# translation

lexentry: eng/brackish__Adjective__1
written_rep: brackish
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brak
sense_list:
(of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.


lexentry: eng/bract__Noun__1
written_rep: bract
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schutblad
sense_list:
(botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.


lexentry: eng/brag__Verb__1
written_rep: brag
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: opscheppen
sense_list:
(intransitive, often with of) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.


lexentry: eng/braid__Noun__1
written_rep: braid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ruk
sense_list:
(obsolete, countable) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11th–17th c.] | (obsolete) A moment, stound.


lexentry: eng/braid__Noun__1
written_rep: braid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: vlecht
sense_list:
A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/braid__Verb__1
written_rep: braid
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: vlechten
sense_list:
(transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids. | (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.


lexentry: eng/braille__Noun__1
written_rep: braille
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: braille
sense_list:
A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.


lexentry: eng/brain-dead__Adjective__1
written_rep: brain-dead
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hersendood
sense_list:
(medicine, not comparable) Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.


lexentry: eng/brain__Noun__1
written_rep: brain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hersenen | brein | hersens
sense_list:
A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc. | The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action. | (informal) Mind. | (in the singular) An intellectual or mental capacity. | (plurale tantum) A person who provides the intelligence required for something. | By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations. | (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Oral sex. | A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.


lexentry: eng/brain_drain__Verb__1
written_rep: brain drain
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: braindrain | kennisvlucht | hersenvlucht
sense_list:
(transitive, idiomatic, uncommon) Of a nation or society, to be deprived of educated or talented people, who in turn migrate to larger cities or more developed nations.


lexentry: eng/brain_stem__Noun__1
written_rep: brain stem
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hersenstam
sense_list:
(neuroanatomy, anatomy) The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the cerebrum and the rest of the forebrain.


lexentry: eng/brainchild__Noun__1
written_rep: brainchild
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geesteskind | hersenkind | idee
sense_list:
(informal) A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.


lexentry: eng/brains__Noun__2
written_rep: brains
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brein
sense_list:
The substance of a brain, as a material or foodstuff. | (informal) The figurative substance of a brain: mental ability, intelligence.


lexentry: eng/brainwash__Verb__1
written_rep: brainwash
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hersenspoelen
sense_list:
(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)


lexentry: eng/brainwashing__Noun__1
written_rep: brainwashing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hersenspoeling
sense_list:
A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture.


lexentry: eng/braise__Verb__1
written_rep: braise
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: smoren
sense_list:
(cooking) To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling.


lexentry: eng/brake__Noun__1
written_rep: brake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rem | remmen | remmer | remming
sense_list:
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/brake__Noun__1
written_rep: brake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rem | remming
sense_list:
(engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. | (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.


lexentry: eng/brake_drum__Noun__1
written_rep: brake drum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: remtrommel
sense_list:
A hollow metal cylinder, attached to a wheel of a vehicle, to which pressure is applied when braking.


lexentry: eng/brake_fluid__Noun__1
written_rep: brake fluid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: remvloeistof
sense_list:
A special fluid for operating hydraulic brakes and clutches, which are linked by pipe to a master cylinder.


lexentry: eng/brake_light__Noun__1
written_rep: brake light
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: remlicht
sense_list:
(transportation, automotive) A light on a vehicle's instrument panel indicating a failure or malfunction of the vehicle's brake system.


lexentry: eng/brake_pad__Noun__1
written_rep: brake pad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: remblok
sense_list:
A friction element in a disc brake or rim brake, made from various compounds, often organic, semi-metallic, or ceramic.


lexentry: eng/brake_shoe__Noun__1
written_rep: brake shoe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: remschoen
sense_list:
(mechanical engineering) An element of a drum brake into which the friction-producing brake lining is attached.


lexentry: eng/braking_distance__Noun__1
written_rep: braking distance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: remafstand
sense_list:
The distance travelled by a vehicle between the time that the brakes are applied and the vehicle coming to rest


lexentry: eng/brambling__Noun__1
written_rep: brambling
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: keep
sense_list:
A finch, Fringilla montifringilla of northern Eurasia, the male having a black head in summer and an orange breast with white belly and a long white rump.


lexentry: eng/bran__Noun__1
written_rep: bran
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zemel
sense_list:
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.


lexentry: eng/branch__Noun__1
written_rep: branch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tak
sense_list:
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing. | A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.


lexentry: eng/brand__Noun__1
written_rep: brand
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brandmerk
sense_list:
A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.


lexentry: eng/brand__Noun__1
written_rep: brand
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: merk
sense_list:
The symbolic identity, represented by a name and/or a logo, which indicates a certain product or service to the public. | A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.


lexentry: eng/brand__Verb__1
written_rep: brand
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brandmerken
sense_list:
(transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound. | (transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.


lexentry: eng/brandish__Verb__1
written_rep: brandish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zwaaien
sense_list:
(transitive) To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.


lexentry: eng/brane__Noun__1
written_rep: brane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: braan
sense_list:
(physics) A hypothetical object extending across a number of (often specified) spatial dimensions, with strings in string theory seen as one-dimensional examples.


lexentry: eng/brant__Noun__1
written_rep: brant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zeegans | zwarte gans
sense_list:
(North American) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.


lexentry: eng/brash__Adjective__1
written_rep: brash
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arrogant
sense_list:
(of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.


lexentry: eng/brass__Noun__1
written_rep: brass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: messing | geelkoper
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.


lexentry: eng/brass__Noun__1
written_rep: brass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: brons | geelkoperen | koperblazers | messing
sense_list:
(music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.


lexentry: eng/brass_instrument__Noun__1
written_rep: brass instrument
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koperblaasinstrument
sense_list:
(musical instruments) Any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a mouthpiece (or tubular resonator).


lexentry: eng/brawn__Noun__1
written_rep: brawn
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: hoofdkaas | zult
sense_list:
(chiefly, British) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.


lexentry: eng/bray__Verb__1
written_rep: bray
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: balken
sense_list:
(intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.


lexentry: eng/braze__Verb__2
written_rep: braze
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: solderen
sense_list:
To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.


lexentry: eng/brazen_bull__Noun__1
written_rep: brazen bull
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: messingen stier
sense_list:
An ancient torture device, supposed to have been devised by Perillos of Athens, consisting of a hollow bull fashioned from brass in which victims were imprisoned and burned to death.


lexentry: eng/brazier__Noun__2
written_rep: brazier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vuurkorf | kolenbekken | komfoor | koperslager | stoof | vuurbekken
sense_list:
An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.


lexentry: eng/brazilwood__Noun__1
written_rep: brazilwood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brazielboom
sense_list:
A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.


lexentry: eng/breach__Noun__1
written_rep: breach
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bres | gat
sense_list:
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.


lexentry: eng/breach_of_the_peace__Noun__1
written_rep: breach of the peace
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: openlijke geweldpleging met vereende krachten tegen personen of goederen
sense_list:
(legal) The legal offense of engaging in public behavior which is violent, rowdy, or disruptive. | (by extension) Any public disturbance or disorderly behavior.


lexentry: eng/bread__Noun__1
written_rep: bread
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brood
sense_list:
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. | Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. | (countable) Any variety of bread.


lexentry: eng/bread_and_circuses__Noun__1
written_rep: bread and circuses
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brood en spelen
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people.


lexentry: eng/bread_maker__Noun__1
written_rep: bread maker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broodbakmachine | broodmachine
sense_list:
A household appliance which makes dough from raw ingredients and in most cases can also bake it into bread.


lexentry: eng/breadcrumb__Noun__1
written_rep: breadcrumb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broodkruimel
sense_list:
(chiefly, in the plural) A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.


lexentry: eng/breadfruit__Noun__1
written_rep: breadfruit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broodboom
sense_list:
An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.


lexentry: eng/breadstick__Noun__1
written_rep: breadstick
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broodstengel | soepstengel
sense_list:
A long, very slender loaf of crisp bread smaller than a baguette; for example, grissini from Italy and rosquilletas from Spain.


lexentry: eng/break-even_point__Noun__1
written_rep: break-even point
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rentabiliteitsdrempel
sense_list:
(business, management) The point where total costs equal total revenue and the organization neither makes a profit nor suffers a loss.


lexentry: eng/break-in__Noun__1
written_rep: break-in
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: inbraak
sense_list:
The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.


lexentry: eng/break__Verb__1
written_rep: break
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: breken
sense_list:
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. | (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.


lexentry: eng/break__Verb__1
written_rep: break
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 30
trans_list: breken | overtreden
sense_list:
(transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.


lexentry: eng/break_a_lance__Verb__1
written_rep: break a lance
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: een lans breken
sense_list:
(intransitive) to take a stand, to contend [with for ‘to the benefit of’] [with in favour of ‘to the benefit of’] [with against ‘in opposition to’] [with with ‘in opposition to’]


lexentry: eng/break_a_leg__Interjection__1
written_rep: break a leg
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ... ze! | speel ze | toi toi toi! | zet hem op
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Good luck!; Do your best!; Said to someone wishing they perform well in a theatrical production or comparable endeavor.


lexentry: eng/break_bad__Verb__1
written_rep: break bad
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: van het rechte pad afwijken
sense_list:
(colloquial, especially, Southern US, and, Midwest US, of a person) To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.


lexentry: eng/break_down__Verb__1
written_rep: break down
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: falen | kapotgaan | stukgaan | in tranen uitbarsten | instorten | uiteenvallen
sense_list:
(ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.


lexentry: eng/break_down__Verb__1
written_rep: break down
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: analyseren | uitsplitsen
sense_list:
(ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.


lexentry: eng/break_in__Verb__1
written_rep: break in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: inlopen
sense_list:
(ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.


lexentry: eng/break_off__Verb__1
written_rep: break off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: afschieten
sense_list:
(intransitive) To become detached by breaking or snapping. | (transitive, slang, AAVE) To give (someone) (something); to allow (someone) to take (something); to grant (someone) a share or portion of (something).


lexentry: eng/break_one's_fast__Verb__1
written_rep: break one's fast
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ontbijten
sense_list:
(dated) To eat breakfast; to eat the first meal of the day after a night of not eating or to conclude any period of fasting by consuming food.


lexentry: eng/break_wind__Verb__1
written_rep: break wind
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: een scheet laten | een wind laten
sense_list:
(idiomatic, euphemistic) To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart.


lexentry: eng/breakaway__Noun__1
written_rep: breakaway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: eruptie
sense_list:
(ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them. | A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.


lexentry: eng/breakcore__Noun__1
written_rep: breakcore
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: breakcore
sense_list:
(music) A style of electronic music characterised by a high tempo, complex and intricate breakbeats, and a wide palette of samples from various sources, especially the "Amen break".


lexentry: eng/breakdown__Noun__1
written_rep: breakdown
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: afbraak | openbreking
sense_list:
(chemistry, uncountable) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements; (countable) an instance of this.


lexentry: eng/breakdown__Noun__1
written_rep: breakdown
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: opdeling | opsplitsing | uitsplitsing
sense_list:
(uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.


lexentry: eng/breaker__Noun__1
written_rep: breaker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: blad
sense_list:
(chiefly, in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard


lexentry: eng/breakfast_cereal__Noun__1
written_rep: breakfast cereal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ontbijtgranen
sense_list:
A food made from processed grains, such as maize, oats, wheat or rice, usually eaten for breakfast with milk and sometimes sugar.


lexentry: eng/breakthrough__Noun__1
written_rep: breakthrough
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: doorbraak
sense_list:
(military) An advance through and past enemy lines. | Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.


lexentry: eng/breakup__Noun__1
written_rep: breakup
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: dooi
sense_list:
(Alaska and northern Canada, seasons, time) The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.


lexentry: eng/breakwater__Noun__1
written_rep: breakwater
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: golfbreker | havendam | havenhoofd
sense_list:
A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.


lexentry: eng/breakwater__Noun__1
written_rep: breakwater
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: golfbreker
sense_list:
(on beaches) A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.


lexentry: eng/bream__Noun__1
written_rep: bream
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brasem
sense_list:
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. | (British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama. | An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. | A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.


lexentry: eng/breast__Noun__1
written_rep: breast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borst
sense_list:
(anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males. | (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax. | A section of clothing covering the breast area. | The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.


lexentry: eng/breast__Noun__1
written_rep: breast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: borst | borststuk | hart
sense_list:
A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.


lexentry: eng/breast_augmentation__Noun__1
written_rep: breast augmentation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borstvergroting
sense_list:
(surgery) A cosmetic procedure to increase the size of a breast (the organ on the front of the chest).


lexentry: eng/breast_implant__Noun__1
written_rep: breast implant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borstimplantaat
sense_list:
(surgery) A medical prosthesis used to augment, reconstruct, or create the physical form of breasts (the organs on the front of the [typically female] chest).


lexentry: eng/breast_ironing__Noun__1
written_rep: breast ironing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borststrijken
sense_list:
The pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear, typically aiming to prevent the girl from attracting sexual interest, and mostly carried out in Cameroon.


lexentry: eng/breastbone__Noun__1
written_rep: breastbone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borstbeen
sense_list:
(anatomy) The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.


lexentry: eng/breastplate__Noun__1
written_rep: breastplate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: borstplaat
sense_list:
(Judaism) An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.


lexentry: eng/breaststroke__Noun__1
written_rep: breaststroke
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schoolslag
sense_list:
A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's


lexentry: eng/breath_test__Noun__1
written_rep: breath test
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alcoholcontrole
sense_list:
An official test to determine if someone has taken alcohol or drugs by testing a sample of their exhaled breath.


lexentry: eng/breathalyzer__Noun__1
written_rep: breathalyzer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alcoholtest
sense_list:
A device that measures alcohol in expired air so as to estimate the concentration of alcohol in a person's blood; used by traffic police in cases of suspected driving while under the influence of alcohol.


lexentry: eng/breathe__Verb__1
written_rep: breathe
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ademen | ademhalen | inademen | asemen | asemhalen | uitademen
sense_list:
(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.


lexentry: eng/breathe__Verb__1
written_rep: breathe
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: ademen
sense_list:
(transitive) To whisper quietly. | To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.


lexentry: eng/breccia__Noun__1
written_rep: breccia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gaping
sense_list:
(petrology) A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material.


lexentry: eng/breech__Noun__1
written_rep: breech
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broek
sense_list:
(historical, now only, _, in the plural, or, attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]


lexentry: eng/breech_birth__Noun__1
written_rep: breech birth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stuitligging
sense_list:
A birth in which the baby comes through the birth canal posterior (buttocks), feet, or knees first, instead of the more usual position of headfirst.


lexentry: eng/breed__Verb__1
written_rep: breed
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: fokken
sense_list:
(transitive) To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.


lexentry: eng/breeding-ground__Noun__1
written_rep: breeding-ground
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: broedplaats
sense_list:
(figuratively) A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.


lexentry: eng/breve__Noun__1
written_rep: breve
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: breve
sense_list:
(orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.


lexentry: eng/bribe__Verb__1
written_rep: bribe
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: omkopen
sense_list:
(transitive) To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something against their original will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble. | (transitive) To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.


lexentry: eng/bribery__Noun__1
written_rep: bribery
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: omkoperij
sense_list:
The act of giving an illegal payment (a bribe) to a person in an official position as a means of influencing their decisions.


lexentry: eng/brick__Noun__1
written_rep: brick
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: baksteen
sense_list:
(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. | (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.


lexentry: eng/brick_and_mortar__Adjective__1
written_rep: brick and mortar
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fysicus
sense_list:
(business) Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. (Used to contrast an Internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure.) [from mid-1990s]


lexentry: eng/bridal_couple__Noun__1
written_rep: bridal couple
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bruidspaar
sense_list:
The bride and bridegroom on their wedding day, and possibly for a short time thereafter, for example during their honeymoon.


lexentry: eng/bride_price__Noun__1
written_rep: bride price
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buidsprijs
sense_list:
In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.


lexentry: eng/bridge__Noun__1
written_rep: bridge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brug
sense_list:
A construction or natural feature that spans a divide. | (dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth. | (anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose. | (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck. | (graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected. | (computing) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner. | (physical chemistry) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.


lexentry: eng/bridge__Noun__1
written_rep: bridge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kam | brug
sense_list:
(music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.


lexentry: eng/bridgehead__Noun__1
written_rep: bridgehead
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bruggenhoofd
sense_list:
(military) A fortification around the end of a bridge. | (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.


lexentry: eng/bridgehead__Noun__1
written_rep: bridgehead
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: bruggenhoofd | landhoofd
sense_list:
(physical chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms


lexentry: eng/bridle__Verb__1
written_rep: bridle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: in bedwang houden | intomen
sense_list:
(transitive) To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue.


lexentry: eng/bridled_titmouse__Noun__1
written_rep: bridled titmouse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: harlekijnmees
sense_list:
A bird of species Baeolophus wollweberi, of small tits in family Paridae, found from Arizona to southern Mexico.


lexentry: eng/briefing__Noun__1
written_rep: briefing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: briefing
sense_list:
A meeting to share a concise summary of a current situation, especially in close preparation for an operation or undertaking.


lexentry: eng/brig__Noun__1
written_rep: brig
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cachot | gevang | legergevangenis | militaire gevangenis | scheepsgevangenis
sense_list:
(US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.


lexentry: eng/brigade__Noun__1
written_rep: brigade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brigade
sense_list:
A group of people organized for a common purpose. | (military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.


lexentry: eng/brigantine__Noun__1
written_rep: brigantine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brigantijn
sense_list:
(nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.


lexentry: eng/brilliant__Noun__1
written_rep: brilliant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: briljant
sense_list:
A finely cut gemstone, especially a diamond, cut in a particular form with numerous facets so as to maximize light return through the top (called "table") of the stone.


lexentry: eng/brilliant__Noun__1
written_rep: brilliant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: diamant | halve petit | robijn
sense_list:
(uncountable, printing, dated) The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.


lexentry: eng/brine__Noun__1
written_rep: brine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pekel | brijnwater
sense_list:
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.


lexentry: eng/bring_home_the_bacon__Verb__1
written_rep: bring home the bacon
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: zijn eigen broek ophouden
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To have employment which provides remuneration to satisfy the basic needs of oneself and one's family.


lexentry: eng/bring_in__Verb__1
written_rep: bring in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: invoegen
sense_list:
To introduce, add or initiate a person or group of people to an organisation; to give (someone) a share or portion of something.


lexentry: eng/bring_it__Verb__1
written_rep: bring it
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: proberen
sense_list:
(intransitive, informal) To give one's all in a particular effort; to perform admirably or forcefully.


lexentry: eng/bring_on__Verb__1
written_rep: bring on
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brengen
sense_list:
(idiomatic, transitive) To cause. | (idiomatic, intransitive, US, informal, often, as imperative) To pose a challenge or threat; to attack; to compete aggressively.


lexentry: eng/brink__Noun__1
written_rep: brink
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rand | steile rand
sense_list:
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge. | (figurative) The edge or border.


lexentry: eng/brinkmanship__Noun__1
written_rep: brinkmanship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afgrondpolitiek | riskant buitenlands beleid
sense_list:
(chiefly, politics) The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point. [from mid 1950s]


lexentry: eng/brise_soleil__Noun__1
written_rep: brise soleil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zonnewering
sense_list:
(architecture) A type of structural sunshade with slats, holes, etc, to keep sunlight from striking fully on a building.


lexentry: eng/bristle__Noun__1
written_rep: bristle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: borstelhaar
sense_list:
The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.


lexentry: eng/bristletail__Noun__1
written_rep: bristletail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zilvervisje
sense_list:
Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:


lexentry: eng/brittle_star__Noun__1
written_rep: brittle star
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: slangster
sense_list:
Any of various echinoderms, of the class Ophiuroidea, that resemble starfish and have long, slender arms that regenerate when snapped off.


lexentry: eng/bro__Noun__1
written_rep: bro
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broeder/zuster
sense_list:
(slang) Brother (a male sibling). | (slang, derogatory, usually in compounds) Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.


lexentry: eng/broach__Verb__1
written_rep: broach
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aantappen (van een vat) | doorboren
sense_list:
(transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.


lexentry: eng/broach__Verb__2
written_rep: broach
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kapseizen
sense_list:
(transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).


lexentry: eng/broadband__Noun__1
written_rep: broadband
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: breedband
sense_list:
(Internet) An Internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or a cable modem.


lexentry: eng/broadcast__Noun__1
written_rep: broadcast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: uitzending | uitzenden | transmissie
sense_list:
A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.


lexentry: eng/broadleaf__Adjective__1
written_rep: broadleaf
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: blad
sense_list:
Pertaining to trees with relatively broad, flat leaves as opposed to needles, or woodlands made up of such trees.


lexentry: eng/broadside__Noun__1
written_rep: broadside
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Kanonnade
sense_list:
(nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.


lexentry: eng/brocade__Noun__1
written_rep: brocade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brokaat
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns. | (metaphoric) A decorative pattern.


lexentry: eng/broccoli__Noun__1
written_rep: broccoli
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broccoli
sense_list:
A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.


lexentry: eng/broiler__Noun__1
written_rep: broiler
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: grill
sense_list:
(cookware, North America) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; known as a grill in British English.


lexentry: eng/broken__Adjective__1
written_rep: broken
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gebroken | geknakt
sense_list:
(of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous. | Fragmented; in separate pieces. | (of a, promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept. | (colloquial, US, of a, situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.


lexentry: eng/broken__Adjective__1
written_rep: broken
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: gebroken
sense_list:
Having no money; bankrupt, broke. | (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.


lexentry: eng/brokenhearted__Adjective__1
written_rep: brokenhearted
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wanhopig
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Grieved and disappointed, especially by the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the end of a romantic relationship.


lexentry: eng/brolga__Noun__1
written_rep: brolga
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brolgakraanvogel
sense_list:
A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/bromide__Noun__1
written_rep: bromide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bromide
sense_list:
(inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical. | (dated) A dose of bromide taken as a sedative, or to reduce sexual appetite.


lexentry: eng/bromine__Noun__1
written_rep: bromine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broom
sense_list:
(uncountable) A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Br) with an atomic number of 35; one of the halogens, it is a fuming red-brown liquid at room temperature.


lexentry: eng/bronchitis__Noun__1
written_rep: bronchitis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bronchitis
sense_list:
(uncountable) An inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.


lexentry: eng/bronchodilator__Noun__1
written_rep: bronchodilator
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bronchusverwijder
sense_list:
(medicine) Any drug used to dilate and relax the bronchial passages and ease the flow of air to the lungs


lexentry: eng/bronze__Noun__1
written_rep: bronze
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brons
sense_list:
(uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.


lexentry: eng/brooch__Noun__1
written_rep: brooch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broche | speldje
sense_list:
A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.


