dipper
trans_list: waterspreeuw
sense:
Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.


lexentry: eng/dipstick__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dipstick
trans_list: ijkinstrument
sense:
A stick or rod used to measure the depth of a liquid. Often used to check the level at which a liquid in an opaque or inaccessible tank or reservoir stands; gauge.


lexentry: eng/diptych__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diptych
trans_list: diptiek
sense:
A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.


lexentry: eng/dire_wolf__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dire wolf
trans_list: reuzenwolf
sense:
An extinct canine (†Aenocyon dirus) from the Pleistocene epoch, heavier and slightly larger than the modern grey wolf.


lexentry: eng/direct_current__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: direct current
trans_list: gelijkstroom
sense:
(physics) An electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time.


lexentry: eng/direct_debit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: direct debit
trans_list: automatische incasso
sense:
a single order to allow a commercial, or similar entity to charge directly to one's bank for a regular payment.


lexentry: eng/direct_speech__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: direct speech
trans_list: directe rede
sense:
(grammar, narratology) the writing of speech, using the exact words of the speaker, usually between quotation marks


lexentry: eng/direct_verb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: direct verb
trans_list: persoonsvorm
sense:
(grammar) A verb that agrees in person and number with the subject of a clause, by conjugation. Conjugation is a form of inflection.


lexentry: eng/directed_graph__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: directed graph
trans_list: digraaf | gerichte graaf
sense:
(graph theory) A graph in which the edges are ordered pairs, so that, if the edge (a, b) is in the graph, the edge (b, a) need not be in the graph and is distinct from (a, b) if it is.


lexentry: eng/direction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: direction
trans_list: richting
sense:
A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).


lexentry: eng/directive__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: directive
trans_list: richtlijn
sense:
(European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the member states. The directive binds the member state to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.


lexentry: eng/directly__Adverb__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: directly
trans_list: dadelijk | direct | meteen | zo | zodadelijk
sense:
(chiefly, dated, or, dialect, including, South Midlands, Cornwall) Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.


lexentry: eng/director__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: director
trans_list: directeur | regisseur | directrice | regisseuse
sense:
One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).


lexentry: eng/director_general__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: director general
trans_list: directeur-generaal
sense:
The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department.


lexentry: eng/directory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: directory
trans_list: map | Gouden gids | Witte gids | folder | gids | repertorium
sense:
A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.


lexentry: eng/directrix__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: directrix
trans_list: richtlijn
sense:
(geometry) A line used to define a curve or surface; especially a line, the distance from which a point on a conic has a constant ratio to that from the focus.


lexentry: eng/dirham__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dirham
trans_list: dirham
sense:
(currencies) A unit of currency used in the Arab world, currently the name of the currency of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.


lexentry: eng/dirty_bomb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dirty bomb
trans_list: vuile bom
sense:
A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.


lexentry: eng/dirty_money__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dirty money
trans_list: zwart geld
sense:
(idiomatic, business, law) Money that is illegally gained, illegally transferred or illegally utilized, especially money gained through forgery, bribery, prostitution, money laundering, or theft.


lexentry: eng/disability__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disability
trans_list: storing
sense:
(countable, medical model of disability) A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.


lexentry: eng/disable__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: disable
trans_list: deactiveren | uitschakelen | weigeren
sense:
(chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).


lexentry: eng/disabled__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disabled
trans_list: gehandicapte | gehandicapten | invaliden | persoon met een beperking
sense:
(nonstandard) One who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular)


lexentry: eng/disabuse__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disabuse
trans_list: ontdoen | terugbrengen van een dwaling | uit de droom helpen
sense:
(transitive) To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).


lexentry: eng/disambiguate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disambiguate
trans_list: desambigueren
sense:
To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.


lexentry: eng/disappear__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: disappear
trans_list: verdwijnen | laten verdwijnen | verzwinden
sense:
(transitive, often, euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.


lexentry: eng/disappoint__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disappoint
trans_list: teleurstellen
sense:
(transitive) To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.


lexentry: eng/disappointment__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: disappointment
trans_list: teleurstelling | tegenslag | tegenvaller
sense:
(countable) An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.


lexentry: eng/disarm__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disarm
trans_list: ontwapenen
sense:
(transitive) To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.


lexentry: eng/disarmament__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disarmament
trans_list: ontwapening
sense:
The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.


lexentry: eng/disaster__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disaster
trans_list: ramp | catastrofe | onheil
sense:
An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.


lexentry: eng/disaster_area__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disaster area
trans_list: rampgebied
sense:
An area that has been the site of a natural disaster that receives an official designation entitling residents and organizations within that area to receive relief and benefits.


lexentry: eng/disavow__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disavow
trans_list: verloochenen
sense:
(transitive) To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like.


lexentry: eng/disbar__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disbar
trans_list: de toegang ontzegd tot de balie
sense:
(legal, transitive) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such.


lexentry: eng/disc_brake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disc brake
trans_list: schijfrem
sense:
(automotive, bicycle parts, British spelling) A type of brake where the friction is produced by brake pads which are pressed against a disc (or rotor) made of steel or ceramic.


lexentry: eng/disc_jockey__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: disc jockey
trans_list: diskjockey | dj | DJ | discjockey | livedj
sense:
A person who plays, and sometimes mixes, recorded music at nightclubs, dances, parties, or some other social event; and/or as a backup musician for spoken word, or hip hop performers.


lexentry: eng/discern__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: discern
trans_list: onderscheiden
sense:
(transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.


lexentry: eng/disclosure__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: disclosure
trans_list: bekendmaking | onthulling | openbaarmaking | publicatie | terkennisgeving | vrijgave
sense:
(legal) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.


lexentry: eng/discography__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: discography
trans_list: werk
sense:
List of all of the releases of a certain musical act, usually with release dates, and often with other information about the releases.


lexentry: eng/discontinue__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discontinue
trans_list: beëindigen | stopzetten
sense:
(transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.


lexentry: eng/discordant__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discordant
trans_list: onenig
sense:
(also, figurative) Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music) , of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious.


lexentry: eng/discourage__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discourage
trans_list: ontmoedigen
sense:
(transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.


lexentry: eng/discourse__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: discourse
trans_list: discours | vertoog
sense:
(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).


lexentry: eng/discreet__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discreet
trans_list: discreet
sense:
Respectful of privacy or secrecy; exercising caution in order to avoid causing embarrassment; quiet; diplomatic.


lexentry: eng/discrete_Fourier_transform__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discrete Fourier transform
trans_list: discrete fouriertransformatie
sense:
(mathematics) The process of converting a discrete time-based function into its frequency-based representation.


lexentry: eng/discretize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discretize
trans_list: discretiseren
sense:
(transitive, mathematics, computing) To convert (a continuous space) into an equivalent discrete space, often for the purposes of easier calculation.


lexentry: eng/discriminate__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: discriminate
trans_list: discrimineren
sense:
(intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions harmful to (a person or group) based on prejudice.


lexentry: eng/discrimination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discrimination
trans_list: discriminatie | onderscheid
sense:
(uncountable, countable) Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things, with the intent to understand rightly and make correct decisions. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/discrimination__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: discrimination
trans_list: discriminatie
sense:
(uncountable, countable, sometimes, with, "against") Differential treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry. [from early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/discus_throw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: discus throw
trans_list: discuswerpen
sense:
(athletics) An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy lenticular disc called discus.


lexentry: eng/disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disease
trans_list: ziekte
sense:
(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.


lexentry: eng/disenchant__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disenchant
trans_list: desillusioneren
sense:
(transitive, of a person) To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.


lexentry: eng/disenfranchisement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disenfranchisement
trans_list: Ontneming van het kiesrecht | Ontzetting uit een recht
sense:
Explicit or implicit revocation of, or failure to grant, the right to vote, to a person or group of people.


lexentry: eng/disfigure__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disfigure
trans_list: misvormen
sense:
to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.


lexentry: eng/disgruntlement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disgruntlement
trans_list: ontevredenheid
sense:
The state of being disgruntled, usually displayed in a stereotypical form such as frowning and annoyance; the acts of sulky dissatisfaction.


lexentry: eng/disguise__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disguise
trans_list: vermomming | mom
sense:
Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.


lexentry: eng/disguise__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disguise
trans_list: vermommen | verhullen
sense:
(transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.


lexentry: eng/dish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dish
trans_list: bord | gerecht | taloor
sense:
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.


lexentry: eng/dish__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: dish
trans_list: vaat
sense:
(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.


lexentry: eng/dish_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dish up
trans_list: opdienen
sense:
(transitive) To serve (cooked food); to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc. and put in dishes to be served at table.


lexentry: eng/disillusionment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disillusionment
trans_list: teleurstelling
sense:
A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.


lexentry: eng/disinformation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disinformation
trans_list: desinformatie
sense:
False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.


lexentry: eng/disintegrate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disintegrate
trans_list: desintegreren | ontbinden | opbreken
sense:
(science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.


lexentry: eng/disinterested__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disinterested
trans_list: belangeloos
sense:
Having no stake or interest in the outcome, and no conflicts of interest; free of bias, impartial. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/disintermediate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disintermediate
trans_list: bypassen
sense:
(ambitransitive, business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation, to remove another from intermediation.


lexentry: eng/disjunction__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: disjunction
trans_list: disjunctie
sense:
(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.


lexentry: eng/dismay__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dismay
trans_list: teleurstelling
sense:
A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits


lexentry: eng/dismiss__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: dismiss
trans_list: afwimpelen | wegwuiven
sense:
(transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).


lexentry: eng/disorganized_schizophrenia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disorganized schizophrenia
trans_list: gedesorganiseerde schizofrenie | hebefrene schizofrenie
sense:
(pathology) A form of schizophrenia marked by disorganized behavior and speech as well as inappropriate emotional responses or affect.


lexentry: eng/disparage__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: disparage
trans_list: onteren
sense:
To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.


lexentry: eng/dispatch__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: dispatch
trans_list: verzenden
sense:
(transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.


lexentry: eng/dispensation__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: dispensation
trans_list: dispensatie
sense:
The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.


lexentry: eng/disperse__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: disperse
trans_list: verstrooien
sense:
(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.


lexentry: eng/displacement__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: displacement
trans_list: Verplaatsing
sense:
The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.


lexentry: eng/display__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: display
trans_list: verkoopstandaard
sense:
A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.


lexentry: eng/displease__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: displease
trans_list: mishagen
sense:
(transitive) To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.


lexentry: eng/disport__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disport
trans_list: zich vermaken
sense:
(ambitransitive, reflexive, dated) To amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; in particular, to cavort or gambol.


lexentry: eng/disposable_diaper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disposable diaper
trans_list: wegwerpluier
sense:
(North America) A diaper that is disposable; a single-use diaper or paper diaper, as opposed to a cloth one. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/dispute__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dispute
trans_list: betwisten
sense:
to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of


lexentry: eng/disquisition__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: disquisition
trans_list: bespreking
sense:
A lengthy, formal discourse that analyses or explains some topic; (loosely) a dissertation or treatise.


lexentry: eng/diss__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diss
trans_list: dissen
sense:
(slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.


lexentry: eng/disseminate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disseminate
trans_list: uitdragen
sense:
(transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.


lexentry: eng/dissemination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dissemination
trans_list: verbreiding | verspreiding
sense:
The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.


lexentry: eng/dissertation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dissertation
trans_list: dissertatie | proefschrift | thesis
sense:
A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in the US and a non-doctoral degree in the UK; a thesis.


lexentry: eng/dissident__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dissident
trans_list: dissident
sense:
A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.


lexentry: eng/dissimulate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dissimulate
trans_list: verbergen
sense:
(intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.


lexentry: eng/dissipation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dissipation
trans_list: losbandigheid
sense:
A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.


lexentry: eng/dissociate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dissociate
trans_list: scheiden
sense:
(chemistry, transitive) To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis.


lexentry: eng/dissociation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dissociation
trans_list: dissociatie
sense:
(chemistry) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.


lexentry: eng/dissociative_identity_disorder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dissociative identity disorder
trans_list: meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornis
sense:
(psychiatry) A mental disorder of disputed validity characterized by the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of a person's behavior.


lexentry: eng/dissolve__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dissolve
trans_list: fade-out
sense:
(cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next


lexentry: eng/dissolve__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: dissolve
trans_list: oplossen | ontbinden
sense:
(physical chemistry) (transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.


lexentry: eng/distaff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: distaff
trans_list: rokken | spinrokken | spinstok
sense:
A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.


lexentry: eng/distance__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: distance
trans_list: afstand | eind
sense:
(military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.


lexentry: eng/distance__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: distance
trans_list: verte
sense:
Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.


lexentry: eng/distance__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: distance
trans_list: verwijderen
sense:
To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.


lexentry: eng/distance_learning__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: distance learning
trans_list: afstandsonderwijs
sense:
Education obtained remotely, often involving written material together with audio-visual material transmitted via the internet and, sometimes, summer schools and local tutorials.


lexentry: eng/distil__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: distil
trans_list: branden | stoken | via distillatie vervaardigen
sense:
(also, figuratively) To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.


lexentry: eng/distil__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: distil
trans_list: distilleren | gedistilleerd worden
sense:
To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.


lexentry: eng/distil__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: distil
trans_list: afdruppelen | druppelsgewijs afscheiden | neerdruppelen | sijpelen
sense:
To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.


lexentry: eng/distillation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: distillation
trans_list: destillatie | distillatie
sense:
(chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.


lexentry: eng/distinction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: distinction
trans_list: onderscheiding | distinctie
sense:
That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.


lexentry: eng/distraint__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: distraint
trans_list: bezigheid
sense:
(legal) The legal right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant in the event of nonpayment of rent.


lexentry: eng/distributary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: distributary
trans_list: aftakking
sense:
(hydrology) A stream of water (either natural or artificial) that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.


lexentry: eng/distribution__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: distribution
trans_list: distributie | verdeling
sense:
(business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.


lexentry: eng/distribution__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: distribution
trans_list: distributie | verdeling
sense:
(mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.


lexentry: eng/distribution__Noun__1
sense_num: 11
written_rep: distribution
trans_list: distributie | verdeling
sense:
(mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.


lexentry: eng/distribution__Noun__1
sense_num: 15
written_rep: distribution
trans_list: opdeling | verdeling
sense:
(printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.


lexentry: eng/district_attorney__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: district attorney
trans_list: advocaat-generaal
sense:
(American, law) The title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals.


lexentry: eng/district_heating__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: district heating
trans_list: stadsverwarming
sense:
A system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements.


lexentry: eng/disturb__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disturb
trans_list: storen | verstoren
sense:
(transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.


lexentry: eng/disulfide_bond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: disulfide bond
trans_list: zwavelbrug
sense:
(organic chemistry) A bond, consisting of a covalent bond between two sulfur atoms, formed by the reaction of two thiol groups, especially between the thiol groups of two proteins


lexentry: eng/dittander__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dittander
trans_list: peperkers
sense:
A peppergrass of species Lepidium latifolium, native from Iberia to the Himalayas, introduced elsewhere.


lexentry: eng/ditto__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: ditto
trans_list: herhalingsteken
sense:
The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.


lexentry: eng/diva__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: diva
trans_list: diva | prima-donna
sense:
(slang, derogatory, informal) A person with an inflated sense of self, who has high expectations of others, and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges.


lexentry: eng/divan__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: divan
trans_list: canapé
sense:
A couch or sofa-like piece of furniture made of a mattress lying against the wall and on either the floor or an elevated structure.


lexentry: eng/dive__Verb__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: dive
trans_list: een fopduik maken | een schwalbe maken | fopduiken
sense:
(sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.


lexentry: eng/dive_bomber__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dive bomber
trans_list: duikbommenwerper
sense:
(aviation, historical) A bomber aircraft that dives directly at its target in order to drop a bomb with greater accuracy.


lexentry: eng/diverge__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: diverge
trans_list: uiteenlopen | divergeren | uiteenwijken
sense:
(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.


lexentry: eng/divergence__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: divergence
trans_list: divergentie
sense:
(calculus) The operator which maps a function F=(F1, ... Fn) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial F_i}{\partial x_i}.


lexentry: eng/diverse__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: diverse
trans_list: divers
sense:
Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.


lexentry: eng/diversify__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diversify
trans_list: variëren
sense:
(transitive) To make (something) diverse or varied in form or quality; to give variety to (something) to distinguish by numerous aspects or differences.


lexentry: eng/diversion__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: diversion
trans_list: omleiding
sense:
(transport) The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a different mode of transportation before arrival at the ultimate destination.


lexentry: eng/diverticulosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diverticulosis
trans_list: diverticulose
sense:
(pathology) The condition of having diverticula, or small pouches, formed along the mucosa of the colon.


lexentry: eng/divest__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divest
trans_list: nemen
sense:
(transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).


lexentry: eng/divide__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: divide
trans_list: delen | verdelen
sense:
(transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).


lexentry: eng/divide_and_conquer__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divide and conquer
trans_list: verdeel en heers | deel en heers | divide et impera
sense:
To use a combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.


lexentry: eng/dividend__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dividend
trans_list: dividend | deeltal
sense:
(finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).


lexentry: eng/diving_bell__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diving bell
trans_list: duikerklok
sense:
An airtight chamber, open at the bottom, that is lowered on a cable underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a diver or a small number of divers.


lexentry: eng/diving_bell_spider__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diving bell spider
trans_list: waterspin
sense:
A spider, Argyroneta aquatica, living almost entirely underwater, using hairs on its abdomen and legs to trap air.


lexentry: eng/diving_duck__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diving duck
trans_list: duikeend
sense:
Any of the ducks that feed mainly by diving such as pochards and scaups, of species in tribe Aythyini.


lexentry: eng/diving_mask__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: diving mask
trans_list: duikmasker
sense:
A mask worn by divers over the eyes or face to allow them to see clearly underwater, having a watertight seal around its edges to hold it securely to the face.


lexentry: eng/divining_rod__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divining rod
trans_list: wichelroede | wichelstok
sense:
Rod used for dowsing, a technique of divination used to locate subterranean sources of water, metal, other mineral resources or even various other things through magic, or according to many believers a natural phenomenon.


lexentry: eng/divisible__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divisible
trans_list: deelbaar
sense:
(arithmetic) Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, results in another integer still, thus leaving no remainder.


lexentry: eng/division__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: division
trans_list: delen | deling | afdeling | divisie | eenheid
sense:
(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.


lexentry: eng/division__Noun__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: division
trans_list: deelbaarheid
sense:
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.


lexentry: eng/division_of_labour__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: division of labour
trans_list: arbeidsdeling | werkverdeling
sense:
(economics) The separation of work into different categories or tasks, each category or task being carried out by different groups of workers.


lexentry: eng/division_ring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: division ring
trans_list: lichaam | scheef lichaam
sense:
(algebra) A ring with 0 ≠ 1, such that every non-zero element a has a multiplicative inverse, meaning an element x with ax = 1.


lexentry: eng/divisor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divisor
trans_list: deler
sense:
(arithmetic) In an expression involving division, the number by which another number is being divided.


lexentry: eng/divisor__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: divisor
trans_list: deler
sense:
(on a variety (or integral locally Noetherian scheme)) A Weil divisor: an element of the free abelian group on the codimension-1 subvarieties (or subschemes).


lexentry: eng/divorce_from_bed_and_board__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divorce from bed and board
trans_list: scheiding van tafel en bed
sense:
A situation where spouses live apart without having legally dissolved their marriage; this may be either a long-term arrangement or a first step towards actual divorce.


lexentry: eng/divot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divot
trans_list: kotelet
sense:
(especially, golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.


lexentry: eng/divulge__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: divulge
trans_list: openbaren
sense:
(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.


lexentry: eng/djembe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: djembe
trans_list: djembé
sense:
(music) A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.


lexentry: eng/do-gooder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: do-gooder
trans_list: goedmens
sense:
(derogatory) One who advocates a certain course of action, often of political or social concern, and often with the naive conviction of their own moral superiority.


lexentry: eng/do_I_know_you__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
sense: Used to ask the interlocutor whether or not he/she has met the speaker before.
written_rep: do I know you
trans_list:
ken ik je ergens van? | ken ik je niet ergens van? | ken ik je? | ken ik jullie? | ken ik u ergens van? | ken ik u niet ergens van?


lexentry: eng/do__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: do
trans_list: zitten | doen
sense:
(pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.


lexentry: eng/do__Verb__1
sense_num: 31
written_rep: do
trans_list: doen
sense:
(informal, transitive) To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.


lexentry: eng/do_it_yourself__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: do it yourself
trans_list: doe-het-zelf
sense:
The practice of doing home improvements and maintenance oneself, rather than employing a professional.


lexentry: eng/do_not_disturb__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: do not disturb
trans_list: niet storen
sense:
Used to indicate that somebody does not wish to be disturbed, e.g. a sign on a hotel room door, or a "busy" mode of an instant messenger.


lexentry: eng/do_the_dishes__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: do the dishes
trans_list: afwassen | de afwas doen
sense:
(intransitive) To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons).


lexentry: eng/do_unto_others_as_you_would_have_them_do_unto_you__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: do unto others as you would have them do unto you
trans_list: wat gij niet wilt, dat u geschiedt, doe dat ook een ander niet
sense:
One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself; an expression of the golden rule.


lexentry: eng/do_you_think_you_can_walk__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: do you think you can walk
trans_list: denk je dat je kunt lopen?
sense:
Asked to find out whether an ill or wounded person is able to walk or needs to sit down or lie down.


lexentry: eng/dock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dock
trans_list: zuring
sense:
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.


lexentry: eng/dock__Noun__3
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dock
trans_list: dok
sense:
(US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.


lexentry: eng/docking__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: docking
trans_list: docking
sense:
(sexuality, slang, vulgar) The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.


lexentry: eng/doctor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: doctor
trans_list: doctor | dokter
sense:
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.


lexentry: eng/doctor__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: doctor
trans_list: dokteren | valsificeren
sense:
(transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.


lexentry: eng/doctor__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: doctor
trans_list: dokteren | valsificeren
sense:
(transitive, figurative) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.


lexentry: eng/doctor_bird__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doctor bird
trans_list: wimpelstaartkolibrie
sense:
Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)


lexentry: eng/doctor_blade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doctor blade
trans_list: rakel
sense:
(printing) A metal blade used in printing for scraping off excess ink or toner from the printing roll.


lexentry: eng/doctorandus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doctorandus
trans_list: doctorandus
sense:
(historical, in the Netherlands) A person who has passed a doctoral exam at a university, but has not yet attained a doctorate.


lexentry: eng/doctrine__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: doctrine
trans_list: doctrine | leer
sense:
(countable, and, uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.