lexentry: eng/brood__Noun__1
written_rep: brood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gebroed | legsel | nageslacht | nest
sense_list:
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.


lexentry: eng/brood__Verb__1
written_rep: brood
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: broeden | piekeren
sense_list:
(intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.


lexentry: eng/brood_parasitism__Noun__1
written_rep: brood parasitism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broedparasitisme | nestparasitisme
sense_list:
(biology, particularly, ornithology) The practice of some species of animal (the parasites) of relying on another species (the host species) to rear the parasites' young, as practised by certain birds (for example, most species of cuckoo), insects (for example, cuckoo bumblebees) and some other animals.


lexentry: eng/broom__Noun__1
written_rep: broom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bezem
sense_list:
(countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.


lexentry: eng/broom__Noun__1
written_rep: broom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: bezem | brem
sense_list:
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.


lexentry: eng/broom_wagon__Noun__1
written_rep: broom wagon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bezemwagen
sense_list:
(cycle racing) A vehicle that follows a cycling race, picking up stragglers and carrying food and equipment.


lexentry: eng/brother-in-law__Noun__1
written_rep: brother-in-law
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: zwager | schoonbroer
sense_list:
(uncommon) The brother of the spouse of one's sibling. | The husband of the sibling of one's spouse.


lexentry: eng/brother__Noun__1
written_rep: brother
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: broer | broeder
sense_list:
A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother). | Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.


lexentry: eng/brotherhood__Noun__1
written_rep: brotherhood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broederschap
sense_list:
The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively). | An association of people for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.


lexentry: eng/brow_ridge__Noun__1
written_rep: brow ridge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wenkbrauwboog
sense_list:
a bony projection in humans and other primates located above eye sockets delimiting the bottom of the forehead


lexentry: eng/brown_dwarf__Noun__1
written_rep: brown dwarf
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bruine dwerg
sense_list:
(star) A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.


lexentry: eng/brown_hyena__Noun__1
written_rep: brown hyena
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bruine hyena | strandwolf
sense_list:
A comparatively rare species of hyena, Parahyaena brunnea, endemic to desert and semi-desert areas and open woodland savannahs of southern Africa.


lexentry: eng/brown_rice__Noun__1
written_rep: brown rice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zilvervliesrijst
sense_list:
Rice with the brownish hull not polished off as in white rice. The hull contains important vitamins, including vitamin B complex, which are missing in white rice.


lexentry: eng/brown_shrike__Noun__1
written_rep: brown shrike
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bruine klauwier
sense_list:
Lanius cristatus, a bird in the shrike family (Lanius) that is found mainly in Asia. It is closely related to the red-backed shrike (L. collurio) and isabelline shrike (L. isabellinus).


lexentry: eng/brown_trout__Noun__1
written_rep: brown trout
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: forel
sense_list:
A nonmigratory freshwater trout of species Salmo trutta, with dark spotted skin, native to Europe and Asia.


lexentry: eng/brownie__Noun__1
written_rep: brownie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brownie
sense_list:
(usually, countable, baking, originally, US) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate. [from 1897]


lexentry: eng/browse__Verb__1
written_rep: browse
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: doorbladeren
sense_list:
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.


lexentry: eng/browse__Verb__1
written_rep: browse
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: surfen
sense_list:
(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.


lexentry: eng/brubru__Noun__1
written_rep: brubru
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: broebroe
sense_list:
Also more fully as brubru shrike: a bird in the bushshrike family found in sub-Saharan Africa (Nilaus afer).


lexentry: eng/brucellosis__Noun__1
written_rep: brucellosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brucellose
sense_list:
(disease) Infection by a bacterium of the genus Brucella, which is carried by ruminants and other mammals, with symptoms including recurring fevers, sweating, weakness, anorexia, headaches, depression, and generalized aches and pains.


lexentry: eng/bruise__Noun__1
written_rep: bruise
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: blauwe plek
sense_list:
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.


lexentry: eng/bruise__Verb__1
written_rep: bruise
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: slaan | kneuzen
sense_list:
(transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.


lexentry: eng/bruiser__Noun__1
written_rep: bruiser
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bul
sense_list:
(sports) In contact sports, an athlete whose size, strength, and/or aggressiveness make it likely that they will cause athletes on the opposing team to suffer physical punishment.


lexentry: eng/bruiser__Noun__1
written_rep: bruiser
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: gorilla
sense_list:
(by extension, colloquial, derogatory) A tall, strong, heavily built person, usually a man, especially one prone to physical violence; a strong and tough person.


lexentry: eng/bruit__Verb__1
written_rep: bruit
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: openbaren
sense_list:
(transitive, archaic, _, in, _, Britain, current in the) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.


lexentry: eng/brunch__Noun__1
written_rep: brunch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: middageten
sense_list:
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.


lexentry: eng/brush__Noun__1
written_rep: brush
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borstel
sense_list:
An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. | A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.


lexentry: eng/brush_one's_teeth__Verb__1
written_rep: brush one's teeth
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tandenpoetsen
sense_list:
To clean one's teeth, especially by using a toothbrush and toothpaste. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/brute__Adjective__1
written_rep: brute
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: ra
sense_list:
Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.] | Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature. | Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.


lexentry: eng/brute__Noun__1
written_rep: brute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bruut
sense_list:
A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/bruxism__Noun__1
written_rep: bruxism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bruxisme
sense_list:
(dentistry) The habit or practice of grinding the teeth, as while sleeping, or due to stress or certain drugs.


lexentry: eng/bryophyte__Noun__1
written_rep: bryophyte
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: moeras
sense_list:
(botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants.


lexentry: eng/bubble__Noun__1
written_rep: bubble
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bel
sense_list:
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid. | A small spherical cavity in a solid material. | (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere. | (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.


lexentry: eng/bubble_bath__Noun__1
written_rep: bubble bath
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schuimbad
sense_list:
A bath in which an additive, usually soap, is poured directly into the water that creates bubbles; a foam bath.


lexentry: eng/bubble_wrap__Noun__1
written_rep: bubble wrap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: noppenfolie
sense_list:
Cushioning material consisting of small spheres of air trapped in plastic, sold on long rolls for tearing off, and used as packaging for fragile items.


lexentry: eng/bubblegum__Noun__1
written_rep: bubblegum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bubbelgum
sense_list:
(usually, _, uncountable) A sweet chewing gum formulated to be stretchy so the chewer can blow bubbles with it.


lexentry: eng/bubo__Noun__1
written_rep: bubo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: builenpest
sense_list:
(pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.


lexentry: eng/bubonic_plague__Noun__1
written_rep: bubonic plague
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: builenpest
sense_list:
(disease) A contagious, often fatal, epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted by the bite of fleas from an infected person or rodent, especially a rat, and characterized by delirium, chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of buboes.


lexentry: eng/buccal__Adjective__1
written_rep: buccal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kaak
sense_list:
(pharmacology) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.


lexentry: eng/buccaneer__Noun__1
written_rep: buccaneer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boekanier | kaper
sense_list:
(nautical) Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century, who were similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation.


lexentry: eng/buck__Noun__1
written_rep: buck
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bok
sense_list:
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, shad and kangaroo.


lexentry: eng/buck__Verb__2
written_rep: buck
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bokken
sense_list:
(intransitive, of a horse, _, or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.


lexentry: eng/bucket__Noun__1
written_rep: bucket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: emmer
sense_list:
The amount held in this container. | Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).


lexentry: eng/bucket_list__Noun__1
written_rep: bucket list
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bucketlist | loodjeslijst
sense_list:
(by extension) A list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period. | A list of things to accomplish before one's death. [from late 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/buckle__Noun__1
written_rep: buckle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gesp
sense_list:
A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.


lexentry: eng/buckler__Noun__1
written_rep: buckler
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: beukelaar
sense_list:
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.


lexentry: eng/buckram__Noun__1
written_rep: buckram
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buckram
sense_list:
A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.


lexentry: eng/buckshot__Noun__1
written_rep: buckshot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hagel
sense_list:
(chiefly, US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/buddleia__Noun__1
written_rep: buddleia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vlinderstruik
sense_list:
A tree or shrub of the genus Buddleja, especially Buddleja davidii, a large ornamental shrub whose lilac flowers attract butterflies.


lexentry: eng/budge__Verb__1
written_rep: budge
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bewegen | meegeven
sense_list:
(intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position. | (transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position.


lexentry: eng/budgerigar__Noun__1
written_rep: budgerigar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: grasparkiet
sense_list:
A species of small green parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, native to inland Australia; a common cagebird throughout the world and bred in many colour varieties.


lexentry: eng/budget__Noun__1
written_rep: budget
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: begroting | budget
sense_list:
The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe. | An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.


lexentry: eng/budget__Verb__1
written_rep: budget
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: budgetteren | begroten
sense_list:
(transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget. | (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.


lexentry: eng/buff-breasted_sandpiper__Noun__1
written_rep: buff-breasted sandpiper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: blonde ruiter
sense_list:
Any of species Calidris subruficollis of sandpipers, that breed in the North American tundra and migrate as far as Argentina.


lexentry: eng/buff_out__Verb__1
written_rep: buff out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: polijsten
sense_list:
To remove paint or light scratches from the surface by friction, wearing it out by polishing or blasting with sand or by employing some similar method.


lexentry: eng/buffalo__Noun__1
written_rep: buffalo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buffel | karbouw | kafferbuffel | waterbuffel
sense_list:
An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.


lexentry: eng/buffer__Noun__2
written_rep: buffer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buffer
sense_list:
(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.


lexentry: eng/buffer__Noun__2
written_rep: buffer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buffermengsel
sense_list:
(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.


lexentry: eng/buffer_stop__Noun__1
written_rep: buffer stop
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stootblok
sense_list:
(rail, UK) a device installed at the end of a railway line or siding, which is intended to stop trains and other rail vehicles going any further.


lexentry: eng/bufotoxin__Noun__1
written_rep: bufotoxin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bufotoxine
sense_list:
(organic compound) Any of a family of toxic substances found in toads, other amphibians, and some plants and mushrooms.


lexentry: eng/bug__Noun__1
written_rep: bug
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 26
trans_list: beestje | insect
sense_list:
(gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.


lexentry: eng/bugbear__Noun__1
written_rep: bugbear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: spookbeeld
sense_list:
(folklore, fantasy) A generic creature, often described as a large goblin, meant to inspire fear in children.


lexentry: eng/bughouse_chess__Noun__1
written_rep: bughouse chess
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: doorgeefschaak
sense_list:
A variant of chess played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two. Each player plays the other colour of pieces than their teammate, to whom they pass the pieces they capture from their opponent. The teammate can then choose to put one of these pieces on their board as an alternative way of making a move.


lexentry: eng/bugle__Noun__1
written_rep: bugle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bugel | flügelhorn
sense_list:
(brass instrument) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series


lexentry: eng/build__Noun__1
written_rep: build
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bouw
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure. | (countable) The process or period of constructing a physical object.


lexentry: eng/build_castles_in_the_air__Verb__1
written_rep: build castles in the air
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: luchtkastelen bouwen
sense_list:
(transitive, idiomatic) To have any desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to be realized; to imagine visionary projects or schemes; to have an idle fancy or a pipe dream; to daydream.


lexentry: eng/building_block__Noun__1
written_rep: building block
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bouwsteen
sense_list:
(literally) A component that is part of a larger construction, such as a brick or a stone. | (figuratively) A component that is part of a larger system.


lexentry: eng/building_site__Noun__1
written_rep: building site
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: werf
sense_list:
(construction) The site, the place where a building is located, is currently under construction, or shall be constructed (including structures other than buildings).


lexentry: eng/building_site__Noun__1
written_rep: building site
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: lokaal
sense_list:
(archaeology) The site of a former structure, indicated by an assemblage of features, artifacts or debris, remote-sensing data, or historic records (e.g., deed records).


lexentry: eng/buisine__Noun__1
written_rep: buisine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bazuin
sense_list:
(musical instruments, historical) A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.


lexentry: eng/bulb__Noun__1
written_rep: bulb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: bol
sense_list:
Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.


lexentry: eng/bulbul__Noun__1
written_rep: bulbul
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: buulbuul
sense_list:
Any of the bulbul species of the Middle East, popular in poetry; sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.


lexentry: eng/bulge__Noun__1
written_rep: bulge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bult
sense_list:
An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.


lexentry: eng/bulimia__Noun__1
written_rep: bulimia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boulimie
sense_list:
(pathology) A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.


lexentry: eng/bulk__Noun__1
written_rep: bulk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: bulk
sense_list:
(uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.


lexentry: eng/bulk_carrier__Noun__1
written_rep: bulk carrier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bulkcarrier
sense_list:
(nautical) Any ocean-going cargo vessel (merchant ship) designed to carry unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils and cement, in its holds.


lexentry: eng/bulkhead__Noun__1
written_rep: bulkhead
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schot
sense_list:
(nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached. | (aerospace) A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.


lexentry: eng/bull_market__Noun__1
written_rep: bull market
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stierenmarkt
sense_list:
(finance) A stock market where a majority of investors are buying ("bulls"), causing overall stock prices to rise.


lexentry: eng/bulldog__Noun__1
written_rep: bulldog
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buldog
sense_list:
A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.


lexentry: eng/bulldozer__Noun__1
written_rep: bulldozer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bulldozer | laadschop
sense_list:
A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.


lexentry: eng/bullet__Noun__1
written_rep: bullet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kogel
sense_list:
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. | (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc. | (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.


lexentry: eng/bulleted_list__Noun__1
written_rep: bulleted list
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: opsommingslijst | lijst met opsommingstekens
sense_list:
A list whose items start with the typographical bullet, that is •, or with other symbols other than numbers.


lexentry: eng/bulletin_board_system__Noun__1
written_rep: bulletin board system
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bulletin board system
sense_list:
(computing, historical) A type of computer system, now largely obsolete, used to exchange messages and data over a telecommunications network.


lexentry: eng/bullhead__Noun__1
written_rep: bullhead
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Noord-Amerikaans katvisse
sense_list:
(North America) The brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus. | (North America) any of a variety of related species of generally dark-colored catfish in the family Ictaluridae.


lexentry: eng/bullion__Noun__1
written_rep: bullion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: goudstaaf | staaf | zilverstaaf
sense_list:
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.


lexentry: eng/bullshit__Noun__1
written_rep: bullshit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bullshit | gelul | kletskoek | lariekoek | lulkoek | nonsens
sense_list:
(vulgar, slang, usual sense) Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.


lexentry: eng/bullshitter__Noun__1
written_rep: bullshitter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: praatjesmaker
sense_list:
(vulgar) Someone who lies or exaggerates a lot, especially in order to preserve or enhance their reputation.


lexentry: eng/bully__Noun__1
written_rep: bully
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pestkop | treiteraar | wreedaard
sense_list:
A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege. [from late 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/bulrush__Noun__1
written_rep: bulrush
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: bies
sense_list:
(AU) Any of various reed-like plants growing near water, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis; cumbungi, wonga. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/bulwark__Noun__1
written_rep: bulwark
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: verschansing
sense_list:
(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.


lexentry: eng/bum's_rush__Noun__1
written_rep: bum's rush
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: landing
sense_list:
(originally, North America, slang, idiomatic) The forcible ejection of someone, such as a bum or a hobo, from an establishment.


lexentry: eng/bum__Noun__2
written_rep: bum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: landloper | zwerver | dakloze | vagebond
sense_list:
(colloquial, sometimes, derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man. | (colloquial, sometimes, derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man. | (colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly. | (colloquial) A drinking spree.


lexentry: eng/bumf__Noun__1
written_rep: bumf
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: paperassen
sense_list:
(pejorative) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.


lexentry: eng/bumfuck_nowhere__Proper_noun__1
written_rep: bumfuck nowhere
part_of_speech: properNoun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Schubbekutteveen
sense_list:
(vulgar) The middle of nowhere; a nondescript, isolated, and underdeveloped locale whose precise location may be difficult to ascertain.


lexentry: eng/bump__Verb__1
written_rep: bump
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: botsen | stoten
sense_list:
To knock against or run into with a jolt. | (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.


lexentry: eng/bumper__Noun__1
written_rep: bumper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: bumper
sense_list:
(automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.


lexentry: eng/bumper_sticker__Noun__1
written_rep: bumper sticker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bumpersticker
sense_list:
(US) An adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and displaying a short political, promotional, philosophical, or humorous message. | (US, figurative) Said of canned insight; a slogan or saying that is trite or lacks depth.


lexentry: eng/bumpy__Adjective__1
written_rep: bumpy
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hobbelig
sense_list:
Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements. | Covered with or full of bumps.


lexentry: eng/bunch__Noun__1
written_rep: bunch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tros | bos
sense_list:
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.


lexentry: eng/bundle__Noun__1
written_rep: bundle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bundel
sense_list:
(countable) A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. | (countable) A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.


lexentry: eng/bungalow__Noun__1
written_rep: bungalow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bungalow
sense_list:
A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.


lexentry: eng/bungle__Verb__1
written_rep: bungle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: verknoeien
sense_list:
(transitive) To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.


lexentry: eng/bunion__Noun__1
written_rep: bunion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hallux valgus | scheefstaande grote teen
sense_list:
(pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.


lexentry: eng/bunk__Noun__1
written_rep: bunk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kooi
sense_list:
One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. | (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.


lexentry: eng/bunk__Verb__2
written_rep: bunk
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brossen
sense_list:
(British, India) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').


lexentry: eng/bunk_bed__Noun__1
written_rep: bunk bed
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stapelbed
sense_list:
Two or more beds fixed on top of one another, so that one person can sleep in each bunk at a different height.


lexentry: eng/bunker__Noun__1
written_rep: bunker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bunker
sense_list:
(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks. | (nautical) A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines. | (golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.


lexentry: eng/bunny_girl__Noun__1
written_rep: bunny girl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: haasje
sense_list:
(slang) A club hostess or other female entertainer wearing a sexually provocative outfit with rabbit-like ears and tail.


lexentry: eng/bunting__Noun__1
written_rep: bunting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: dundoek | vlaggendoek
sense_list:
(nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.


lexentry: eng/buoy__Noun__1
written_rep: buoy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boei
sense_list:
(nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes


lexentry: eng/buprestid__Noun__1
written_rep: buprestid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: prachtkever
sense_list:
Any of the many beetles of the family Buprestidae, which in the larval stage are destructive wood borers and as adults are often brightly coloured.


lexentry: eng/bur-reed__Noun__1
written_rep: bur-reed
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: egelskop
sense_list:
A group (genus Sparganium) of widespread flowering perennial marsh plants widespread in wet areas in temperate regions.


lexentry: eng/burbot__Noun__1
written_rep: burbot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kwabaal
sense_list:
A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter.


lexentry: eng/burden_of_proof__Noun__1
written_rep: burden of proof
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bewijslast | last
sense_list:
(legal) The duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi.


lexentry: eng/bureau__Noun__1
written_rep: bureau
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: bureau | bureel
sense_list:
(chiefly, British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.


lexentry: eng/bureaucracy__Noun__1
written_rep: bureaucracy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bureaucratie
sense_list:
Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers. | (business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner. | (chiefly, derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.


lexentry: eng/bureaucratese__Noun__1
written_rep: bureaucratese
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kanselarijstijl
sense_list:
(informal, pejorative) A style of language, used by bureaucrats, that involves jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding.


lexentry: eng/burette__Noun__1
written_rep: burette
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buret
sense_list:
(chemistry) A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration.


lexentry: eng/burgee__Noun__1
written_rep: burgee
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fietsstuur
sense_list:
A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club.


lexentry: eng/burglary__Noun__1
written_rep: burglary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: inbraak
sense_list:
(law) Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony. | The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.


lexentry: eng/burgomaster__Noun__1
written_rep: burgomaster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burgemeester
sense_list:
The mayor, or head magistrate, of a town in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and certain other countries.


lexentry: eng/burgrave__Noun__1
written_rep: burgrave
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burchtgraaf
sense_list:
(historical) The military governor of a town or castle in the Middle Ages, especially in German-speaking Europe; a nobleman of the same status.


lexentry: eng/burl__Noun__1
written_rep: burl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: loep
sense_list:
A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot. | Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.


lexentry: eng/burn__Verb__1
written_rep: burn
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: branden | beledigen | kwetsen | liggen hebben
sense_list:
(transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.


lexentry: eng/burn__Verb__1
written_rep: burn
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 11
trans_list: verbranden | branden | aanbranden | gloeien | in de steek laten | verraden
sense_list:
(chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.


lexentry: eng/burn__Verb__1
written_rep: burn
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 13
trans_list: branden
sense_list:
(transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.


lexentry: eng/burn_down__Verb__1
written_rep: burn down
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afbranden | platbranden
sense_list:
(transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing. | (intransitive, of a structure) To burn completely, so that nothing remains.


lexentry: eng/burn_one's_bridges__Verb__1
written_rep: burn one's bridges
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: je schepen achter je verbranden
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To destroy one's path, connections, reputation, opportunities, etc., particularly intentionally.


lexentry: eng/burn_phone__Noun__1
written_rep: burn phone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wegwerptelefoon
sense_list:
(informal) A cell phone purchased anonymously with cash, used for only a short time and then discarded, usually used as a means of conducting illegal business or harassment without being traceable to the purchaser.


lexentry: eng/burning_bush__Noun__1
written_rep: burning bush
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brandende braamstruik | brandende doornstruik
sense_list:
(Judaism, Christianity) A biblical object described in Exodus 3:1-22, used by Yahweh to communicate with Moses.


lexentry: eng/burnish__Verb__1
written_rep: burnish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gladstrijken
sense_list:
To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.


lexentry: eng/buro__Noun__1
written_rep: buro
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bureau | bureel
sense_list:
a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.


lexentry: eng/burqa__Noun__1
written_rep: burqa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boerka
sense_list:
(strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).


lexentry: eng/burqini__Noun__1
written_rep: burqini
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boerkini
sense_list:
A head-to-toe swimsuit, enabling women to conform to the Islamic dress code when bathing on a public beach.


lexentry: eng/bursa__Noun__1
written_rep: bursa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Handtas
sense_list:
(anatomy) Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.


lexentry: eng/burst_out__Verb__1
written_rep: burst out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: onstuimig te voorschijn komen
sense_list:
(intransitive, literally) To appear suddenly from within something else. | (intransitive) To speak emotionally or suddenly


lexentry: eng/bury__Verb__1
written_rep: bury
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: begraven
sense_list:
To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. | To place in the ground. | (often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.


lexentry: eng/bus__Noun__1
written_rep: bus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bus
sense_list:
An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.


lexentry: eng/bus__Verb__1
written_rep: bus
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afruimen | bus | de | met | vervoeren
sense_list:
(transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus. | (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly, US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.


lexentry: eng/bus__Verb__2
written_rep: bus
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bus | afruimen | de | met | reizen | vervoeren
sense_list:
(intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.


lexentry: eng/bus_rapid_transit__Noun__1
written_rep: bus rapid transit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hov-bus
sense_list:
(transport) A form of rapid transit using buses, which have dedicated rights-of-way or laneways, purpose-built bus stations, and dedicated traffic signalling.


lexentry: eng/bus_shelter__Noun__1
written_rep: bus shelter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bushok | bushokje
sense_list:
A building or other structure constructed at a bus stop, to provide seating and protection from the weather for the convenience of waiting passengers.


lexentry: eng/bus_trap__Noun__1
written_rep: bus trap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bussluis
sense_list:
A construction or device placed on a road that only allows (public transport) buses, and no other vehicles with smaller gauge, to pass.


lexentry: eng/busbar__Noun__1
written_rep: busbar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: busbar
sense_list:
An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution system; typically a thick strip, or a tube, of copper or aluminium.


lexentry: eng/busby__Noun__1
written_rep: busby
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kolbak
sense_list:
A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands.


lexentry: eng/bush__Noun__1
written_rep: bush
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: struik | heester
sense_list:
(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.


lexentry: eng/bush__Noun__3
written_rep: bush
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bush
sense_list:
(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations. | (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.


lexentry: eng/bush_vetch__Noun__1
written_rep: bush vetch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: heggenwikke
sense_list:
A leguminous climing plant with lilac or blue flowers that grows in hedgerows, grasslands and roadsides; Vicia sepium.


lexentry: eng/bushing__Noun__1
written_rep: bushing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kussentje
sense_list:
(mechanical engineering) A type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.


lexentry: eng/bushing__Noun__1
written_rep: bushing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: isolator
sense_list:
(electrical engineering) A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.


lexentry: eng/business__Noun__1
written_rep: business
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: zaken
sense_list:
(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade. | (uncountable) Something involving one personally.


lexentry: eng/business__Noun__1
written_rep: business
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 12
trans_list: businessclass
sense_list:
(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.


lexentry: eng/business_administration__Noun__1
written_rep: business administration
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bedrijfskunde
sense_list:
(business, education) A course of study in higher education intended to prepare the students for a career in business.


lexentry: eng/business_before_pleasure__Proverb__1
written_rep: business before pleasure
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zaken gaan voor plezier
sense_list:
Discharging one's obligations must take precedence over devoting time to pursuits meant solely for one's own gratification.


lexentry: eng/business_card__Noun__1
written_rep: business card
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: visitekaartje
sense_list:
A small card with a person's name and professional information (such as occupation, business phone number, e-mail address, etc.).


lexentry: eng/business_model__Noun__1
written_rep: business model
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bedrijfsmodel | verdienmodel | zakenmodel
sense_list:
The particular way in which a business ensures that it generates income, one that includes the choice of offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.


lexentry: eng/business_plan__Noun__1
written_rep: business plan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ondernemingsplan
sense_list:
(business) A summary of how a business owner, manager, or entrepreneur intends to organize an entrepreneurial endeavor and implement activities necessary and sufficient for the venture to succeed.


lexentry: eng/businesslike__Adjective__1
written_rep: businesslike
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zakelijk
sense_list:
Methodical and efficient, in a way that would be advantageous to a business or businessperson. | Earnest and practical without being distracted or enthusiastic.


lexentry: eng/busker__Noun__1
written_rep: busker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: straatartiest | straatmuzikant
sense_list:
A person who solicits donations while entertaining the public, often by playing a musical instrument, on a street or in another public area such as a park or marketplace.


lexentry: eng/buskin__Noun__1
written_rep: buskin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: broos | toneellaars
sense_list:
(historical) A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.


lexentry: eng/bust__Verb__1
written_rep: bust
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: betrappen | breken
sense_list:
(transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.


lexentry: eng/bust__Verb__1
written_rep: bust
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 11
trans_list: breken
sense_list:
(transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower | (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.


lexentry: eng/bust_someone's_balls__Verb__1
written_rep: bust someone's balls
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ergeren
sense_list:
(slang, vulgar) To give someone a hard time, whether by playfully teasing or sincerely harassing them.


lexentry: eng/bustard__Noun__1
written_rep: bustard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: trap
sense_list:
Any of several large terrestrial birds of the family Otididae in the order Otidiformes that inhabit dry open country and steppes in the Old World.


lexentry: eng/buster__Noun__1
written_rep: buster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: vriend
sense_list:
(colloquial, variously expressing familiarity, admiration, or hostility) A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster.)


lexentry: eng/bustier__Noun__1
written_rep: bustier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bustier
sense_list:
A tight-fitting women's top, often strapless, which covers the bust and sometimes extends over the belly, worn either as an undergarment or as outerwear.


lexentry: eng/bustle__Noun__1
written_rep: bustle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: cul de Paris
sense_list:
(historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.


lexentry: eng/but__Conjunction__1
written_rep: but
part_of_speech: conjunction
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: maar | echter
sense_list:
However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).


lexentry: eng/but__Conjunction__1
written_rep: but
part_of_speech: conjunction
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: behalve | maar
sense_list:
Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, (archaic) with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".


lexentry: eng/butane__Noun__1
written_rep: butane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: butaan
sense_list:
(organic compound) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C4H10, n-butane and 2-methylpropane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.


lexentry: eng/butcher_block__Noun__1
written_rep: butcher block
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: (hak)blok
sense_list:
A style of assembled wood (often sugar maple, teak, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards.


lexentry: eng/butler__Noun__1
written_rep: butler
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: butler
sense_list:
The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.


lexentry: eng/butt__Noun__1
written_rep: butt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: peuk
sense_list:
(US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread. | (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.


lexentry: eng/butt_in__Verb__1
written_rep: butt in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: inmengen | moeien | onderbreken | zich
sense_list:
(idiomatic, informal) To join a conversation or situation in which one is not welcome or invited; to interject (connotes a rude or discourteous interruption).


lexentry: eng/butter__Noun__1
written_rep: butter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boter
sense_list:
A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). | Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).


lexentry: eng/butter_dish__Noun__1
written_rep: butter dish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: botervloot
sense_list:
A specialized dish for serving butter, typically consisting of a base with a separate fitting lid with its own handle.


lexentry: eng/butter_knife__Noun__1
written_rep: butter knife
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: botermes
sense_list:
A non-serrated or unilaterally serrated table knife with a dull edge and rounded point, designed for spreading butter on a piece of bread without tearing it.


lexentry: eng/butter_one's_bread_on_both_sides__Verb__1
written_rep: butter one's bread on both sides
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: van twee walletjes eten
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To profit from two things at the same time, especially when those things seem contradictory or incompatible.


lexentry: eng/butter_wouldn't_melt_in_someone's_mouth__Phrase__1
written_rep: butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: van de prins geen kwaad weten
sense_list:
(idiomatic) The identified person appears to be benign, mild-mannered, or calm (but with an integral suggestion that, to the contrary, he or she really is untrustworthy, disagreeable, or mean-spirited).


lexentry: eng/butterbur__Noun__1
written_rep: butterbur
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hoefblad
sense_list:
Any of several Eurasian herbs, of the genus Petasites, having dense clusters of often purple flowers.


lexentry: eng/butterfly__Noun__1
written_rep: butterfly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vlinder | kapel | dagvlinder | boterschijte | botervlieg | fladderaar
sense_list:
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]


lexentry: eng/butterfly_stroke__Noun__1
written_rep: butterfly stroke
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vlinderslag
sense_list:
A swimming stroke in which the body is prone, the arms are moved in simultaneous circles, and the feet are kicked up and down.


lexentry: eng/buttermilk__Noun__1
written_rep: buttermilk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karnemelk | botermelk
sense_list:
The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.


lexentry: eng/buttermilk__Noun__1
written_rep: buttermilk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: botermelk
sense_list:
Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.


lexentry: eng/buttock__Noun__1
written_rep: buttock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bil
sense_list:
(usually, in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum, and the top of the legs.


lexentry: eng/button__Noun__1
written_rep: button
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: knoop | knop
sense_list:
(clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from mid-13th c.]


lexentry: eng/button__Noun__1
written_rep: button
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: knop | toets | knoop
sense_list:
A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.


lexentry: eng/button__Noun__1
written_rep: button
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: knop | knoop
sense_list:
(graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function. | (botany) A bud.


lexentry: eng/button__Verb__1
written_rep: button
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dichtknopen
sense_list:
(transitive) To fasten with a button. [from late 14th c.] | (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.


lexentry: eng/button_accordion__Noun__1
written_rep: button accordion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: trekzak
sense_list:
An accordion whose melody-side keyboard consists of a series of buttons, rather than piano-style keys.


lexentry: eng/buttonhole__Noun__1
written_rep: buttonhole
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: knoopsgat
sense_list:
A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one. | (attributive) So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.


lexentry: eng/buttonquail__Noun__1
written_rep: buttonquail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vechtkwartel
sense_list:
Any of several species of small terrestrial birds, principally in the genus Turnix of the family Turnicidae.


lexentry: eng/butyric_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: butyric acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boterzuur
sense_list:
(fatty acid) Either of the two isomeric carboxylic acids, normal butyric acid and isobutyric acid, with the chemical formula C3H7COOH, occurring in animal milk fat.


lexentry: eng/buy__Verb__1
written_rep: buy
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kopen | aanschaffen | aankopen
sense_list:
(transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).


lexentry: eng/buy_into__Verb__1
written_rep: buy into
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aankopen
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.


lexentry: eng/buzz__Verb__1
written_rep: buzz
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zoemen
sense_list:
(intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.


lexentry: eng/buzzword__Noun__1
written_rep: buzzword
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buzzwoord | modewoord
sense_list:
(sometimes, derogatory) A word drawn from, or imitative of, technical jargon, used more to impress others than to convey meaning.


lexentry: eng/by_a_long_shot__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: by a long shot
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: veruit
sense_list:
(idiomatic, dated, usually, with a negative) By a wide margin; indicates a very big difference or disparity.


lexentry: eng/by_any_chance__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: by any chance
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bij toeval
sense_list:
Used to ask a question more politely | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by,‎ any,‎ chance.


lexentry: eng/by_right__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: by right
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rechtens
sense_list:
According to what is right, or what one is legally or morally entitled to; justly, properly, rightfully.


lexentry: eng/by_the_way__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: by the way
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: overigens | trouwens | nu dat ik eraan denk | tussen haakjes | terloops gezegd
sense_list:
(conjunctive, idiomatic) Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.


lexentry: eng/by_virtue_of__Preposition__1
written_rep: by virtue of
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gezien
sense_list:
(idiomatic) (originally) By the authority or power of; (now) because of; on the grounds of; by reason of.


lexentry: eng/by_way_of__Phrase__1
written_rep: by way of
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: via
sense_list:
By the route of. | For the purpose of; as a means of; as an instance of; as a type or form of. | (UK, often followed by being) Possessing the characteristics, nature, or standing of; in the state or condition of.


lexentry: eng/bycatch__Noun__1
written_rep: bycatch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bijvangst
sense_list:
Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.


lexentry: eng/bypass__Noun__1
written_rep: bypass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: rondweg | sluipweg | wegomleiding
sense_list:
A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).


lexentry: eng/bystander__Noun__1
written_rep: bystander
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: omstander
sense_list:
A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer, witness, or spectator.


lexentry: eng/byte__Noun__1
written_rep: byte
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: byte
sense_list:
(computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word. | (computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.


lexentry: eng/byword__Noun__1
written_rep: byword
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: spotnaam
sense_list:
Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.


lexentry: eng/béarnaise_sauce__Noun__1
written_rep: béarnaise sauce
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: béarnaise | béarnaisesaus
sense_list:
(cooking) A sauce made of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs.


lexentry: eng/bête_noire__Noun__1
written_rep: bête noire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: boeman | zwarte beest
sense_list:
Someone or something that is unbearable and so particularly avoided or disliked; the bane of someone's existence; an object of aversion; an anathema.


lexentry: eng/c!slash!o__Preposition__1
written_rep: c/o
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: p/a
sense_list:
(shipping) Abbreviation of care of, used to identify an intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee.


lexentry: eng/cabaret__Noun__1
written_rep: cabaret
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cabaret
sense_list:
Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.


lexentry: eng/cabbage__Noun__1
written_rep: cabbage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kool
sense_list:
(by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea. | (uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.


lexentry: eng/cabbage_white__Noun__1
written_rep: cabbage white
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koolwitje
sense_list:
(entomology) Any of various largely white butterflies with dark markings in the family Pieridae, especially the species Pieris brassicae, Pieris canidia, and Pieris rapae.


lexentry: eng/cabin__Noun__1
written_rep: cabin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hut
sense_list:
(US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.


lexentry: eng/cabin_boy__Noun__1
written_rep: cabin boy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scheepsjongen
sense_list:
(dated) A boy or young man who is employed to serve as an attendant for passengers or crew members on a ship.


lexentry: eng/cabin_crew__Noun__1
written_rep: cabin crew
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: steward
sense_list:
(aviation) The members of staff aboard a commercial aircraft, employed to ensure the safety and comfort of their passengers.


lexentry: eng/cabinet__Noun__1
written_rep: cabinet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: kabinet
sense_list:
A group of advisors to a government or business entity. | (politics, often, capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.


lexentry: eng/cable__Noun__1
written_rep: cable
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kabel
sense_list:
An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated. | A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.


lexentry: eng/cable__Noun__1
written_rep: cable
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kabel | kabelnetwerk
sense_list:
(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.


lexentry: eng/cable_internet__Noun__1
written_rep: cable internet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kabelinternet
sense_list:
Internet connectivity received through coaxial cables, usually via the same medium as cable television.


lexentry: eng/cable_modem__Noun__1
written_rep: cable modem
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kabelmodem
sense_list:
(Internet) A modem that provides data communication via radio frequency channels over any of a variety of cable types to establish a cable internet connection.


lexentry: eng/cable_television__Noun__1
written_rep: cable television
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kabeltelevisie
sense_list:
Television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.


lexentry: eng/cabotage__Noun__1
written_rep: cabotage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cabotage
sense_list:
The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country. | (legal) The right to engage in such transport.


lexentry: eng/cabriolet__Noun__1
written_rep: cabriolet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cabrio | cabriolet
sense_list:
An automobile with a retractable top. | (historical, originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.


lexentry: eng/cache-sexe__Noun__1
written_rep: cache-sexe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lendendoek
sense_list:
An article of clothing sufficient to cover the genitalia, primarily as used by an exotic dancer or in certain aboriginal cultures.


lexentry: eng/cache__Noun__1
written_rep: cache
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cachegeheugen
sense_list:
(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.


lexentry: eng/cachexia__Noun__1
written_rep: cachexia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cachexie
sense_list:
(pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease. [from mid 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/cackling_goose__Noun__1
written_rep: cackling goose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kleine Canadese gans
sense_list:
Branta hutchinsii, a North American bird of the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.


lexentry: eng/cactus__Noun__1
written_rep: cactus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cactus
sense_list:
(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.


lexentry: eng/cad__Noun__1
written_rep: cad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vlerk
sense_list:
A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.


lexentry: eng/cad__Noun__1
written_rep: cad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: controleur | kaartjesknipper | kaartjesverkoper
sense_list:
(archaic) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.


lexentry: eng/cadastre__Noun__1
written_rep: cadastre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kadaster
sense_list:
(cartography) A public survey of land, originally for the purpose of taxation and to create an official register of land ownership. | A register of such surveys, showing details of ownership and value.


lexentry: eng/cadaver__Noun__1
written_rep: cadaver
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kadaver | kreng | karkas
sense_list:
(literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. [from late 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/cadaverine__Noun__1
written_rep: cadaverine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cadaverine
sense_list:
A foul-smelling diamine produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH2(CH2)5NH2.


lexentry: eng/caddie__Noun__1
written_rep: caddie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: caddie
sense_list:
(by extension, golf, also, attributively) A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.


lexentry: eng/caddis_fly__Noun__1
written_rep: caddis fly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kokerjuffer
sense_list:
Any insect, of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings; they are found near lakes and streams.


lexentry: eng/cadence__Noun__1
written_rep: cadence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: cadans
sense_list:
Balanced, rhythmic flow. | The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. | (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.


lexentry: eng/cadenza__Noun__1
written_rep: cadenza
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cadans
sense_list:
(music) A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.


lexentry: eng/cadge__Verb__1
written_rep: cadge
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ritselen
sense_list:
(US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.


lexentry: eng/cadre__Noun__1
written_rep: cadre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kader
sense_list:
A frame or framework. | (chiefly, in, _, communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.


lexentry: eng/caduceus__Noun__1
written_rep: caduceus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: caduceus
sense_list:
A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly substituted for the rod of Asclepius as a symbol of medicine.


lexentry: eng/caecum__Noun__1
written_rep: caecum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: blindedarm
sense_list:
(anatomy) A cavity open at one end (such as the blind end of a duct), especially a blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.


lexentry: eng/caesaropapism__Noun__1
written_rep: caesaropapism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cesaropapie
sense_list:
(government, religion) The combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters.


lexentry: eng/caesium__Noun__1
written_rep: caesium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cesium
sense_list:
The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal.


lexentry: eng/cafeteria__Noun__1
written_rep: cafeteria
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cafetaria | kantine
sense_list:
(chiefly, US, Canada) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.


lexentry: eng/cafeteria__Noun__1
written_rep: cafeteria
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cafetaria
sense_list:
(chiefly, US, Canada) A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.


lexentry: eng/caffeine__Noun__1
written_rep: caffeine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cafeïne
sense_list:
An alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, found naturally in tea and coffee plants, which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system. [from 1830]


lexentry: eng/café__Noun__1
written_rep: café
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: café | koffiehuis
sense_list:
A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.


lexentry: eng/café_au_lait__Noun__1
written_rep: café au lait
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koffie verkeerd
sense_list:
A mixture of coffee and hot milk. | Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink.


lexentry: eng/cahoots__Noun__1
written_rep: cahoots
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bond
sense_list:
Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason. [from early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/caiman__Noun__1
written_rep: caiman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaaiman
sense_list:
(narrowly) Any of the relatively small crocodilians of the genus Caiman, within the family Alligatoridae.


lexentry: eng/cairn__Noun__1
written_rep: cairn
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: steenman
sense_list:
A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.


lexentry: eng/cajón__Noun__1
written_rep: cajón
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lade
sense_list:
(musical instrument) A box-shaped percussion instrument played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements.


lexentry: eng/cake__Noun__1
written_rep: cake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: taart | koek | cake | gebak
sense_list:
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.


lexentry: eng/calabash__Noun__1
written_rep: calabash
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kalebas
sense_list:
A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree. | The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant. | A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.


lexentry: eng/calamine__Noun__1
written_rep: calamine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kalamijn
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) Synonym of smithsonite, a pink form of zinc oxide (mainly zinc carbonate ZnCO3) formed as a byproduct of zinc sublimation, now used in skin lotions.


lexentry: eng/calandra_lark__Noun__1
written_rep: calandra lark
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kalanderleeuwerik
sense_list:
Any bird in the genus Melanocorypha, but especially in the species Melanocorypha calandra of the Mediterranean region and central Asia.


lexentry: eng/calcine__Verb__1
written_rep: calcine
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: branden
sense_list:
(physical chemistry) To heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it; specifically, to decompose (carbonates) into oxides, and, especially, to heat (limestone) to form quicklime.


lexentry: eng/calcite__Noun__1
written_rep: calcite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calciet
sense_list:
(mineral) A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble.


lexentry: eng/calcium__Noun__1
written_rep: calcium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calcium
sense_list:
The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.


lexentry: eng/calcium_carbide__Noun__1
written_rep: calcium carbide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calciumcarbide
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) A black, solid, of formula CaC2, manufactured from lime and carbon at high temperatures; reacts with water to form acetylene.


lexentry: eng/calcium_carbonate__Noun__1
written_rep: calcium carbonate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calciumcarbonaat
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) A colourless or white inorganic compound, CaCO3, occurring as chalk, limestone, marble etc. Reacts with acids to liberate carbon dioxide.


lexentry: eng/calcium_chloride__Noun__1
written_rep: calcium chloride
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calciumchloride
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) The calcium salt of hydrochloric acid, CaCl2; used as a drying agent and to melt ice on roads.


lexentry: eng/calcium_hydroxide__Noun__1
written_rep: calcium hydroxide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calciumhydroxide | gebluste kalk
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) A soft, white powder, Ca(OH)2, obtained by the action of water on calcium oxide; slaked lime.


lexentry: eng/calculate__Verb__1
written_rep: calculate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calculeren | berekenen | uitwerken
sense_list:
(transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.


lexentry: eng/calculate__Verb__1
written_rep: calculate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: berekenen | calculeren | rekenen | uitwerken
sense_list:
To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.


lexentry: eng/calculator__Noun__1
written_rep: calculator
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rekenmachine | calculator | zakrekenmachine | rekentoestel
sense_list:
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; sometimes, an electronic one specifically.


lexentry: eng/calculus__Noun__1
written_rep: calculus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: aantal
sense_list:
(countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules. | (uncountable, often, definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject.


lexentry: eng/calculus_of_variations__Noun__1
written_rep: calculus of variations
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: variatierekening
sense_list:
(calculus) The form of calculus that deals with the maxima and minima of definite integrals of functions of many variables.


lexentry: eng/calefactory__Noun__1
written_rep: calefactory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calefactorium
sense_list:
(architecture) The room or building in a monastery holding its communal fire, kept warm and used as a sitting room.


lexentry: eng/calendar__Noun__1
written_rep: calendar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kalender
sense_list:
Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years. | A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.


lexentry: eng/calendar__Verb__1
written_rep: calendar
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vastleggen
sense_list:
(legal, transitive) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.


lexentry: eng/calendar_year__Noun__1
written_rep: calendar year
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: jaar
sense_list:
The length of time between the beginning and end of a year as marked on a calendar, such as from 0:00 January 1 to 24:00 December 31 in the Gregorian calendar.


lexentry: eng/calender__Noun__1
written_rep: calender
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kalender | kalendermachine | stofglanzer
sense_list:
Calender machine
 A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.


lexentry: eng/calf__Noun__1
written_rep: calf
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kalf | jong
sense_list:
The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).


lexentry: eng/caliber__Noun__1
written_rep: caliber
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: kaliber
sense_list:
Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined by dividing the length of the bore of the weapon, from the breech face of the tube to the muzzle, by the diameter of its bore. A gun tube the bore of which is 40 feet (480 inches) long and 12 inches in diameter is said to be 40 calibers long.


lexentry: eng/calico__Noun__1
written_rep: calico
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calicot
sense_list:
(textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.