lexentry: eng/document__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: document
trans_list: document
sense:
An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.


lexentry: eng/documentary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: documentary
trans_list: documentaire | docu | documentairefilm
sense:
A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.


lexentry: eng/documentary_hypothesis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: documentary hypothesis
trans_list: oorkondenhypothese
sense:
(theology) The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents. [ca. 1840]


lexentry: eng/documentation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: documentation
trans_list: documentatie
sense:
(computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.


lexentry: eng/dodder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dodder
trans_list: warkruid
sense:
Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.


lexentry: eng/dodecahedron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dodecahedron
trans_list: dodecaëder | regelmatig twaalfvlak
sense:
(geometry) A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.


lexentry: eng/dodecane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dodecane
trans_list: dodecaan
sense:
(organic compound) Any of very many isomers of the alkane having twelve carbon atoms, but especially n-dodecane that is used as a solvent and is present in Diesel fuel.


lexentry: eng/dodecaphonist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dodecaphonist
trans_list: dodecafonist | dodecaphonist
sense:
(music) A practitioner or proponent of dodecaphony, i.e. use of the dodecaphonic musical scale, which has twelve tones per octave


lexentry: eng/dodge_a_bullet__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dodge a bullet
trans_list: met de schrik vrijkomen
sense:
(idiomatic, informal) To have a narrow escape; to avoid injury, disaster, or some other undesirable situation.


lexentry: eng/dodger__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dodger
trans_list: buiskap
sense:
(countable, nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.


lexentry: eng/dodo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dodo
trans_list: dodo | walgvogel
sense:
A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.


lexentry: eng/dodo__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dodo
trans_list: dodo
sense:
(figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.


lexentry: eng/doe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doe
trans_list: hinde | reegeit | damherthinde
sense:
A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).


lexentry: eng/does_a_bear_shit_in_the_woods__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: does a bear shit in the woods
trans_list: is de paus katholiek? | schijt een beer in het bos?
sense:
(colloquial, rhetorical question, mildly, vulgar) A rhetorical question in response to a question to which the answer is an emphatic yes.


lexentry: eng/doff__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doff
trans_list: ontdoen | uitdoen
sense:
(chiefly, clothing) To remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).


lexentry: eng/dog's_mercury__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dog's mercury
trans_list: bosbingelkruid
sense:
Mercurialis perennis, a herbaceous, downy perennial woodland plant with erect stems bearing simple, serrate leaves, found in much of Europe.


lexentry: eng/dog-ear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dog-ear
trans_list: ezelsoor
sense:
The folded corner of the page of a book or other publication, either due to having been read many times or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.


lexentry: eng/dog_Latin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dog Latin
trans_list: potjeslatijn
sense:
A phrase or jargon that imitates Latin, often by translating English words (or those of other languages) into Latin by conjugating or declining them.


lexentry: eng/dog_cart__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dog cart
trans_list: dogcar
sense:
A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs.


lexentry: eng/dog_days__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dog days
trans_list: hondsdagen
sense:
(archaic) The days following the heliacal rising of Sirius, now in early August (Gregorian) at dates varying by latitude.


lexentry: eng/doggy_style__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doggy style
trans_list: doggy | doggy style | op zijn hondjes
sense:
(slang, of sexual intercourse) In a position whereby one partner is on all fours and the other partner is penetrating from behind.


lexentry: eng/dogma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dogma
trans_list: dogma | leerstelling | leerstuk | geloofspunt
sense:
An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.


lexentry: eng/dogma__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dogma
trans_list: dogmatiek | dogma
sense:
A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.


lexentry: eng/dogwood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dogwood
trans_list: kornoelje
sense:
Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel.


lexentry: eng/doldrums__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doldrums
trans_list: kommer
sense:
Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack of interest; a situation where one feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise.


lexentry: eng/doldrums__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: doldrums
trans_list: windstilte
sense:
(nautical) Usually preceded by the: the state of a sailing ship when it is impeded by calms or light, baffling winds, and is unable to make progress.


lexentry: eng/doll_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doll up
trans_list: optutten
sense:
(transitive, intransitive, slang) To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display) [from 1906]


lexentry: eng/dollar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dollar
trans_list: dollar
sense:
Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.


lexentry: eng/dolmen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dolmen
trans_list: hunebed
sense:
(historical, ;, strictly) A prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow.


lexentry: eng/dolomite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dolomite
trans_list: dolomiet
sense:
(mineral) An evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO3)2; it also exists as the rock dolostone.


lexentry: eng/dolphin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dolphin
trans_list: dolfijn
sense:
A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of the infraorder Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.


lexentry: eng/dolphin__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dolphin
trans_list: dukdalf
sense:
(nautical) A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.


lexentry: eng/domain__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: domain
trans_list: domein
sense:
(computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.


lexentry: eng/domain__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: domain
trans_list: domein
sense:
(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.


lexentry: eng/domain__Noun__1
sense_num: 14
written_rep: domain
trans_list: domein
sense:
(taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.


lexentry: eng/domain__Noun__1
sense_num: 15
written_rep: domain
trans_list: domein
sense:
(biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome.


lexentry: eng/domain_name__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: domain name
trans_list: domein | domeinnaam
sense:
(Internet) A unique, case-insensitive name that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.


lexentry: eng/domestic_cat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: domestic cat
trans_list: huiskat
sense:
(zoology) A domesticated cat, of the species Felis catus or subspecies Felis silvestris catus, especially one kept as a pet or for vermin control.


lexentry: eng/domestic_duck__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: domestic duck
trans_list: tamme eend
sense:
The domesticated subspecies or form of mallard, sometimes Anas platyrhynchos domesticus or Anas platyrhynchos f. domestica.


lexentry: eng/domestication__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: domestication
trans_list: domesticatie
sense:
The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.


lexentry: eng/domestique__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: domestique
trans_list: knecht
sense:
(cycle racing) A cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team's designated leaders (for example, by riding in front of them to create a slipstream, or to set the pace), even if at the expense of their own individual performance.


lexentry: eng/domicile__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: domicile
trans_list: verblijfplaats
sense:
(legal) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.


lexentry: eng/dominance__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dominance
trans_list: dominantie
sense:
(physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.


lexentry: eng/dominant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dominant
trans_list: dominant
sense:
(music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.


lexentry: eng/dominate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dominate
trans_list: dominaat
sense:
(historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.


lexentry: eng/dominical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dominical
trans_list: zondags
sense:
(historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year.


lexentry: eng/domino__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: domino
trans_list: ) graat
sense:
(dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. [from c. 1800]


lexentry: eng/don't_count_your_chickens_before_they're_hatched__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: don't count your chickens before they're hatched
trans_list: de huid niet verkopen voor de beer geschoten is
sense:
One should not depend upon a favorable (and typically overoptimistic) outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur.


lexentry: eng/don't_mention_it__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: don't mention it
trans_list: geen dank | niets te danken
sense:
A polite way of responding to thanks, by suggesting that the service is too trivial or humble to warrant thanks; you're welcome.


lexentry: eng/don't_shoot_the_messenger__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
sense: (sarcastic, or, humorous) The bearer of bad news should not be held accountable for it.
written_rep: don't shoot the messenger
trans_list:
geef niet de boodschapper de schuld | schiet niet op de boodschapper | schiet niet van de boodschapper


lexentry: eng/donate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: donate
trans_list: geven
sense:
(ambitransitive) To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.


lexentry: eng/dongle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dongle
trans_list: dongel
sense:
(computer hardware) Any small device that plugs into an electronic device, typically a computer, and alters its functionality. Common examples include wireless modems, digital media players, software copy protect devices, and adapters.


lexentry: eng/dongle__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dongle
trans_list: dongel
sense:
(computer hardware) A hardware device used by a specific application for purposes of copy protection.


lexentry: eng/doofus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doofus
trans_list: beuling
sense:
(slang, derogatory, sometimes affectionately, humorous) A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.


lexentry: eng/doohickey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doohickey
trans_list: dinges
sense:
(slang, originally, US) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)


lexentry: eng/doom_metal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doom metal
trans_list: doommetal
sense:
(music genre) A subgenre of heavy metal characterised by a slow tempo and low-tuned guitars, often emphasizing despairing lyrics.


lexentry: eng/door__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: door
trans_list: deur | portier
sense:
(architecture) A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.


lexentry: eng/door_closer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: door closer
trans_list: deurdranger
sense:
A mechanical device, containing a spring and a cylinder of fluid, that automatically closes an open door.


lexentry: eng/doorbell__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doorbell
trans_list: deurbel | schel
sense:
A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building.


lexentry: eng/doorkeeper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doorkeeper
trans_list: conciërge
sense:
The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes responsible for security in the immediate area of the entryway, similar to a bouncer.


lexentry: eng/doorman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doorman
trans_list: conciërge
sense:
A person who holds open the door at the entryway (entrance) to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services.


lexentry: eng/doozy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doozy
trans_list: hamer
sense:
(US, colloquial) Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense.


lexentry: eng/dopamine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dopamine
trans_list: dopamine
sense:
(neurotransmitter, pharmaceutical drug) A monoamine C8H11NO2 that is a decarboxylated form of dopa, present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including adrenalin.


lexentry: eng/dope__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dope
trans_list: beits | vernis
sense:
(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.


lexentry: eng/dope__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dope
trans_list: doteren
sense:
(transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).


lexentry: eng/doping__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: doping
trans_list: dotering
sense:
The addition of small quantities of an element (a dopant) to a semiconductor to change its characteristics.


lexentry: eng/dor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dor
trans_list: gewone mestkever
sense:
Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying.


lexentry: eng/dorayaki__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dorayaki
trans_list: dorayaki
sense:
A Japanese confection consisting of two sponge cake patties baked to resemble gongs, sandwiching a filling of sweet azuki bean paste.


lexentry: eng/dormant_volcano__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dormant volcano
trans_list: slapende vulkaan
sense:
(geology) A volcano that has not erupted for a considerable length of time, but is still capable of erupting.


lexentry: eng/dormitory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dormitory
trans_list: slaapzaal | slaapcel
sense:
A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.


lexentry: eng/dormitory__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dormitory
trans_list: internaat | studentenhuis
sense:
A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.


lexentry: eng/dorsal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dorsal
trans_list: dorsaal
sense:
(anatomy, zootomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.


lexentry: eng/dorveille__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dorveille
trans_list: indommelen
sense:
(literary) A dreamlike semi-conscious state, such as while falling asleep or waking up, between periods of sleep, or from exhaustion; generally with reference to an altered mental state where there is no distinction between the fantastic and the familiar.


lexentry: eng/dossier__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dossier
trans_list: dossier | map | folder
sense:
A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.


lexentry: eng/dot__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dot
trans_list: punt
sense:
(grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.


lexentry: eng/dot_matrix_printer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dot matrix printer
trans_list: matrixprinter
sense:
(computer hardware) A type of printer that prints characters using an array of small wires that produce an array of dots when striking the paper.


lexentry: eng/dot_the_i's_and_cross_the_t's__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dot the i's and cross the t's
trans_list: de puntjes op de i zetten
sense:
(idiomatic) To take care of every detail, even minor ones; to be meticulous or thorough; to finish off something close to complete.


lexentry: eng/double-barrelled_shotgun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double-barrelled shotgun
trans_list: dubbelschots geweer
sense:
A type of shot-firing gun with two long, parallel barrels, allowing the user to fire twice in quick succession.


lexentry: eng/double-click__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double-click
trans_list: dubbelklik
sense:
(computing) The action of pushing the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.


lexentry: eng/double-click__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double-click
trans_list: dubbelklikken
sense:
(computing, ambitransitive) To push the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task than would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.


lexentry: eng/double-entry__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double-entry
trans_list: dubbel boekhouden | dubbele boekhouding
sense:
(accounting) Describing a method of bookkeeping in which each transaction is entered in two accounts, for debits and for credits.


lexentry: eng/double_English__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double English
trans_list: roman
sense:
(printing, US, dated) The size of type between double pica and double great primer, standardized as 28-point.


lexentry: eng/double_bond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double bond
trans_list: dubbele binding
sense:
(physical chemistry) A covalent bond in which two electron pairs (instead of the usual one) are shared between two atoms; most common between carbon atoms and carbon, oxygen or nitrogen atoms, but several other forms are known.


lexentry: eng/double_bridle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double bridle
trans_list: hoofdstel
sense:
(equestrian) A Weymouth bridle, which uses both a bradoon, held by a sliphead, and a curb bit, and is used with two reins.


lexentry: eng/double_check__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double check
trans_list: verzekeren, garanderen
sense:
(transitive) To check a second time; to check twice with extra caution or attention; to verify or make sure.


lexentry: eng/double_down__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double down
trans_list: inzet verdubbelen
sense:
(gambling, intransitive) To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.


lexentry: eng/double_entendre__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double entendre
trans_list: dubbele bodem
sense:
A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.


lexentry: eng/double_factorial__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double factorial
trans_list: dubbelfaculteit
sense:
(mathematics, combinatorics) For an odd integer, the result of multiplying all the odd integers from 1 to the given number; or for an even integer, the result of multiplying all the even integers from 2 to the given number; symbolised by a double exclamation mark (!!). For example, 9!! = 1 × 3 × 5 × 7 × 9 = 945.


lexentry: eng/double_fault__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double fault
trans_list: dubbelfout
sense:
(tennis) The missing of both the first serve and second serve, resulting in a point for the receiver.


lexentry: eng/double_glazing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double glazing
trans_list: dubbele beglazing
sense:
A system of insulated windows (and doors) having two parallel layers of glass separated by an air space


lexentry: eng/double_life__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double life
trans_list: dubbelleven
sense:
An existence or life that has two aspects, particularly when one of them is regarded as embarrassing, immoral, or unlawful and thus kept hidden from some people.


lexentry: eng/double_penetration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double penetration
trans_list: dubbele penetratie | sandwich
sense:
The simultaneous sexual penetration of one or more orifices of one person by two other people or objects.


lexentry: eng/double_plural__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double plural
trans_list: stapelmeervoud
sense:
(grammar) A word doubly inflected for the plural grammatical number in relation to its singular form; e.g., medium → media → medias.


lexentry: eng/double_reed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double reed
trans_list: dubbelriet
sense:
(music) A pair of reeds, in any of several wind instruments, that are joined together and vibrate together.


lexentry: eng/double_room__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double room
trans_list: tweepersoonskamer
sense:
A room, especially in a hotel, that is designed for two people and has two single beds (sometimes called a twin room) or one double bed.


lexentry: eng/double_standard__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: double standard
trans_list: dubbele moraal | met twee maten meten
sense:
A pair of monetary values, i.e. a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are legal tender.


lexentry: eng/double_star__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: double star
trans_list: dubbelster
sense:
(star) Two stars which form a stellar system, such that they orbit the point of equilibrium of their gravitational fields; a binary star.


lexentry: eng/doublet__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: doublet
trans_list: doublet | tweelingwoord
sense:
(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.


lexentry: eng/doublethink__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doublethink
trans_list: dubbeldenk
sense:
The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without acknowledging the contradiction.


lexentry: eng/doubletree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doubletree
trans_list: balans
sense:
a device that connects two horses to a wagon or other implement. The tugs of a harness are connected to a singletree, two of which are connected to a doubletree, which, in turn, is connected to the implement.


lexentry: eng/doubling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doubling
trans_list: verdubbeling
sense:
The process or an instance of making something double; a multiplication by two. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/doubloon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doubloon
trans_list: dubloen
sense:
(historical, numismatics) A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/doubly__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doubly
trans_list: dubbel
sense:
(usually, of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.


lexentry: eng/doubt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doubt
trans_list: twijfel
sense:
(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.


lexentry: eng/douche__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: douche
trans_list: stortbad
sense:
A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for irrigation.


lexentry: eng/dough__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dough
trans_list: deeg
sense:
A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.


lexentry: eng/dough_scraper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dough scraper
trans_list: pottenlikker
sense:
A rubber or metal implement used to scrape food, such as dough, off a countertop, out of a bowl, etc.


lexentry: eng/doughnut__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doughnut
trans_list: donut | berlinerbol
sense:
A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.


lexentry: eng/doula__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doula
trans_list: doula
sense:
A trained support person who provides emotional, physical and practical assistance to a pregnant woman or couple before, during or after childbirth.


lexentry: eng/dove__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dove
trans_list: duif
sense:
(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.


lexentry: eng/dove_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dove tree
trans_list: zakdoekjesboom
sense:
A Chinese tree grown ornamentally for the large white bracts around the flowers, which are said to resemble dove wings or handkerchiefs, Davidia involucrata.


lexentry: eng/dovecote__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dovecote
trans_list: duivenkot | duiventil
sense:
A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.


lexentry: eng/dovetail__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dovetail
trans_list: zwaluwstaart
sense:
In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes.


lexentry: eng/dowel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dowel
trans_list: deuvel
sense:
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.


lexentry: eng/dowel__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dowel
trans_list: plug
sense:
(construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.


lexentry: eng/dower__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dower
trans_list: lijftocht
sense:
(legal) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.


lexentry: eng/dower__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dower
trans_list: weduwgift
sense:
(legal) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage


lexentry: eng/dowitcher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dowitcher
trans_list: grijze snip
sense:
Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.


lexentry: eng/down__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: down
trans_list: down | kwart | ronde
sense:
(American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.


lexentry: eng/down__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: down
trans_list: heuvel
sense:
(especially, southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.


lexentry: eng/down__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: down
trans_list: heuvel
sense:
(UK, mostly, in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.


lexentry: eng/down__Noun__3
sense_num: 01
written_rep: down
trans_list: dons
sense:
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.


lexentry: eng/down__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: down
trans_list: atten | drinken | potten | zuipen
sense:
(transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.). [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/down_payment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: down payment
trans_list: aanbetaling
sense:
(legal, finance) A payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.


lexentry: eng/down_the_hatch__Prepositional_phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: down the hatch
trans_list: in één teug
sense:
(informal) Into the mouth and down the throat, especially with regard to the consumption of a beverage.


lexentry: eng/down_with__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: down with
trans_list: weg met
sense:
Expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.


lexentry: eng/downspout__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: downspout
trans_list: regenpijp
sense:
A vertical pipe or conduit that carries rainwater from the scupper, guttering of a building to a lower roof level, drain, ground or storm water runoff system.


lexentry: eng/downtown__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: downtown
trans_list: centrum | binnenstad | stadscentrum
sense:
(chiefly, US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.


lexentry: eng/dowry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dowry
trans_list: bruidsschat
sense:
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.


lexentry: eng/doxology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: doxology
trans_list: doxologie
sense:
An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.


lexentry: eng/dozen__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dozen
trans_list: tientallen
sense:
(as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.


lexentry: eng/drachma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drachma
trans_list: drachme
sense:
The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.


lexentry: eng/draculin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draculin
trans_list: draculine
sense:
(organic chemistry, zoology) A glycoprotein with anticoagulant properties, found in the saliva of vampire bats.


lexentry: eng/draff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draff
trans_list: bostel
sense:
A byproduct from a grain distillery, often fed to pigs or cattle as part of their ration; often synonymous with brewer's spent grain, sometimes differentiated from it; usually differentiated from potale, at least in technical use, although broad, nontechnical use has often lumped all such byproducts together, especially in the past.


lexentry: eng/draft__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draft
trans_list: diepgang
sense:
(nautical) The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.


lexentry: eng/draft__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: draft
trans_list: wissel
sense:
(archaic) An order for money to be paid; the document that states it: a cheque, note, bond, bill of exchange, money order, or IOU.


lexentry: eng/draft__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: draft
trans_list: ronselen | oproepen
sense:
(transitive, US) To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.


lexentry: eng/draft_horse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draft horse
trans_list: trekpaard
sense:
(American spelling) A horse used for muscular work other than carrying a rider and/or load, such as pulling a cart, plow, or log.


lexentry: eng/drag__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: drag
trans_list: belemmering | hinderpaal
sense:
(countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.


lexentry: eng/drag__Noun__1
sense_num: 17
written_rep: drag
trans_list: luchtweerstand | weerstand
sense:
(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.


lexentry: eng/drag_queen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drag queen
trans_list: dragqueen
sense:
(LGBTQ, originally, slang) A person, usually male, who dresses up in women's clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.


lexentry: eng/dragline_excavator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragline excavator
trans_list: dragline
sense:
Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting, especially in the process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill it.


lexentry: eng/dragon's_blood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragon's blood
trans_list: drakenbloed
sense:
A bright red resin, obtained from different species of a number of distinct plants Calamus rotang and genera Croton, Dracaena, Daemonorops, and Pterocarpus, used in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, medicines, and incenses.


lexentry: eng/dragon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragon
trans_list: draak | lintworm
sense:
In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.


lexentry: eng/dragon__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: dragon
trans_list: Draak
sense:
(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.


lexentry: eng/dragon_boat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragon boat
trans_list: drakenboot
sense:
A type of boat raced in Chinese festivals featuring a dragon motif and twenty paddling, one drumming, and one steering known as the sweep.


lexentry: eng/dragon_fruit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragon fruit
trans_list: drakenvrucht | pitaya
sense:
The fruit of certain cacti of the genus (Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.), cultivated in Southeast Asia and Central and South America, having cerise-pink- or yellow-coloured skin and a white or pink sweet fleshy interior with black seeds.


lexentry: eng/dragon_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragon tree
trans_list: drakenbloedboom
sense:
Any of several trees, of the genus Dracaena, having a thick trunk, sword-shaped leaves and orange fruit, especially Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands – a source of dragon's blood.


lexentry: eng/dragonfly__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragonfly
trans_list: libel
sense:
An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.


lexentry: eng/dragoon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dragoon
trans_list: dragonder
sense:
(by extension) Originally (historical) , a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.


lexentry: eng/drain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drain
trans_list: afvoer
sense:
(chiefly, US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)


lexentry: eng/draining_board__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draining board
trans_list: afdruiprek
sense:
A board beside a kitchen sink, designed to drain into the sink, used for letting kitchen utensils dry after they had been washed.


lexentry: eng/dram__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dram
trans_list: vinger
sense:
(by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, (now, _, particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.


lexentry: eng/drama__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drama
trans_list: drama
sense:
(countable) A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue


lexentry: eng/drama__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: drama
trans_list: drama
sense:
(uncountable, countable) A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play.


lexentry: eng/drama_queen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drama queen
trans_list: dramanicht | relnicht
sense:
(idiomatic, informal, pejorative) An overly or exaggeratedly dramatic person, especially a woman or a girl.