lexentry: eng/californium__Noun__1
written_rep: californium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: californium
sense_list:
A strongly radioactive and highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cf) with an atomic number of 98.


lexentry: eng/caliphate__Noun__1
written_rep: caliphate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kalifaat
sense_list:
Monarchical government based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, ruled by a caliph.


lexentry: eng/call__Noun__1
written_rep: call
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: roep
sense_list:
A cry or shout. | A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. | (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.


lexentry: eng/call__Verb__1
written_rep: call
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bezoeken
sense_list:
To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).


lexentry: eng/call__Verb__1
written_rep: call
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: meegaan
sense_list:
(intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)


lexentry: eng/call__Verb__1
written_rep: call
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 11
trans_list: aanroepen
sense_list:
(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.


lexentry: eng/call_a_spade_a_spade__Verb__1
written_rep: call a spade a spade
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: een kat een kat noemen | de dingen bij hun naam noemen | man en paard noemen | zeggen zoals het is
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To put it bluntly, to be outspoken; to speak the truth, to say things as they really are.


lexentry: eng/call_box__Noun__1
written_rep: call box
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: praatpaal
sense_list:
A box containing a telephone for use in emergency, usually mounted on a post in an area where normal access to telephones is inconvenient (such as on an interstate highway or a very long highway bridge)


lexentry: eng/call_center__Noun__1
written_rep: call center
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: callcenter
sense_list:
(business, telephony) A communications facility where phone calls are handled; especially, a commercial one for customer service, sales and telemarketing.


lexentry: eng/call_for__Verb__1
written_rep: call for
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: aanvragen
sense_list:
To ask for in a loud voice. | (figuratively) To request, demand. | To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate


lexentry: eng/call_it_quits__Verb__1
written_rep: call it quits
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: het hierbij laten
sense_list:
To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.


lexentry: eng/call_number__Noun__1
written_rep: call number
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quotering
sense_list:
(library science) An identification number, usually consisting of a combination of numbers and characters, used to identify and locate materials within a library; the shelfmark that conveys it.


lexentry: eng/call_to_arms__Noun__1
written_rep: call to arms
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: wapenkreet
sense_list:
(figurative) An appeal to undertake a particular course of action or to support a specific cause; a call to action.


lexentry: eng/call_to_prayer__Noun__1
written_rep: call to prayer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gebedsoproep
sense_list:
A public proclamation made five times a day in Muslim societies, broadcast from the mosques, to mark out the ordained occasions for worship.


lexentry: eng/call_tree__Noun__1
written_rep: call tree
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: telefoonboom
sense_list:
A hierarchy or tree of people (employees, students etc.) in which each person forwards a message to the next person down the line. The tree is arranged so that a single person can easily forward messages to all people.


lexentry: eng/calling_card__Noun__1
written_rep: calling card
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: signatuur
sense_list:
(figurative) An attribute, symptom, object, or behavior which is distinctly characteristic of someone or something. | (euphemistic) Excrement, especially of a domestic animal.


lexentry: eng/calliope__Noun__1
written_rep: calliope
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: draaiorgel | pirement
sense_list:
A musical organ, consisting of steam whistles played with a keyboard. Often used with merry-go-rounds.


lexentry: eng/callow__Adjective__1
written_rep: callow
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: groen | onervaren | onrijp
sense_list:
(figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.


lexentry: eng/callus__Noun__1
written_rep: callus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: eelt
sense_list:
A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use. | The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.


lexentry: eng/calm__Noun__1
written_rep: calm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sereniteit
sense_list:
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.


lexentry: eng/calm_before_the_storm__Noun__1
written_rep: calm before the storm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stilte voor de storm
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A period of peace before a disturbance or crisis; an unnatural or false calm before a storm.


lexentry: eng/calorie__Noun__1
written_rep: calorie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calorie
sense_list:
(nutrition) A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling. | (physical chemistry, physics) A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.


lexentry: eng/calorimeter__Noun__1
written_rep: calorimeter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caloriemeter
sense_list:
(physics) An apparatus for measuring the heat generated or absorbed by either a chemical reaction, change of phase or some other physical change.


lexentry: eng/calque__Noun__1
written_rep: calque
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: leenvertaling
sense_list:
(linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.


lexentry: eng/caltrop__Noun__1
written_rep: caltrop
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kraaienpoot | voetangel
sense_list:
(weaponry) A metal object, usually small, with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles (also used as a heraldic charge).


lexentry: eng/calumny__Noun__1
written_rep: calumny
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: laster
sense_list:
(countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing. | (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.


lexentry: eng/calumny__Verb__1
written_rep: calumny
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: belasteren
sense_list:
(transitive, formal) To make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing; to calumniate.


lexentry: eng/calve__Verb__1
written_rep: calve
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: afkalven
sense_list:
(transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) To shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg).


lexentry: eng/calyptra__Noun__1
written_rep: calyptra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calyptra
sense_list:
(botany) In bryophytes, a thin hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens.


lexentry: eng/calyx__Noun__1
written_rep: calyx
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kelk
sense_list:
(botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.


lexentry: eng/cam__Noun__1
written_rep: cam
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nok
sense_list:
A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. | (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.


lexentry: eng/camber__Noun__1
written_rep: camber
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tonrondte
sense_list:
A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.


lexentry: eng/cambium__Noun__1
written_rep: cambium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cambium
sense_list:
(botany) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.


lexentry: eng/camcorder__Noun__1
written_rep: camcorder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: camcorder | videocamera
sense_list:
A camera recorder: a portable electronic device for recording images and audio on to a storage device, hence functioning as a camera and a recorder in a single unit.


lexentry: eng/came__Noun__1
written_rep: came
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lood
sense_list:
A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.


lexentry: eng/camel_driver__Noun__1
written_rep: camel driver
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kameeldrijver | kameeldrijfster
sense_list:
One whose occupation is to direct, handle and care for camels, especially as a part of a caravan travelling long distances.


lexentry: eng/camel_spider__Noun__1
written_rep: camel spider
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rolspin | bastaardspin
sense_list:
Any fast-moving, predatory desert arachnid belonging to the order Solifugae having massive paired chelicerae and a long body covered with tactile hairs.


lexentry: eng/camera__Noun__1
written_rep: camera
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fototoestel | camera | fotoapparaat
sense_list:
(photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs. | (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.


lexentry: eng/camomile__Noun__1
written_rep: camomile
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kamille
sense_list:
Matricaria recutita (formerly known as Matricaria chamomilla), German chamomile or Hungarian chamomile, with fragrant flowers used for tea, and as an herbal remedy.


lexentry: eng/camomile_tea__Noun__1
written_rep: camomile tea
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kamillethee
sense_list:
A beverage made by infusing the leaves of the camomile plant (either Matricaria recutita or Chamaemelum nobile) in hot water.


lexentry: eng/camouflage__Noun__1
written_rep: camouflage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: camouflage
sense_list:
(military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.


lexentry: eng/camp__Verb__1
written_rep: camp
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: kamperen
sense_list:
(intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.


lexentry: eng/campfire__Noun__1
written_rep: campfire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kampvuur
sense_list:
A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.


lexentry: eng/camphor__Noun__1
written_rep: camphor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kamfer
sense_list:
(organic compound) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy, also known as laurel camphor or common/ordinary camphor.


lexentry: eng/camphor_tree__Noun__1
written_rep: camphor tree
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kamferboom
sense_list:
An aromatic, glossy-leaved evergreen tree native to eastern Asia (Cinnamomum camphora, Camphora officinarum) grown as a shade tree as well as for timber and camphor.


lexentry: eng/camping__Noun__1
written_rep: camping
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: camping
sense_list:
(uncountable) The recreational or educational activity of temporarily living in a tent or similar accommodation.


lexentry: eng/campus__Noun__1
written_rep: campus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: campus
sense_list:
The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.


lexentry: eng/can__Verb__1
written_rep: can
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: kunnen
sense_list:
(Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.


lexentry: eng/can_of_worms__Noun__1
written_rep: can of worms
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: meloen
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A complex, troublesome situation arising when a decision or action produces considerable subsequent problems.


lexentry: eng/canary_in_a_coal_mine__Noun__1
written_rep: canary in a coal mine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aankondigend
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Something whose sensitivity to adverse conditions makes it a useful early indicator of such conditions; something which warns of the coming of a greater danger or trouble by a deterioration in its health or welfare.


lexentry: eng/cancel__Verb__1
written_rep: cancel
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: schrappen
sense_list:
(transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.


lexentry: eng/cancel_culture__Noun__1
written_rep: cancel culture
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cancelcultuur
sense_list:
(neologism, often, derogatory) The cultural phenomenon of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people, companies, stores, etc. that are deemed unacceptable, and calling on others to boycott them.


lexentry: eng/cancellation__Noun__1
written_rep: cancellation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afgelasting | intrekken
sense_list:
The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.


lexentry: eng/cancer__Noun__1
written_rep: cancer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kanker
sense_list:
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.


lexentry: eng/candareen__Noun__1
written_rep: candareen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: minuut
sense_list:
A traditional unit of weight in East Asia, approximately 378 milligrams and equivalent to ten cash. A troy candareen is approximately 374 milligrams.


lexentry: eng/candela__Noun__1
written_rep: candela
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: candela
sense_list:
In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. Symbol: cd


lexentry: eng/candid_camera__Noun__1
written_rep: candid camera
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: verborgen camera
sense_list:
(photography) A camera which is concealed or unobtrusive, used to obtain candid photographs of people who usually are unaware; the practice of taking such photos.


lexentry: eng/candle__Noun__1
written_rep: candle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaars
sense_list:
A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.


lexentry: eng/candy_cane__Noun__1
written_rep: candy cane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zuurstok
sense_list:
(US, Canada) An edible candy in the shape of a cane or staff, generally consumed during Christmas time and usually having a peppermint flavor.


lexentry: eng/cane__Noun__1
written_rep: cane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: riet | rietstok
sense_list:
(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae


lexentry: eng/cane__Noun__1
written_rep: cane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: blindenstok
sense_list:
(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path


lexentry: eng/canid__Noun__1
written_rep: canid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hondachtige
sense_list:
Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).


lexentry: eng/canker__Noun__1
written_rep: canker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: geel | steen
sense_list:
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.


lexentry: eng/cankle__Noun__1
written_rep: cankle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kenkel
sense_list:
(originally, _, slang, usually, _, pejorative) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation. [from 2000s]


lexentry: eng/cannibal__Noun__1
written_rep: cannibal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kannibaal
sense_list:
An organism which eats others of its own or similar species or kind, especially a human or other human-like creature such as a zombie who consumes human flesh.


lexentry: eng/cannon__Noun__1
written_rep: cannon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: kanon
sense_list:
(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece. | (Chinese chess) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.


lexentry: eng/cannonball__Noun__1
written_rep: cannonball
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bommetje
sense_list:
(diving) The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.


lexentry: eng/cannoneer__Noun__1
written_rep: cannoneer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: busschieter | kanonnier
sense_list:
(military unit) An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.


lexentry: eng/canoe__Noun__1
written_rep: canoe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kano | korjaal
sense_list:
(watercraft) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.


lexentry: eng/canola__Noun__1
written_rep: canola
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: raapzaad
sense_list:
Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.


lexentry: eng/canola_oil__Noun__1
written_rep: canola oil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: canolaolie | koolzaadolie
sense_list:
(US, Canada, Australia) vegetable oil pressed from canola seeds, used in cooking or as basis for biodiesel.


lexentry: eng/canon__Noun__1
written_rep: canon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: canon
sense_list:
A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field. | A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon. | A religious law or body of law decreed by the church. | A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.


lexentry: eng/canonization__Noun__1
written_rep: canonization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: heiligverklaring
sense_list:
(Christianity) The final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. | The state of being canonized or sainted.


lexentry: eng/canonize__Verb__1
written_rep: canonize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: heilig verklaren
sense_list:
(chiefly, Roman Catholicism) To declare (a deceased person) as a saint, and enter them into the canon of saints.


lexentry: eng/canoodle__Verb__1
written_rep: canoodle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: aaien
sense_list:
(intransitive) Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person; of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have sexual intercourse; to make love.


lexentry: eng/cant__Noun__1
written_rep: cant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: Bargoens | boeventaal
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.


lexentry: eng/cant__Noun__1
written_rep: cant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: sprekend wapen
sense_list:
(countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.


lexentry: eng/cantaloupe__Noun__1
written_rep: cantaloupe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kanteloep | kantaloep
sense_list:
Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:


lexentry: eng/cantata__Noun__1
written_rep: cantata
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cantate
sense_list:
(music) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.


lexentry: eng/canteen__Noun__1
written_rep: canteen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kantine | cafetaria
sense_list:
A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.


lexentry: eng/canteen__Noun__1
written_rep: canteen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: veldfles
sense_list:
A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.


lexentry: eng/canter__Noun__1
written_rep: canter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arbeidsgalop | galop
sense_list:
A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.


lexentry: eng/cantilever__Noun__1
written_rep: cantilever
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: overhang
sense_list:
(architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.


lexentry: eng/canton__Noun__1
written_rep: canton
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kanton
sense_list:
A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc. | A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.


lexentry: eng/canton__Noun__1
written_rep: canton
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: vrijkwartier | kanton
sense_list:
A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).


lexentry: eng/canvas__Noun__1
written_rep: canvas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: canvas
sense_list:
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.


lexentry: eng/canvass__Verb__1
written_rep: canvass
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: soliciteren | stemmen werven
sense_list:
(specifically, politics) To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.


lexentry: eng/cap_gun__Noun__1
written_rep: cap gun
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klapperpistool
sense_list:
A toy gun that uses small charges of shock-sensitive explosive compounds to simulate the sound and puff of smoke of a gunshot.


lexentry: eng/cap_pistol__Noun__1
written_rep: cap pistol
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klapperpistool
sense_list:
A toy pistol that uses small charges of shock-sensitive explosive compounds to simulate the sound and puff of smoke of a gunshot.


lexentry: eng/capable__Adjective__1
written_rep: capable
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bekwaam
sense_list:
Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.


lexentry: eng/capacitance__Noun__1
written_rep: capacitance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: elektrische capaciteit
sense_list:
(physics, uncountable) The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F).


lexentry: eng/capacitor__Noun__1
written_rep: capacitor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: condensator
sense_list:
(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.


lexentry: eng/cape__Noun__1
written_rep: cape
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaap
sense_list:
(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.


lexentry: eng/caper__Noun__3
written_rep: caper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kappertje
sense_list:
The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.


lexentry: eng/capercaillie__Noun__1
written_rep: capercaillie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: auerhoen
sense_list:
A large, black grouse of the genus Tetrao in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.


lexentry: eng/capillarity__Noun__1
written_rep: capillarity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capillariteit
sense_list:
The interaction between the surfaces of a solid and liquid in contact that distorts the normal geometry of the liquid surface; especially the rise or fall of a liquid in a fine tube.


lexentry: eng/capillary__Noun__1
written_rep: capillary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: haarvat | capillair
sense_list:
(anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).


lexentry: eng/capillary_action__Noun__1
written_rep: capillary action
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capillariteit
sense_list:
(physics) The drawing of a liquid (often against gravity) into or up narrow interstices due to surface tension


lexentry: eng/capisce__Interjection__1
written_rep: capisce
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: begrepen? | gesnopen? | snappie?
sense_list:
(sometimes, offensive) Used by a speaker to confirm that the listener has understood something said to the latter: did you hear me?, get it?, understood?


lexentry: eng/capital__Noun__1
written_rep: capital
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kapitaal
sense_list:
(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.


lexentry: eng/capital_city__Noun__1
written_rep: capital city
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: hoofdstad
sense_list:
A city (or cities) much larger or more important to a country than all others, regardless of the actual seat of government (cf., Moscow and Saint Petersburg regardless of moves of the Russian government; Amsterdam despite the Dutch government having been situated in The Hague since 1588).


lexentry: eng/capital_loss__Noun__1
written_rep: capital loss
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: waardevermindering
sense_list:
(economics, business, finance) A decrease in the value of a capital asset; an amount by which the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner are less than its cost to the owner.


lexentry: eng/capitalisation__Noun__1
written_rep: capitalisation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kapitaalvorming
sense_list:
(in particular) The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters. | Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase. | The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it). | The state of being capitalised.


lexentry: eng/capitalism__Noun__1
written_rep: capitalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kapitalisme
sense_list:
(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.


lexentry: eng/capitalize__Verb__1
written_rep: capitalize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kapitaliseren
sense_list:
(transitive) In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case. | (transitive, finance) To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.


lexentry: eng/capitulate__Verb__1
written_rep: capitulate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capituleren | overgeven
sense_list:
(intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. [from the end of the 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/capitulation__Noun__1
written_rep: capitulation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: capitulatie | overgave
sense_list:
The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.


lexentry: eng/capoeira__Noun__1
written_rep: capoeira
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capoeira
sense_list:
(uncountable) A martial art developed in Brazil, involving complex acrobatic maneuvers and flowing movements.


lexentry: eng/capotasto__Noun__1
written_rep: capotasto
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capodastro
sense_list:
(music) A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering


lexentry: eng/cappuccino__Noun__1
written_rep: cappuccino
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cappuccino
sense_list:
(uncountable) An Italian coffee-based beverage made from espresso to which milk that has been steamed and/or frothed is added; (countable) a cup of this beverage.


lexentry: eng/capric_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: capric acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caprinezuur
sense_list:
(fatty acid) A fatty acid, CH3(CH2)8COOH, obtained from animal fats, and used in the manufacture of perfumes and flavours.


lexentry: eng/caprolactam__Noun__1
written_rep: caprolactam
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caprolactam
sense_list:
(organic compound) A lactam (cyclic amide) manufactured from cyclohexanone and used in the manufacture of nylon.


lexentry: eng/caprylic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: caprylic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caprylzuur
sense_list:
(fatty acid) A fatty acid, CH3(CH2)6COOH, obtained from butter and other animal fats, and used in the manufacture of perfumes and flavours.


lexentry: eng/capsaicin__Noun__1
written_rep: capsaicin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capsaïcine
sense_list:
(organic compound) A chemical compound found in chilli peppers, which is responsible for their piquancy.


lexentry: eng/capsicum__Noun__1
written_rep: capsicum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capsicum
sense_list:
Any of various tropical American plants, of the genus Capsicum, principally the species Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens, that are cultivated as edible peppers.


lexentry: eng/capstan__Noun__1
written_rep: capstan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaapstander
sense_list:
(especially, nautical) A vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, typically surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for levers for turning it; used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.


lexentry: eng/capstan__Noun__1
written_rep: capstan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: toonas
sense_list:
(electronics) A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.


lexentry: eng/capsule__Noun__1
written_rep: capsule
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capsule
sense_list:
(physiology) A membranous envelope. | (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton. | (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space. | (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.


lexentry: eng/captain__Noun__1
written_rep: captain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kapitein | gezagvoerder
sense_list:
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel. | A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.


lexentry: eng/captain__Noun__1
written_rep: captain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: aanvoerder | kapitein
sense_list:
One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.


lexentry: eng/caption__Noun__1
written_rep: caption
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: hoofd | hoofding | kop | legende | ondertitel | opschrift
sense_list:
(cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.


lexentry: eng/caption__Noun__1
written_rep: caption
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: certificaat | certificatie
sense_list:
(legal) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.


lexentry: eng/captious__Adjective__1
written_rep: captious
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: misleidend | sofistisch
sense_list:
(obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.


lexentry: eng/captivate__Verb__1
written_rep: captivate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: boeien | bekoren | fascineren
sense_list:
(figuratively) To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain.


lexentry: eng/captive__Noun__1
written_rep: captive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gevangene
sense_list:
One who has been captured or is otherwise confined. | One held prisoner. | A captive insurance company, a subsidiary of a company used as its internal insurer.


lexentry: eng/capture__Verb__1
written_rep: capture
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: slaan
sense_list:
(transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).


lexentry: eng/car__Noun__1
written_rep: car
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: auto | wagen | automobiel
sense_list:
A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.


lexentry: eng/car_bomb__Noun__1
written_rep: car bomb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bomauto | autobom
sense_list:
An automobile laden with a large amount of explosives, and used as a bomb primarily in order to cause external damage. | An alcoholic beverage made by dropping a shot of liquor into a glass of beer.


lexentry: eng/car_bomb__Noun__1
written_rep: car bomb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: autobom
sense_list:
An explosive device installed in an automobile with the primary purpose of killing the occupants of the car.


lexentry: eng/car_radio__Noun__1
written_rep: car radio
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: autoradio
sense_list:
A radio receiver fitted in a car, typically on or just below the dashboard, sometimes with specific features for use while driving, such as traffic alert interrupts and alternative frequency functions (switching frequencies as one moves in and out of range of transmitters). | An on-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.


lexentry: eng/car_wash__Noun__1
written_rep: car wash
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: wasstraat | autowasstraat
sense_list:
A place at which a car is washed, usually for a fee and often mechanically by driving the car through a tunnel.


lexentry: eng/carabiner__Noun__1
written_rep: carabiner
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karabijnhaak
sense_list:
A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.


lexentry: eng/caracal__Noun__1
written_rep: caracal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caracal
sense_list:
A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.


lexentry: eng/carapace__Noun__1
written_rep: carapace
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carapax | schild
sense_list:
A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.


lexentry: eng/carat__Noun__1
written_rep: carat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karaat
sense_list:
A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls. | (historical) Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg. | A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.


lexentry: eng/caravan__Noun__1
written_rep: caravan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karavaan
sense_list:
A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.


lexentry: eng/caravanserai__Noun__1
written_rep: caravanserai
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karavanserai
sense_list:
(chiefly, historical) A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans (see sense 3) can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along trade routes in Asia and North Africa.


lexentry: eng/caravel__Noun__1
written_rep: caravel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karveel
sense_list:
(nautical, historical) A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.


lexentry: eng/carbon__Noun__1
written_rep: carbon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koolstof
sense_list:
(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.


lexentry: eng/carbon_black__Noun__1
written_rep: carbon black
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koolzwart
sense_list:
(petrochemistry) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber and rubber-like polymers, it helps prevent deterioration by ultraviolet rays.


lexentry: eng/carbon_budget__Noun__1
written_rep: carbon budget
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koolstofbudget
sense_list:
(climatology) The maximum cumulative amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions compatible with a given global-warming target (e.g., 1.5 °C), for a stated probability and from a stated baseline date.


lexentry: eng/carbon_cycle__Noun__1
written_rep: carbon cycle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koolstofkringloop
sense_list:
The physical cycle of carbon through the Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere that includes such processes as photosynthesis, decomposition, respiration and carbonification.


lexentry: eng/carbon_dioxide__Noun__1
written_rep: carbon dioxide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kooldioxide
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) The normal oxide of carbon, CO₂; a colorless, odorless gas formed during respiration and combustion and consumed by plants during photosynthesis.


lexentry: eng/carbon_tax__Noun__1
written_rep: carbon tax
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: CO2-belasting
sense_list:
A tax levied on the carbon contents used by the burning fossil fuels, so as to discourage the production of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.


lexentry: eng/carbonado__Noun__2
written_rep: carbonado
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carbonado
sense_list:
(mineral) A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling.


lexentry: eng/carbonated__Adjective__1
written_rep: carbonated
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bruisend
sense_list:
Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral water or man-made drinks.


lexentry: eng/carbonated_water__Noun__1
written_rep: carbonated water
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bruiswater
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Water that contains carbon dioxide dissolved in it under pressure and is intended for drinking.


lexentry: eng/carbonic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: carbonic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koolzuur | diwaterstofcarbonaat
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) A weak unstable acid, H2CO3, known only in solution, and as carbonate salts; it is present in carbonated drinks, and sparkling wine, but decomposes to form carbon dioxide and water.


lexentry: eng/carboxyl__Noun__1
written_rep: carboxyl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carboxygroep
sense_list:
(organic chemistry) A univalent functional group consisting of a carbonyl and a hydroxyl functional group (-CO.OH); characteristic of carboxylic acids.


lexentry: eng/carbuncle__Noun__1
written_rep: carbuncle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karbonkel
sense_list:
(archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon. | (pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.


lexentry: eng/carburetor__Noun__1
written_rep: carburetor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carburateur | carburator
sense_list:
(US, Canada) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition. [from 1890s]


lexentry: eng/carcinoma__Noun__1
written_rep: carcinoma
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carcinoom
sense_list:
(countable) An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.


lexentry: eng/card__Noun__2
written_rep: card
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kaardplank | kaarde | kaardrol | wolkam
sense_list:
(textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.


lexentry: eng/cardamom__Noun__1
written_rep: cardamom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kardemom
sense_list:
An herb, native to India (Elettaria cardamomum. | (uncommon, inexact) , seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, of East Africa.


lexentry: eng/cardboard_box__Noun__1
written_rep: cardboard box
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kartonnen doos
sense_list:
An industrially prefabricated box made from cardboard, primarily used for packaging goods or materials and often recycled. | A corrugated box. | (Cockney rhyming slang) Syphilis. | (slang, derogatory, uncommon) Someone who is very dull and uninteresting.


lexentry: eng/cardiac__Adjective__1
written_rep: cardiac
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hart
sense_list:
(biology, medicine) Pertaining to the heart. | (biology, medicine) Pertaining to the cardia of the stomach; cardial (cardial is the usual adjective in this sense).


lexentry: eng/cardiac_arrest__Noun__1
written_rep: cardiac arrest
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hartstilstand
sense_list:
(cardiology, pathology) The sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective circulation of the blood.


lexentry: eng/cardigan__Noun__1
written_rep: cardigan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cardigan
sense_list:
A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool.


lexentry: eng/cardinal__Adjective__1
written_rep: cardinal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kardinaal
sense_list:
Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal. | (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west). | Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.


lexentry: eng/cardinal__Noun__1
written_rep: cardinal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kardinaal
sense_list:
(Roman Catholic) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope, equal to the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. | Any of various species of New-World passerine songbird in the genus Cardinalis, or in the family Cardinalidae more generally, or of similar appearance and once considered to be related to the former; so called because of their red plumage. (See Wikipedia article for taxonomical information.)


lexentry: eng/cardinal__Noun__1
written_rep: cardinal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kardinaalrood
sense_list:
A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)


lexentry: eng/cardinal__Noun__1
written_rep: cardinal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: hoofdtelwoord
sense_list:
(math) Ellipsis of cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)


lexentry: eng/cardinal_number__Noun__1
written_rep: cardinal number
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hoofdtelwoord
sense_list:
A number used to denote quantity; a counting number; a cardinal. | (mathematics) A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets.


lexentry: eng/cardinal_tetra__Noun__1
written_rep: cardinal tetra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kardinaaltetra
sense_list:
A freshwater fish (Paracheirodon axelrodi, family Characidae), native to rivers in South America, popular as an aquarium fish.


lexentry: eng/cardioid__Noun__1
written_rep: cardioid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cardioïde
sense_list:
(geometry) An epicycloid with exactly one cusp; the plane curve with polar equation \rho = 1 + \cos\,\theta - approximately heart-shaped


lexentry: eng/cardiopulmonary_resuscitation__Noun__1
written_rep: cardiopulmonary resuscitation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cardiopulmonale resuscitatie
sense_list:
A first aid procedure for cardiac arrest involving compression of the chest wall alternating with artificial respiration.


lexentry: eng/cardoon__Noun__1
written_rep: cardoon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kardoen
sense_list:
Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.


lexentry: eng/care__Verb__1
written_rep: care
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geven (om)
sense_list:
(transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).


lexentry: eng/care_for__Verb__1
written_rep: care for
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: behandelen
sense_list:
(transitive, chiefly in the negative) To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable.


lexentry: eng/careen__Verb__1
written_rep: careen
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: krengen
sense_list:
(nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. | (nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.


lexentry: eng/career__Noun__1
written_rep: career
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: loopbaan | carrière
sense_list:
One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously and/or over a long period of time.


lexentry: eng/careless__Adjective__1
written_rep: careless
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: nalatig | achteloos | onachtzaam | onbedachtzaam | onvoorzichtig
sense_list:
Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. [from 16thc.]


lexentry: eng/carer__Noun__1
written_rep: carer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: verzorger
sense_list:
(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.


lexentry: eng/caress__Noun__1
written_rep: caress
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: strelen
sense_list:
An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. [from 1640s] | A gentle stroking or rubbing.


lexentry: eng/caretaker__Noun__1
written_rep: caretaker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: voogd
sense_list:
Someone who takes care of a place or thing; someone looking after a place, or responsible for keeping it in good repair.


lexentry: eng/caretaker_government__Noun__1
written_rep: caretaker government
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: regering van lopende zaken
sense_list:
(politics) A government that rules temporarily, for example after a no-confidence motion in a parliamentary system.


lexentry: eng/cargo_bike__Noun__1
written_rep: cargo bike
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bakfiets | transportfiets
sense_list:
A bicycle designed for carrying large or heavy loads; by extension, any other pedal cycle such as a tricycle or quadricycle designed in this way.


lexentry: eng/cargo_hold__Noun__1
written_rep: cargo hold
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ruim | scheepsruim
sense_list:
(nautical) A hold on a ship (including the forehold and stern hold), used to store cargo during a voyage.


lexentry: eng/carillon__Noun__1
written_rep: carillon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carillon | klokkenspel | beiaard
sense_list:
(musical instrument) A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries.


lexentry: eng/carminative__Adjective__1
written_rep: carminative
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: windafdrijvend
sense_list:
(medicine) Relieving the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).


lexentry: eng/carnassial__Noun__1
written_rep: carnassial
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: roofziek
sense_list:
One of the teeth used by a carnivore for shearing flesh, being the last upper premolar and the first lower molar.


lexentry: eng/carnation__Noun__1
written_rep: carnation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: anjer | anjelier
sense_list:
The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.


lexentry: eng/carnauba__Noun__1
written_rep: carnauba
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carnaubawas
sense_list:
A Brazilian palm tree having waxy, fan-shaped leaves and toothed leafstalks, Copernicia prunifera. | (uncountable) The hard wax obtained from the leaves of this plant and used especially in polishes.


lexentry: eng/carnet__Noun__1
written_rep: carnet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: abonnement
sense_list:
A ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets.


lexentry: eng/carnival__Noun__1
written_rep: carnival
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carnaval
sense_list:
Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent. | A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.


lexentry: eng/carnivore__Noun__1
written_rep: carnivore
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vleeseter | carnivoor
sense_list:
An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.


lexentry: eng/carny__Noun__1
written_rep: carny
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kermisklant
sense_list:
(informal, countable) A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).


lexentry: eng/carnyx__Noun__1
written_rep: carnyx
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carnyx
sense_list:
(brass instrument, historical) A bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts (c. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) as a type of battle trumpet; held vertically when played, it was shaped like an elongated S with a mouthpiece at the lower end and a bell (often resembling an animal with an open mouth) at the upper end.


lexentry: eng/carotene__Noun__1
written_rep: carotene
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caroteen
sense_list:
(organic chemistry) A class of tetraterpene plant pigments; they vary in colour from yellow, through orange to red, this colour originating in a chain of alternating single and double bonds.


lexentry: eng/carotid__Noun__1
written_rep: carotid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: halsslagader
sense_list:
(anatomy) Either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head.


lexentry: eng/carp__Noun__1
written_rep: carp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karper
sense_list:
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; specifically the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.


lexentry: eng/carpal_tunnel__Noun__1
written_rep: carpal tunnel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Carpaletunnel
sense_list:
(countable, anatomy) A fibro-osseous passageway on the palmar side of the wrist that connects the distal forearm to the middle compartment of the deep plane of the palm.


lexentry: eng/carpal_tunnel_syndrome__Noun__1
written_rep: carpal tunnel syndrome
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Carpaletunnelsyndroom
sense_list:
(neurology) form of repetitive strain injury caused by compression of the median nerve travelling through the carpal tunnel.


lexentry: eng/carpel__Noun__1
written_rep: carpel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vruchtblad
sense_list:
(botany) A constituent part of a flower pistil: the female reproductive organs in a flower. A carpel is composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style. In origin, carpels are leaves (megasporophylls) that have evolved to enclose the ovules. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.


lexentry: eng/carpenter's_pencil__Noun__1
written_rep: carpenter's pencil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: timmermanspotlood
sense_list:
(woodworking, carpentry) A pencil specifically designed for the requirements of a carpenter: oval shape makes it less likely to roll away, and thick graphite facilitates drawing on rough surfaces.


lexentry: eng/carpenter__Noun__1
written_rep: carpenter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: timmerman | timmervrouw | timmeraar
sense_list:
A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures. | (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water. | (zoology) A carpenter bee.


lexentry: eng/carpet_beater__Noun__1
written_rep: carpet beater
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mattenklopper
sense_list:
A tool for beating dust out of carpets, cushions, etc., used in housecleaning before the invention of the vacuum cleaner.


lexentry: eng/carpet_bombing__Noun__1
written_rep: carpet bombing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tapijtbombardement
sense_list:
Large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.


lexentry: eng/carpool__Noun__1
written_rep: carpool
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carpool
sense_list:
An arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car in order to save costs, reduce pollution etc. | The group of people who participate in such a pool.


lexentry: eng/carport__Noun__1
written_rep: carport
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afdak
sense_list:
A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors. [from 1936]


lexentry: eng/carrack__Noun__1
written_rep: carrack
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kraak
sense_list:
(historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.


lexentry: eng/carriage__Noun__1
written_rep: carriage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: koets
sense_list:
A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.


lexentry: eng/carrier__Noun__1
written_rep: carrier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: drager
sense_list:
A person or object that carries someone or something else. | (genetics, pathology) A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.


lexentry: eng/carrier_bag__Noun__1
written_rep: carrier bag
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: draagtas
sense_list:
(UK) A bag made of thin polythene or paper, generally used for carrying groceries or other purchased items.


lexentry: eng/carrier_pigeon__Noun__1
written_rep: carrier pigeon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: postduif
sense_list:
A domestic pigeon which transports attached messages or very small parcels from the place where it is released to a familiar destination.


lexentry: eng/carrier_wave__Noun__1
written_rep: carrier wave
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: draaggolf
sense_list:
(physics) A wave that can be modulated, either in amplitude, frequency, or phase, to carry or transmit images, music, speech, or other signals.


lexentry: eng/carrot__Noun__1
written_rep: carrot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wortel | peen
sense_list:
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.


lexentry: eng/carry-on__Noun__1
written_rep: carry-on
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: handbagage
sense_list:
That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.


lexentry: eng/carry__Verb__1
written_rep: carry
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: onthouden | overdragen | overnemen
sense_list:
(transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.


lexentry: eng/carry_on__Verb__2
written_rep: carry on
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aandrijven
sense_list:
(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.


lexentry: eng/carry_oneself__Verb__1
written_rep: carry oneself
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hangen
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To move, especially emphasizing the manner in which one moves. | (idiomatic) To behave, especially with respect to how one's speech, body language, facial expressions, and grooming convey one's opinion concerning oneself.


lexentry: eng/carrying_basket__Noun__1
written_rep: carrying basket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rugmand
sense_list:
A basket fitted with a strap or straps to allow it to be carried on the back with the carrier's arms free.


lexentry: eng/cart__Noun__1
written_rep: cart
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kar | wagen
sense_list:
A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.


lexentry: eng/cartel__Noun__1
written_rep: cartel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kartel
sense_list:
(economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market. | (historical, politics) A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.


lexentry: eng/cartilage__Noun__1
written_rep: cartilage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kraakbeen
sense_list:
(skeleton, uncountable) A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates.


lexentry: eng/cartilaginous_fish__Noun__1
written_rep: cartilaginous fish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kraakbeenvis
sense_list:
Any member of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton made of cartilage rather than bone. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fishes.


lexentry: eng/cartography__Noun__1
written_rep: cartography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cartografie
sense_list:
(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/carton__Noun__1
written_rep: carton
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karton
sense_list:
An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.


lexentry: eng/cartouche__Noun__1
written_rep: cartouche
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cartouche
sense_list:
(architectural element) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield. | (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.


lexentry: eng/cartridge__Noun__1
written_rep: cartridge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: patroon
sense_list:
(firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.


lexentry: eng/cartridge__Noun__1
written_rep: cartridge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: patroon | inktpatroon
sense_list:
(computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.


lexentry: eng/cartwheel__Noun__1
written_rep: cartwheel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: radslag
sense_list:
A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.


lexentry: eng/carve__Verb__1
written_rep: carve
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: snijden
sense_list:
To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices. | To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.


lexentry: eng/caryatid__Noun__1
written_rep: caryatid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kariatide
sense_list:
A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.


lexentry: eng/caryopsis__Noun__1
written_rep: caryopsis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: graanvrucht
sense_list:
(botany) A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.


lexentry: eng/cascabel__Noun__1
written_rep: cascabel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ratelslang
sense_list:
A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, which rattles when dry. | A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gun breech, to which a heavy rope is attached in order to control recoil.


lexentry: eng/case__Noun__1
written_rep: case
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: geval | zaak
sense_list:
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event. | (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.


lexentry: eng/case__Noun__2
written_rep: case
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: uitstalraam | vitrine
sense_list:
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.


lexentry: eng/case__Noun__2
written_rep: case
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: kast
sense_list:
(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.


lexentry: eng/case_law__Noun__1
written_rep: case law
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rechtspraak | jurisprudentie | rechtersrecht
sense_list:
Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation.


lexentry: eng/case_sensitive__Adjective__1
written_rep: case sensitive
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hoofdlettergevoelig
sense_list:
(computer science) Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.


lexentry: eng/casemate__Noun__1
written_rep: casemate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kazemat
sense_list:
(military) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.


lexentry: eng/cash_cow__Noun__1
written_rep: cash cow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: melkkoe
sense_list:
(business) A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows. | (by extension) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money.


lexentry: eng/cash_crop__Noun__1
written_rep: cash crop
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: exportgewas | handelsgewas | uitvoergewas
sense_list:
(agriculture) A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.


lexentry: eng/cash_desk__Noun__1
written_rep: cash desk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kassa
sense_list:
A place in a restaurant, bar, or shop etc, typically containing a cash register, where a customer can pay the bill.


lexentry: eng/cash_in__Verb__1
written_rep: cash in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: profiteren
sense_list:
(figurative, often, followed by on) To profit from something; to take advantage of an opportunity in order to profit, especially financially; to capitalize on.


lexentry: eng/cash_register__Noun__1
written_rep: cash register
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kassa
sense_list:
A machine that tabulates the amount of sales transactions, makes a permanent and cumulative record of them, and has a drawer in which cash can be kept.


lexentry: eng/cashew__Noun__1
written_rep: cashew
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cashew | cachou | kasjoe
sense_list:
A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.


lexentry: eng/cashmere__Noun__1
written_rep: cashmere
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kasjmier
sense_list:
(mostly, uncountable) Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat. | (mostly, uncountable) A soft fabric made of this wool.


lexentry: eng/cask__Noun__1
written_rep: cask
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ton | vat
sense_list:
A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)


lexentry: eng/casserole__Noun__1
written_rep: casserole
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ovenschotel
sense_list:
(countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served. | Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.


lexentry: eng/cassette__Noun__1
written_rep: cassette
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cassette
sense_list:
A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material. | (cycling) A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.


lexentry: eng/cassock__Noun__1
written_rep: cassock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kazuifel
sense_list:
An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/cassowary__Noun__1
written_rep: cassowary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kasuaris
sense_list:
Any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous.


lexentry: eng/cast__Noun__1
written_rep: cast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: bezetting | cast | rolbezetting | rolverdeling
sense_list:
(art) The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.


lexentry: eng/cast__Verb__1
written_rep: cast
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: gieten
sense_list:
To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/cast__Verb__1
written_rep: cast
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: casten | omzetten | uitgooien
sense_list:
(nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/cast_off__Verb__1
written_rep: cast off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: trossen los
sense_list:
(ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.


lexentry: eng/cast_off__Verb__1
written_rep: cast off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: afkanten
sense_list:
(intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.


lexentry: eng/cast_out_nines__Verb__1
written_rep: cast out nines
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: negenproef
sense_list:
(arithmetic) To apply a procedure for verifying whether an arithmetic operation is probably correct or certainly incorrect using modulo characteristics of the digit 9.


lexentry: eng/castanet__Noun__1
written_rep: castanet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: castagnet | castagnetten
sense_list:
(musical instruments, chiefly, in the plural) A single handheld percussion instrument consisting of a pair of concave shells or shell-shaped parts joined on one edge by string.


lexentry: eng/caste__Noun__1
written_rep: caste
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaste
sense_list:
Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.


lexentry: eng/castellan__Noun__1
written_rep: castellan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kastelein
sense_list:
(chiefly, _, historical) The governor or caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle or keep for its lord.


lexentry: eng/caster__Noun__1
written_rep: caster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: wiel
sense_list:
(automotive) The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.


lexentry: eng/castigate__Verb__1
written_rep: castigate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bekritiseren
sense_list:
(transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely. | (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.


lexentry: eng/casting__Noun__1
written_rep: casting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: auditie
sense_list:
The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc. | (hunting) Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.


lexentry: eng/castle__Noun__1
written_rep: castle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kasteel | slot | burcht | fort
sense_list:
A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.


lexentry: eng/castle__Verb__1
written_rep: castle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: rokeren
sense_list:
(usually, _, intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.


lexentry: eng/castle_in_the_air__Noun__1
written_rep: castle in the air
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: luchtkasteel
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to ever be realized; a visionary project or scheme; a daydream, an idle fancy, a near impossibility. [from mid 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/castling__Noun__2
written_rep: castling
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rokade
sense_list:
(chess) A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.


lexentry: eng/castor_oil__Noun__1
written_rep: castor oil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: castorolie | ricinusolie
sense_list:
The pale yellow vegetable oil extracted from the castor bean; used as a laxative and an industrial lubricant.


lexentry: eng/castor_oil_plant__Noun__1
written_rep: castor oil plant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ricinus | wonderboom | wonderolieboom
sense_list:
A plant of the species Ricinus communis, used in the production of castor oil and of the poison ricin.


lexentry: eng/castoreum__Noun__1
written_rep: castoreum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bevergeil | castoreum
sense_list:
The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers, used as a scent mark, and as a tincture in some perfumes.


lexentry: eng/castrato__Noun__1
written_rep: castrato
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: castraat | gecastreerde
sense_list:
A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.


lexentry: eng/castrato__Noun__1
written_rep: castrato
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: castraat | castraatzanger | castrato
sense_list:
A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.


lexentry: eng/casual_sex__Noun__1
written_rep: casual sex
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: casual seks
sense_list:
Sexual activity that is undertaken without commitment, emotional attachment or personal familiarity between the participants involved.


lexentry: eng/casualty__Noun__1
written_rep: casualty
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: slachtoffer
sense_list:
(military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).


lexentry: eng/casuistry__Noun__1
written_rep: casuistry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: casuistiek
sense_list:
The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.


lexentry: eng/cat's-paw__Noun__1
written_rep: cat's-paw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: breekijzer
sense_list:
(US, _, carpentry) A small crowbar with a handle at a right angle to a blade with a V-shaped notch, principally used by carpenters to remove nails.


lexentry: eng/cat's_eye__Noun__1
written_rep: cat's eye
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kattenoog
sense_list:
(countable, especially, Commonwealth, usually, _, in the plural) A retroreflective device placed on a road surface as a marking that can be seen even at night.


lexentry: eng/cat-o'-nine-tails__Noun__1
written_rep: cat-o'-nine-tails
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kat met negen staarten
sense_list:
(nautical) A scourge (multi-tail whip) having nine, often knotted, whipcords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment.


lexentry: eng/cat__Noun__1
written_rep: cat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kat | felien | katachtige
sense_list:
(countable, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline (sense 1.1.1). | Any similar, chiefly non-domesticated, animal of the family Felidae, which includes bobcats, caracals, cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynxes, tigers, and other such species. | (countable) An animal of the family Felidae.


lexentry: eng/cat__Noun__1
written_rep: cat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kat | poes | kater | huiskat
sense_list:
A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]


lexentry: eng/cat__Noun__1
written_rep: cat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kat | schildpad
sense_list:
(military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.


lexentry: eng/cat_and_mouse__Noun__1
written_rep: cat and mouse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kat-en-muisspel
sense_list:
A relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other. | A children's game in which one player (the "cat") attempts to break through a ring of players to catch another player (the "mouse") in the centre.


lexentry: eng/cat_burglar__Noun__1
written_rep: cat burglar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geveltoerist
sense_list:
A particularly stealthy burglar, especially one who gains undetected entry through the use of agility.


lexentry: eng/cat_flap__Noun__1
written_rep: cat flap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kattenluikje | kattengat
sense_list:
A small, hinged panel, usually cut into a door, with an opening just large enough for a cat to enter.


lexentry: eng/cat_food__Noun__1
written_rep: cat food
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kattenvoer
sense_list:
A type of food specially formulated for the feeding of cats, typically composed of processed grain and meat byproducts as dry food or canned fish or meat as wet food.


lexentry: eng/cat_litter__Noun__1
written_rep: cat litter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kattenbakvulling
sense_list:
Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet cats.


lexentry: eng/catabolism__Noun__1
written_rep: catabolism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katabolisme
sense_list:
(biochemistry) Destructive (lytic) metabolism or metabolization, usually including the release of energy and breakdown of materials.