lexentry: eng/dramaturge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dramaturge
trans_list: dramaturg
sense:
(rare, theater) Someone who writes or adapts theater plays, a playwright, dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.


lexentry: eng/draughts__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draughts
trans_list: damspel
sense:
(board games, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.


lexentry: eng/draw__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: draw
trans_list: gelijkspel
sense:
Draft: flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.


lexentry: eng/draw__Noun__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: draw
trans_list: gelijkspel
sense:
(poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.


lexentry: eng/draw__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draw
trans_list: trekken | gelijkspelen
sense:
(cricket, archaic) Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/draw__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draw
trans_list: sluiten
sense:
(figurative) To give (courage, strength, etc.) to oneself; to summon up; also, to produce (evil, wickedness, etc.) in oneself.


lexentry: eng/draw__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: draw
trans_list: tekenen | putten
sense:
(transitive) To attract or cause (someone) to come to a particular place or to take a particular course of action; also, to cause (someone) to turn away from a particular condition or course of action. [from 12th c.]


lexentry: eng/draw__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: draw
trans_list: trekken | aantrekken | sluiten
sense:
(intransitive) To leave tea temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase; to infuse, to steep; also, of a teapot: to cause tea to infuse.


lexentry: eng/draw__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: draw
trans_list: gelijkspelen
sense:
(transitive, cricket) In a match scheduled to last for a certain period of time: to end (a match) with neither side winning because the team batting last has not completed its innings when the playing time concludes.


lexentry: eng/draw__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: draw
trans_list: tekenen
sense:
(transitive) To produce (a figure, line, picture, representation of something, etc.) with a piece of chalk, a crayon, a pen, a pencil, or other instrument. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/draw_and_quarter__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: draw and quarter
trans_list: vierendelen
sense:
(transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering.


lexentry: eng/draw_down__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: draw down
trans_list: dalen
sense:
To initiate a drawdown (withdrawal of equipment, supplies, etc., potentially to provide it to another party).


lexentry: eng/draw_in__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: draw in
trans_list: trekken
sense:
(idiomatic, intransitive, of nights or evenings) To become dark earlier as a result of seasonal change.


lexentry: eng/drawbridge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drawbridge
trans_list: valbrug | ophaalbrug
sense:
A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).


lexentry: eng/drawer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drawer
trans_list: la | schuif | lade
sense:
An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.


lexentry: eng/drawing__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: drawing
trans_list: tekenen
sense:
An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.


lexentry: eng/drawing_knife__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drawing knife
trans_list: haalmes
sense:
A knife with a handle at each end, used for shaving hoops for barrels by drawing it towards oneself.


lexentry: eng/drawing_room__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drawing room
trans_list: woonkamer
sense:
(British, somewhat, dated, outside, of, Indian) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.


lexentry: eng/drawl__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: drawl
trans_list: lijzig spreken
sense:
(intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.


lexentry: eng/drawstring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drawstring
trans_list: koord
sense:
A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag or garment, allowing the item to be closed (as with a bag) or tightened (as with sweatpants or a bathing suit).


lexentry: eng/dray__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dray
trans_list: kar
sense:
(historical) Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.


lexentry: eng/dreadlocks__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dreadlocks
trans_list: dreadlocks
sense:
A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.


lexentry: eng/dreamboat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dreamboat
trans_list: charmante prins
sense:
(informal, dated, or, humorous) An exceptionally good-looking and sexually attractive person, particularly a man.


lexentry: eng/dreamcatcher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dreamcatcher
trans_list: dromenvanger
sense:
A decorative Native American object in the form of a hoop and net with attachments such as feathers, traditionally believed by the Ojibwa to “filter out” bad dreams.


lexentry: eng/drench__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drench
trans_list: doordrenken
sense:
To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic) , to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.


lexentry: eng/dress__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dress
trans_list: jurk | gewaad | kleed
sense:
(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.


lexentry: eng/dress__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dress
trans_list: zich aankleden | zich kleden
sense:
(agriculture, horticulture) To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.


lexentry: eng/dress__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dress
trans_list: kleden | aankleden | zich aankleden | zich kleden
sense:
(also, reflexive, and, figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/dress_rehearsal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dress rehearsal
trans_list: generale repetitie
sense:
(theatre) A rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume, in order to test all aspects of the production by closely reproducing the actual conditions of a performance.


lexentry: eng/dress_suit__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dress suit
trans_list: avondjapon
sense:
A type of formal attire for women, typically a jacket over a dress, or a jacket and blouse with trousers or a skirt.


lexentry: eng/dress_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dress up
trans_list: verkleden
sense:
(intransitive, often with 'as') To put on a costume portraying oneself as a particular type of character or well-known person.


lexentry: eng/dressage__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dressage
trans_list: toernooi
sense:
(uncountable) An equestrian sport in which the horse and rider perform a test of specific movements in an arena, and are judged on the horse's obedience, acceptance of the bridle and of the rider's aids, gaits, impulsion, and the harmony between horse and rider.


lexentry: eng/dressing_gown__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dressing gown
trans_list: kamerjas
sense:
(UK, Ireland) An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.


lexentry: eng/dressing_room__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dressing room
trans_list: kleedkamer
sense:
A room in a theatre or other performance venue in which performers may change costumes and apply makeup.


lexentry: eng/dressing_table__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dressing table
trans_list: kaptafel | toilettafel
sense:
A low table or chest of drawers with a mirror at which one sits while dressing, applying makeup or similar tasks.


lexentry: eng/dribble__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dribble
trans_list: dribbelen
sense:
(basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.


lexentry: eng/dried__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dried
trans_list: gedroogd
sense:
Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying.


lexentry: eng/drill__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: drill
trans_list: dril
sense:
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.


lexentry: eng/drill_bit__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: drill bit
trans_list: boorkop
sense:
Any other style of cutter, for example a spade drill, that is rotated and fed in a similar manner as a twist drill to of cut a hole in metal, wood or other materials.


lexentry: eng/drinking_fountain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drinking fountain
trans_list: drinkfontein
sense:
(UK, Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Philippines) A device in a public place that provides water to drink.


lexentry: eng/drinking_game__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drinking game
trans_list: bierspel | drinkspel
sense:
(games) A game (often a logic or memory game) which involves the drinking of alcohol, usually as a penalty for making mistakes, as the intoxication makes the game harder to play.


lexentry: eng/drive__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: drive
trans_list: drijven | voortdrijven | indrijven
sense:
(transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.


lexentry: eng/driver's_license__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: driver's license
trans_list: rijbewijs | rijvaardigheidsbewijs
sense:
(American spelling) A document issued to a specific person by a government authority, permitting this person to drive one or more classes of motor vehicle on public roads and highways, often used as an identification document.


lexentry: eng/driver__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: driver
trans_list: stuurprogramma
sense:
(computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.


lexentry: eng/drizzle__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: drizzle
trans_list: stofregen
sense:
(physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.


lexentry: eng/droop__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: droop
trans_list: neb
sense:
(aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.


lexentry: eng/drop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drop
trans_list: druppel
sense:
(also, figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.


lexentry: eng/drop__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: drop
trans_list: snoepje | bolletje
sense:
Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.


lexentry: eng/drop__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: drop
trans_list: vallen
sense:
(intransitive, also, figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/drop__Verb__1
sense_num: 15
written_rep: drop
trans_list: laten vallen
sense:
(transitive, ergative, also, figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/drop__Verb__1
sense_num: 30
written_rep: drop
trans_list: laten vallen
sense:
(transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.). [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/drop_anchor__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drop anchor
trans_list: het anker uitgooien | het anker uitwerpen
sense:
(nautical) To release the anchor of a ship or boat, allowing it to fall to the bed of a body of water and thereby securing the vessel in place.


lexentry: eng/drop_dead__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drop dead
trans_list: val dood
sense:
(slang, derogatory, offensive) Used angrily to express disgust, contempt, derision, etc., toward another person.


lexentry: eng/drop_in_the_bucket__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drop in the bucket
trans_list: een druppel in de oceaan | een druppel op de gloeiende plaat
sense:
(idiomatic) Something of little importance, especially an inconsequential effort or action as compared to a huge problem.


lexentry: eng/drop_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: drop off
trans_list: afbreken
sense:
(idiomatic, transitive, especially, _, US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.


lexentry: eng/drop_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: drop out
trans_list: achterlaten
sense:
(intransitive, Of the ground, floor, snow, etc., or figuratively, a worldview or foundation) To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.


lexentry: eng/drop_ship__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drop ship
trans_list: dropshippen
sense:
(transitive) To deliver goods for a business directly to its customers, as though the business owned a relevant inventory, but with the manufacturer as the real source of the delivery.


lexentry: eng/drop_the_ball__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drop the ball
trans_list: een steek laten vallen
sense:
(idiomatic) To fail in one's responsibilities or duties, or to make a mistake, especially at a critical point or when the result is very negative.


lexentry: eng/dropdown_list__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dropdown list
trans_list: uitklapmenu
sense:
(graphical user interface) A user interface control GUI element similar to a list box which allows the user to choose one value from a list.


lexentry: eng/drove__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drove
trans_list: kudde
sense:
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.


lexentry: eng/drover__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drover
trans_list: veedrijver
sense:
A person who drives animals (which are on foot or on the hoof, walking to some destination), especially cattle or sheep, and especially over long distances.


lexentry: eng/drown__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: drown
trans_list: verdrinken | overspoelen | overweldigen | verzuipen
sense:
(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.


lexentry: eng/drug__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drug
trans_list: geneesmiddel | medicijn
sense:
(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.


lexentry: eng/drug__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: drug
trans_list: drug
sense:
A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.


lexentry: eng/drug__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drug
trans_list: drogeren
sense:
(transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.


lexentry: eng/druid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: druid
trans_list: druïde
sense:
(historical) One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions.


lexentry: eng/drum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drum
trans_list: drum | trom
sense:
(percussion instrument) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.


lexentry: eng/drum_brake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drum brake
trans_list: trommelrem
sense:
A form of brake in which friction is applied by pads to the inner surface of a rotating cylinder (the brake drum) connected directly to a wheel


lexentry: eng/drum_head__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drum head
trans_list: trommelvel
sense:
The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic.


lexentry: eng/drum_machine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drum machine
trans_list: drumcomputer
sense:
(musical instruments) An electronic musical instrument that can be programmed to create percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.


lexentry: eng/drunk_tank__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drunk tank
trans_list: dronkemanscel
sense:
(slang) A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.


lexentry: eng/drupe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drupe
trans_list: steenvrucht
sense:
(botany) a kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.


lexentry: eng/drupelet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drupelet
trans_list: steenvruchtje
sense:
(botany) One of the small drupe-like subdivisions which compose the outer layer of certain fruit such as blackberries or raspberries. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/dry-hump__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dry-hump
trans_list: droogneuken
sense:
(ambitransitive, slang) To simulate sexual intercourse without the genitalia directly touching, i.e. while wearing clothes, or by rubbing the genitals against something else.


lexentry: eng/dry_cleaning__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dry cleaning
trans_list: droogkuis | stomen
sense:
The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using organic solvents and specialized equipment.


lexentry: eng/dry_ice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dry ice
trans_list: droogijs
sense:
Carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state, used especially as a cooling agent and for the production of fog-like special effects. It sublimes at −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F) at normal atmospheric pressure.


lexentry: eng/dry_season__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dry season
trans_list: droge tijd | droogseizoen
sense:
Any season in which little rain falls; used especially in the tropics where it alternates with the rainy season.


lexentry: eng/drypoint__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drypoint
trans_list: etsnaald
sense:
(uncountable) A technique of intaglio printmaking similar to engraving in which an image is incised into a plate by scratching the surface with a hard, sharp metal (or diamond) point.


lexentry: eng/drywall__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: drywall
trans_list: gipsplaat | gipskarton
sense:
A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.


lexentry: eng/dual__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dual
trans_list: dualis | tweevoud
sense:
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.


lexentry: eng/dual__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: dual
trans_list: dualis | tweevoud
sense:
(mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.


lexentry: eng/dual_earner__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dual earner
trans_list: tweeverdiener
sense:
(economics) person of a couple with two jobs and thus two incomes; they may or may not have children.


lexentry: eng/dualism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: dualism
trans_list: dualisme
sense:
(theology) The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.


lexentry: eng/duality__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: duality
trans_list: dualiteit
sense:
(mathematics, physics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.


lexentry: eng/dubbing__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dubbing
trans_list: nasynchronisatie
sense:
(film) The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing.


lexentry: eng/dubitation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dubitation
trans_list: twijfel
sense:
(uncountable, archaic) The process of doubting or the state of being in doubt; hesitation, uncertainty.


lexentry: eng/dubstep__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dubstep
trans_list: dubstep
sense:
A subgenre of electronic dance music descended from 2-step garage that was popular in the early 2010s, characterized by its dark mood, sparse half-step and two-step rhythms, and emphasis on sub-bass.


lexentry: eng/duck__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duck
trans_list: duiken
sense:
(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.


lexentry: eng/duck_test__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duck test
trans_list: eendentest
sense:
(epistemology, philosophy) A form of abductive reasoning, application of intuition, or common sense regardless of technical parameters, to identify an ostensibly unknown subject by observing that subject's characteristics.


lexentry: eng/ductility__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ductility
trans_list: taaiheid
sense:
(materials science) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.


lexentry: eng/dud__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dud
trans_list: blindganger
sense:
(informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.


lexentry: eng/dude__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dude
trans_list: kerel | vent | gast | maat
sense:
(colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.


lexentry: eng/due_date__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: due date
trans_list: vervaldag | vervaldatum
sense:
The date on which a pregnant female is expected to give birth, which is determined by the term for the species.


lexentry: eng/due_diligence__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: due diligence
trans_list: due diligence | gepaste zorgvuldigheid
sense:
(legal) A process during which a potential party to a contract evaluates the assets and liabilities of one or more other potential parties, to assess whether it should enter into the contract.


lexentry: eng/duet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duet
trans_list: duet | duo
sense:
(music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).


lexentry: eng/duffel_bag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duffel bag
trans_list: sporttas
sense:
(US, AU, often, _, military) A large, cylindrical, duffel cloth bag used to carry personal gear, especially by soldiers.


lexentry: eng/dulcimer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dulcimer
trans_list: dulcimer | hakkebord
sense:
A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).


lexentry: eng/duma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duma
trans_list: doema
sense:
A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).


lexentry: eng/dumb_down__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dumb down
trans_list: vereenvoudigen
sense:
(idiomatic, transitive) To convey some subject matter in simple terms, avoiding technical or academic language, especially in a way that is considered condescending.


lexentry: eng/dummy_subject__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dummy subject
trans_list: loos onderwerp
sense:
(grammar) In English, a word (such as it or there) used as the subject of a sentence when the real subject is placed after the main verb, or when the subject is indefinite.


lexentry: eng/dump__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dump
trans_list: vuilnisbelt
sense:
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.


lexentry: eng/dump_truck__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dump truck
trans_list: kiepwagen
sense:
A heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo (e.g., soil, gravel, grain), having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground via dumping.


lexentry: eng/dumpster__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dumpster
trans_list: bak
sense:
(Canada, US) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.


lexentry: eng/dunch__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dunch
trans_list: hapje
sense:
(informal, rare) A leisurely meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually instead of lunch or dinner.


lexentry: eng/dung_beetle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dung beetle
trans_list: mestkever | strontkever
sense:
Any of the beetle of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles), especially of the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae, noted for rolling dung into balls for use as food or as brooding chambers.


lexentry: eng/dunlin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dunlin
trans_list: bonte strandloper
sense:
A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint.


lexentry: eng/duodecimo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duodecimo
trans_list: duodecimo
sense:
(paper, printing) A size of paper, so called because it is originally made by folding and cutting a single sheet from a printing press into 12 leaves; (5 by 7¾ inches): 6.5 to 7.5 inches high, approximately 4.5 inches wide.


lexentry: eng/duodenum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duodenum
trans_list: duodenum | twaalfvingerige darm
sense:
(anatomy) The first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum.


lexentry: eng/duplex__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: duplex
trans_list: laai
sense:
(philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.


lexentry: eng/dura_mater__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dura mater
trans_list: dura mater | hard hersenvlies
sense:
(anatomy) The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges, enveloping the brain and spinal cord.


lexentry: eng/duralumin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duralumin
trans_list: duraluminium
sense:
(metallurgy) An alloy of over 90% aluminium, 4% copper and traces of manganese, magnesium, iron and silicon, widely used in the aircraft industry.


lexentry: eng/durum_wheat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: durum wheat
trans_list: durumtarwe
sense:
Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread.


lexentry: eng/dusk__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dusk
trans_list: avondschemering | schemering
sense:
The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.


lexentry: eng/dust_devil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dust devil
trans_list: stofduivel | stofhoos
sense:
A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust (or dirt or sand) picked up from the ground.


lexentry: eng/dust_jacket__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dust jacket
trans_list: boekomslag
sense:
(printing, publishing) The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide a blurb.


lexentry: eng/dust_mask__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dust mask
trans_list: stofmasker
sense:
A protective mask which covers the mouth and nose of the wearer, worn when in a dusty atmosphere, or when doing work which creates dust.


lexentry: eng/dust_mite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dust mite
trans_list: huisstofmijt
sense:
A microscopically small mite, of the Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, or Dermatophagoides farinae species.


lexentry: eng/duster__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duster
trans_list: stofdoek
sense:
An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.


lexentry: eng/dustpan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dustpan
trans_list: blik | vuilblik
sense:
A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.


lexentry: eng/duststorm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duststorm
trans_list: stofstorm
sense:
A phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow soil particles up into a planet's atmosphere.


lexentry: eng/duty__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: duty
trans_list: van dienst
sense:
(engineering) The efficiency of an engine in work done per unit of fuel; particularly, the number of pounds of water which a steam pumping engine can raise one foot by burning one bushel or hundredweight of coal.


lexentry: eng/duty_of_care__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duty of care
trans_list: zorgplicht | zorgvuldigheidsplicht
sense:
(legal) A legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others.


lexentry: eng/duumvirate__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: duumvirate
trans_list: duümviraat
sense:
(historical) Any of several offices of the Roman Republic held by two joint magistrates known as duumvirs.


lexentry: eng/duvet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: duvet
trans_list: dekbed
sense:
(British, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.


lexentry: eng/dwarf__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dwarf
trans_list: dwerg
sense:
(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.


lexentry: eng/dwarf__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dwarf
trans_list: dwerg | dwergster
sense:
(now, sometimes, _, offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.


lexentry: eng/dwarf_birch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dwarf birch
trans_list: dwergberk
sense:
Betula nana, a species of birch in the family Betulaceae, native to arctic and cool temperate regions of northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.


lexentry: eng/dwarf_planet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dwarf planet
trans_list: dwergplaneet
sense:
(astronomy) A planetary (world-like) body of the Solar system, that directly orbits the Sun like the classical planets but does not gravitationally dominate other bodies in the region of its orbit.


lexentry: eng/dwarf_star__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dwarf star
trans_list: dwergster
sense:
(star) A star that is located in the main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, though generally excluding the small minority which fall in the blue band due to their large size and high luminosity; fuses hydrogen into helium in its core.


lexentry: eng/dyed-in-the-wool__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dyed-in-the-wool
trans_list: door de wol geverfd
sense:
(idiomatic, figuratively, of a person) Firmly established in one's beliefs or habits; having a specified characteristic, identity, etc. deeply ingrained in one's nature.


lexentry: eng/dynamic_memory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dynamic memory
trans_list: dynamisch geheugen
sense:
Computer memory that requires a periodic refresh to maintain its contents. This memory is usually cheaper and faster than ROM.


lexentry: eng/dynamics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dynamics
trans_list: dynamica | stromingsleer
sense:
(physics) The branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.


lexentry: eng/dynamite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dynamite
trans_list: dynamiet
sense:
A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.


lexentry: eng/dyne__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dyne
trans_list: religie
sense:
A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.


lexentry: eng/dysarthria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysarthria
trans_list: dysartrie
sense:
(neurology, neuropsychology) Difficulty in articulating words due to a disturbance in the form or function of the structures that modulate voice into speech; one of the first indicative symptoms of myasthenia gravis, brought about by an autoimmune response to acetylcholine receptors.


lexentry: eng/dysentery__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysentery
trans_list: dysenterie
sense:
(pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.


lexentry: eng/dysfunction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysfunction
trans_list: disfunctie
sense:
(mostly, medical) A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.


lexentry: eng/dysfunctional__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dysfunctional
trans_list: disfunctioneel
sense:
Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.


lexentry: eng/dysmenorrhea__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysmenorrhea
trans_list: dysmenorroe
sense:
(medicine) Painful menstruation (menstrual#Adjective pain), viewed as a symptom#Noun in any of various disorders.


lexentry: eng/dysmorphia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysmorphia
trans_list: dysmorfofobie
sense:
(psychology, psychiatry) Any of various psychological disorders of distorted body image in which a person inaccurately believes that their body is misshapen or inadequate, such as anorexia, bulimia, and muscle dysmorphia ("bigorexia").


lexentry: eng/dyspepsia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dyspepsia
trans_list: indigestie
sense:
(pathology) Any mild disorder of digestion characterised by stomach pain, discomfort, heartburn, and nausea, often following a meal.


lexentry: eng/dysphasia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysphasia
trans_list: dysfasie
sense:
(medicine, psychology) Loss of or deficiency in the power to use or understand language as a result of injury or disease of the brain.


lexentry: eng/dysphemism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysphemism
trans_list: dysfemisme
sense:
(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase carrying negative connotations or imagery (especially one that is derogatory, offensive or vulgar) to replace a (more) neutral original.


lexentry: eng/dysphoria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysphoria
trans_list: neerslachtigheid | ongenoegen | onrust
sense:
A state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort and suffering from restlessness, malaise, depression, or anxiety.


lexentry: eng/dyspraxia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dyspraxia
trans_list: dyspraxie
sense:
(neurology) A genetic neurological disorder where a person has motor skills severely below average due to their brain's inability to consistently send messages accurately to the body during the planning and execution of motor movements.


lexentry: eng/dysprosium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysprosium
trans_list: dysprosium
sense:
A metallic chemical element (symbol Dy) with atomic number 66: a rare earth element with a metallic silver lustre. Applications in human affairs include magnets with high performance, which are important in various machines with electric motors.


lexentry: eng/dysthymia__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: dysthymia
trans_list: dysthymie
sense:
(psychiatry) A form of clinical depression, characterized by low-grade depression which lasts at least two years.


lexentry: eng/dystopia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dystopia
trans_list: dystopie
sense:
A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.


lexentry: eng/dysuria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: dysuria
trans_list: dysurie
sense:
(pathology) The experience or condition of experiencing pain while discharging urine, or (rarely) of having difficulty doing so.


lexentry: eng/département__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: département
trans_list: afdeling
sense:
An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county.


lexentry: eng/e-mail_address__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: e-mail address
trans_list: e-mailadres
sense:
A unique identifier of the form user name@domain name specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.


lexentry: eng/e.g.__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: e.g.
trans_list: bijv. | bv.
sense:
An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example.


lexentry: eng/eGovernment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eGovernment
trans_list: e-government | e-overheid
sense:
The use of information technologies in order to enhance the access to and the delivery of government information and services to the public and to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and/or the quality of government operations.


lexentry: eng/e__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: e
trans_list: en
sense:
(rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.


lexentry: eng/each__Determiner__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: each
trans_list: elk | ieder
sense:
All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).


lexentry: eng/each_other__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: each other
trans_list: elkaar | elkander | mekaar
sense:
(reciprocal pronoun) To one another; one to the other; signifies that a verb applies to two or more entities both as subjects and as direct objects:


lexentry: eng/eager__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eager
trans_list: begerig
sense:
(comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.


lexentry: eng/eagle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eagle
trans_list: adelaar | arend
sense:
Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.


lexentry: eng/eagle__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: eagle
trans_list: adelaar | arend
sense:
(historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.


lexentry: eng/eagle_owl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eagle owl
trans_list: oehoe
sense:
Any of various Old World large owls of the genus Bubo, especially Eurasian eagle owls (Bubo bubo), that have prominent ear tufts.


lexentry: eng/ear__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: ear
trans_list: oor
sense:
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.


lexentry: eng/eardrum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eardrum
trans_list: trommelvlies
sense:
(anatomy) A thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and transmits sound from the air to the malleus.


lexentry: eng/eared_seal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eared seal
trans_list: oorrob
sense:
A seal belonging in the Otariidae family; a fur seal or a sea lion, differing from the true seals in having small, visible ears and the ability to walk on land.


lexentry: eng/earl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earl
trans_list: graaf | earl
sense:
(nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.


lexentry: eng/earless_seal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earless seal
trans_list: rob | zeehond
sense:
Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals.


lexentry: eng/early_bloomer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: early bloomer
trans_list: vroegbloeier
sense:
(horticulture) A flowering plant that blooms earlier in a growing season than other flowering plants.


lexentry: eng/earn__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: earn
trans_list: verdienen
sense:
(transitive) To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).


lexentry: eng/earnest_money__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earnest money
trans_list: aanbetaling
sense:
(chiefly, US) Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate.


lexentry: eng/earphone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earphone
trans_list: oortelefoon
sense:
A transducer that converts electric signals into sound and is held near the ear, especially as part of a telephone; an earpiece or headphone.


lexentry: eng/earphones__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earphones
trans_list: oortelefoon
sense:
A pair of small loudspeakers worn inside each outer ear or covering all or part of the ear, without a connecting band worn over head.


lexentry: eng/earplug__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earplug
trans_list: oordopje
sense:
A piece of protective gear meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the wearer's hearing from loud noises or the intrusion of water.


lexentry: eng/earth__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: earth
trans_list: aarde
sense:
(British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.


lexentry: eng/earth__Noun__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: earth
trans_list: aarde
sense:
(alchemy, philosophy, and, Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.


lexentry: eng/earth_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earth up
trans_list: aanaarden
sense:
(gardening, transitive) To cover the stem or leaves of plants with soil, as to encourage root growth or protect from cold.


lexentry: eng/earwig__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: earwig
trans_list: oorworm
sense:
Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.


lexentry: eng/easel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: easel
trans_list: schildersezel | ezel
sense:
An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.


lexentry: eng/easement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: easement
trans_list: erfdienstbaarheid | servituut
sense:
(law, property law) An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).


lexentry: eng/east__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: east
trans_list: oosten | oost
sense:
(ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.


lexentry: eng/east_by_south__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: east by south
trans_list: Oost ten Zuiden
sense:
The compass point halfway between east and east-southeast, specifically 101.25°, abbreviated as EbS.


lexentry: eng/easterly__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: easterly
trans_list: oostenwind
sense:
(meteorology) Any persistent wind from the east (usually a broad current or belt of easterly winds).


lexentry: eng/eastern_buzzard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eastern buzzard
trans_list: Japanse buizerd
sense:
A species of buzzard, Buteo japonicus, similar to the common buzzard, but with less variability in plumage and smaller dark carpal spots, and with usually dark-brown upperparts, pale nearly-white underparts, and darkish primaries.


lexentry: eng/eastern_imperial_eagle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eastern imperial eagle
trans_list: keizerarend | oostelijke keizerarend
sense:
Aquila heliaca, a large bird of prey that breeds in southeastern Europe and extensively through Western and Central Asia.


lexentry: eng/eastern_olivaceous_warbler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eastern olivaceous warbler
trans_list: oostelijke vale spotvogel | vale spotvogel
sense:
Iduna pallida, an Old World warbler, mainly found in the northern Afrotropics and winters in southeastern Europe, the Middle East and adjacent western Asia.


lexentry: eng/easterner__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: easterner
trans_list: oosterling
sense:
A native or inhabitant of the east of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the eastern United States.


lexentry: eng/eat__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eat
trans_list: eten
sense:
(copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").


lexentry: eng/eat_away_at__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: eat away at
trans_list: eten
sense:
(transitive) To cause to feel uneasy, troubled, worried, guilty, or vexed; to bother about something.


lexentry: eng/eat_one's_hat__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eat one's hat
trans_list: zijn hoed opeten
sense:
(idiomatic) Used in a result clause to express disbelief in a proposition expressed in a conditional clause.


lexentry: eng/eat_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: eat up
trans_list: inslikken
sense:
(transitive, figurative, informal) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.


lexentry: eng/eating_apple__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eating apple
trans_list: eetappel | handappel
sense:
Any apple primarily used for eating raw, rather than for use in cooking or cider-making: such a cultivar; an individual apple (instance) of such type.


lexentry: eng/eating_habit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eating habit
trans_list: eetgewoonte
sense:
(chiefly, in plural) A habit involving the regular consumption of certain types of food; the consistent choices one makes regarding eating, such as food choices, amount of food consumed, frequency of eating, etc.


lexentry: eng/eau_de_toilette__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eau de toilette
trans_list: eau de toilette
sense:
(perfumery) A lightly scented perfume to freshen the skin, usually applied directly to the skin after bathing or shaving.


lexentry: eng/eavestrough__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eavestrough
trans_list: dakgoot
sense:
(Canada, Upper Midwest US, Western US) A trough under the eaves of a building for draining water from the roof; gutter.


lexentry: eng/eccentric__Adjective__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: eccentric
trans_list: excentriek | afwijkend | buitenissig
sense:
(physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).


lexentry: eng/eccentricity__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eccentricity
trans_list: excentriciteit
sense:
(geometry) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.


lexentry: eng/ecchymosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecchymosis
trans_list: bloeding
sense:
A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin, especially one that is remote from a site of trauma or caused by a nontraumatic process (such as neoplasia).


lexentry: eng/echelon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: echelon
trans_list: waaier
sense:
(cycling) A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.


lexentry: eng/echidna__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: echidna
trans_list: mierenegel
sense:
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.


lexentry: eng/echinoderm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: echinoderm
trans_list: stekelhuidige
sense:
An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/echo_chamber__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: echo chamber
trans_list: echo
sense:
(music production) A sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through a sound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to producing echoes or echoing.


lexentry: eng/echo_chamber__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: echo chamber
trans_list: klankbodem
sense:
(by extension, figurative) An environment in which a person is exposed to only those beliefs and opinions that agree with their own, so that their existing views are magnified and reinforced while alternative ideas are not expressed or considered.


lexentry: eng/echocardiography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: echocardiography
trans_list: echocardiografie
sense:
(medicine) The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart; especially, cardiac ultrasonography done with cardiology-specific devices and training, as contrasted with POCUS applied cardiovascularly by any clinician.


lexentry: eng/echolalia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: echolalia
trans_list: echolalie
sense:
(clinical psychology, autism) The involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.


lexentry: eng/eclipse__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eclipse
trans_list: verduistering | eclips
sense:
Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.


lexentry: eng/eclipse__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: eclipse
trans_list: eclips | eclipskleed
sense:
(ornithology) A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.


lexentry: eng/ecocide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecocide
trans_list: ecocide
sense:
The complete destruction of an ecosystem due to human activities, such as due to exploitation of resources, nuclear warfare, or the dumping of harmful chemicals.


lexentry: eng/ecoduct__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecoduct
trans_list: ecoduct | wildwissel
sense:
(ecology) A type of wildlife crossing in the form of a bridge or tunnel, usually covered with foliage and turf, which animals may use to cross roads without the risk of being hit by vehicles; a wildlife viaduct. [from late 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/ecological_footprint__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecological footprint
trans_list: ecologische voetafdruk
sense:
A measure of how much biologically productive land and water area an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates using prevailing technology and resource management practices.


lexentry: eng/ecology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecology
trans_list: ecologie
sense:
(biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.


lexentry: eng/ecomuseum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecomuseum
trans_list: ecomuseum
sense:
A museum, often consisting of replica buildings in an outdoor setting, that shows the heritage of a particular locality or community


lexentry: eng/econometrics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: econometrics
trans_list: econometrie
sense:
(economics) The branch of economics that applies statistical methods to the empirical study of economic theories and relationships.


lexentry: eng/economic_crisis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: economic crisis
trans_list: economische crisis
sense:
A crisis caused by the general demand for goods within an economy falling below their supply, either temporarily or on a protracted basis, typically resulting in widespread bankruptcies of unproductive businesses and falling prices.


lexentry: eng/economics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: economics
trans_list: economie
sense:
(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.


lexentry: eng/economies_of_scale__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: economies of scale
trans_list: schaalvoordeel
sense:
(economics) The characteristics of a production process in which an increase in the scale of the firm causes a decrease in the long run average cost of each unit.


lexentry: eng/economist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: economist
trans_list: econoom
sense:
An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.


lexentry: eng/economize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: economize
trans_list: bezuinigen | economiseren
sense:
(intransitive) To practice being economical (by using things sparingly or in moderation, and by avoiding waste or extravagance).


lexentry: eng/economy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: economy
trans_list: economie
sense:
(obsolete) System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.


lexentry: eng/economy__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: economy
trans_list: economie
sense:
The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.


lexentry: eng/ecoterrorism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecoterrorism
trans_list: ecoterrorisme
sense:
Terrorism with an ecological motive, such as attacks against corporations perceived to be harming the natural environment.


lexentry: eng/ecotourism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecotourism
trans_list: duurzaam toerisme
sense:
Responsible (sustainable#Adjective) travel to natural areas supporting the fauna, flora, and local economy.


lexentry: eng/ectoparasite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ectoparasite
trans_list: ectoparasiet
sense:
A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the Demodex mite, which lives in human hair and eyelashes.


lexentry: eng/ectoplasm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ectoplasm
trans_list: ectoplasma
sense:
(parapsychology) A visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.


lexentry: eng/ectoplasm__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ectoplasm
trans_list: ectoplasma
sense:
(parapsychology) An immaterial or ethereal substance, especially the transparent corporeal presence of a spirit or ghost.


lexentry: eng/ectothermic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ectothermic
trans_list: koudbloedig
sense:
(zoology) Of or relating to an ectotherm; having a body temperature that varies depending on the outside temperature.


lexentry: eng/ecu__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecu
trans_list: schild
sense:
(historical) The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro.


lexentry: eng/ecumenical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecumenical
trans_list: oecumenisch
sense:
(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/ecumenism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ecumenism
trans_list: oecumene
sense:
(philosophy) Ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.


lexentry: eng/eczema__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eczema
trans_list: eczeem | eczema
sense:
(biology, medicine) A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.


lexentry: eng/eddy_current__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eddy current
trans_list: wervelstroom
sense:
(physics) An induced electric current formed within the body of a conductor when it is exposed to a time varying magnetic field; used in induction heating and in some braking and damping systems.


lexentry: eng/edelweiss__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: edelweiss
trans_list: edelweiss
sense:
A European perennial alpine plant (Leontopodium alpinum), with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster.


lexentry: eng/edge__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: edge
trans_list: rand | ribbe | zijde | lijn | kant | tak
sense:
(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.


lexentry: eng/edge__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: edge
trans_list: kling
sense:
(also, figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.


lexentry: eng/edible_crab__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: edible crab
trans_list: noordzeekrab
sense:
Cancer pagurus; a species of robust crab of a reddish-brown color found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea.


lexentry: eng/edification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: edification
trans_list: gebouw
sense:
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.


lexentry: eng/editio_princeps__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: editio princeps
trans_list: eerste druk
sense:
(humanities, printing) The first printed edition of a work previously only published in manuscript form.


lexentry: eng/editor__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: editor
trans_list: redacteur | krantenredacteur
sense:
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.


lexentry: eng/educe__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: educe
trans_list: afleiden | deduceren | opmaken
sense:
(transitive) To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/educe__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: educe
trans_list: afleiden | deduceren | opmaken | oproepen
sense:
(transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eeny, meeny, miny, moe
trans_list: iene miene mutte
sense:
(playground games) A method of choosing between two or more people or things, used by children. A child points to each item in turn (or alternately), while saying a rhyme starting "Eeny, meeny, miney, moe", moving to the next item after each word. The item pointed to on the last word of the rhyme is the one chosen.


lexentry: eng/effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: effect
trans_list: effect | werking
sense:
(sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.


lexentry: eng/effectuate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: effectuate
trans_list: veroorzaken
sense:
(transitive) To cause, bring about (an event); to accomplish, to carry out (a wish, plan etc.). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/effeminate__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: effeminate
trans_list: verwijfd
sense:
(often, derogatory, of a man or boy) Exhibiting behaviour or mannerisms considered typical of a woman; unmasculine.


lexentry: eng/efficient__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: efficient
trans_list: efficiënt
sense:
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.


lexentry: eng/efficient__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: efficient
trans_list: efficiënt
sense:
Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.


lexentry: eng/effloresce__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: effloresce
trans_list: verbloemen
sense:
Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.


lexentry: eng/efflorescence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: efflorescence
trans_list: bloem
sense:
(chemistry) The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.


lexentry: eng/egg__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg
trans_list: ei
sense:
(specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.


lexentry: eng/egg__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg
trans_list: ei
sense:
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.


lexentry: eng/egg_and_spoon_race__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg and spoon race
trans_list: eierlopen
sense:
(chiefly, British, games) A race in which competitors must carry an egg on a small spoon and race to the finish line without dropping the egg.


lexentry: eng/egg_cosy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg cosy
trans_list: eiermuts | eiermutsje
sense:
A small cover made of wool or other material and designed to be placed over a boiled egg to keep it warm.


lexentry: eng/egg_on__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg on
trans_list: aanzetten tot | provoceren
sense:
(transitive, idiomatic) To encourage or coax (a person) to do something, especially something foolhardy or reckless.


lexentry: eng/egg_roll__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg roll
trans_list: loempia
sense:
A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it.


lexentry: eng/egg_salad__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg salad
trans_list: eiersalade
sense:
A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread.


lexentry: eng/egg_timer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: egg timer
trans_list: eierwekker
sense:
(by extension) A timer that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time; a kitchen timer.


lexentry: eng/egg_tooth__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egg tooth
trans_list: eitand
sense:
(zoology) A small, sharp, cranial protuberance used by offspring to break or tear through the egg's surface during hatching.


lexentry: eng/eggnog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eggnog
trans_list: eierpunch | advocaat
sense:
A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.


lexentry: eng/eglantine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eglantine
trans_list: egelantier
sense:
A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips.


lexentry: eng/egotism__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: egotism
trans_list: egocentrisme | egotisme
sense:
(nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoism (belief that behavior should be directed towards one's self-interest).


lexentry: eng/egregore__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: egregore
trans_list: egregor
sense:
(occult) An autonomous psychic entity that is composed of, and influences, the thoughts of a group of people.


lexentry: eng/egret__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: egret
trans_list: reiger
sense:
Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.


lexentry: eng/eh__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eh
trans_list: hè
sense:
(informal, chiefly, Canada, Northern US, New Zealand, AU, UK) Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.


lexentry: eng/eh__Interjection__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: eh
trans_list: hè
sense:
(chiefly, Canada) An interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of someone addressed by the speaker.


lexentry: eng/eider__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eider
trans_list: eidereend
sense:
Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).


lexentry: eng/eidetic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eidetic
trans_list: eidetisch
sense:
(neuroscience) Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.


lexentry: eng/eidolon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eidolon
trans_list: afgod
sense:
An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.


lexentry: eng/eidolopoeia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eidolopoeia
trans_list: idolopeia
sense:
(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol.


lexentry: eng/eigenspace__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eigenspace
trans_list: eigenruimte
sense:
(linear algebra) The linear subspace consisting of all eigenvectors associated with a particular eigenvalue, together with the zero vector.


lexentry: eng/eigenvalue__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eigenvalue
trans_list: eigenwaarde
sense:
(linear algebra) A scalar, \lambda, such that there exists a non-zero vector x (a corresponding eigenvector) for which the image of x under a given linear operator \mathrm{A} is equal to the image of x under multiplication by \lambda; i.e. \mathrm{A} x = \lambda x.


lexentry: eng/eigenvector__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eigenvector
trans_list: eigenvector
sense:
(linear algebra) A vector that is only scaled (not rotated out of its span) under a particular linear transformation; a left or right eigenvector depending on context; (more formally) given a linear transformation A, a vector x such that Ax=λx [or xA=λx] for some scalar λ (called the eigenvalue).


lexentry: eng/eight-thousander__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eight-thousander
trans_list: achtduizender
sense:
Any of the fourteen independent mountains on Earth, all located in Asia, that extend more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.


lexentry: eng/eight_figures__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eight figures
trans_list: zeven nullen
sense:
An unspecified amount of money ranging from 10,000,000 to 99,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.


lexentry: eng/eight_hundred__Numeral__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eight hundred
trans_list: achthonderd
sense:
The cardinal number occurring after seven hundred ninety-nine and before eight hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 800.


lexentry: eng/eight_o'clock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eight o'clock
trans_list: acht
sense:
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the ninth hour of the day; 8:00 a.m. (08:00).


lexentry: eng/eighteen__Numeral__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighteen
trans_list: achttien
sense:
The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.


lexentry: eng/eighty-eighth__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-eighth
trans_list: achtentachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 88 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-fifth__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-fifth
trans_list: vijfentachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 85 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-first__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-first
trans_list: eenentachtigst | eenentachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 81 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-fourth__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-fourth
trans_list: vierentachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 84 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-ninth__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-ninth
trans_list: negenentachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 89 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-second__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-second
trans_list: tweeëntachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 82 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-seventh__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-seventh
trans_list: zevenentachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 87 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-sixth__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-sixth
trans_list: zesentachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-six, describing a person or thing in position number 86 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty-third__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty-third
trans_list: drieëntachtigste
sense:
The ordinal form of the number eighty-three, describing a person or thing in position number 83 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/eighty__Numeral__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eighty
trans_list: tachtig
sense:
The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.


lexentry: eng/einkorn_wheat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: einkorn wheat
trans_list: eenkoorn
sense:
A type of wheat, characterised by the presence of a single grain in each spikelet, that was cultivated in the Fertile Crescent and was one of the first grains to be domesticated; any subtype of said wheat, considered as a unit; in particular, the domesticated form.


lexentry: eng/einstein__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: einstein
trans_list: einsteinium
sense:
(photochemistry, dated) One mole of photons, regardless of frequency, as used to measure irradiance.


lexentry: eng/einsteinium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: einsteinium
trans_list: einsteinium
sense:
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99: a soft, silvery, paramagnetic metal.


lexentry: eng/either__Conjunction__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: either
trans_list: ofwel | of | hetzij
sense:
Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by “or”.


lexentry: eng/ejaculate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ejaculate
trans_list: ejaculeren
sense:
(biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.


lexentry: eng/ejaculate__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: ejaculate
trans_list: ejaculeren
sense:
(specifically, transitive, and, intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.


lexentry: eng/ejaculation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ejaculation
trans_list: ejaculatie
sense:
(specifically) A reflex in human beings and other mammals in response to sexual stimulation involving the forcible ejection from the urethra of, in males, semen; and, in females, vaginal fluid.


lexentry: eng/ejection_seat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ejection seat
trans_list: schietstoel
sense:
A seat in an aircraft which can be ejected from the cockpit and thus save the pilot's life when a crash is imminent.


lexentry: eng/ejector__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ejector
trans_list: waterspuwer
sense:
ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.


lexentry: eng/ekphrasis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ekphrasis
trans_list: ekfrasis
sense:
(rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or verbal description of an object, especially of an artwork.


lexentry: eng/elaboration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elaboration
trans_list: uitwerking
sense:
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.


lexentry: eng/elaiosome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elaiosome
trans_list: elaiosoom | mierenbroodje
sense:
(botany) A fleshy structure rich in lipids attached to the seeds of many plant species, usually to attract ants that disperse the seeds.


lexentry: eng/eland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eland
trans_list: elandantilope
sense:
A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh. [from late 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/elastic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elastic
trans_list: elastisch
sense:
Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.


lexentry: eng/elasticity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elasticity
trans_list: elasticiteit
sense:
(physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded


lexentry: eng/elative__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elative
trans_list: elatief
sense:
In Semitic languages, the “adjective degree of superiority”. In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”


lexentry: eng/elative__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elative
trans_list: elatief
sense:
(grammar) In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” or “from” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból (“out of the house”). Its opposite is the illative case (“into”). In Finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in English is often conveyed by the word "about".


lexentry: eng/elative_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elative case
trans_list: elatief | naamval
sense:
(grammar) The case used to indicate movement out of something; for example, out of the house. Some languages that make use of the elative are Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian.


lexentry: eng/elbaite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elbaite
trans_list: elbaiet
sense:
(mineral) A sodium-lithium-aluminium borosilicate mineral of the tourmaline group, prized as a gemstone.


lexentry: eng/elbow__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: elbow
trans_list: elleboog
sense:
(by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.


lexentry: eng/elbow_bump__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: elbow bump
trans_list: ellebooggroet
sense:
The touching of elbows between two people, sometimes as an alternative to a handshake, fist bump, or other form of contact when attempting to avoid the spread of germs.


lexentry: eng/elbow_grease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elbow grease
trans_list: inspanning
sense:
(idiomatic) Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.


lexentry: eng/election__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: election
trans_list: verkiezing
sense:
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.