lexentry: eng/catachresis__Noun__1
written_rep: catachresis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: catachrese
sense_list:
(rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.


lexentry: eng/catacomb__Noun__1
written_rep: catacomb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catacombe
sense_list:
(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.


lexentry: eng/catalepsy__Noun__1
written_rep: catalepsy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catalepsie | katalepsie
sense_list:
(pathology) A severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions.


lexentry: eng/catalogue__Verb__1
written_rep: catalogue
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catalogiseren
sense_list:
To put into a catalogue. | To make a catalogue of. | To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.


lexentry: eng/catalyst__Noun__1
written_rep: catalyst
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katalysator
sense_list:
(chemistry) A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.


lexentry: eng/catalytic_converter__Noun__1
written_rep: catalytic converter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katalysator
sense_list:
(automotive) A chamber containing a finely divided platinum catalyst in which carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust are oxidized to carbon dioxide.


lexentry: eng/cataphract__Noun__1
written_rep: cataphract
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katafrakt
sense_list:
(military, historical) Defensive armour covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations.


lexentry: eng/cataphract__Noun__2
written_rep: cataphract
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katafrakt
sense_list:
(military, historical) A soldier (especially a horseman) covered with a cataphract (etymology 1, sense 1).


lexentry: eng/cataract__Noun__1
written_rep: cataract
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: stortvloed
sense_list:
(mechanics, chiefly, historical) A type of governor used in single-acting steam engines, where a flow of water through an opening regulates the stroke.


lexentry: eng/catatonia__Noun__1
written_rep: catatonia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catatonie
sense_list:
A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.


lexentry: eng/catatonic__Adjective__1
written_rep: catatonic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catatonisch
sense_list:
(medicine) Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; having a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.


lexentry: eng/catch__Noun__1
written_rep: catch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: vangst
sense_list:
(countable) Something which is captured or caught. | (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.


lexentry: eng/catch__Noun__1
written_rep: catch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: struikelblok | valstrik
sense_list:
(countable, sometimes, _, noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.


lexentry: eng/catch__Noun__1
written_rep: catch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 17
trans_list: opvangen | vangen
sense_list:
(countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.


lexentry: eng/catch__Verb__1
written_rep: catch
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: krijgen | oplopen
sense_list:
(transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive. [from 14thc.] | (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process. | (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.


lexentry: eng/catch__Verb__1
written_rep: catch
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vangen
sense_list:
(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13thc.] | (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). [from 16thc.]


lexentry: eng/catch__Verb__1
written_rep: catch
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: grijpen
sense_list:
(transitive, now, rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs. [from 16thc.] | (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment). [from 20thc.]


lexentry: eng/catchment__Noun__1
written_rep: catchment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bekken
sense_list:
(often, attributive) Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.


lexentry: eng/catchment_area__Noun__1
written_rep: catchment area
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: verzorgingsgebied
sense_list:
(by extension) The area served by a local institution, such as a hospital or school, or by extension, a railway station.


lexentry: eng/catchword__Noun__1
written_rep: catchword
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: curator
sense_list:
(printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page.


lexentry: eng/catecholamine__Noun__1
written_rep: catecholamine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catecholamine
sense_list:
(biochemistry) Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland.


lexentry: eng/catechumen__Noun__1
written_rep: catechumen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catechumeen | doopleerling
sense_list:
A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young or recent Christian preparing for confirmation.


lexentry: eng/category__Noun__1
written_rep: category
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: categorie
sense_list:
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. | (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.


lexentry: eng/catenary__Noun__1
written_rep: catenary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kettinglijn
sense_list:
(engineering) Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.


lexentry: eng/caterer__Noun__1
written_rep: caterer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cateraar
sense_list:
A person or company hired to provide and serve food, usually for a large group and at a location separate from where the food is prepared.


lexentry: eng/caterpillar_track__Noun__1
written_rep: caterpillar track
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rupsband
sense_list:
A generic trademark name for a continuous track in the form of a steel or rubber belt fitted around the wheels of crawlers, bulldozers, excavators, loaders, backhoes, tanks and similar off-road vehicles in such a manner as to spread the load on the ground surface and thereby improve traction and reduce sinking into soft surfaces.


lexentry: eng/catfish__Noun__2
written_rep: catfish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catfish
sense_list:
(internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.


lexentry: eng/catharsis__Noun__1
written_rep: catharsis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catharsis
sense_list:
(drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy). | Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.


lexentry: eng/cathedral__Noun__1
written_rep: cathedral
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kathedraal
sense_list:
The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra. | (loosely or informally) A large or important church building.


lexentry: eng/catheter__Noun__1
written_rep: catheter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katheter
sense_list:
(medicine) A small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug, create an opening, distend a passageway, or remove fluid.


lexentry: eng/cathetus__Noun__1
written_rep: cathetus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rechthoekszijde
sense_list:
(geometry) A line perpendicular to a surface (or line); in particular, either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse.


lexentry: eng/cathode__Noun__1
written_rep: cathode
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kathode
sense_list:
(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage with respect to anode of the same polarized device (depending on whether the device is a load or a source, respectively).


lexentry: eng/cathode_ray__Noun__1
written_rep: cathode ray
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kathodestraal
sense_list:
(electricity) A ray consisting of a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube that are emitted by the cathode and accelerated towards the anode by an electric field.


lexentry: eng/cathode_ray_tube__Noun__1
written_rep: cathode ray tube
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beeldbuis | kathodestraalbuis
sense_list:
(electronics) A vacuum tube that displays still or moving images (such as for a television), by controlling the direction of a cathode ray emitted towards the front of the tube. The front is coated by a layer of fluorescent material, so that it emits light when struck by the beam.


lexentry: eng/catkin__Noun__1
written_rep: catkin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katje
sense_list:
(botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.


lexentry: eng/catnip__Noun__1
written_rep: catnip
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Nepeta | kattenkruid
sense_list:
Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.


lexentry: eng/catnip__Noun__1
written_rep: catnip
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kattenkruid | wild kattenkruid
sense_list:
Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless pheromone-based intoxication among certain cats.


lexentry: eng/catoblepas__Noun__1
written_rep: catoblepas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: catoblepas
sense_list:
A legendary creature from Ethiopia, said to have the body of a Cape buffalo, scales on its back, and the head of a wild boar, which always points downward because of its weight.


lexentry: eng/catperson__Noun__1
written_rep: catperson
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: katmens
sense_list:
(fiction) An anthropomorphic feline, or a person who has characteristics of a cat on an otherwise human body, such as cat ears and a cat tail.


lexentry: eng/cattail__Noun__1
written_rep: cattail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lisdodde | kodde
sense_list:
(US, historically, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire) Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places.


lexentry: eng/cattle_grid__Noun__1
written_rep: cattle grid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wildrooster
sense_list:
A grid of parallel metal bars set into a road as an obstacle to prevent hooved animals from passing.


lexentry: eng/catty__Adjective__1
written_rep: catty
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kattig
sense_list:
(informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset, particularly among women. | (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.


lexentry: eng/caul__Noun__1
written_rep: caul
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: helm
sense_list:
The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/cauliflower__Noun__1
written_rep: cauliflower
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bloemkool
sense_list:
Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. | The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.


lexentry: eng/cauliflower_ear__Noun__1
written_rep: cauliflower ear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bloemkooloor
sense_list:
(boxing, wrestling, sport, pathology) An ear swollen and deformed by repeated blows, common among boxers and rugby players.


lexentry: eng/caulking__Noun__1
written_rep: caulking
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kit
sense_list:
A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.


lexentry: eng/causalism__Noun__1
written_rep: causalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: causalisme
sense_list:
(philosophy) The doctrine that actions have a direct cause, especially that people's actions are caused by their mental state at the time


lexentry: eng/causative__Noun__1
written_rep: causative
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: causatief
sense_list:
(grammar) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).


lexentry: eng/cause__Noun__1
written_rep: cause
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: oorzaak | aanleiding | reden
sense_list:
(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.


lexentry: eng/cause__Verb__1
written_rep: cause
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: veroorzaken
sense_list:
(transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce. | (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.


lexentry: eng/cause_célèbre__Noun__1
written_rep: cause célèbre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cause célèbre
sense_list:
(chiefly, UK) An issue or incident (originally, a legal case) arousing widespread controversy or public debate.


lexentry: eng/cause_of_death__Noun__1
written_rep: cause of death
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: doodsoorzaak
sense_list:
The official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the death certificate of a deceased person.


lexentry: eng/causeway__Noun__1
written_rep: causeway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: eenbaansweg
sense_list:
A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.


lexentry: eng/cauterize__Verb__1
written_rep: cauterize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dichtbranden | dichtvriezen | toebranden | toevriezen
sense_list:
To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.


lexentry: eng/caution__Noun__1
written_rep: caution
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: waarschuwing
sense_list:
Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.


lexentry: eng/caution__Noun__1
written_rep: caution
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: omzichtigheid | voorzichtigheid | terughoudendheid | voorzorg
sense_list:
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.


lexentry: eng/cavalry__Noun__1
written_rep: cavalry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cavalerie | ruiterij
sense_list:
(military, usually, _, historical, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.


lexentry: eng/cave_lion__Noun__1
written_rep: cave lion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: holenleeuw
sense_list:
An extinct subspecies of lion, Panthera leo spelaea, known from fossils and multiple examples of prehistoric art.


lexentry: eng/cave_painting__Noun__1
written_rep: cave painting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: grotschildering
sense_list:
(uncountable) The activity of applying pigments to the interior surfaces of caves to create images, especially when carried out in prehistoric times. | (uncountable) The paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; cave art; (countable) an individual painting of this type.


lexentry: eng/cavesson__Noun__1
written_rep: cavesson
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaptoom
sense_list:
A part of a horse's bridle that consists of a headstall with a noseband. When a martingale is used, it is attached to the horse's head at the cavesson.


lexentry: eng/cavitation__Noun__1
written_rep: cavitation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cavitatie
sense_list:
(fluid dynamics) The formation, in a fluid, of vapor bubbles that rapidly collapse, especially in a rotating marine propeller or pump impeller.


lexentry: eng/cavity__Noun__1
written_rep: cavity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: gaatje | gat
sense_list:
(dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.


lexentry: eng/caxiri__Noun__1
written_rep: caxiri
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kasiri
sense_list:
An intoxicating alcoholic drink prepared from manioc (cassava), consumed in some South American Indian cultures, especially in Suriname and Guyana.


lexentry: eng/cedar__Noun__1
written_rep: cedar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: ceder | cederhout
sense_list:
(uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several not closely related trees.


lexentry: eng/cedilla__Noun__1
written_rep: cedilla
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cedille
sense_list:
(orthography) In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark ⟨¸⟩ sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Catalan força, French menaçant, and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.


lexentry: eng/ceiling__Noun__1
written_rep: ceiling
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: plafond | zoldering
sense_list:
The upper limit of an object or action. | (architecture) The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.


lexentry: eng/celadon__Noun__1
written_rep: celadon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: celadon
sense_list:
A pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray. | A pale green Chinese glaze. | A ceramic ware with a pale green glaze.


lexentry: eng/celebrate__Verb__1
written_rep: celebrate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vieren
sense_list:
(transitive) To extol or honour in a solemn manner. | (transitive) To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly. | (transitive, or, intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event. | (transitive) To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.


lexentry: eng/celebrity__Noun__1
written_rep: celebrity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: beroemdheid
sense_list:
(countable) A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/celeriac__Noun__1
written_rep: celeriac
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: knolselderij
sense_list:
A form of celery, Apium graveolens, having an aromatic taproot eaten as a vegetable. [from mid 18th century]


lexentry: eng/celerity__Noun__1
written_rep: celerity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lichtsnelheid
sense_list:
Speed, swiftness. | (oceanography, meteorology) The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.


lexentry: eng/celesta__Noun__1
written_rep: celesta
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: celesta
sense_list:
(musical instruments) A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.


lexentry: eng/celestial__Adjective__1
written_rep: celestial
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hemels
sense_list:
of or related to Heaven and the divine. | Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.


lexentry: eng/celestial_body__Noun__1
written_rep: celestial body
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hemellichaam
sense_list:
(astronomy, astrology) A natural object which is located outside of Earth's atmosphere, such as a comet, an asteroid, the Moon, a planet, the Sun, or a star.


lexentry: eng/celestial_sphere__Noun__1
written_rep: celestial sphere
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hemelbol
sense_list:
(astronomy) The apparent outer limit of space; an abstract sphere of infinite radius which serves as the imaginary backdrop for celestial objects, and of which the visible sky is one hemisphere.


lexentry: eng/celestine__Noun__2
written_rep: celestine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: celestien
sense_list:
(mineral) A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO4, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.


lexentry: eng/celibacy__Noun__1
written_rep: celibacy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: celibaat
sense_list:
Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried. | (by extension) Abstinence from sexual relations.


lexentry: eng/cell__Noun__1
written_rep: cell
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: cel
sense_list:
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. [from 14th c.] | A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. [from 18th c.] | (biology, now, chiefly, botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. [from 14th c.] | (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/cell__Noun__1
written_rep: cell
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: batterij | cel
sense_list:
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. [14th–19th c.] | A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. [from 19th c.] | (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.


lexentry: eng/cell__Noun__1
written_rep: cell
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 16
trans_list: cel | batterij
sense_list:
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/cell_wall__Noun__1
written_rep: cell wall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: celwand
sense_list:
(cytology) A thick, fairly rigid, layer formed around individual cells of bacteria, Archaea, fungi, plants, and algae (but not animals and other protists which generally have cell membranes without cell walls). The cell wall is external to the cell membrane and serves a structural function helping the cell maintain its shape and protecting the cell from damage.


lexentry: eng/cello__Noun__1
written_rep: cello
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cello
sense_list:
A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.


lexentry: eng/cellophane_noodle__Noun__1
written_rep: cellophane noodle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: glasnoedel
sense_list:
A transparent Asian noodle made from starch (such as mung bean starch, sweet potato or yam starch, potato starch, cassava starch, or canna starch) and water.


lexentry: eng/cellulite__Noun__1
written_rep: cellulite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sinaasappelhuid
sense_list:
The dimpled appearance of skin caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous adipose tissue, especially on a woman's hips and thighs.


lexentry: eng/celluloid__Noun__1
written_rep: celluloid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: celluloid
sense_list:
Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.


lexentry: eng/cellulose__Noun__1
written_rep: cellulose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cellulose
sense_list:
A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.


lexentry: eng/cement__Noun__1
written_rep: cement
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cement
sense_list:
(uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries. | (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.


lexentry: eng/cement_mixer__Noun__1
written_rep: cement mixer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: betonmolen
sense_list:
A device used in construction in which cement, aggregate and water are slowly mixed together in a revolving drum to form concrete.


lexentry: eng/cenotaph__Noun__1
written_rep: cenotaph
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cenotaaf
sense_list:
A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.


lexentry: eng/cenote__Noun__1
written_rep: cenote
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cenote
sense_list:
A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Mexico and Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes groundwater underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.


lexentry: eng/censor__Noun__1
written_rep: censor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: censor
sense_list:
(Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality. | An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.


lexentry: eng/censor__Verb__1
written_rep: censor
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: censureren
sense_list:
To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).


lexentry: eng/censorship__Noun__1
written_rep: censorship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: censuur
sense_list:
The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.


lexentry: eng/census__Noun__1
written_rep: census
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: volkstelling
sense_list:
(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.


lexentry: eng/cent__Noun__1
written_rep: cent
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cent
sense_list:
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.


lexentry: eng/centaur__Noun__1
written_rep: centaur
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centaur | paardmens | kentaur
sense_list:
(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.


lexentry: eng/centenary__Adjective__1
written_rep: centenary
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: honderdjarig
sense_list:
(historical, obsolete) Of or relating to hundreds, the administrative unit. | Of or related to the number one hundred, particularly [c. 1451]


lexentry: eng/center__Noun__1
written_rep: center
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: centrum | middelpunt
sense_list:
(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).


lexentry: eng/center__Noun__1
written_rep: center
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 11
trans_list: centrum | midden
sense_list:
(engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.


lexentry: eng/center_of_gravity__Noun__1
written_rep: center of gravity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zwaartepunt
sense_list:
(physics) A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.


lexentry: eng/centerfold__Noun__1
written_rep: centerfold
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: middenblad
sense_list:
The single larger sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication, folded so as to open wider than a standard page spread.


lexentry: eng/centerfold__Noun__1
written_rep: centerfold
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: pin-up
sense_list:
A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man. | The person appearing in such a photograph.


lexentry: eng/centerfold__Noun__1
written_rep: centerfold
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: pin-up | vamp
sense_list:
(by extension) Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.


lexentry: eng/centi-__Prefix__1
written_rep: centi-
part_of_speech: prefix
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centi-
sense_list:
(specifically) In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10-2. Symbol: c | one-hundredth | hundred


lexentry: eng/centipede__Noun__1
written_rep: centipede
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: duizendpoot
sense_list:
Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.


lexentry: eng/centner__Noun__1
written_rep: centner
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: honderd kilo
sense_list:
A unit of weight with different actual definitions in parts of Germany and Scandinavia, typically 100 local pounds.


lexentry: eng/central__Adjective__1
written_rep: central
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centraal
sense_list:
Being in the centre. | Having or containing the centre of something. | Being very important, or key to something.


lexentry: eng/central_bank__Noun__1
written_rep: central bank
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centrale bank
sense_list:
(banking) The principal monetary authority of a polity or monetary union; it normally regulates the supply of money, issues currency and controls interest rates. It usually oversees banking activity within its country's borders.


lexentry: eng/central_committee__Noun__1
written_rep: central committee
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centraal comité
sense_list:
(communism) A standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states.


lexentry: eng/central_government__Noun__1
written_rep: central government
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nationale overheid | rijk | rijksoverheid
sense_list:
The national government of a country such as India and unitary state, in contrast to the lower local government.


lexentry: eng/central_heating__Noun__1
written_rep: central heating
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centrale verwarming
sense_list:
Any of various heating systems in which a central source of heat is used to distribute heat (and sometimes hot water) throughout a building in a controlled manner.


lexentry: eng/central_nervous_system__Noun__1
written_rep: central nervous system
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centraal zenuwstelsel
sense_list:
(neuroanatomy) In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord.


lexentry: eng/central_processing_unit__Noun__1
written_rep: central processing unit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centrale verwerkingseenheid
sense_list:
(computer hardware) The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.


lexentry: eng/central_simple_algebra__Noun__1
written_rep: central simple algebra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: CEA | centrale enkelvoudige algebra
sense_list:
(algebra, ring theory) A finite-dimensional associative algebra over some field K that is a simple algebra and whose centre is exactly K.


lexentry: eng/centralization__Noun__1
written_rep: centralization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centralisatie
sense_list:
The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole


lexentry: eng/centralize__Verb__1
written_rep: centralize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centraliseren
sense_list:
To move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate | To move power to a single, central authority


lexentry: eng/centre-right__Adjective__1
written_rep: centre-right
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centrumrechts
sense_list:
(politics) Leaning to the right but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other rightist variants.


lexentry: eng/centre_forward__Noun__1
written_rep: centre forward
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: spits
sense_list:
(British spelling, football) The most central of the strikers; traditionally the player who makes the kick-off.


lexentry: eng/centreboard__Noun__1
written_rep: centreboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zwaard | midzwaard
sense_list:
(British spelling, nautical) The adjustable keel on a small yacht or dinghy that acts, among other things, as ballast and to counteract the sideways force of the wind.


lexentry: eng/centrifugal_force__Noun__1
written_rep: centrifugal force
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: middelpuntvliedende kracht
sense_list:
(physics) In circular motion, the 'reactive' centrifugal force is a real force applied by the accelerating body that is equal and opposite to the centripetal force that is acting on the accelerating body. | (erroneous) Centripetal force.


lexentry: eng/centrifuge__Noun__1
written_rep: centrifuge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: centrifuge | droogzwierder
sense_list:
By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)


lexentry: eng/centriole__Noun__1
written_rep: centriole
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centriole
sense_list:
(biology) A barrel-shaped microtubule structure found in most animal cells, important in the process of mitosis (nuclear division).


lexentry: eng/century__Noun__1
written_rep: century
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: eeuw
sense_list:
A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.


lexentry: eng/century__Noun__1
written_rep: century
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: centurie
sense_list:
A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion. | A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.


lexentry: eng/century_egg__Noun__1
written_rep: century egg
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: duizendjarig ei
sense_list:
A Chinese delicacy made by preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.


lexentry: eng/ceramic__Noun__1
written_rep: ceramic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: keramiek
sense_list:
(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.


lexentry: eng/cereal_bar__Noun__1
written_rep: cereal bar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mueslireep
sense_list:
A snack composed of some form of breakfast cereal that has been compressed into a bar shape and is held together with some form of edible adhesive.


lexentry: eng/cerebellum__Noun__1
written_rep: cerebellum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kleine hersenen
sense_list:
(neuroanatomy) Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the back of the cerebrum and is formed of two lateral lobes and a median lobe. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture.


lexentry: eng/cerebral_cortex__Noun__1
written_rep: cerebral cortex
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hersenschors
sense_list:
(neuroanatomy) The grey, folded, outermost layer of the cerebrum that is responsible for higher brain processes such as sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory.


lexentry: eng/cerebral_palsy__Noun__1
written_rep: cerebral palsy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cerebrale parese | hersenverlamming
sense_list:
(neurology, pathology) A group of non-progressive, non-contagious conditions, caused by brain damage before birth or during infancy, characterized by impairment of muscular coordination.


lexentry: eng/cerebrospinal_fluid__Noun__1
written_rep: cerebrospinal fluid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: hersenvocht
sense_list:
(neuroanatomy) A bodily fluid filling the third ventricle and surrounding the interthalamic adhesion.


lexentry: eng/cerebrovascular_accident__Noun__1
written_rep: cerebrovascular accident
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cerebrovasculair accident
sense_list:
(medicine, formal, sometimes, euphemistic) Stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted).


lexentry: eng/cerebrum__Noun__1
written_rep: cerebrum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: telencephalon
sense_list:
(neuroanatomy) The principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, which is located in the front area of the skull and divided into two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for the integration of complex sensory functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory.


lexentry: eng/ceremonious__Adjective__1
written_rep: ceremonious
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: plechtig | ceremonieus | statig
sense_list:
According to the required or usual ceremonies, formalities, or rituals; specifically (Christianity, obsolete) , to ceremonial laws in the Bible.


lexentry: eng/ceremony__Noun__1
written_rep: ceremony
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ceremonie | plechtigheid
sense_list:
A ritual, with religious or cultural significance. | An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.


lexentry: eng/cereus__Noun__1
written_rep: cereus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zuilcactus
sense_list:
Any of the genus Cereus, either as currently or formerly defined, of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.