lexentry: eng/election_threshold__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: election threshold
trans_list: kiesdrempel
sense:
A minimum percentage of votes that a party needs to receive in order to obtain a parliamentary seat.


lexentry: eng/elector__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elector
trans_list: kiesman | kiesmens
sense:
A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.


lexentry: eng/electoral_college__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electoral college
trans_list: kiescollege
sense:
(politics) A body of electors empowered to elect someone to a particular office, such as the Holy Roman Emperor or the President of the United States.


lexentry: eng/electoral_fraud__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electoral fraud
trans_list: verkiezingsfraude
sense:
(politics) Illegal interference with the process of an election, especially with the intent to stage a desired election outcome.


lexentry: eng/electric_car__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric car
trans_list: elektrische auto | stekkerauto
sense:
A car that uses electric motors and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine, the power coming from rechargeable batteries.


lexentry: eng/electric_circuit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric circuit
trans_list: stroomkring
sense:
A path, or an interconnected group of paths (at least one of which is closed), capable of carrying an electric current.


lexentry: eng/electric_current__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric current
trans_list: stroomsterkte
sense:
(electromagnetism) A net unidirectional movement of electrons, or other charge carriers, caused by a potential difference.


lexentry: eng/electric_current__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: electric current
trans_list: stroomsterkte
sense:
(electromagnetism) The net charge that passes through some cross-section of a conducting material (in one direction), per unit time, having the SI unit A (C/s).


lexentry: eng/electric_eel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric eel
trans_list: sidderaal
sense:
(narrowly) Electrophorus electricus, a species of fish resembling an eel (though not related) that is capable of generating powerful electric shocks.


lexentry: eng/electric_energy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric energy
trans_list: energie
sense:
(physics) The potential energy of an electric charge in an electric field, or of an electric current in a magnetic field.


lexentry: eng/electric_fence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric fence
trans_list: schrikdraad | elektrische afrastering
sense:
A fence containing metal wire through which an electric current is passed, as a deterrent which will shock people or animals trying to breach or climb the fence.


lexentry: eng/electric_field__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric field
trans_list: elektrisch veld
sense:
(electricity, physics) A region of space around a charged particle, or between two voltages, which exerts a force on charged objects in its vicinity.


lexentry: eng/electric_locomotive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric locomotive
trans_list: elektrische locomotief
sense:
(rail) A locomotive with its motors powered by electricity from overhead lines or (less commonly) from a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.


lexentry: eng/electric_piano__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric piano
trans_list: elektrische piano
sense:
(musical instruments) A type of lightweight piano with electronic pickups to amplify the sound. The strings, or string substitutes, are struck mechanically such that the action is similar to that of a normal piano.


lexentry: eng/electric_toothbrush__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electric toothbrush
trans_list: elektrische tandenborstel
sense:
A toothbrush that uses electric power, usually supplied by a battery, to move the brush head rapidly.


lexentry: eng/electrical_engineering__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrical engineering
trans_list: elektrotechniek
sense:
The branch of engineering that deals with the technology of electricity, especially the design and application of circuitry and equipment for power generation and distribution, machine control, and communications.


lexentry: eng/electrical_resistance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrical resistance
trans_list: verzetsbeweging
sense:
(physics) The opposition offered by an electrical conductor to the flow of a current through itself, resulting in a conversion of electrical energy into heat and radiation. The SI derived unit of resistance is the ohm (Ω). Symbol: R.


lexentry: eng/electricity__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: electricity
trans_list: elektriciteit | stroom
sense:
(physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/electrify__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: electrify
trans_list: elektrificeren
sense:
(transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.


lexentry: eng/electrocardiograph__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrocardiograph
trans_list: elektrocardiograaf
sense:
A device used in the diagnosis and detection of heart abnormalities that measures electric potentials on the surface of the body and creates a record (electrocardiogram) of the electrical currents associated with heart muscle activity.


lexentry: eng/electrochemical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: electrochemical
trans_list: elektrochemisch
sense:
(electrochemistry) Of, or relating to electricity produced by a chemical reaction, e.g. in a battery.


lexentry: eng/electrochemistry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrochemistry
trans_list: elektrochemie
sense:
(chemistry) The science of the chemistry associated with the flow of electricity, especially at the surface of an electrode.


lexentry: eng/electroconvulsive_therapy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electroconvulsive therapy
trans_list: elektroconvulsietherapie | elektroshock | elektroshocktherapie
sense:
(medicine) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.


lexentry: eng/electrode__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrode
trans_list: elektrode
sense:
The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.


lexentry: eng/electrodynamics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrodynamics
trans_list: elektrodynamica
sense:
(physics) The phenomena associated with moving electric charges, and their interaction with electric and magnetic fields; the study of these phenomena.


lexentry: eng/electroencephalogram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electroencephalogram
trans_list: elektro-encefalogram
sense:
(neurology) A recording of electrical brain activity (brain waves) made by an electroencephalograph.


lexentry: eng/electroencephalography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electroencephalography
trans_list: electroencephalography
sense:
(neurology) The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.


lexentry: eng/electrolysis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrolysis
trans_list: elektrolyse
sense:
(chemistry) The chemical change produced by passing an electric current through a conducting solution or a molten salt.


lexentry: eng/electromagnetic_radiation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electromagnetic radiation
trans_list: elektromagnetische straling
sense:
Radiation (quantized as photons) consisting of oscillating electric and magnetic fields oriented perpendicularly to each other, moving through space.


lexentry: eng/electromagnetic_spectrum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electromagnetic spectrum
trans_list: elektromagnetisch spectrum
sense:
(physics) The entire range of wavelengths of all known electromagnetic radiations extending from gamma rays, to X-rays through visible light, infrared, to radio waves.


lexentry: eng/electromagnetism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electromagnetism
trans_list: elektromagnetisme
sense:
A unified fundamental force that combines the aspects of electricity and magnetism and is one of the four fundamental forces. (technically it can be unified with weak nuclear to form electroweak) Its gauge boson is the photon.


lexentry: eng/electron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electron
trans_list: elektron
sense:
(particle) The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.


lexentry: eng/electron_cloud__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electron cloud
trans_list: elektronenwolk
sense:
(physics) A mathematically defined region around an atomic nucleus defined by a high probability that the atom's electrons will be present in that region.


lexentry: eng/electron_microscope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electron microscope
trans_list: elektronenmicroscoop
sense:
Any of several forms of microscope that use a beam of electrons, rather than one of light, and thus has a much greater resolving power.


lexentry: eng/electron_volt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electron volt
trans_list: elektronvolt
sense:
(physics) A unit for measuring the energy of subatomic particles; the energy equal to that attained by an electron moving through a potential difference of one volt. Equivalent to 1.6022 × 10−19 joules.


lexentry: eng/electronegativity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electronegativity
trans_list: elektronegativiteit
sense:
(chemistry) The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons when forming bonds.


lexentry: eng/electronic_cigarette__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electronic cigarette
trans_list: e-sigaret
sense:
A cylindrical battery-powered device that provides inhaled doses of nicotine by way of a vaporized solution.


lexentry: eng/electronics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electronics
trans_list: elektronica
sense:
(physics) The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles or by converting the flow of charged particles to or from other forms of energy.


lexentry: eng/electronics__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: electronics
trans_list: elektronica
sense:
(in the plural) Devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet)


lexentry: eng/electrostatics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: electrostatics
trans_list: elektrostatica
sense:
(physics) the branch of physics that deals with static electricity; that is, with the force exerted by an unchanging electric field upon a charged object


lexentry: eng/electrum__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: electrum
trans_list: elektrum
sense:
An alloy of gold and silver, used by the ancients; now specifically a natural alloy with between 20 and 50 per cent silver.


lexentry: eng/element__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: element
trans_list: element | gegeven
sense:
(legal) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.


lexentry: eng/element__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: element
trans_list: element
sense:
One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.


lexentry: eng/element__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: element
trans_list: element
sense:
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.


lexentry: eng/element__Noun__1
sense_num: 15
written_rep: element
trans_list: element
sense:
(computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.


lexentry: eng/element_of_surprise__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: element of surprise
trans_list: verrassingselement
sense:
(idiomatic) The strategic advantage afforded to a party when its opposition may be caught by surprise.


lexentry: eng/elementary_particle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elementary particle
trans_list: elementair deeltje
sense:
(physics) A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.


lexentry: eng/elephant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elephant
trans_list: olifant | elp | elpendier
sense:
A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.


lexentry: eng/elephant_foot_yam__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elephant foot yam
trans_list: olifantenyam
sense:
A plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, similar to the titan arum, cultivated for food.


lexentry: eng/elephant_in_the_room__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elephant in the room
trans_list: olifant in de kamer
sense:
(idiomatic) A problem or difficult issue that is very obvious, but is ignored for the convenience or comfort of those involved.


lexentry: eng/elevation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elevation
trans_list: elevatie
sense:
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.


lexentry: eng/elevation__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: elevation
trans_list: elevatie
sense:
The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.


lexentry: eng/elevation__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: elevation
trans_list: elevatie
sense:
(architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.


lexentry: eng/elevator__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: elevator
trans_list: hoogteroer
sense:
(aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.


lexentry: eng/eleven_o'clock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eleven o'clock
trans_list: elf
sense:
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the twelfth hour of the day; 11:00 a.m. (11:00).


lexentry: eng/elevenses__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elevenses
trans_list: middageten
sense:
(Britain, informal) A short mid-morning break taken around eleven o'clock for a drink or light snack.


lexentry: eng/elf__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elf
trans_list: elf | alf
sense:
(Germanic mythology) A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and harmful or dangerous magical influence; in later Norse sources, sometimes divided into benevolent light elves (inhabiting Álfheimr) and malevolent dark elves.


lexentry: eng/elicit__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elicit
trans_list: ontlokken | oproepen
sense:
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.


lexentry: eng/elicit__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: elicit
trans_list: onthullen | teweegbrengen | veroorzaken
sense:
To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.


lexentry: eng/elision__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: elision
trans_list: elisie
sense:
(linguistics) The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.


lexentry: eng/elite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elite
trans_list: elite
sense:
A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.


lexentry: eng/elixir__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: elixir
trans_list: elixer
sense:
(pharmacy) A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.


lexentry: eng/ell__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ell
trans_list: el
sense:
(historical) A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.


lexentry: eng/ellipse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ellipse
trans_list: ellips
sense:
(geometry) A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone.


lexentry: eng/ellipsis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ellipsis
trans_list: beletselteken | ellips | doorlooppuntjes | weglating
sense:
(typography, mathematics) A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.


lexentry: eng/ellipsoid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ellipsoid
trans_list: ellipsoïde
sense:
(mathematics, geometry) A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is a quadric with equation x2/a2 + y2/b2 + z2/c2 = 1.


lexentry: eng/elliptic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: elliptic
trans_list: elliptisch
sense:
(mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.


lexentry: eng/elm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elm
trans_list: iep | olm
sense:
(countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.


lexentry: eng/elocution__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elocution
trans_list: uitspraak
sense:
The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.


lexentry: eng/elongate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elongate
trans_list: doortrekken
sense:
To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.


lexentry: eng/elope__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: elope
trans_list: weglopen
sense:
(intransitive, of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.


lexentry: eng/elucidate__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: elucidate
trans_list: verklaren | clarificeren | uitleggen | verduidelijken | verhelderen
sense:
(figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.


lexentry: eng/elucidation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elucidation
trans_list: verklaring | verduidelijking
sense:
A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration


lexentry: eng/elytron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: elytron
trans_list: dekschild
sense:
A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects.


lexentry: eng/em_dash__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: em dash
trans_list: heel kastlijntje
sense:
(typography) The symbol (—) (used to demarcate a parenthetical thought or to indicate a break, or for emphasis)


lexentry: eng/email__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: email
trans_list: e-mail | email | mail
sense:
(uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of computers connected together in a network.


lexentry: eng/emancipate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emancipate
trans_list: ontvoogden
sense:
(chiefly, law) To release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; also (Ancient Rome, historical) , to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias.


lexentry: eng/emancipation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: emancipation
trans_list: ontvoogding | emancipatie
sense:
The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).


lexentry: eng/embankment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embankment
trans_list: waterkering
sense:
a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.


lexentry: eng/embarrass__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embarrass
trans_list: in verlegenheid brengen | verlegen maken
sense:
(transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.


lexentry: eng/embarrassment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embarrassment
trans_list: verlegenheid
sense:
A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.


lexentry: eng/embassy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: embassy
trans_list: ambassade
sense:
An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.


lexentry: eng/embattled__Adjective__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embattled
trans_list: voortdurend in moeilijkheden
sense:
(architecture) Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.


lexentry: eng/embezzle__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embezzle
trans_list: verduisteren
sense:
(legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.


lexentry: eng/emblem_book__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emblem book
trans_list: embleemboek
sense:
A book, of a kind popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe, containing allegorical illustrations with accompanying explanatory text, typically morals or poems.


lexentry: eng/embolism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embolism
trans_list: embolie
sense:
(pathology) An obstruction or occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream.


lexentry: eng/embolus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embolus
trans_list: zuiger
sense:
(pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.


lexentry: eng/embrace__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embrace
trans_list: omhelzen | omarmen | knuffelen
sense:
(transitive) To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.


lexentry: eng/embrasure__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embrasure
trans_list: schietgat
sense:
(architectural element, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.


lexentry: eng/embryo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embryo
trans_list: embryo
sense:
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.


lexentry: eng/embryology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: embryology
trans_list: embryologie
sense:
The scientific study of embryos and (often) also the developmental biology of all prenatal phases (embryology sensu stricto plus fetology and teratology collectively).


lexentry: eng/emerald__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emerald
trans_list: smaragd
sense:
Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.


lexentry: eng/emerald_ash_borer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emerald ash borer
trans_list: aziatische essenprachtkever
sense:
Agrilus planipennis, a green beetle native to Asia and a significant pest of ash trees in Europe and North America.


lexentry: eng/emergence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emergence
trans_list: opkomst
sense:
The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.


lexentry: eng/emergency__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emergency
trans_list: noodgeval | nood | spoedgeval
sense:
(sometimes, attributive) A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.


lexentry: eng/emergency_department__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emergency department
trans_list: spoed
sense:
(healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.


lexentry: eng/emergency_landing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emergency landing
trans_list: noodlanding
sense:
(aviation) A sudden landing of an aircraft, made in case of an on-board emergency or another reason requiring an immediate landing.


lexentry: eng/emergency_room__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emergency room
trans_list: spoedeisende hulp
sense:
(North America, Philippines, healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.


lexentry: eng/emergency_service__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emergency service
trans_list: hulpdienst
sense:
Any public service that deals with emergencies; especially the police, fire, ambulance, or lifeboat services.


lexentry: eng/emergency_vehicle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emergency vehicle
trans_list: hulpverleningsvoertuig
sense:
A vehicle that is designated to respond to an emergency, such as a police car, ambulance, fire engine or lifeboat.


lexentry: eng/emic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emic
trans_list: emisch
sense:
(social science, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.


lexentry: eng/emigrate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emigrate
trans_list: emigreren
sense:
(intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.


lexentry: eng/emigration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emigration
trans_list: emigratie | uitwijking
sense:
The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.


lexentry: eng/eminent_domain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eminent domain
trans_list: onteigening
sense:
(US, Philippines) The right of a government over the private property within its jurisdiction. Usually invoked to compel land owners to sell their property in preparation for a major construction project such as a freeway.


lexentry: eng/eminent_domain__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eminent domain
trans_list: oppereigendom
sense:
(historical) In feudalism, the legal interest or rights of a lord or superior in an estate in land held in fee, as opposed to the vassal's or tenant's interest.


lexentry: eng/emmer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emmer
trans_list: emmertarwe | tweekoren
sense:
Any of species Triticum dicoccum, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. [from 1908]


lexentry: eng/emoji__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emoji
trans_list: emoji
sense:
A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.


lexentry: eng/emoticon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emoticon
trans_list: emoticon
sense:
A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.


lexentry: eng/emotion__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: emotion
trans_list: emotie
sense:
A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.


lexentry: eng/emotional_blackmail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emotional blackmail
trans_list: emotionele chantage
sense:
The psychological abuse of a person's emotions or insecurities in order to influence their behavior.


lexentry: eng/emotional_intelligence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emotional intelligence
trans_list: emotionele intelligentie
sense:
(psychology) The ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups.


lexentry: eng/emotivism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emotivism
trans_list: emotivisme
sense:
(ethics) The meta-ethical stance that ethical judgments, such as those containing the words "should" and "ought to", are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another.


lexentry: eng/empathic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: empathic
trans_list: empathisch
sense:
(science fiction) Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.


lexentry: eng/empathy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: empathy
trans_list: empathie | inlevingsvermogen
sense:
Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.


lexentry: eng/emperor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: emperor
trans_list: keizer
sense:
Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.


lexentry: eng/emphasis__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: emphasis
trans_list: beklemtoning | klemtoon
sense:
Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.


lexentry: eng/emphyteusis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emphyteusis
trans_list: erfpacht
sense:
(legal) A right to enjoyment of property with a given stipulation that the property will be improved or maintained in an agreed upon manner; long leasehold


lexentry: eng/empire__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: empire
trans_list: keizerrijk | rijk
sense:
A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.


lexentry: eng/empire__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: empire
trans_list: imperium | keizerrijk
sense:
The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.


lexentry: eng/empirical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: empirical
trans_list: empirisch
sense:
Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.


lexentry: eng/empiricism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: empiricism
trans_list: empirisme
sense:
(philosophy) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.) [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/employment_contract__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: employment contract
trans_list: arbeidscontract | arbeidsovereenkomst
sense:
(law, business, human resources) A category of contract used in labor law to attribute right and responsibilities between parties to a bargain.


lexentry: eng/emporium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: emporium
trans_list: marktplaats
sense:
(also, figuratively) A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.


lexentry: eng/emporium__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: emporium
trans_list: warenhuis
sense:
(also, figuratively) A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.


lexentry: eng/empower__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: empower
trans_list: bemoedigen
sense:
(transitive) To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.


lexentry: eng/empty_nest_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: empty nest syndrome
trans_list: legenestsyndroom
sense:
(psychology) A feeling of loneliness or depression experienced by some parents when their children have matured and left home.


lexentry: eng/empyema__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: empyema
trans_list: empyeem
sense:
(medical sign) A collection of pus within a naturally existing anatomical cavity (as opposed to an abscess, which occurs in a newly formed cavity).


lexentry: eng/emulation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: emulation
trans_list: jaloezie
sense:
(computing) Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.


lexentry: eng/en_passant__Adverb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: en passant
trans_list: en passant
sense:
(chess) Of a capture of an enemy pawn, by moving one's pawn to the square that the enemy pawn has just passed over.


lexentry: eng/en_passant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: en passant
trans_list: en passant slaan
sense:
(chess) A move in which a pawn captures an opposing pawn on the same rank immediately after the latter has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game, as if it had moved forward only one square.


lexentry: eng/enable__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enable
trans_list: in staat stellen | inschakelen | mogelijk maken
sense:
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.


lexentry: eng/enable__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: enable
trans_list: in staat stellen
sense:
To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.


lexentry: eng/enable__Verb__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: enable
trans_list: activeren | inschakelen | toestaan
sense:
(chiefly, electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).


lexentry: eng/enabling_act__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enabling act
trans_list: machtigingswet
sense:
(politics) Legislation piece enacted by a legislative body that authorizes a dependent entity to exercise specific powers or undertake certain actions.


lexentry: eng/enantiomer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enantiomer
trans_list: enantiomeer
sense:
(chemistry) One of a pair of stereoisomers that is the mirror image of the other, but may not be superimposed on this other stereoisomer.


lexentry: eng/encampment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: encampment
trans_list: legering | tentenkamp
sense:
(often, military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.


lexentry: eng/encapsulate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: encapsulate
trans_list: inkapselen
sense:
(software, object-oriented) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.


lexentry: eng/enclosure__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: enclosure
trans_list: examen
sense:
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.


lexentry: eng/enclosure__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: enclosure
trans_list: examen
sense:
(uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.


lexentry: eng/encoding__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: encoding
trans_list: codering
sense:
(computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.


lexentry: eng/encompass__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: encompass
trans_list: omvatten | bevatten
sense:
(transitive) To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.


lexentry: eng/encroachment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: encroachment
trans_list: aantasting | afslijting | overschrijding
sense:
An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion; incursion.


lexentry: eng/encrust__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: encrust
trans_list: inleggen
sense:
(transitive) To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.


lexentry: eng/encryption__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: encryption
trans_list: encryptie
sense:
(cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.


lexentry: eng/encryption__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: encryption
trans_list: encryptie
sense:
(cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.


lexentry: eng/encyclopedia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: encyclopedia
trans_list: encyclopedie
sense:
A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.


lexentry: eng/encyclopedic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: encyclopedic
trans_list: encyclopedisch
sense:
Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge.


lexentry: eng/encyclopedic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: encyclopedic
trans_list: encyclopedisch
sense:
(lexicography) Relating to or containing descriptive information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations.


lexentry: eng/end_times__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: end times
trans_list: eindtijd
sense:
(Christianity) The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.


lexentry: eng/end_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: end up
trans_list: belanden | terechtkomen
sense:
(copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.


lexentry: eng/end_user_license_agreement__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: end user license agreement
trans_list: gebruikersovereenkomst
sense:
(legal, copyright) A contract between the manufacturer or copyright holder, also commonly called the licensor, of an end product and a person, commonly called the end user, that specifies the licenses under which the end user may utilize the end product, subject to restrictions as specified in the contract or agreement.


lexentry: eng/endangered__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endangered
trans_list: bedreigd
sense:
in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)


lexentry: eng/endbutton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endbutton
trans_list: deurknop
sense:
(lutherie) In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.


lexentry: eng/endeavor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endeavor
trans_list: ijveren | inspanning | poging
sense:
A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.


lexentry: eng/endeavor__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: endeavor
trans_list: proberen | zich beijveren | nastreven
sense:
(intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/endive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endive
trans_list: andijvie
sense:
A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).


lexentry: eng/endocrine_disruptor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endocrine disruptor
trans_list: hormoonverstoorder
sense:
(endocrinology) A chemical substance that hinders the normal functioning of the endocrine system in animals and human beings.


lexentry: eng/endocrine_gland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endocrine gland
trans_list: endocriene klier
sense:
(anatomy) Any of various glands that secrete hormones directly into the blood or lymph and not through a duct.


lexentry: eng/endocrinology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endocrinology
trans_list: endocrinologie
sense:
(physiology) The study of the endocrine glands of the human body, the hormones produced by them, and their related disorders.


lexentry: eng/endometriosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endometriosis
trans_list: endometriose
sense:
(medicine, pathology) A generally painful condition characterised by the presence of endometrial-like tissue in places other than the lining of the uterus; an instance of such tissue being present.


lexentry: eng/endometrium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endometrium
trans_list: baarmoederslijmvlies
sense:
(anatomy) The mucous membrane that lines the uterus in mammals and in which fertilized eggs are implanted.


lexentry: eng/endonym__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endonym
trans_list: endoniem
sense:
A name used by a group or category of people (an ingroup) to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups (outgroups).


lexentry: eng/endorheic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endorheic
trans_list: endoreïsch
sense:
(hydrology) Of a basin or lake: having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation or seepage into the ground.


lexentry: eng/endorphin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endorphin
trans_list: endorfine
sense:
(biochemistry) Any of a group of peptide hormones found in the mammalian brain that act as neurotransmitters and have properties similar to morphine.


lexentry: eng/endosome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endosome
trans_list: kernlichaam
sense:
(biology) An endocytic vacuole through which molecules internalized during endocytosis pass en route to lysosomes


lexentry: eng/endosperm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endosperm
trans_list: albumen
sense:
(botany) The tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid.


lexentry: eng/endosymbiotic_theory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endosymbiotic theory
trans_list: endosymbiontenhypothese
sense:
(ecology) The theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are organelles of eukaryotic cells, originated as independent organisms.


lexentry: eng/endow__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endow
trans_list: begiftigen | doteren
sense:
(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.


lexentry: eng/endow__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: endow
trans_list: begiftigen | doteren
sense:
(transitive, followed by, _, with, or rarely by, _, of) To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.


lexentry: eng/endpaper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endpaper
trans_list: dekblad
sense:
Either of two folded sheets of paper used to connect the front and back covers of a book to the first and last pages; one side of each endpaper is glued to the cover board, and the other side forms a flyleaf.


lexentry: eng/endpin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: endpin
trans_list: schoppen
sense:
(music, lutherie) The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.


lexentry: eng/endure__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: endure
trans_list: doorstaan | verdragen
sense:
To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.


lexentry: eng/enemy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enemy
trans_list: vijand | tegenstander
sense:
Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.


lexentry: eng/enemy_of_the_people__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enemy of the people
trans_list: volksvijand
sense:
(typically, _, socialism, or, communism) A political or class opponent of the subgroup in power within a larger group.


lexentry: eng/energy__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: energy
trans_list: energie
sense:
(physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.


lexentry: eng/energy_source__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: energy source
trans_list: energiebron
sense:
A source from which useful energy can be extracted or recovered either directly or by means of a conversion or transformation process (e.g. solid fuels, liquid fuels, solar energy, biomass, etc.)


lexentry: eng/enfeoff__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enfeoff
trans_list: belenen
sense:
(transitive, chiefly, law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.


lexentry: eng/engage__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: engage
trans_list: verloven
sense:
(transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).


lexentry: eng/engagement_ring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: engagement ring
trans_list: verlovingsring
sense:
(jewelry) A ring given to one's fiancé(e) or intended fiancé(e), signifying a promise to wed, typically a gold band with one or more diamonds or other precious stones.


lexentry: eng/engender__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: engender
trans_list: voortbrengen
sense:
(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/engine__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: engine
trans_list: motor | aandrijving
sense:
A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/engineer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: engineer
trans_list: ingenieur
sense:
Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally) , a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.


lexentry: eng/engineering__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: engineering
trans_list: ingenieurswetenschap
sense:
(uncountable) The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.


lexentry: eng/english__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: english
trans_list: Engels
sense:
(uncountable, North American) Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in pool, billiards or bowling; spin, sidespin.


lexentry: eng/engobe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: engobe
trans_list: engobe
sense:
A non-black clay slip coating applied to a ceramic body to give it decorative color or improved texture.


lexentry: eng/engross__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: engross
trans_list: grosseren
sense:
(transitive, now, _, legal) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.


lexentry: eng/engross__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: engross
trans_list: absorberen
sense:
(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).


lexentry: eng/engross__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: engross
trans_list: monopoliseren
sense:
(transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.


lexentry: eng/enjoin__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enjoin
trans_list: bevelen
sense:
(transitive, chiefly, literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.


lexentry: eng/enlighten__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: enlighten
trans_list: ophelderen
sense:
(transitive, figurative) To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.


lexentry: eng/enmesh__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enmesh
trans_list: vangen | verweven
sense:
To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh- or net-like manner.


lexentry: eng/enoki_mushroom__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enoki mushroom
trans_list: fluweelpootje
sense:
A mushroom with a long, thin stem, in the species Flammulina filiformis, used primarily in the cuisines of East Asia.


lexentry: eng/enrich__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: enrich
trans_list: verrijken
sense:
(transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/enrich__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: enrich
trans_list: verrijken
sense:
(physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/ensemble__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ensemble
trans_list: ensemble
sense:
(collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.


lexentry: eng/enshittification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enshittification
trans_list: verkuttificatie
sense:
(neologism, Internet, vulgar) The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements, recurring payments, and sponsored content, in order to increase profits.


lexentry: eng/enshrine__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: enshrine
trans_list: aanbidden
sense:
(transitive, by extension) To preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence.


lexentry: eng/ensure__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ensure
trans_list: verzekeren | waarborgen | garanderen
sense:
(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/entangle__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: entangle
trans_list: verwarren | verknopen | verstrengelen
sense:
(transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.


lexentry: eng/entelechy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entelechy
trans_list: entelechie
sense:
(Aristotelian, _, metaphysics) The complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualized.


lexentry: eng/entelechy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: entelechy
trans_list: entelechie
sense:
(chiefly, _, philosophy) A particular type of motivation, need for self-determination, and inner strength directing life and growth to become all one is capable of being; the need to actualize one's beliefs; having both a personal vision and the ability to actualize that vision from within.


lexentry: eng/enter__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: enter
trans_list: binnengaan | invoeren
sense:
(transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.


lexentry: eng/enteritis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enteritis
trans_list: enteritis
sense:
(pathology) Inflammation of the intestines, generally the small intestine, that may lead to diarrhea.


lexentry: eng/entertainer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entertainer
trans_list: entertainer
sense:
A person who entertains others, esp. as a profession, as a singer, actor, presenter, dancer, musician, magician, comedian, etc.


lexentry: eng/entertainment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entertainment
trans_list: amusement | vermaak | verstrooiing
sense:
An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.


lexentry: eng/enthalpy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enthalpy
trans_list: enthalpie
sense:
(thermodynamics, physical chemistry) A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.


lexentry: eng/entitlement__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: entitlement
trans_list: uitkering
sense:
(politics) A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.


lexentry: eng/entity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entity
trans_list: entiteit
sense:
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.


lexentry: eng/entomology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entomology
trans_list: entomologie | insectenkunde
sense:
The scientific study of insects, and (informally) of other arthropods (and occasionally other invertebrates).


lexentry: eng/entrapment__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: entrapment
trans_list: sekwestratie
sense:
(chemistry) A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.


lexentry: eng/entreat__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entreat
trans_list: smeken
sense:
(intransitive) Often followed by for: to ask earnestly or to beg for a benefit, favour, etc.; to appeal, to plead.


lexentry: eng/entrecôte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entrecôte
trans_list: entrecote | entrecôte | ribstuk | tussenribstuk
sense:
Sometimes in full entrecôte steak: a premium cut of beef from between the ribs used for roasts and steaks.


lexentry: eng/entrepreneur__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entrepreneur
trans_list: ondernemer | entrepreneur
sense:
A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. [from 1762]


lexentry: eng/entrepôt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entrepôt
trans_list: douane-entrepot
sense:
A city, port, or other place where merchandise is sent for import, processing, distribution, and/or export, especially one where such merchandise is exempt from some customs duties; hence, a commercial centre.


lexentry: eng/entresol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entresol
trans_list: tussenverdieping
sense:
A mezzanine; an intermediate floor in a building, typically resembling a balcony; most often, the floor immediately above the ground floor and below a higher floor.


lexentry: eng/entropy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entropy
trans_list: entropie
sense:
(Boltzmann definition) A measure of the disorder directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate.


lexentry: eng/entropy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: entropy
trans_list: entropie
sense:
(thermodynamics, countable) A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.


lexentry: eng/entropy__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: entropy
trans_list: entropie
sense:
(statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.


lexentry: eng/entry__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: entry
trans_list: entree | lemma
sense:
A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms


lexentry: eng/entryphone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entryphone
trans_list: deurintercom
sense:
An intercom system which enables someone, without opening the door, to converse with the person who has rung the doorbell.


lexentry: eng/entrée__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: entrée
trans_list: voorgerecht
sense:
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, historical, _, in the, _) A smaller dish served before the main course of a meal.


lexentry: eng/enunciation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: enunciation
trans_list: dictie
sense:
The mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially with regards to the fullness and distinctness of articulation.


lexentry: eng/enunciation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: enunciation
trans_list: aankondiging, mededeling
sense:
That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; formal declaration


lexentry: eng/envious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: envious
trans_list: nijdig | jaloers
sense:
Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.


lexentry: eng/environ__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: environ
trans_list: omgeving
sense:
(archaic, except, in plural, formal, also, figuratively) A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.


lexentry: eng/environmentalist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: environmentalist
trans_list: ecologist | milieuactivist | milieuactiviste
sense:
One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.


lexentry: eng/envy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: envy
trans_list: afgunst | nijd
sense:
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). [from 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/envy__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: envy
trans_list: benijden | afgunstig zijn
sense:
(transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/enzyme__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: enzyme
trans_list: enzym
sense:
(biochemistry) A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.


lexentry: eng/eon__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: eon
trans_list: eon
sense:
(geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.


lexentry: eng/eosinophil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eosinophil
trans_list: eosinofiel
sense:
(cytology, immunology) A white blood cell responsible for combating infection by parasites in the body.


lexentry: eng/epact__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epact
trans_list: epacta
sense:
the time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter


lexentry: eng/epazote__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epazote
trans_list: welriekende ganzenvoet
sense:
A pungent herb used in Latin-American cooking and tea making, and in folk medicine; Dysphania ambrosioides.


lexentry: eng/epee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epee
trans_list: degen
sense:
(fencing) A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.


lexentry: eng/epenthesis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epenthesis
trans_list: epenthese | epenthesis
sense:
(phonetics, prosody) The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.


lexentry: eng/ephedrine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ephedrine
trans_list: efedrine
sense:
(biochemistry, pharmaceutical drug) A crystalline alkaloid drug C10H15NO obtained from a Chinese ephedra (Ephedra sinica) or synthesized that has the physiological action of epinephrine. It causes constriction of the blood vessels and widening of the bronchial passages and is used in the form of its hydrochloride or sulfate to relieve asthma and hay fever.


lexentry: eng/ephod__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ephod
trans_list: efod
sense:
(biblical, Judaism) A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi–xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear.


lexentry: eng/epic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epic
trans_list: epos | heldendicht
sense:
An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.


lexentry: eng/epicene__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: epicene
trans_list: gemeenslachtig | geslachtloos
sense:
(linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.


lexentry: eng/epicentre__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epicentre
trans_list: epicentrum
sense:
(seismology) The point on the land or water surface directly above the focus, or hypocentre, of an earthquake.


lexentry: eng/epiclesis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epiclesis
trans_list: Epiklese
sense:
(Christianity) A prayer invoking the Holy Spirit, especially one offered in the liturgical context of the Eucharist so as to change the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/epicycle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epicycle
trans_list: epicykels
sense:
(astronomy) A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth.


lexentry: eng/epidemic__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: epidemic
trans_list: epidemie
sense:
(epidemiology) An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a human population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period; an episode of outbreak and subsequent high prevalence.


lexentry: eng/epidemiology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epidemiology
trans_list: epidemiologie
sense:
(sciences) The branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.


lexentry: eng/epididymal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epididymal
trans_list: epididymaal | paratesticulair | van de bijbal
sense:
Of, in or pertaining to the epididymis, the tube in male mammals which connects the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens.


lexentry: eng/epididymis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epididymis
trans_list: bijbal | epididymis | paratestikel
sense:
(anatomy) A narrow, tightly-coiled tube connecting the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens, where sperm are stored during maturation.


lexentry: eng/epigenetics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epigenetics
trans_list: epigenetica
sense:
(genetics) The study of the processes involved in the genetic development of an organism, especially the activation and deactivation of genes.


lexentry: eng/epigenetics__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: epigenetics
trans_list: epigenetica
sense:
(genetics) The study of heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in DNA sequence.


lexentry: eng/epiglottis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epiglottis
trans_list: epiglottis | strotklep
sense:
(anatomy) A cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.


lexentry: eng/epilator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epilator
trans_list: epileerapparaat
sense:
An electrically-powered device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.


lexentry: eng/epilepsy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epilepsy
trans_list: epilepsie | vallende ziekte
sense:
(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.


lexentry: eng/epimer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epimer
trans_list: epimeer
sense:
(chemistry) Any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres.


lexentry: eng/epiphany__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epiphany
trans_list: epifanie | ingeving
sense:
An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.


lexentry: eng/epiphenomenon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: epiphenomenon
trans_list: bijverschijnsel | epifenomeen
sense:
(philosophy, psychology) A mental process or state that is an incidental by-product of physiological events in the brain or nervous system.


lexentry: eng/epiphenomenon__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: epiphenomenon
trans_list: epiphenomena
sense:
(pathology) A symptom that develops during the course of a disease that is not connected to the disease.


lexentry: eng/epiphyte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epiphyte
trans_list: epifyt
sense:
(botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.


lexentry: eng/episiotomy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: episiotomy
trans_list: episiotomie | epi
sense:
(medical) A surgical incision through the perineum made to enlarge the vagina and assist childbirth.


lexentry: eng/episode__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: episode
trans_list: gebeuren | episode
sense:
An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.


lexentry: eng/epistemic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epistemic
trans_list: epistemisch
sense:
(philosophy) Of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired. [from early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/epistemology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epistemology
trans_list: kennistheorie | epistemologie | kennisleer
sense:
(uncountable) The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; the theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?", "How do we know it is true?", and so on.


lexentry: eng/epistle__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: epistle
trans_list: epistel
sense:
One of the books of the New Testament which was originally a letter issued by an apostle to an individual or a community.


lexentry: eng/epitaxy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epitaxy
trans_list: epitaxie
sense:
(crystallography) An overgrowth in which the overlying crystal is either induced into the same orientation, or otherwise grows under the influence of the underlying crystal into the same orientation.


lexentry: eng/epitaxy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: epitaxy
trans_list: epitaxie
sense:
A type of crystal growth or material deposition in which new crystalline layers are formed with one or more well-defined orientations with respect to the crystalline seed layer.


lexentry: eng/epithelium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epithelium
trans_list: epitheel
sense:
(anatomy) A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin.


lexentry: eng/epithet__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: epithet
trans_list: epitheton
sense:
(taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.


lexentry: eng/epitope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epitope
trans_list: epitoop
sense:
(biochemistry) The part of a biomolecule (such as a protein) which is the target of an immune response


lexentry: eng/epitrachelion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epitrachelion
trans_list: epitrachelion
sense:
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.


lexentry: eng/epitrochoid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epitrochoid
trans_list: epitrochoïde
sense:
A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another circle. Examples include the shape of the Wankel engine


lexentry: eng/epoch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epoch
trans_list: tijdperk
sense:
A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.


lexentry: eng/eponym__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: eponym
trans_list: eponiem | naamgever
sense:
(loosely, sometimes, _, proscribed) A name or term derived from any proper noun, inclusive of places, brands, etc.


lexentry: eng/eponymous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eponymous
trans_list: eponiem | gelijknamig | naamgevend
sense:
Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym.


lexentry: eng/epsilon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: epsilon
trans_list: epsilon
sense:
The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).


lexentry: eng/equal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: equal
trans_list: gelijk | gelijke | identiek | identieke
sense:
The same in all respects that matter practically; interchangeable, fungible, or (even sometimes) identical for practical purposes.


lexentry: eng/equal_sign__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: equal sign
trans_list: gelijkteken | isgelijkteken | isteken
sense:
A symbol (=) used in mathematics to indicate that two values are the same, and elsewhere in various other ways, such as (formerly) to separate the signature from the content of a telegram.


lexentry: eng/equalization__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: equalization
trans_list: compensatie
sense:
(underwater diving) Maneuvers to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.


lexentry: eng/equally__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: equally
trans_list: even | gelijk | gelijkelijk | gelijkmatig
sense:
(manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly


lexentry: eng/equation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: equation
trans_list: vergelijking
sense:
(mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; in mathematical problems, equations describe various essential aspects of the problem, each of which contributes to the resolution of the problem in part.


lexentry: eng/equator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: equator
trans_list: evenaar | equator
sense:
(geography, often, _, “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.


lexentry: eng/equatorial__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: equatorial
trans_list: equatoriaal
sense:
(astronomy) A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known.


lexentry: eng/equerry__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: equerry
trans_list: hofdienaar
sense:
(British) A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.


lexentry: eng/equilibrium__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: equilibrium
trans_list: evenwicht
sense:
(chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.


lexentry: eng/equilibrium__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: equilibrium
trans_list: evenwicht
sense:
(physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.


lexentry: eng/equinox__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: equinox
trans_list: equinox | dag-en-nachtevening | nachtevening
sense:
One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.


lexentry: eng/equip__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: equip
trans_list: uitrusten
sense:
(transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).


lexentry: eng/equivocal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: equivocal
trans_list: twijfelachtig
sense:
Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected.


lexentry: eng/equivocation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: equivocation
trans_list: dubbelzinnigheid
sense:
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.


lexentry: eng/erase__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: erase
trans_list: uitwissen | uitgummen
sense:
(intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).


lexentry: eng/eraser__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eraser
trans_list: gum | gom
sense:
(North America, Philippines) An object used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.


lexentry: eng/erbium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: erbium
trans_list: erbium
sense:
A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements.


lexentry: eng/erection__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: erection
trans_list: erectie
sense:
(uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.


lexentry: eng/ergative__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ergative
trans_list: ergatief
sense:
(grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.


lexentry: eng/ergative_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ergative case
trans_list: ergatief
sense:
(grammar) A grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages.


lexentry: eng/ergative_verb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ergative verb
trans_list: ergatief
sense:
(linguistics) An ambitransitive verb where the patient is the object of the transitive, but becomes the experiencer of the intransitive use.


lexentry: eng/ergativity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ergativity
trans_list: ergativiteit
sense:
(linguistics) The property of a grammar's (or, by extension, a language's) being ergative; the attribute of possessing a grammatical pattern such that the object of a transitive verb is treated the same way as the subject of an intransitive one, while the subject of the transitive verb is treated differently.


lexentry: eng/ergonomics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ergonomics
trans_list: ergonomie
sense:
The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury. [from c. 1950.]


lexentry: eng/ergot__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ergot
trans_list: moederkoren
sense:
The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi.


lexentry: eng/ermine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ermine
trans_list: hermelijn
sense:
A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.


lexentry: eng/ermine__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: ermine
trans_list: hermelijn
sense:
(tincture) The fur of this animal, used as a heraldic tincture: a white field with a repeating pattern of stylized black spots.


lexentry: eng/erosion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: erosion
trans_list: erosie
sense:
(uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.


lexentry: eng/erosion__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: erosion
trans_list: erosie
sense:
(uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.


lexentry: eng/erotomania__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: erotomania
trans_list: erotomanie
sense:
A psychological disorder in which a person has a delusion of a romantic relationship with another person.


lexentry: eng/err_on_the_side_of_caution__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: err on the side of caution
trans_list: het zekere voor het onzekere nemen
sense:
(idiomatic) To act in the least risky manner in a situation in which one is uncertain about the consequences.


lexentry: eng/errata__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: errata
trans_list: errata
sense:
(printing) An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed.


lexentry: eng/error__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: error
trans_list: procedurefout
sense:
(appellate, _, legal, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.


lexentry: eng/erysipelas__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: erysipelas
trans_list: erysipelas
sense:
(disease) An acute, sometimes recurrent febrile disease caused by infection of a hemolytic streptococcus, associated with intense edematous local inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, and marked by large raised red patches on the skin.


lexentry: eng/erythrite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: erythrite
trans_list: erythriet
sense:
(mineral) Red cobalt, a secondary hydrated arsenate of cobalt minerals with the formula (Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O).


lexentry: eng/erythrocyte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: erythrocyte
trans_list: erytrocyt
sense:
(hematology, cytology) A hemoglobin-containing cell, especially as found in humans but more generally present in the blood of most vertebrates, that is involved with the transport of oxygen; such cells are usually anucleate in humans and many other animals.


lexentry: eng/erythropoietin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: erythropoietin
trans_list: erytropoëtine
sense:
(biochemistry) A glycoprotein hormone that functions as a cytokine for erythrocyte precursors in bone marrow.


lexentry: eng/escalator__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: escalator
trans_list: roltrap
sense:
A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.


lexentry: eng/escape__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: escape
trans_list: afbreken | onderbreken | stoppen
sense:
(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.


lexentry: eng/escape_artist__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: escape artist
trans_list: boeienkoning
sense:
An entertainer who performs escapes from perilous situations such as cages, coffins, and straitjackets.


lexentry: eng/escape_velocity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: escape velocity
trans_list: ontsnappingssnelheid
sense:
(astrophysics) The minimum speed needed to escape the gravitational field of a planet or other body.


lexentry: eng/escarole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: escarole
trans_list: andijvie
sense:
(Canada, US) A subspecies or variety of broad-leaved endive (Cichorium endivia subsp. endivia, syn. Cichorium endivia var. latifolium), which is eaten as a vegetable. [from early 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/escarpment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: escarpment
trans_list: bergrand
sense:
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.


lexentry: eng/eschar__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eschar
trans_list: schurft
sense:
(loose or obsolete) Any hard, dark, commonly flattened or sunken lesion or crust, especially on a burn, abscess, infection, wound; commonly a coagulation of blood or exudations, not necessarily involving dead or necrotic tissue.


lexentry: eng/eschatology__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eschatology
trans_list: eschatologie
sense:
(uncountable) The study of the end times—the end of the world, notably in Christian and Islamic theology, the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse, or the Last Judgment.


lexentry: eng/escort__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: escort
trans_list: begeleiden
sense:
To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to


lexentry: eng/escrow__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: escrow
trans_list: derdengelden
sense:
(legal) A contractual arrangement whereby money or assets are held in trust by an independent agent by the agreement of the parties, which can only be released to the relevant party once certain contractual conditions have been fulfilled.