lexentry: eng/cerium__Noun__1
written_rep: cerium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cerium
sense_list:
A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.


lexentry: eng/certain__Adjective__1
written_rep: certain
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: bepaald | zeker
sense_list:
(euphemism, preceded by "a") Used to denote that the speaker is referring to a specific person or thing that they do not want to name directly, implying that the listener should infer the identity of the referent.


lexentry: eng/certifiable__Adjective__1
written_rep: certifiable
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: zot
sense_list:
(informal, of a person) Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy.


lexentry: eng/cervical_cancer__Noun__1
written_rep: cervical cancer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: baarmoederhalskanker
sense_list:
(pathology, oncology) A type of cancer of the cervix of the uterus which can afflict some female mammals including humans. The term usually does not refer to cancer of the neck or other parts of the anatomy which use the term cervix.


lexentry: eng/cervical_cap__Noun__1
written_rep: cervical cap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cervixkapje
sense_list:
A small latex or silicone contraceptive device that fits over the cervix and stays in place either by suction or by surface viscosity.


lexentry: eng/cervical_smear__Noun__1
written_rep: cervical smear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: uitstrijkje
sense_list:
(chiefly, gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.


lexentry: eng/cervix__Noun__1
written_rep: cervix
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: baarmoederhals | cervix
sense_list:
(now, specifically) The cervix uteri, or lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.


lexentry: eng/cetane__Noun__1
written_rep: cetane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cetaan
sense_list:
(organic compound) The aliphatic hydrocarbon C16H34 (hexadecane) used as a standard for diesel fuel.


lexentry: eng/cetology__Noun__1
written_rep: cetology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: walviskunde
sense_list:
The branch of zoology concerned with the infraorder Cetacea, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.


lexentry: eng/chador__Noun__1
written_rep: chador
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chador
sense_list:
A loose robe made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by chiefly Muslim women (and occasionally by those of other faiths) in Iran and South Asia.


lexentry: eng/chaff__Noun__1
written_rep: chaff
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaf
sense_list:
The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. | (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.


lexentry: eng/chaffinch__Noun__1
written_rep: chaffinch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vink | boekvink
sense_list:
A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.


lexentry: eng/chagrin__Noun__1
written_rep: chagrin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: verdriet | chagrijn | irritatie | ongenoegen
sense_list:
Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.


lexentry: eng/chain__Noun__1
written_rep: chain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: ketting | keten
sense_list:
(algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).


lexentry: eng/chain_drive__Noun__1
written_rep: chain drive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kettingaandrijving
sense_list:
(mechanics) transmission system in which power is transferred to the wheels (for example), by means of a chain.


lexentry: eng/chain_letter__Noun__1
written_rep: chain letter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kettingbrief
sense_list:
A letter that can be mailed successively to different recipients, with each recipient ostensibly (but sometimes sarcastically) being instructed in the body of the letter to mail the letter to another person or persons.


lexentry: eng/chain_of_command__Noun__1
written_rep: chain of command
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: commandostructuur
sense_list:
(military, also, business) A system used in organizations, especially in the military, that defines a clear line of authority and responsibility.


lexentry: eng/chain_reaction__Noun__1
written_rep: chain reaction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kettingreactie
sense_list:
(nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms. | (figurative) A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next.


lexentry: eng/chain_rule__Noun__1
written_rep: chain rule
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kettingregel
sense_list:
(calculus) A formula for computing the derivative of the functional composition of two or more functions.


lexentry: eng/chain_shot__Noun__1
written_rep: chain shot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kettingkogel
sense_list:
(historical, military, nautical) A projectile consisting of two cannon balls or half balls linked by a chain, fired from cannons mostly to attack spars and rigging.


lexentry: eng/chain_smoker__Noun__1
written_rep: chain smoker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kettingroker
sense_list:
One who smokes continuously, by lighting one cigarette when they finish another, as in a chain. | One who habitually smokes excessively.


lexentry: eng/chain_stay__Noun__1
written_rep: chain stay
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: liggende achtervork
sense_list:
(cycling) One of the two frame tubes that run horizontally from the bottom bracket shell back to the rear dropouts.


lexentry: eng/chain_store__Noun__1
written_rep: chain store
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: winkelketen
sense_list:
A retail outlet that is one of a group of similar establishments having common format, contents, ownership and management.


lexentry: eng/chainring__Noun__1
written_rep: chainring
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kettingblad
sense_list:
The large forward ring on a bicycle that a chain attaches to, in order to transfer energy to a wheel. It consists of one or more sprockets that are driven by the cranks and pedals of the bicycle.


lexentry: eng/chainsaw__Noun__1
written_rep: chainsaw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kettingzaag
sense_list:
(forestry, machinery, DIY) A power saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees.


lexentry: eng/chair__Noun__1
written_rep: chair
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stoel | zetel
sense_list:
An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.


lexentry: eng/chairlift__Noun__1
written_rep: chairlift
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stoeltjeslift
sense_list:
A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains.


lexentry: eng/chaise_longue__Noun__1
written_rep: chaise longue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ligstoel | chaise longue
sense_list:
(chiefly, _, UK) A reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.


lexentry: eng/chakra__Noun__1
written_rep: chakra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chakra
sense_list:
(Hinduism, Ayurveda) Any of (at least) seven centres of spiritual energy in or near the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.


lexentry: eng/chalaza__Noun__1
written_rep: chalaza
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: hagelsnoer
sense_list:
(zoology) One of the two spiral bands which attach the yolk of an egg to the eggshell, suspending it in the white.


lexentry: eng/chalazion__Noun__1
written_rep: chalazion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chalazion | hagelkorreltje | porose
sense_list:
(ophthalmology, optometry) A cyst in the eyelid, caused by inflammation of a blocked meibomian gland.


lexentry: eng/chalcedony__Noun__1
written_rep: chalcedony
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chalcedon
sense_list:
A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.


lexentry: eng/chalcogen__Noun__1
written_rep: chalcogen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chalcogeen
sense_list:
(inorganic chemistry) Any element of group 16 of the periodic table: oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium or polonium.


lexentry: eng/chalcopyrite__Noun__1
written_rep: chalcopyrite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chalcopyriet
sense_list:
(mineral) A yellow mineral that is a mixed sulfide of copper and iron, with the chemical formula CuFeS2.


lexentry: eng/chalk__Noun__1
written_rep: chalk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: krijt | krijtje
sense_list:
(countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).


lexentry: eng/chalk__Noun__1
written_rep: chalk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: kalk | magnesium | pof
sense_list:
(uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).


lexentry: eng/chalk_and_cheese__Noun__1
written_rep: chalk and cheese
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: het verschil van dag en nacht
sense_list:
(British, NZ, idiomatic) Said of things that are very different, though possibly superficially alike.


lexentry: eng/challah__Noun__1
written_rep: challah
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: challa | challe
sense_list:
(countable) A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for a yom tov.


lexentry: eng/challenge__Noun__1
written_rep: challenge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: uitdaging
sense_list:
A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty. | (legal, rare) A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).


lexentry: eng/challenger__Noun__1
written_rep: challenger
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: uitdager
sense_list:
One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.


lexentry: eng/chamber__Noun__1
written_rep: chamber
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kamer
sense_list:
(figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself. | Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room. | (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge. | (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.


lexentry: eng/chamber_ensemble__Noun__1
written_rep: chamber ensemble
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kamerorkest
sense_list:
A musical ensemble of modest size, to play chamber music; can be more specifically named after its number (from duo to nonet) and/or type(s) (e.g. wood, brass, strings) of instruments.


lexentry: eng/chamber_orchestra__Noun__1
written_rep: chamber orchestra
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kamerorkest
sense_list:
An orchestra of modest size, to play chamber music, yet larger than the various chamber ensembles named after their number of instruments (from duo to nonet).


lexentry: eng/chamber_pot__Noun__1
written_rep: chamber pot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pispot | po
sense_list:
A container used for urination and defecation, particularly those used in early modern towns before the advent of the flush toilet.


lexentry: eng/chamber_tomb__Noun__1
written_rep: chamber tomb
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hunebed
sense_list:
A communal burial place, cut into rock or hillslopes or constructed of masonry, whose chamber may or may not have an entry passage, usually covered by a mound.


lexentry: eng/chamberlain__Noun__1
written_rep: chamberlain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kamerheer
sense_list:
A senior royal official in charge of superintending the arrangement of domestic affairs and often charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber, especially in the United Kingdom and in Denmark.


lexentry: eng/chameleon__Noun__1
written_rep: chameleon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kameleon
sense_list:
A small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue. | (figurative) A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances.


lexentry: eng/chamois__Noun__1
written_rep: chamois
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gems
sense_list:
A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra. | An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.


lexentry: eng/champagne__Noun__1
written_rep: champagne
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: champagne
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.


lexentry: eng/champagne_flute__Noun__1
written_rep: champagne flute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: champagneglas
sense_list:
A piece of stemware with a long stem and a tall, narrow bowl on top, designed to keep champagne desirable during its consumption by preventing heat from the drinker's hand from warming the champagne while retaining its carbonation.


lexentry: eng/champagne_glass__Noun__1
written_rep: champagne glass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: champagneglas
sense_list:
A drinking vessel made of glass with a stem, intended for champagne or sparkling wine, with two basic shapes; a champagne flute or champagne coupe.


lexentry: eng/champion__Adjective__1
written_rep: champion
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: eerste klasse | meesterlijk
sense_list:
(attributive) Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors. | (predicative, Ireland, British, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.


lexentry: eng/championship__Noun__1
written_rep: championship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kampioenschap
sense_list:
(sports) A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions. | The position of champion, or winner.


lexentry: eng/chancel__Noun__1
written_rep: chancel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hoogkoor | priesterkoor
sense_list:
The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.


lexentry: eng/chancellor__Noun__1
written_rep: chancellor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kanselier
sense_list:
A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice. | The head of the government in some German-speaking countries.


lexentry: eng/chancery_hand__Noun__1
written_rep: chancery hand
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kanselarijschrift
sense_list:
(calligraphy, historical) Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran chancelry in the 13th century, or a style of cursive handwriting introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò de' Niccoli, developed from humanist minuscule; a variety of either of these styles.


lexentry: eng/change__Noun__1
written_rep: change
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: kleingeld
sense_list:
(uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.


lexentry: eng/change__Verb__1
written_rep: change
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: zich omkleden | veranderen
sense_list:
(transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).


lexentry: eng/changeling__Noun__1
written_rep: changeling
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wisselkind | wisselbalg
sense_list:
(European folklore, also, figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.


lexentry: eng/changing_room__Noun__1
written_rep: changing room
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kleedhokje | paskamer
sense_list:
A room or enclosure, e.g. in a clothes shop, where people try on clothes they are interested in buying.


lexentry: eng/channel__Noun__1
written_rep: channel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kanaal | vaargeul
sense_list:
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water. | The navigable part of a river.


lexentry: eng/channel__Noun__1
written_rep: channel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 12
trans_list: kanaal
sense_list:
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths. | (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable. | (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.


lexentry: eng/channel__Noun__1
written_rep: channel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 15
trans_list: kanaal | zender
sense_list:
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement. | (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.


lexentry: eng/channel__Noun__1
written_rep: channel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 17
trans_list: kanaal | bedding
sense_list:
(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.


lexentry: eng/chanterelle__Noun__1
written_rep: chanterelle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hanenkam | cantharel
sense_list:
(mushroom) A widely distributed edible mushroom, Cantharellus cibarius, being yellow and trumpet-shaped; or any similar mushroom of the genera Cantharellus, Polyozellus or Gomphus, not all of which are edible.


lexentry: eng/chaos_theory__Noun__1
written_rep: chaos theory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chaostheorie
sense_list:
(mathematics) The study of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.


lexentry: eng/chapbook__Noun__1
written_rep: chapbook
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brochure
sense_list:
A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts.


lexentry: eng/chapel__Noun__1
written_rep: chapel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kapel
sense_list:
(UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.


lexentry: eng/chapel_of_ease__Noun__1
written_rep: chapel of ease
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bijkantoor
sense_list:
A chapel built in a remote part of a parish to meet the needs of those who live far from the parish church.


lexentry: eng/chapelmaster__Noun__1
written_rep: chapelmaster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kapelmeester
sense_list:
A director of music in a chapel, the musical director of a court and/or major church's choir and/or orchestra; often also a composer.


lexentry: eng/chaperone__Noun__1
written_rep: chaperone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chaperonne
sense_list:
An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.


lexentry: eng/chaplain__Noun__1
written_rep: chaplain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kapelaan
sense_list:
A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.


lexentry: eng/chaplet__Noun__1
written_rep: chaplet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: gebedssnoer
sense_list:
(archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary. | (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.


lexentry: eng/chapter__Noun__1
written_rep: chapter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hoofdstuk | kapittel
sense_list:
A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.


lexentry: eng/char_siu__Noun__1
written_rep: char siu
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tja sieuw
sense_list:
A style of preparation of barbecued pork in Cantonese cuisine, typically using honey and spices. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/character__Noun__1
written_rep: character
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: karakter
sense_list:
(uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength. | (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.


lexentry: eng/character__Noun__1
written_rep: character
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: persoonlijkheid
sense_list:
(countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.


lexentry: eng/character_reference__Noun__1
written_rep: character reference
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karakterreferentie | persoonlijke referentie | referentie
sense_list:
A statement concerning the character of a person, typically for submission during a job application or court proceeding.


lexentry: eng/characterize__Verb__1
written_rep: characterize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karakteriseren
sense_list:
(transitive) To depict someone or something a particular way (often negative). | (transitive) To be typical of.


lexentry: eng/charcoal__Noun__1
written_rep: charcoal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: houtskool
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen. | (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.


lexentry: eng/charcoal_burner__Noun__1
written_rep: charcoal burner
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kolenbrander
sense_list:
A person whose job it is to make charcoal, traditionally by carbonizing wood in a charcoal clamp or a kiln.


lexentry: eng/chard__Noun__1
written_rep: chard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: snijbiet
sense_list:
(uncountable, culinary) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.


lexentry: eng/charge__Noun__1
written_rep: charge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: charge | stormaanval
sense_list:
(military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.


lexentry: eng/charge__Verb__1
written_rep: charge
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 11
trans_list: opladen
sense_list:
(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge. | (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.


lexentry: eng/charge__Verb__1
written_rep: charge
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 12
trans_list: belasten
sense_list:
(cricket, of a, batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball. | (transitive, of a, hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)


lexentry: eng/charism__Noun__1
written_rep: charism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: charisma
sense_list:
(Christianity, theology, rare) A power or authority, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the Grace of God.


lexentry: eng/charismatic__Adjective__1
written_rep: charismatic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: charismatisch
sense_list:
Of, related to, or having charisma: having a form of compelling charm which inspires devotion in others due to their strength of character and being full of personality; charming, fascinating, magnetic


lexentry: eng/charity__Noun__1
written_rep: charity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: liefdadigheid
sense_list:
(countable) The goods or money given to those in need. | (uncountable) Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.


lexentry: eng/charity__Noun__1
written_rep: charity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: naastenliefde | liefdadigheid
sense_list:
In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity. | (archaic, Christianity) Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.


lexentry: eng/charivari__Noun__1
written_rep: charivari
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ketelmuziek
sense_list:
The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion.


lexentry: eng/charlock__Noun__1
written_rep: charlock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: herik | krodde
sense_list:
Any of several yellow-flowered cruciferous weeds of grain fields, especially wild mustard (Rhamphospermum arvense, syn. Sinapis arvensis).


lexentry: eng/charlotte_russe__Noun__1
written_rep: charlotte russe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: charlotte-russe
sense_list:
A dessert of custard or whipped cream enclosed in sponge cake, often in the form of ladyfingers. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/charm__Noun__1
written_rep: charm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: bedeltje
sense_list:
A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.


lexentry: eng/charm__Verb__1
written_rep: charm
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: beheksen | betoveren | bezweren
sense_list:
(transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.


lexentry: eng/charm_offensive__Noun__1
written_rep: charm offensive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: charmeoffensief
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A campaign of deliberately using charm and flattery in order to achieve some goal, especially in a political or diplomatic field.


lexentry: eng/chart_of_accounts__Noun__1
written_rep: chart of accounts
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rekeningschema | rekeningstelsel
sense_list:
(accounting) A list of financial accounts set up, usually by an accountant, for an organization, and available for use by the bookkeeper for recording transactions in the organization's general ledger.


lexentry: eng/charter__Noun__1
written_rep: charter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: handvest | charter
sense_list:
A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges. | A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.


lexentry: eng/charwoman__Noun__1
written_rep: charwoman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: meid | poetsvrouw | schoonmaakster
sense_list:
(chiefly, British) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.


lexentry: eng/chase__Noun__1
written_rep: chase
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: jacht | achtervolging
sense_list:
(real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.


lexentry: eng/chassis__Noun__1
written_rep: chassis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chassis
sense_list:
A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward. | The base frame of a motor vehicle. | A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.


lexentry: eng/chastity__Noun__1
written_rep: chastity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kuisheid | zedigheid
sense_list:
The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.


lexentry: eng/chastity_belt__Noun__1
written_rep: chastity belt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kuisheidsgordel
sense_list:
A belt-like garment, designed to be worn over the genitals and locked to prevent sexual intercourse, typically for long periods of time, to maintain chastity, prevent masturbation, or to enforce BDSM submission.


lexentry: eng/chat__Noun__1
written_rep: chat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chat | babbel | gesprek
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.


lexentry: eng/chat__Noun__1
written_rep: chat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: tapuit
sense_list:
(countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.


lexentry: eng/chat__Verb__1
written_rep: chat
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: chatten
sense_list:
To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).


lexentry: eng/chat_up__Verb__1
written_rep: chat up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: versieren
sense_list:
(transitive, idiomatic) To talk to (someone) in a friendly, open, or casual manner, sometimes also in a charming or affected manner, usually to curry favor, and sometimes flirtatiously with the intention of establishing a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship with that person.


lexentry: eng/chatelaine__Noun__1
written_rep: chatelaine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chatelaine | burchtheer | burchtvrouw
sense_list:
(historical) A chain or clasp worn at the waist by women with handkerchief, keys, etc., attached, supposed to resemble the chain of keys once worn by medieval chatelaines.


lexentry: eng/chauffeur__Noun__1
written_rep: chauffeur
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: privéchauffeur | chauffeur
sense_list:
A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).


lexentry: eng/chav__Noun__1
written_rep: chav
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: proleet
sense_list:
(UK, MLE, Ireland, derogatory, offensive ) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.


lexentry: eng/cheat__Noun__1
written_rep: cheat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: liegen
sense_list:
(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.


lexentry: eng/cheat__Noun__1
written_rep: cheat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: cheat
sense_list:
(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.


lexentry: eng/cheat_sheet__Noun__1
written_rep: cheat sheet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: spiekbriefje
sense_list:
A sheet of paper (or a digital analogue thereof) containing notes used to assist (with or without permission) on a test; especially, such a sheet used secretly and improperly.


lexentry: eng/check__Verb__1
written_rep: check
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: controleren | aankruisen | aanvinken | afvinken | verifiëren
sense_list:
(transitive, US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).


lexentry: eng/check_in__Verb__1
written_rep: check in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: inchecken
sense_list:
To announce or record one's own arrival at a hotel, airport etc. | (intransitive, Netherlands, NNSE) to tap on, to touch in, to tap in (to use a smartcard to start a public transport journey)


lexentry: eng/check_out__Verb__1
written_rep: check out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afmelden | uitchecken
sense_list:
(transitive) To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).


lexentry: eng/check_out__Verb__1
written_rep: check out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: afmelden | afrekenen | onderzoeken | uitchecken
sense_list:
(transitive) To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.


lexentry: eng/checkbox__Noun__1
written_rep: checkbox
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: selectievakje
sense_list:
(graphical user interface) An on-screen box that can be optionally filled with a check mark, to enable or disable a setting.


lexentry: eng/checkerboard__Noun__1
written_rep: checkerboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dambord
sense_list:
A pattern of squares of alternating colours. | A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.


lexentry: eng/checkered__Adjective__1
written_rep: checkered
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bont
sense_list:
(figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.


lexentry: eng/checkmate__Noun__1
written_rep: checkmate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schaakmat | mat
sense_list:
(chess) The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.


lexentry: eng/checkout_divider__Noun__1
written_rep: checkout divider
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beurtbalk | beurtbalkje
sense_list:
A plastic bar that separates the groceries of one customer from another's at a supermarket checkout.


lexentry: eng/checkpoint__Noun__1
written_rep: checkpoint
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: grensovergang | doorlaatpost
sense_list:
A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.


lexentry: eng/checks_and_balances__Noun__1
written_rep: checks and balances
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scheiding der machten
sense_list:
(politics) A system for multiple branches of government wherein each has some control over the actions of each of the others.


lexentry: eng/checksum__Noun__1
written_rep: checksum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: controlecijfer
sense_list:
(mathematics, computing) A number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry.


lexentry: eng/cheek__Noun__1
written_rep: cheek
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wang | kaak | koon | bak
sense_list:
(anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.


lexentry: eng/cheek__Noun__1
written_rep: cheek
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bil
sense_list:
(anatomy, informal, usually, in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.


lexentry: eng/cheek__Noun__1
written_rep: cheek
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: mik
sense_list:
(nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down


lexentry: eng/cheeky__Adjective__1
written_rep: cheeky
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brutaal
sense_list:
(informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.


lexentry: eng/cheerleader__Noun__1
written_rep: cheerleader
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cheerleader
sense_list:
(chiefly, US) A person, usually a young, attractive female, who encourages applause and cheers at a sports event, and wearing a specially-designed uniform in the official colors of the team he/she cheers for.


lexentry: eng/cheers__Interjection__1
written_rep: cheers
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ciao | doeg | doei | hoi | ik zie je | later
sense_list:
(chiefly, Commonwealth, informal) goodbye, especially as a sign-off in an email or after writing a comment.


lexentry: eng/cheese__Noun__1
written_rep: cheese
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaas
sense_list:
(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. | (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.


lexentry: eng/cheese_mite__Noun__1
written_rep: cheese mite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaasmijt
sense_list:
Any of several species of mite that thrive on the surface of cheese and feed on it. They are used on purpose in production of some types of cheese to give the cheese a distinct flavor.


lexentry: eng/cheesecake__Noun__1
written_rep: cheesecake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kaastaart | kwarktaart
sense_list:
(countable, and, uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).


lexentry: eng/cheesecloth__Noun__1
written_rep: cheesecloth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaasdoek
sense_list:
A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.


lexentry: eng/cheetah__Noun__1
written_rep: cheetah
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: jachtluipaard | cheeta
sense_list:
(cat) A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.