lexentry: eng/escutcheon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: escutcheon
trans_list: wapenschild
sense:
(heraldry) The shield on which a coat of arms is displayed, or, by extension, the coat of arms itself.


lexentry: eng/escutcheon__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: escutcheon
trans_list: sleutelschild
sense:
A decorative and/or protective plate or bezel to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.


lexentry: eng/esoteric__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: esoteric
trans_list: esoterisch
sense:
Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.


lexentry: eng/esoteric__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: esoteric
trans_list: esoterisch | cerebraal
sense:
Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often with mystical or religious connotations.


lexentry: eng/esoterism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: esoterism
trans_list: esoterie
sense:
The inward forms of faith and religion; transcendence, mystic experience, and internal realizations of the Divine.


lexentry: eng/espouse__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: espouse
trans_list: aannemen | ondersteunen | verdedigen
sense:
(transitive, figurative, modern usage) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).


lexentry: eng/espresso__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: espresso
trans_list: espresso
sense:
A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee.


lexentry: eng/esprit_de_corps__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: esprit de corps
trans_list: groepsgevoel
sense:
(idiomatic) A shared spirit of comradeship, enthusiasm, and devotion to a cause among the members of a group, for example of a military unit.


lexentry: eng/espy__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: espy
trans_list: bespeuren | waarnemen
sense:
To find out or observe (someone or something, especially if not easy to see) by spying or looking; to catch sight of; to see; to spot.


lexentry: eng/espy__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: espy
trans_list: bespioneren | onderzoeken
sense:
To observe (someone or something) as a spy; also, to examine or observe (someone or something) carefully; or to look out or watch for.


lexentry: eng/essential_amino_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: essential amino acid
trans_list: essentieel aminozuur
sense:
(amino acid) One of the nine naturally occurring amino acids that the human body cannot synthesize, and so must be provided by dietary protein.


lexentry: eng/essential_oil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: essential oil
trans_list: etherische olie
sense:
A volatile oil, used to make perfumes and flavorings, especially one having the characteristic odor of the plant from which it is obtained.


lexentry: eng/essential_tremor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: essential tremor
trans_list: essentiële tremor
sense:
(medicine, chiefly, uncountable) A neurological condition that causes rhythmic shaking of unknown cause in one or more parts of the body during voluntary movements.


lexentry: eng/establishment__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: establishment
trans_list: bestel | vestiging
sense:
That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.


lexentry: eng/establishment__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: establishment
trans_list: oprichting
sense:
(Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.


lexentry: eng/estate__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: estate
trans_list: adel | stand
sense:
(historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm). [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/estate_agent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: estate agent
trans_list: makelaar | vastgoedmakelaar
sense:
(UK, Ireland) A person or company that acts in the sale, purchase, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate etc for another.


lexentry: eng/ester__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ester
trans_list: ester
sense:
(organic compound) A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond (i.e., carbonyl) joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.


lexentry: eng/esterification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: esterification
trans_list: esterificatie
sense:
(organic chemistry) Any reaction (typically between an acid and an alcohol) that results in the production of an ester


lexentry: eng/estrogen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: estrogen
trans_list: oestrogeen | estrogeen
sense:
(steroid hormone) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.


lexentry: eng/etc.__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: etc.
trans_list: enz. | etc.
sense:
And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known.


lexentry: eng/etching__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: etching
trans_list: ets
sense:
(uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.


lexentry: eng/ethane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethane
trans_list: ethaan
sense:
(organic compound, uncountable) An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6, gaseous at normal temperatures and pressures, being a constituent of natural gas.


lexentry: eng/ethanol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethanol
trans_list: ethanol
sense:
(organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.


lexentry: eng/ether__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ether
trans_list: ether
sense:
(uncountable, literary, or, poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.


lexentry: eng/ether__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ether
trans_list: ether
sense:
(uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).


lexentry: eng/ether__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: ether
trans_list: ether
sense:
(uncountable, organic compound) Diethyl ether (C4H10O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.


lexentry: eng/ether__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: ether
trans_list: ether
sense:
(countable, organic compound) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.


lexentry: eng/ethereal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethereal
trans_list: etherisch | hemels
sense:
Pertaining to the presupposition of an invisible air-like element permeating all of space, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere.


lexentry: eng/ethereal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ethereal
trans_list: etherisch
sense:
Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.


lexentry: eng/ethical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ethical
trans_list: ethisch
sense:
(not comparable) Of or relating to the accepted principles of right and wrong, especially those of some organization or profession.


lexentry: eng/ethnic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnic
trans_list: etnisch
sense:
Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.


lexentry: eng/ethnic_group__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnic group
trans_list: etnie
sense:
A group of people who identify with one another, especially on the basis of ancestral, national, linguistic, cultural, historical or religious grounds.


lexentry: eng/ethnicity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnicity
trans_list: nationaliteit
sense:
The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.


lexentry: eng/ethnocentrism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnocentrism
trans_list: etnocentrisme
sense:
The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.


lexentry: eng/ethnocracy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnocracy
trans_list: etnocratie
sense:
A form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.


lexentry: eng/ethnography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnography
trans_list: etnografie
sense:
(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.


lexentry: eng/ethnology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnology
trans_list: volkenkunde | volkskunde | etnologie
sense:
(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.


lexentry: eng/ethnophaulism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethnophaulism
trans_list: etnofaulisme
sense:
(countable) An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided.


lexentry: eng/ethos__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ethos
trans_list: ethos
sense:
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.


lexentry: eng/ethylene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethylene
trans_list: etheen
sense:
(organic compound) The common name for the organic chemical compound ethene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H4.


lexentry: eng/ethylene_oxide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethylene oxide
trans_list: etheenoxide
sense:
(organic compound) The simplest epoxide; used as a sterilizing agent and in the production of ethylene glycol.


lexentry: eng/ethyne__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ethyne
trans_list: ethyn
sense:
(organic compound, official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula HC≡CH or C2H2.


lexentry: eng/etic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: etic
trans_list: etisch
sense:
(social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.


lexentry: eng/etiquette__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: etiquette
trans_list: etiquette
sense:
The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.


lexentry: eng/etiquette__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: etiquette
trans_list: etiquette
sense:
The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.


lexentry: eng/etude__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: etude
trans_list: etude
sense:
(music) A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.


lexentry: eng/etymology__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: etymology
trans_list: etymologie | woordherkomst
sense:
(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.


lexentry: eng/etymon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: etymon
trans_list: etymon
sense:
(linguistics, philology) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.


lexentry: eng/euergetism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: euergetism
trans_list: evergetisme
sense:
(historical) The practice of the ancient Greek and Roman elite of distributing a part of their wealth to the community; public benefaction.


lexentry: eng/eugenics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eugenics
trans_list: eugenetica
sense:
(sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.


lexentry: eng/eukaryote__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eukaryote
trans_list: eukaryoot
sense:
(cytology) Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.


lexentry: eng/eukaryotic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eukaryotic
trans_list: eukaryoot | eukaryotisch
sense:
(biology) Having complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.


lexentry: eng/eulogise__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eulogise
trans_list: loven
sense:
(British spelling) To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.


lexentry: eng/eunuch__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eunuch
trans_list: eunuch
sense:
Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.


lexentry: eng/euphemism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: euphemism
trans_list: eufemisme | verbloeming
sense:
(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another one that is more offensive, blunt or vulgar.


lexentry: eng/euphonious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: euphonious
trans_list: welluidend
sense:
Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.


lexentry: eng/euro_coin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: euro coin
trans_list: euromunt
sense:
any of the eight different coins that are in circulation in the eurozone, ranging in value from 1 cent to 2 euros. The 1 euro coin can also be specifically referred to as a euro coin.


lexentry: eng/eusociality__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eusociality
trans_list: eusocialiteit
sense:
(biology) Reproductive specialization, in which most individuals of a species are genetically infertile; the state of being eusocial.


lexentry: eng/eustasy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eustasy
trans_list: eustasie
sense:
(geology, oceanography) A worldwide change in sea level, especially one caused by melting ice or tectonic activity. [from 1940s]


lexentry: eng/euthanasia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: euthanasia
trans_list: euthanasie
sense:
The practice of intentionally killing a human being or animal in a humane way, especially in order to end suffering.


lexentry: eng/eutrophication__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eutrophication
trans_list: eutrofiëring
sense:
(biology) The process of becoming eutrophic; the ecosystem's response to the addition of artificial or natural nutrients, mainly phosphates, through detergents, fertilizers, or sewage, to an aquatic system.


lexentry: eng/euxenite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: euxenite
trans_list: euxeniet
sense:
(mineral) A dark brown lustrous mineral that is a mixed oxide of cerium, erbium, titanium, uranium, yttrium and other more common metals, with the chemical formula (Y,Ca,Ce,U,Th)(Nb,Ta,Ti)2O6.


lexentry: eng/evacuate__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: evacuate
trans_list: evacueren
sense:
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).


lexentry: eng/evacuee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evacuee
trans_list: evacué
sense:
A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war


lexentry: eng/evade__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evade
trans_list: ontlopen
sense:
(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.


lexentry: eng/evaluation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evaluation
trans_list: beoordeling | evaluatie
sense:
An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.


lexentry: eng/evangelical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evangelical
trans_list: evangelisch
sense:
(Christianity) Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.


lexentry: eng/evangelist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evangelist
trans_list: evangelist
sense:
(Christianity) An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.


lexentry: eng/evangelize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evangelize
trans_list: evangeliseren | uitdragen van de blijde boodschap
sense:
To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to.


lexentry: eng/evasion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evasion
trans_list: ontduiking
sense:
The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.


lexentry: eng/even__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: even
trans_list: evenen | gelijkmaken | platmaken
sense:
(transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.


lexentry: eng/evening__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: evening
trans_list: avond
sense:
The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.


lexentry: eng/evening_dress__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evening dress
trans_list: avondjapon | avondjurk
sense:
(countable) An elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.


lexentry: eng/evening_prayer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evening prayer
trans_list: avonddienst
sense:
(Anglicanism, Methodism) The second of the two services of the Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of vespers and compline. Commonly called evensong, especially when the service is musical.


lexentry: eng/evening_star__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
sense: An evening primrose (Oenothera biennis). Oenothera biennis
written_rep: evening star
trans_list:
leliën-van-een-nacht | middelste teunisbloem | nachtkaars | nachtkeers | nachtpitjes | vierentwintiguursbloem


lexentry: eng/event__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: event
trans_list: gebeurtenis
sense:
(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.


lexentry: eng/event_horizon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: event horizon
trans_list: waarnemingshorizon
sense:
(astrophysics) The gravitational sphere of a black hole within which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light.


lexentry: eng/eventually__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eventually
trans_list: uiteindelijk
sense:
In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.


lexentry: eng/every_cloud_has_a_silver_lining__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
sense: There is something good in any bad situation.
written_rep: every cloud has a silver lining
trans_list:
na regen komt zonneschijn | achter de wolken schijnt de zon | dat dan weer wel | elk nadeel heeft zijn voordeel


lexentry: eng/every_man_for_himself__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: every man for himself
trans_list: ieder voor zich
sense:
(nautical) A command, issued in case of shipwreck, that crew members are relieved of all duties and should try to save themselves.


lexentry: eng/evict__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evict
trans_list: uitzetten | verjagen
sense:
(transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.


lexentry: eng/evidentiality__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evidentiality
trans_list: bewijskracht
sense:
(linguistics) The encoding into a language of the source of information being communicated, so as to distinguish (for example) hearsay from something actually witnessed.


lexentry: eng/evidently__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evidently
trans_list: duidelijk | klaarblijkelijk
sense:
In a manner which makes the fact or conclusion evident; obviously; as may be clearly inferred. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/evil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evil
trans_list: kwaad | kwade | euvel | slechte
sense:
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.


lexentry: eng/evil_eye__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evil eye
trans_list: boze oog
sense:
A wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.


lexentry: eng/evil_laugh__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evil laugh
trans_list: demonische lach
sense:
A signature laugh associated with villains in films and acting, sometimes represented as muahahaha or bwahaha.


lexentry: eng/evoke__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: evoke
trans_list: oproepen
sense:
(transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.


lexentry: eng/evolution__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: evolution
trans_list: evolutie
sense:
(geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/evolution__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: evolution
trans_list: evolutie
sense:
(biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/evolutionary_biology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evolutionary biology
trans_list: evolutiebiologie
sense:
(evolutionary theory) A subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species and as their evolution, multiplication and diversity over time.


lexentry: eng/evolutionary_theory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evolutionary theory
trans_list: evolutietheorie
sense:
(biology) A theory of evolution, especially the scientific theory of evolution through natural selection.


lexentry: eng/evolve__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: evolve
trans_list: evolueren
sense:
(chiefly, passive) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.


lexentry: eng/ewer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ewer
trans_list: lampetkan
sense:
A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. Originally used for carrying water


lexentry: eng/exa-__Prefix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exa-
trans_list: exa-
sense:
In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 1018 (a short scale quintillion or long scale trillion). Symbol: E


lexentry: eng/exact__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exact
trans_list: exact | precies
sense:
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.


lexentry: eng/exact__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exact
trans_list: eisen
sense:
(ambitransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.


lexentry: eng/exact_science__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exact science
trans_list: exacte wetenschap
sense:
(sciences, narrowly) A mathematical science, i.e. a field of science such as mathematics or mathematical physics which is capable of perfectly exact results based on rigorously formal methods.


lexentry: eng/exaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exaction
trans_list: afpersing
sense:
The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force


lexentry: eng/exaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: exaction
trans_list: afpersing
sense:
That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.


lexentry: eng/exaggeration__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exaggeration
trans_list: overdrijving
sense:
The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.


lexentry: eng/examination__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: examination
trans_list: onderzoek
sense:
Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.


lexentry: eng/examination__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: examination
trans_list: onderzoek | examen | proefwerk | toets | tentamen
sense:
(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.


lexentry: eng/examination_of_conscience__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: examination of conscience
trans_list: gewetensonderzoek
sense:
(religion) A review of one's thoughts, words, actions, and omissions for the purpose of ascertaining conformity with, or deviation from, the moral law.


lexentry: eng/examine__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: examine
trans_list: examineren
sense:
To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.


lexentry: eng/examining_magistrate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: examining magistrate
trans_list: onderzoeksrechter
sense:
(law) A judge in an inquisitorial system of law who carries out pre-trial investigations into allegations of crime and in some cases makes a recommendation for prosecution.


lexentry: eng/example__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: example
trans_list: voorbeeld
sense:
Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).


lexentry: eng/example__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: example
trans_list: voorbeeld
sense:
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.


lexentry: eng/excavation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excavation
trans_list: afgraving | bouwput
sense:
(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.


lexentry: eng/except__Conjunction__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: except
trans_list: behalve
sense:
Used to introduce a clause, phrase, verb infinitive, adverb or other non-noun complement forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.


lexentry: eng/exception__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exception
trans_list: uitzondering
sense:
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.


lexentry: eng/exception__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exception
trans_list: uitzondering
sense:
That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.


lexentry: eng/exception__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: exception
trans_list: uitzondering
sense:
(programming) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.


lexentry: eng/exceptionalism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exceptionalism
trans_list: exceptionalisme
sense:
The belief that something (a nation, species etc.) is exceptional, superior, or does not conform to an established norm.


lexentry: eng/excess__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excess
trans_list: teveel
sense:
The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.


lexentry: eng/excess__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: excess
trans_list: overtreffen
sense:
(geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.


lexentry: eng/excise_tax__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excise tax
trans_list: accijns
sense:
Any of various taxes levied on the production or sale of certain goods, especially on luxuries, tobacco, alcohol etc.


lexentry: eng/excision__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: excision
trans_list: excisie
sense:
(topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.


lexentry: eng/excite__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: excite
trans_list: exciteren
sense:
(transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.


lexentry: eng/exclusion_zone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exclusion zone
trans_list: verboden zone
sense:
A geographic area in which some sanctioning authority prohibits specific activities, see also Restricted Area.


lexentry: eng/exclusive__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exclusive
trans_list: exclusief
sense:
(figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.


lexentry: eng/exclusive_economic_zone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exclusive economic zone
trans_list: exclusieve economische zone
sense:
(economics) A sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources


lexentry: eng/exclusive_right__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exclusive right
trans_list: exclusief recht
sense:
(legal) The power, granted by the government to persons, to allow or disallow others from taking certain actions (through legal force)


lexentry: eng/excommunication__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excommunication
trans_list: excommunicatie
sense:
The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.


lexentry: eng/excrete__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excrete
trans_list: afscheiden
sense:
(biology, ambitransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.


lexentry: eng/excretion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excretion
trans_list: excretie | uitscheiding
sense:
The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.


lexentry: eng/excuse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excuse
trans_list: uitvlucht | smoes | excuus
sense:
(countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.


lexentry: eng/excuse__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: excuse
trans_list: goedpraten
sense:
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.


lexentry: eng/excuse_me__Phrase__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: excuse me
trans_list: pardon | wablief | wat zeg je | wat zegt u
sense:
(North America) Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation.


lexentry: eng/excussion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: excussion
trans_list: proces
sense:
The process or proceedings whereby a creditor must proceed against a principal debtor before proceeding against a surety or subsidiary debtor.


lexentry: eng/execration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: execration
trans_list: walging
sense:
An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation.


lexentry: eng/executable__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: executable
trans_list: uitvoerbaar bestand
sense:
(computing) A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.


lexentry: eng/execute__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: execute
trans_list: uitvoeren | bewerkstelligen
sense:
(transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.


lexentry: eng/executive__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: executive
trans_list: uitvoerende macht
sense:
The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.


lexentry: eng/executive_committee__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: executive committee
trans_list: raad van bestuur
sense:
(government, politics, Quebec) the equivalent of the cabinet of ministers for a city government, serving the mayor.


lexentry: eng/executive_order__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: executive order
trans_list: decreet
sense:
(legal, chiefly, US) An ordinance issued by the authority of the head of the executive branch of government.


lexentry: eng/executor__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: executor
trans_list: executeur-testamentair | testamentuitvoerder
sense:
(legal) Someone appointed by a testator to administer their estate in accordance with their will; an administrator.


lexentry: eng/exegete__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exegete
trans_list: exegeet | exegete | tekstuitlegger | tekstuitlegster
sense:
A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter of texts, difficult passages, law, oracles, and similar obscure or esoteric sources.


lexentry: eng/exemplar__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: exemplar
trans_list: exempel
sense:
A manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original document to be reproduced in a copy machine.


lexentry: eng/exercise__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exercise
trans_list: lichaamsbeweging
sense:
(countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.


lexentry: eng/exercise__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: exercise
trans_list: kwellen | lastigvallen
sense:
(now, often, in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.


lexentry: eng/exercise_book__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exercise book
trans_list: schrift | notitieboek | notitieboekje
sense:
A booklet for students, containing either problems or exercises, and blank, often lined pages for writing answers.


lexentry: eng/exercise_machine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exercise machine
trans_list: fitnessapparaat | trainingsmachine
sense:
Any of a great variety of devices, powered either by electricity or by the user, used to improve strength or physical fitness.


lexentry: eng/exergue__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exergue
trans_list: afsnede
sense:
(numismatics) A space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription.


lexentry: eng/exhale__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exhale
trans_list: uitademen
sense:
(intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.


lexentry: eng/exhaust__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exhaust
trans_list: uitlaat | uitlaatpijp
sense:
A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.


lexentry: eng/exhaust__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: exhaust
trans_list: uitputten
sense:
(transitive, literally, figuratively) To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end.


lexentry: eng/exhaust_pipe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exhaust pipe
trans_list: uitlaat | uitlaatpijp
sense:
For internal combustion engines, any of several pipes, connected in series, that carry waste gases away from the engine and vent it to the air.


lexentry: eng/exhaust_system__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exhaust system
trans_list: uitlaatsysteem
sense:
(automotive) The subsystem of an engine that takes the products of the combustion chamber through a catalytic converter and silencer to the final pipe that releases the gases to the air.


lexentry: eng/exhibit__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exhibit
trans_list: tentoonstellen | tonen
sense:
(transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.


lexentry: eng/exhibitionism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exhibitionism
trans_list: exhibitionisme
sense:
The practice or character trait of deliberately displaying one's genitals, nipples, or buttocks in public for sexual gratification.


lexentry: eng/existential_crisis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: existential crisis
trans_list: existentiële crisis
sense:
(existentialism) A state of panic or feeling of intense psychological discomfort about questions of existence.


lexentry: eng/existentialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: existentialism
trans_list: existentialisme
sense:
(philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.


lexentry: eng/exit__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exit
trans_list: afrit
sense:
(road transport) A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).


lexentry: eng/exit__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exit
trans_list: uitgang
sense:
An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.


lexentry: eng/exobiology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exobiology
trans_list: exobiologie
sense:
(biology, science fiction) The branch of biology dealing with lifeforms originating a different planet.


lexentry: eng/exogamy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exogamy
trans_list: exogamie
sense:
marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law


lexentry: eng/exogenous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exogenous
trans_list: exogeen
sense:
(economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.


lexentry: eng/exonym__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exonym
trans_list: exoniem
sense:
An external name for a place, people or a language used by outgroup members (such as foreigners) instead of ingroup members (such as native-language speakers).


lexentry: eng/exorcise__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exorcise
trans_list: uitbannen | verdrijven
sense:
(transitive) To drive out (an evil spirit) from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer.


lexentry: eng/exorcism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exorcism
trans_list: exorcisme | uitdrijving
sense:
The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.


lexentry: eng/exorcist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exorcist
trans_list: exorcist | duivelbanner | geestenbanner
sense:
A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a masterful practitioner in purification and exorcism to force out evil spirits and/or demons from a living being.


lexentry: eng/exoskeleton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exoskeleton
trans_list: exoskelet
sense:
(anatomy) A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.


lexentry: eng/exoteric__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exoteric
trans_list: exoterisch | openbaar
sense:
Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reservations.


lexentry: eng/exoteric__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exoteric
trans_list: bevattelijk | praktijkgericht | praktisch | toegankelijk
sense:
Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public; accessible; also, having an obvious application.


lexentry: eng/exotic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: exotic
trans_list: exotisch
sense:
(gambling) Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.


lexentry: eng/expand__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expand
trans_list: uitzetten | opentrekken | openzetten | uitbreiden | uitdijen | uitplooien
sense:
(transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.


lexentry: eng/expand__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: expand
trans_list: ontwikkelen
sense:
(intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.


lexentry: eng/expected_value__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expected value
trans_list: verwachtingswaarde
sense:
(probability theory) The weighted average of outcome values, using probability as the weighting function.


lexentry: eng/expectoration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expectoration
trans_list: sputum
sense:
(physiology) The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.


lexentry: eng/expediency__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expediency
trans_list: doelmatigheid | gepastheid | opportunisme | passendheid | toepasselijkheid
sense:
(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.


lexentry: eng/expedient__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expedient
trans_list: redmiddel | slimmigheid | uitweg
sense:
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.


lexentry: eng/experience__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: experience
trans_list: ervaring | belevenis | beleving | ondervinding
sense:
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.


lexentry: eng/experience__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: experience
trans_list: ervaring
sense:
(usually, uncountable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.


lexentry: eng/experience__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: experience
trans_list: beleven | ervaren | meemaken | ondervinden | ondergaan
sense:
(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.


lexentry: eng/experiment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: experiment
trans_list: experiment | proef
sense:
A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.


lexentry: eng/expiration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expiration
trans_list: ademhaling
sense:
(uncountable) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.


lexentry: eng/expiry_date__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expiry date
trans_list: vervaldatum
sense:
(UK) The date on which something runs out or expires and becomes out of date, in many cases requiring renewal.


lexentry: eng/explain__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: explain
trans_list: uitleggen | verklaren | toelichten
sense:
(transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.


lexentry: eng/explanation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: explanation
trans_list: uitleg | uitvlucht
sense:
A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.


lexentry: eng/expletive__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: expletive
trans_list: expletief (woord)
sense:
(linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").


lexentry: eng/explicit__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: explicit
trans_list: expliciet
sense:
(euphemism) Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic through clear and direct expressions. [from 1971]


lexentry: eng/exploded_view__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exploded view
trans_list: explosietekening
sense:
A view in a drawing showing the parts in an assembly separated outwardly, with an indication of how they fit together.


lexentry: eng/exploit__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exploit
trans_list: exploiteren | uitbuiten
sense:
(transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.


lexentry: eng/exploit__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exploit
trans_list: exploiteren | uitbuiten
sense:
(transitive) To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.


lexentry: eng/exploration__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: exploration
trans_list: verkenning | exploratie
sense:
The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.


lexentry: eng/explosion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: explosion
trans_list: explosie | ontploffing
sense:
A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.


lexentry: eng/exponent__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exponent
trans_list: exponent
sense:
(mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2^3=8.


lexentry: eng/exponential_growth__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exponential growth
trans_list: exponentiële groei
sense:
(mathematics) The growth in the value of a quantity in which the rate of growth is proportional to the instantaneous value of the quantity; for example, when the value has doubled, the rate of increase will also have doubled. The rate may be positive or negative.


lexentry: eng/exporter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exporter
trans_list: exporteur
sense:
One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.


lexentry: eng/exposition__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: exposition
trans_list: tentoonstelling | expositie
sense:
(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).


lexentry: eng/exposure__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: exposure
trans_list: ligging
sense:
(countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.


lexentry: eng/expression__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: expression
trans_list: uitdrukking
sense:
(mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.


lexentry: eng/expressionism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expressionism
trans_list: expressionisme
sense:
A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences.


lexentry: eng/expressway__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expressway
trans_list: expressweg
sense:
(US, regional) A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.


lexentry: eng/expropriate__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: expropriate
trans_list: onteigenen
sense:
(transitive) To surrender a claim to private property without material compensation; to deprive oneself of private propriety rights.


lexentry: eng/expropriation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expropriation
trans_list: onteigening
sense:
The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property without material compensation; the act of depriving oneself of private propriety rights.


lexentry: eng/expurgate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: expurgate
trans_list: censureren
sense:
(transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.


lexentry: eng/expurgate__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: expurgate
trans_list: censureren
sense:
(transitive) To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.


lexentry: eng/extended_family__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extended family
trans_list: familie
sense:
A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.


lexentry: eng/extension__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: extension
trans_list: extensie
sense:
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").


lexentry: eng/extension__Noun__1
sense_num: 11
written_rep: extension
trans_list: verlenging
sense:
(medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.


lexentry: eng/extension__Noun__1
sense_num: 14
written_rep: extension
trans_list: toestel | toestelnummer
sense:
(telecommunication) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.


lexentry: eng/extension__Noun__1
sense_num: 19
written_rep: extension
trans_list: uitbreiding | extensie
sense:
(ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.


lexentry: eng/extension_cord__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extension cord
trans_list: verlengsnoer
sense:
(electronics, US) An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices.


lexentry: eng/exterminate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exterminate
trans_list: uitroeien | verdelgen
sense:
(transitive) To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extinct
trans_list: uit | uitgedoofd
sense:
(dated) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: extinct
trans_list: uitgestorven
sense:
(chiefly, biology) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: extinct
trans_list: dood | slapend | uitgedoofd
sense:
(geology) Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: extinct
trans_list: in onbruik
sense:
Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extinct
trans_list: uitmoorden
sense:
(specifically, biology) To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective sense 2.3).


lexentry: eng/extort__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extort
trans_list: afpersen
sense:
(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.


lexentry: eng/extra__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extra
trans_list: extra
sense:
(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.


lexentry: eng/extractor_hood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extractor hood
trans_list: afzuigkap
sense:
(UK) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.


lexentry: eng/extradition__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extradition
trans_list: uitlevering | uitzetting
sense:
A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence.


lexentry: eng/extrapolation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extrapolation
trans_list: extrapolatie
sense:
(mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.


lexentry: eng/extraterrestrial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extraterrestrial
trans_list: buitenaards
sense:
Originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment.


lexentry: eng/extraterrestrial__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extraterrestrial
trans_list: alien | ruimtewezen
sense:
A being originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; an alien.


lexentry: eng/extremist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extremist
trans_list: extremist
sense:
(political) A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.


lexentry: eng/extremophile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extremophile
trans_list: extremofiel
sense:
(ecology) Any of many organisms that live under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, salinity, etc; many are autotrophs; some are commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.


lexentry: eng/extroversion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extroversion
trans_list: extraversie
sense:
(informal, _, psychology) A personality orientation towards others and things outside oneself; behavior expressing such orientation.


lexentry: eng/extroverted__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extroverted
trans_list: extravert
sense:
(informal, _, psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an extrovert: outgoing, sociable.


lexentry: eng/extrusion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: extrusion
trans_list: extrusie
sense:
A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.


lexentry: eng/exude__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: exude
trans_list: uitstralen | uitzweten | afscheiden
sense:
(transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.


lexentry: eng/eyas__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyas
trans_list: nesteling
sense:
A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry.


lexentry: eng/eye__Noun__1
sense_num: 11
written_rep: eye
trans_list: oog
sense:
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.


lexentry: eng/eye_for_an_eye__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eye for an eye
trans_list: oog om oog, tand om tand
sense:
(idiom) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.


lexentry: eng/eye_patch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eye patch
trans_list: ooglap | ooglapje
sense:
An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.


lexentry: eng/eye_socket__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eye socket
trans_list: oogkas | oogholte
sense:
(anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.


lexentry: eng/eyebag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyebag
trans_list: wallen
sense:
A mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness.


lexentry: eng/eyebright__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyebright
trans_list: ogentroost
sense:
Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/eyehole__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eyehole
trans_list: kijkgat
sense:
The hole in a mask, helmet, or costume corresponding to the position of the eye, allowing the eye to look through it.


lexentry: eng/eyelet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyelet
trans_list: anjelier
sense:
An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc. An eyelet may reinforce a hole.


lexentry: eng/eyepiece__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyepiece
trans_list: oculair
sense:
The lens (or the component containing a combination of lenses) at the eye end of a microscope or telescope by which the image is viewed.


lexentry: eng/eyes-only__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyes-only
trans_list: strikt geheim | strikt vertrouwelijk
sense:
(espionage, of documents) Meant to be read only, and not discussed, by the named recipient; classified.


lexentry: eng/eyeshade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyeshade
trans_list: vizier
sense:
(countable) A type of headgear for shielding the eyes from glaring light, usually consisting of a visor and a headband, more popular among indoor workers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries than today.


lexentry: eng/eyeshade__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: eyeshade
trans_list: vizier
sense:
(not countable) A cosmetic product which may be applied to the upper eyelid and to the area near the eye to change skin coloration.


lexentry: eng/eyestrain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: eyestrain
trans_list: asthenopie | oogvermoeidheid
sense:
(medicine, ophthalmology) Tiredness or pain in the eyes, sometimes accompanied by headache, caused by excessive or improper use of the eyes, or by uncorrected defects of vision.


lexentry: eng/f-hole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: f-hole
trans_list: klankgat
sense:
(musical instruments) A sound hole, shaped like a lowercase f, through the top surface of a string instrument.


lexentry: eng/fa__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fa
trans_list: fa
sense:
(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.


lexentry: eng/fable__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fable
trans_list: fabel
sense:
A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.


lexentry: eng/fabliau__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fabliau
trans_list: fabliau
sense:
A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.


lexentry: eng/fabric_softener__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fabric softener
trans_list: wasverzachter
sense:
A chemical agent used to prevent static cling and make fabric softer by coating the surface of the cloth fibers with a thin layer of chemicals; these chemicals have lubricant properties and are electrically conductive, thus making the fibers feel smoother and preventing buildup of static electricity; usually available as a liquid or as dryer sheets.


lexentry: eng/facade__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: facade
trans_list: façade | gevel
sense:
(programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.


lexentry: eng/facade_pattern__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: facade pattern
trans_list: façade
sense:
(software, object-oriented) A structural design pattern that provides an object that is a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library.


lexentry: eng/face__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: face
trans_list: gezicht | bakkes | gelaat
sense:
(anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.


lexentry: eng/face__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: face
trans_list: gezicht | gezichtsdrukking
sense:
(in expressions such as make a face) A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.


lexentry: eng/face__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: face
trans_list: zijde | gezicht
sense:
(geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.


lexentry: eng/face__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: face
trans_list: zich richten (op) | zich richten naar
sense:
(transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).


lexentry: eng/face__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: face
trans_list: de confrontatie aangaan met | mee afrekenen | onder ogen zien | tegemoet gaan
sense:
(transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.


lexentry: eng/face_card__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: face card
trans_list: schilder
sense:
(US, cards) A playing card with a face, properly a jack, queen, or king but (inexact, sometimes, _, proscribed) sometimes also an ace or joker.


lexentry: eng/facebook__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: facebook
trans_list: smoelenboek
sense:
A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.


lexentry: eng/facekini__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: facekini
trans_list: facekini | gezichtsbikini
sense:
A balaclava-like swimwear face mask which completely covers the face except for holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth, worn as protection from sun and irritants.


lexentry: eng/facemask__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: facemask
trans_list: mondkap | mondkapje | mondmasker
sense:
A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.


lexentry: eng/facepalm__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: facepalm
trans_list: het gezicht in de handen verbergen | zich voor de kop slaan
sense:
To bring the palm of one’s hand to one’s face as an expression of mixed humor and disbelief, disgust or shame; for example, when one is caught off-guard with a particularly bad pun.


lexentry: eng/faceplate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: faceplate
trans_list: vizier
sense:
A removable protective shield separating the inner workings of a machine from operator and observer.


lexentry: eng/fachidiot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fachidiot
trans_list: vakidioot
sense:
(rare) A (narrow) specialist expert who is ignorant outside of their specialty, or who only looks at problems through the (blinkered) lens of their own specialty.


lexentry: eng/facial_hair__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: facial hair
trans_list: gezichtsbeharing
sense:
(uncountable) Hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows of a man or woman or the androgenic hair (beard or moustache) of a man.


lexentry: eng/facilitation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: facilitation
trans_list: facilitatie
sense:
(physiology) The process of synapses becoming more capable of transmitting the same type of signal each time certain types of sensory signals pass through sequences of these synapses.


lexentry: eng/facilitator__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: facilitator
trans_list: bemiddelaar
sense:
A person who helps a group to have an effective dialog without taking any side of the argument, especially in order to reach a consensus.


lexentry: eng/facility__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: facility
trans_list: faciliteit | inrichting | voorziening
sense:
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/facsimile__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: facsimile
trans_list: fax
sense:
A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.


lexentry: eng/fact__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: fact
trans_list: feit
sense:
An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.


lexentry: eng/fact__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: fact
trans_list: feit
sense:
(databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.


lexentry: eng/faction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: faction
trans_list: factie | fractie
sense:
(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.


lexentry: eng/factor__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: factor
trans_list: factor
sense:
(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.


lexentry: eng/factorial__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: factorial
trans_list: faculteit
sense:
(mathematics, combinatorics) The result of multiplying a given number of consecutive integers from 1 to the given number. In equations, it is symbolized by an exclamation mark (!). For example, 5! = 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 = 120.


lexentry: eng/factory_farming__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: factory farming
trans_list: bio-industrie
sense:
(pejorative) A type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry, designed to maximize production while minimizing costs.


lexentry: eng/fade__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fade
trans_list: verwelken | verslappen | verzwakken
sense:
(intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.


lexentry: eng/fade__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: fade
trans_list: verbleken | verwelken
sense:
(intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.


lexentry: eng/fag__Noun__3
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fag
trans_list: flikker | anusridder | holebi | homo | janet | nicht
sense:
(US, Canada, vulgar, usually, offensive, sometimes, affectionate) A homosexual man, especially (usually, _, derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.


lexentry: eng/faience__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: faience
trans_list: faience
sense:
A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.


lexentry: eng/fail__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fail
trans_list: falen | mislukken
sense:
(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)


lexentry: eng/fail__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: fail
trans_list: buizen | mankeren | negeren
sense:
(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.


lexentry: eng/fail__Verb__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: fail
trans_list: negeren
sense:
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.


lexentry: eng/fail__Verb__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: fail
trans_list: negeren
sense:
(archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.


lexentry: eng/failed_state__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: failed state
trans_list: mislukte staat
sense:
(politics) A state that has failed to meet the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government; one that has lost physical control of its territory, the ability to provide public services, etc.


lexentry: eng/failure__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: failure
trans_list: mislukkeling | mislukking
sense:
An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.


lexentry: eng/faint__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: faint
trans_list: flauwvallen | bezwijmen
sense:
(intransitive) To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).


lexentry: eng/fair's_fair__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fair's fair
trans_list: voor wat hoort wat
sense:
An expression used when asking for fair or just treatment, or when asserting that a situation is fair.


lexentry: eng/fair-haired_boy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fair-haired boy
trans_list: favoriet
sense:
(idiomatic, US, Australia) Someone's favorite, especially a young one; a blue-eyed boy (British), (Australian)


lexentry: eng/fair-weather_friend__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fair-weather friend
trans_list: vriend
sense:
(idiomatic) One who is friendly, helpful, or available only when it is advantageous or convenient to be so. [from early 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/fair__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: fair
trans_list: blank | bleek
sense:
Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.


lexentry: eng/fair__Noun__2
sense_num: 04
written_rep: fair
trans_list: kermis
sense:
A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).


lexentry: eng/fair__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fair
trans_list: uitlijnen
sense:
(transitive) To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).


lexentry: eng/fair_play__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fair play
trans_list: fair play
sense:
Good behavior; conduct (in sports or another endeavor) that is respectful of the rules, the spirit of the activity, and the adversary.


lexentry: eng/fair_trade__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fair trade
trans_list: eerlijke handel
sense:
(uncountable) A system of trading promoting more equitable global trade, especially to sellers and producers in poorer areas, but also to the environment.


lexentry: eng/fairing__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fairing
trans_list: schort
sense:
A covering on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that streamlines it (i.e., produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag). [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/fairlead__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fairlead
trans_list: kattenluikje
sense:
(nautical) A device to guide a line, rope or cable around an object or out of the way, or to stop it from moving laterally.


lexentry: eng/fairway__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: fairway
trans_list: vaargeul
sense:
(nautical) A navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.


lexentry: eng/fairy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fairy
trans_list: fee
sense:
(mythological creature) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.


lexentry: eng/fairy_godmother__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fairy godmother
trans_list: goede fee
sense:
In certain fairy tales, a fictional benevolent woman with magical powers who uses them to help the cause of the protagonist.


lexentry: eng/fairy_ring__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fairy ring
trans_list: heksenkring
sense:
(mycology, botany) A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium.


lexentry: eng/fait_accompli__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fait accompli
trans_list: voldongen feit
sense:
Something which has already happened, before those affected had the chance to raise objections or queries.


lexentry: eng/faith__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: faith
trans_list: geloof | vertrouwen
sense:
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.


lexentry: eng/fakir__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fakir
trans_list: fakir
sense:
(Hinduism, more, _, loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.


lexentry: eng/falafel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: falafel
trans_list: falafel
sense:
(uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.


lexentry: eng/falchion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: falchion
trans_list: fautsoen
sense:
(also, attributively) A somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.


lexentry: eng/fall__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: fall
trans_list: val | verval
sense:
(chiefly, North America, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/fall__Verb__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: fall
trans_list: vallen
sense:
(intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.


lexentry: eng/fall__Verb__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: fall
trans_list: vallen | worden
sense:
(intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.


lexentry: eng/fall_armyworm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fall armyworm
trans_list: legerrups | legerworm
sense:
A fall armyworm moth (Spodoptera frugiperda), especially it larva stage, which is highly destructive of food crops and grasses.


lexentry: eng/fall_by_the_wayside__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fall by the wayside
trans_list: buiten de boot vallen | falen
sense:
(idiomatic) To fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out, to suffer from neglect.


lexentry: eng/fall_in_love__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fall in love
trans_list: verliefd worden | verlieven
sense:
(intransitive, of a person, animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love.


lexentry: eng/fall_over__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fall over
trans_list: omvallen
sense:
(intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.


lexentry: eng/fallacy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fallacy
trans_list: drogreden | schijnreden | sofisme
sense:
(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.


lexentry: eng/fallout__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fallout
trans_list: fall-out | neerslag
sense:
The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.


lexentry: eng/false_alarm__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: false alarm
trans_list: vals alarm
sense:
(archaic, idiomatic) A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case.


lexentry: eng/false_friend__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: false friend
trans_list: valse vriend
sense:
(linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.


lexentry: eng/false_imprisonment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: false imprisonment
trans_list: wederrechtelijke vrijheidsberoving
sense:
(legal) The intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission.


lexentry: eng/falsetto__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: falsetto
trans_list: kopstem
sense:
(singing, uncountable) The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of vowels; created by using the next highest vocal folds above those used for speech and normal range singing. It is commonly confused with the head voice register.


lexentry: eng/falsework__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: falsework
trans_list: formeel
sense:
(engineering) A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.


lexentry: eng/falsework__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: falsework
trans_list: ondersteuning
sense:
(engineering) Scaffolding, a temporary frame serving to support and brace a building under construction until it can stand alone.


lexentry: eng/falsifiable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: falsifiable
trans_list: falsifieerbaar
sense:
(epistemology) The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible.


lexentry: eng/falsification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: falsification
trans_list: vervalsen
sense:
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.


lexentry: eng/falsificationism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: falsificationism
trans_list: falsificationisme
sense:
(epistemology, philosophy) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted, then it is not a scientific claim.


lexentry: eng/familiarity__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: familiarity
trans_list: vertrouwen
sense:
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.


lexentry: eng/family__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: family
trans_list: familie | gezin
sense:
A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.


lexentry: eng/family__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: family
trans_list: familie | gezin
sense:
(biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.


lexentry: eng/family_resemblance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: family resemblance
trans_list: familiegelijkenis
sense:
Physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.


lexentry: eng/family_reunion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: family reunion
trans_list: familiereünie
sense:
An infrequent gathering of family members or distant relatives who are usually geographically separated.


lexentry: eng/family_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: family tree
trans_list: stamboom
sense:
(horticulture) A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.


lexentry: eng/fan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fan
trans_list: waaier
sense:
A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.


lexentry: eng/fan__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fan
trans_list: bewonderaar | bewonderaarster | fan | liefhebber
sense:
A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.


lexentry: eng/fan__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fan
trans_list: waaieren
sense:
(transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.


lexentry: eng/fan__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: fan
trans_list: uitwaaieren
sense:
(intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.


lexentry: eng/fan_death__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fan death
trans_list: ventilatordood
sense:
(South Korea) A form of death supposedly caused by staying overnight in a closed room in which an electric fan is operating.


lexentry: eng/fanboy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fanboy
trans_list: dweepziek
sense:
(fandom, often, derogatory) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).


lexentry: eng/fancy__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: fancy
trans_list: zich aangetrokken voelen tot iemand
sense:
To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.


lexentry: eng/fandango__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fandango
trans_list: fandango
sense:
(music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina). [from mid 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/fanfare__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fanfare
trans_list: fanfare
sense:
(countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.


lexentry: eng/fanny_pack__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fanny pack
trans_list: heuptas
sense:
(North America) A small fabric pouch secured with a zipper and worn at the waist by a strap around the hips.


lexentry: eng/fanslation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fanslation
trans_list: [[niet-]]commerciële vertaling
sense:
(slang) An unofficial translation of the dialogue or text of a media product (such as a manga, television programme, or video game) from one language to another which is done by fans rather than by its producer.


lexentry: eng/fantasia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fantasia
trans_list: fantasie
sense:
(music, also, figurative) A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces. [from early 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/fantasy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fantasy
trans_list: fantasy | fantasie
sense:
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.


lexentry: eng/farad__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: farad
trans_list: farad
sense:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor.


lexentry: eng/fare__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: fare
trans_list: het doen
sense:
(intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.


lexentry: eng/farm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: farm
trans_list: boerderij | hoeve
sense:
(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.


lexentry: eng/farmboy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: farmboy
trans_list: boerenjongen | boerenzoon
sense:
A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.


lexentry: eng/farmer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: farmer
trans_list: boer | landbouwer | boerin | veehouder
sense:
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.


lexentry: eng/farmhouse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: farmhouse
trans_list: hoeve
sense:
A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.


lexentry: eng/faro__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: faro
trans_list: farao
sense:
(card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.


lexentry: eng/farrier__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: farrier
trans_list: hoefsmid
sense:
A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.


lexentry: eng/farthingale__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: farthingale
trans_list: crinoline
sense:
(historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.


lexentry: eng/fasces__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fasces
trans_list: bijlbundel
sense:
A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.


lexentry: eng/fascia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fascia
trans_list: boeiboord | boeideel
sense:
(architectural element) A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.


lexentry: eng/fasciculation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: fasciculation
trans_list: fasciculatie
sense:
(anatomy, muscles) (toxicology, venoms) An involuntary muscle twitch, usually localised and temporary, but that may be intensified and prolonged fatally by particular poisons and venoms such as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.