lexentry: eng/chef's_knife__Noun__1
written_rep: chef's knife
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koksmes
sense_list:
A type of general purpose kitchen knife used for food preparation, typically measuring eight inches by one and a half inches.


lexentry: eng/chelicera__Noun__1
written_rep: chelicera
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cheliceer
sense_list:
(zoology) Either of the prehensile claws found on the proboscis of chelicerates (horseshoe crabs, sea spiders and arachnids).


lexentry: eng/chemical_element__Noun__1
written_rep: chemical element
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chemisch element | scheikundig element
sense_list:
(chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.


lexentry: eng/chemical_physics__Noun__1
written_rep: chemical physics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chemische fysica
sense_list:
(physical chemistry) The science that studies chemical processes and phenomena from the point of view of physics.


lexentry: eng/chemistry__Noun__1
written_rep: chemistry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chemie | scheikunde
sense_list:
(uncountable) The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules. | (informal) The mutual attraction between two people; rapport.


lexentry: eng/chemistry__Noun__1
written_rep: chemistry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chemie- | chemo- | scheikundig
sense_list:
(countable) An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance. | (medicine, countable, informal, sometimes, proscribed) A blood test to measure the amount of various components of the serum (such as electrolytes, creatinine, and glucose).


lexentry: eng/chemotherapy__Noun__1
written_rep: chemotherapy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chemotherapie | chemo | chemokuur
sense_list:
(medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state. | (oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.


lexentry: eng/chengyu__Noun__1
written_rep: chengyu
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chengyu
sense_list:
(linguistics) A certain kind of Chinese set phrase originating in Classical Chinese, typically four characters in length, and usually proverbial.


lexentry: eng/chequy__Adjective__1
written_rep: chequy
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geschakeerd
sense_list:
(heraldry) Chequered; divided into small squares (chequers) by transverse vertical and horizontal lines.


lexentry: eng/cherimoya__Noun__1
written_rep: cherimoya
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cherimoya
sense_list:
A subtropical tree, of species Annona cherimola, native to mountainous areas of South America. | A conical fruit with white flesh from that tree.


lexentry: eng/cherish__Verb__1
written_rep: cherish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koesteren
sense_list:
To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care. | To have a deep appreciation of; to hold dear.


lexentry: eng/chernozem__Noun__1
written_rep: chernozem
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chernozem
sense_list:
(soil science) A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.


lexentry: eng/cherry-pick__Verb__1
written_rep: cherry-pick
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: de krenten uit de pap halen | alleen de rozijnen uitpikken
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To pick out the best or most desirable items from a list or group, especially to obtain some advantage or to present something in the best possible light.


lexentry: eng/cherry__Adjective__1
written_rep: cherry
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kers | kersensmaak
sense_list:
Containing or having the taste of cherries. | Of a bright red color; cherry red. | (informal, often, of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.


lexentry: eng/cherry__Noun__1
written_rep: cherry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kers
sense_list:
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem. | Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries. | Cherry red. | (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen. | (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves. | (cricket, slang) A red cricket ball. | (cricket, slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball. | A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car. | The burning tip of a cigarette.


lexentry: eng/cherry_tree__Noun__1
written_rep: cherry tree
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kersenboom | kerselaar
sense_list:
A tree of the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry, and the wood of the tree, cherrywood, used in woodworking.


lexentry: eng/cherub__Noun__1
written_rep: cherub
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cherub | cherubijn
sense_list:
(biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.


lexentry: eng/chervonets__Noun__1
written_rep: chervonets
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tsjervonets
sense_list:
Any of several former currencies of Russia: applied to various foreign gold coins prior to the reign of Peter I of Russia, then to a Russian gold coin of 1701-1757, and finally to a 1922 currency of the Soviet Union.


lexentry: eng/chess__Noun__1
written_rep: chess
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schaakspel | schaken | schaak
sense_list:
A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.


lexentry: eng/chess_clock__Noun__1
written_rep: chess clock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wedstrijdklok
sense_list:
A device consisting of two clocks and a switch for running one at a time, used in chess and other games to measure how much time each player takes.


lexentry: eng/chessboard__Noun__1
written_rep: chessboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schaakbord
sense_list:
(chess) The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.


lexentry: eng/chest__Noun__1
written_rep: chest
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: borst | romp | thorax | torso
sense_list:
(obsolete) A coffin. | The place in which public money is kept; a treasury. | A chest of drawers. | (anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals. | The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso. | (euphemistic, , , ) A female human's breasts. | A hit or blow made with one's chest.


lexentry: eng/chest_of_drawers__Noun__1
written_rep: chest of drawers
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: komode | ladekast
sense_list:
A piece of furniture which has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers stacked one above the other, used mainly for the storage of clean clothes.


lexentry: eng/chest_voice__Noun__1
written_rep: chest voice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borststem
sense_list:
(phonology, music) A kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other.


lexentry: eng/chevrotain__Noun__1
written_rep: chevrotain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dwerghert | dwergmuskusdier
sense_list:
Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae, native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa.


lexentry: eng/chew__Verb__1
written_rep: chew
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kauwen
sense_list:
To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.


lexentry: eng/chew_the_cud__Verb__1
written_rep: chew the cud
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: herkauwen
sense_list:
(figuratively, idiomatic, of a person) To meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate.


lexentry: eng/chewing_tobacco__Noun__1
written_rep: chewing tobacco
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: pruimtabak
sense_list:
(US, dated) Tobacco that is cut into strips or shreds, and chewed and then tucked between the cheek and the gum.


lexentry: eng/chia_seed__Noun__1
written_rep: chia seed
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiazaad
sense_list:
An edible seed of Salvia hispanica, a flowering plant in the mint family native to Central America, or of the related Salvia columbariae of southwestern United States and Mexico.


lexentry: eng/chiaroscuro__Noun__1
written_rep: chiaroscuro
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clair-obscur
sense_list:
(painting) An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in order to create the illusion of volume.


lexentry: eng/chicane__Noun__1
written_rep: chicane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: chicane
sense_list:
(motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/chicken_out__Verb__1
written_rep: chicken out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: terugdeinzen
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To shy away from a daring task; to decline, refuse, or avoid something due to fear or uncertainty.


lexentry: eng/chicken_wire__Noun__1
written_rep: chicken wire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kippengaas
sense_list:
(countable) A type of such material, differentiated by material, coating, wire thickness, width, and mesh size.


lexentry: eng/chickenhawk__Noun__1
written_rep: chickenhawk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kiekendief
sense_list:
Any of the North American hawk species (Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk and red-tailed hawk), or counterparts elsewhere, mistakenly believed to be pests.


lexentry: eng/chickling_vetch__Noun__1
written_rep: chickling vetch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pronkerwt
sense_list:
A plant with edible seeds similar to peas and chickpeas of species Lathyrus sativus, used as a famine food but causing lathyrism if eaten in large amounts or over a long time.


lexentry: eng/chicory__Noun__1
written_rep: chicory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cichorei | witlof | bitterwortel | lof | suikerij | witloof
sense_list:
(chiefly, Britain) Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names.


lexentry: eng/chicory__Noun__1
written_rep: chicory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bitterwortel | cichorei | suikerij
sense_list:
(uncountable, cooking) A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.


lexentry: eng/chief_executive_officer__Noun__1
written_rep: chief executive officer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bestuursvoorzitter | CEO | algemeen directeur
sense_list:
(business) The highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for carrying out the policies of the board of directors on a day-to-day basis; CEO.


lexentry: eng/chief_financial_officer__Noun__1
written_rep: chief financial officer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: CFO | financieel directeur
sense_list:
(business) The executive who is in charge of financial affairs, notably as head of a financial department, typically directly under the chief executive officer and/or the board who lead the corporation or other organisation as a whole.


lexentry: eng/chief_information_officer__Noun__1
written_rep: chief information officer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: CIO
sense_list:
An executive who is in charge of the technical affairs of a business, notably as head of the information technology department, typically directly under the chief executive officer and/or the board.


lexentry: eng/chief_operating_officer__Noun__1
written_rep: chief operating officer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: COO | operationeel directeur
sense_list:
(business) A corporate officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for executing decisions of the chief executive officer (CEO) according to their decided schedule.


lexentry: eng/chief_technology_officer__Noun__1
written_rep: chief technology officer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: CTO | technisch directeur
sense_list:
An executive responsible for the technological development and often the overall technical infrastructure of the products of a business, typically directly accountable to the chief executive officer or the board.


lexentry: eng/chiffchaff__Noun__1
written_rep: chiffchaff
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tjiftjaf
sense_list:
A small, common warbler, Phylloscopus collybita, with yellowish-green plumage that breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.


lexentry: eng/chiffonier__Noun__1
written_rep: chiffonier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiffonnière
sense_list:
A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached. | One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker. | A receptacle for rags or shreds.


lexentry: eng/chilblain__Noun__1
written_rep: chilblain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wintertenen
sense_list:
An itchy purple red inflammation of the skin, especially of the hands, feet and ears, occurring when capillaries below the skin are damaged by exposure to cold weather (but do not freeze, which would lead to frostbite instead).


lexentry: eng/child__Noun__1
written_rep: child
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kind
sense_list:
(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter. | A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. | (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.


lexentry: eng/child_abuse__Noun__1
written_rep: child abuse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kindermisbruik | kindermishandeling
sense_list:
(criminology) Physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment of a child that causes long-term or permanent damage. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/child_carrier__Noun__1
written_rep: child carrier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buikdrager
sense_list:
A device used to carry a child, particularly one holding the child attached to the torso of an adult.


lexentry: eng/child_labour__Noun__1
written_rep: child labour
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kinderarbeid
sense_list:
(British spelling, Canadian spelling) Work performed by a minor that is prohibited by statute law, or under terms and conditions considered inhumane.


lexentry: eng/child_support__Noun__1
written_rep: child support
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kinderalimentatie
sense_list:
(legal) The ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an obligor, usually the noncustodial parent, to an obligee, usually the custodial parent or other guardian, for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or marriage that has been terminated, or which never existed.


lexentry: eng/children's_home__Noun__1
written_rep: children's home
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: weeshuis
sense_list:
A public institution for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them.


lexentry: eng/chili__Noun__1
written_rep: chili
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chilipeper | chili
sense_list:
(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.


lexentry: eng/chili_oil__Noun__1
written_rep: chili oil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiliolie
sense_list:
A spicy condiment in which crushed dried red chili peppers (and sometimes other ingredients) have been macerated in oil


lexentry: eng/chili_pepper__Noun__1
written_rep: chili pepper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chilipeper
sense_list:
Any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus Capsicum, which contains capsaicin and typically has a spicy or burning flavor.


lexentry: eng/chiliasm__Noun__1
written_rep: chiliasm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiliasme | millennialisme
sense_list:
Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.


lexentry: eng/chime__Noun__1
written_rep: chime
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klok
sense_list:
(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.


lexentry: eng/chime__Verb__1
written_rep: chime
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: luiden
sense_list:
(intransitive) To make the sound of a chime. | (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.


lexentry: eng/chimerical__Adjective__1
written_rep: chimerical
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: bovengronds
sense_list:
(genetics) Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.


lexentry: eng/chimney__Noun__1
written_rep: chimney
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schoorsteen | schouw
sense_list:
A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.


lexentry: eng/chimney_stack__Noun__1
written_rep: chimney stack
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schoorsteen
sense_list:
(architectural element) A vertical structure, normally of brick, rising from a roof, containing one or more flues, each one terminating in a chimney pot.


lexentry: eng/chimney_swift__Noun__1
written_rep: chimney swift
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schoorsteengierzwaluw
sense_list:
A rapid-flying bird that feeds on flying insects, Chaetura pelagica, with a breeding range in the eastern US extending into Canada and winter range in northwestern South America.


lexentry: eng/chimpanzee__Noun__1
written_rep: chimpanzee
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chimpansee
sense_list:
(broadly) A member of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which was formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee.


lexentry: eng/chinchilla__Noun__1
written_rep: chinchilla
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chinchilla
sense_list:
(countable) A small, crepuscular rodent of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes Mountains, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets. | (uncountable) The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing.


lexentry: eng/chine__Noun__1
written_rep: chine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: maan
sense_list:
The top of a ridge. | The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.


lexentry: eng/chink__Verb__1
written_rep: chink
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bijvullen
sense_list:
(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.


lexentry: eng/chinrest__Noun__1
written_rep: chinrest
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kinstuk
sense_list:
(music, lutherie) A shaped piece of wood, plastic, etc. attached to the body of a violin or viola to aid in the positioning of the player's chin against on the instrument.


lexentry: eng/chintz__Noun__1
written_rep: chintz
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sits
sense_list:
A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.


lexentry: eng/chip__Verb__1
written_rep: chip
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: stiften
sense_list:
(transitive, sports, _, such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.


lexentry: eng/chipmunk__Noun__1
written_rep: chipmunk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wangzakeekhoorn | chipmunk
sense_list:
Any of the subtribe Tamiina of small, striped rodents; they are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.


lexentry: eng/chipper__Noun__1
written_rep: chipper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: hakselaar
sense_list:
(in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.


lexentry: eng/chipper__Noun__1
written_rep: chipper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: friettent | snackbar
sense_list:
(Ireland, North East, _, Scotland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.


lexentry: eng/chirality__Noun__1
written_rep: chirality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiraliteit
sense_list:
The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.


lexentry: eng/chiropractic__Noun__1
written_rep: chiropractic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiropractie | chiropraxie
sense_list:
(alternative medicine) A system of health care involving manipulation of the spinal column and other body structures, for the purpose of alleviating neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction.


lexentry: eng/chirp__Verb__1
written_rep: chirp
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tjilpen | tjirpen
sense_list:
(intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.


lexentry: eng/chisel__Noun__1
written_rep: chisel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beitel
sense_list:
A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.


lexentry: eng/chiton__Noun__2
written_rep: chiton
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiton | keverslak
sense_list:
Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.


lexentry: eng/chivalry__Noun__1
written_rep: chivalry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: ridderschap
sense_list:
The ethical code of the knight prevalent in Medieval Europe, having such primary virtues as mercy towards the poor and oppressed, humility, honour, sacrifice, fear of God, faithfulness, courage and courtesy to ladies.


lexentry: eng/chive__Noun__1
written_rep: chive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bieslook
sense_list:
A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. | (in the plural, or, attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.


lexentry: eng/chloric_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: chloric acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chloorzuur
sense_list:
(chemistry) A strong acid, HClO3, known only in solution and as its chlorate salts; a powerful oxidizing agent.


lexentry: eng/chlorite__Noun__1
written_rep: chlorite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chloriet
sense_list:
(mineral) A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium. | (chemistry, countable) Any salt of chlorous acid.


lexentry: eng/chlorofluorocarbon__Noun__1
written_rep: chlorofluorocarbon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chloorfluorkoolwaterstof
sense_list:
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon are replaced with those of chlorine and fluorine; formerly used as refrigerants and aerosol can propellants but withdrawn due to causing damage to the ozone layer.


lexentry: eng/chloroform__Noun__1
written_rep: chloroform
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chloroform
sense_list:
(organic compound) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.


lexentry: eng/chlorophyll__Noun__1
written_rep: chlorophyll
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bladgroen | chlorofyl
sense_list:
(biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.


lexentry: eng/chloroplast__Noun__1
written_rep: chloroplast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bladgroenkorrel
sense_list:
(cytology) An organelle, found in the cells of green plants and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place, characterized by a high concentration of chlorophyll and two membranes.


lexentry: eng/chock__Noun__1
written_rep: chock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wig
sense_list:
Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.


lexentry: eng/chocolate__Noun__1
written_rep: chocolate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: chocoladekleur | chocolade
sense_list:
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).


lexentry: eng/chocolate_bar__Noun__1
written_rep: chocolate bar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chocoladereep
sense_list:
A flat slab of chocolate, usually oblong in shape, which can be broken into smaller segments when being eaten, either solid or with a filling such as nuts or caramel.


lexentry: eng/chocolate_milk__Noun__1
written_rep: chocolate milk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chocolademelk
sense_list:
A sweetened cocoa-flavored drink, typically created by mixing chocolate syrup or chocolate powder with milk, and typically served cold.


lexentry: eng/chocolate_teacake__Noun__1
written_rep: chocolate teacake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: negerzoen | chocoladezoen | chocozoen | schuimzoen
sense_list:
A confection consisting of a biscuit base topped with marshmallow-like filling and coated in a hard shell of chocolate.


lexentry: eng/choir__Noun__1
written_rep: choir
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koor
sense_list:
A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together. | (architecture) Uncommon form of quire (“one quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse”).


lexentry: eng/choke__Verb__1
written_rep: choke
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: verstikken | stikken
sense_list:
(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).


lexentry: eng/chokehold__Noun__1
written_rep: chokehold
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wurggreep
sense_list:
(martial arts, wrestling) A grappling hold around a person's neck, especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm, cutting off the flow of blood to the brain and restricting breathing. | (figurative) A powerful and restrictive control or influence over something.


lexentry: eng/cholera__Noun__1
written_rep: cholera
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cholera
sense_list:
(pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.


lexentry: eng/choleric__Adjective__1
written_rep: choleric
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cholerisch | kwaad
sense_list:
(humorism, historical) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry.


lexentry: eng/cholesterol__Noun__1
written_rep: cholesterol
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cholesterol
sense_list:
(biochemistry) A sterol lipid synthesized by the liver and transported in the bloodstream to the membranes of all animal cells; it plays a central role in many biochemical processes and, as a lipoprotein that coats the walls of blood vessels, is associated with cardiovascular disease.


lexentry: eng/choline__Noun__1
written_rep: choline
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: choline
sense_list:
(organic compound) A hydroxy quaternary ammonium compound with formula (CH3)3N+CH2CH2OHX−. It is an essential nutrient for cardiovascular and brain health and for cell membrane formation.


lexentry: eng/chop_suey__Noun__1
written_rep: chop suey
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tjaptjoi
sense_list:
(US, Philippines, AU) A stir-fried vegetable dish, served with pieces of beef or pork in a semi-thick sauce, and often soy sauce. | (Canada, and, British) Steamed bean sprouts served in a semi-thick sauce, and mixed with a choice of meat and/or vegetables.


lexentry: eng/chopped_liver__Noun__1
written_rep: chopped liver
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: niemand
sense_list:
(idiomatic, humorous, informal) A person or object not worthy of being noticed; someone or something insignificant.


lexentry: eng/chopper__Noun__1
written_rep: chopper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: bijl
sense_list:
(archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.


lexentry: eng/chopstick__Noun__1
written_rep: chopstick
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: eetstokje
sense_list:
(usually, in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length. | (obsolete, angling) A long straight stick forming part of various fishing tackle arrangements.


lexentry: eng/chord__Noun__1
written_rep: chord
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: koorde
sense_list:
(rail) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.


lexentry: eng/chordae_tendineae__Noun__1
written_rep: chordae tendineae
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: peesdraden
sense_list:
(anatomy) The cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart.


lexentry: eng/chordate__Noun__1
written_rep: chordate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chordadier
sense_list:
A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine.


lexentry: eng/chordophone__Noun__1
written_rep: chordophone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chordofoon
sense_list:
(musical instrument) Any musical instrument that produces sound from one or more vibrating strings; a string instrument.


lexentry: eng/choreography__Noun__1
written_rep: choreography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: choreografie
sense_list:
(by extension, figurative) The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration. | (uncountable) The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.


lexentry: eng/chorizo__Noun__1
written_rep: chorizo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chorizo
sense_list:
A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.


lexentry: eng/chorus__Noun__1
written_rep: chorus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koor
sense_list:
A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song. | A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.


lexentry: eng/chorus__Noun__1
written_rep: chorus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: refrein
sense_list:
A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain. | (often, attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.


lexentry: eng/chosen_one__Noun__1
written_rep: chosen one
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: de ware
sense_list:
(informal, authorship) A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or accomplish some other grand and heroic deed; one who is predestined to become the one.


lexentry: eng/chough__Noun__1
written_rep: chough
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alpenkauw | alpenkraai
sense_list:
Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.


lexentry: eng/choux_pastry__Noun__1
written_rep: choux pastry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sous
sense_list:
A type of light pastry (made just from butter, water, flour and eggs) that is used to make profiteroles, éclairs, chouquettes, etc.


lexentry: eng/chrismation__Noun__1
written_rep: chrismation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vormsel
sense_list:
(ecclesiastical) The sacrament of applying chrism to complete baptism in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.


lexentry: eng/christening__Noun__1
written_rep: christening
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: doop
sense_list:
The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name. | Any instance of someone's or something's being christened.


lexentry: eng/chromakey__Noun__1
written_rep: chromakey
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: watersteen
sense_list:
(television, cinema) The use of a particular color, usually either green or blue) as a key in a studio in order to allow one image to be seamlessly partially superimposed upon another.


lexentry: eng/chromatic__Adjective__1
written_rep: chromatic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chromatisch
sense_list:
Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written.


lexentry: eng/chromatic_aberration__Noun__1
written_rep: chromatic aberration
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chromatische aberratie
sense_list:
(optics) An optical aberration in which an image has coloured fringes, caused by differential refraction of light of different wavelengths.


lexentry: eng/chromatin__Noun__1
written_rep: chromatin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chromatine
sense_list:
(biology) A complex of DNA, RNA and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division.


lexentry: eng/chromatography__Noun__1
written_rep: chromatography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chromatografie
sense_list:
(analytical chemistry) Any of various techniques for the qualitative or quantitative separation of the components of mixtures of compounds; all characterized by the use of a mobile phase (gas or liquid) moving relative to a stationary phase (liquid or solid) – the differences between the rates of migration of the compounds between the two phases affect the separation.


lexentry: eng/chromium__Noun__1
written_rep: chromium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chroom
sense_list:
A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.


lexentry: eng/chromosome__Noun__1
written_rep: chromosome
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chromosoom
sense_list:
(cytology, genetics) A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.


lexentry: eng/chromosphere__Noun__1
written_rep: chromosphere
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chromosfeer
sense_list:
(star) The faint pink extension of a star's atmospheric envelope between the corona and the photosphere


lexentry: eng/chroneme__Noun__1
written_rep: chroneme
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chroneem
sense_list:
A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.


lexentry: eng/chronic__Adjective__1
written_rep: chronic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chronisch
sense_list:
Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time. | (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal. | Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal. | Inveterate or habitual.


lexentry: eng/chronic_fatigue_syndrome__Noun__1
written_rep: chronic fatigue syndrome
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chronischevermoeidheidssyndroom
sense_list:
(pathology) A condition characterized by immune, endocrine and neurologic pathology whose main symptoms are extreme fatigue, extremely low stamina, muscle pain, lymph node swelling, postexertional malaise, and cognitive difficulties.


lexentry: eng/chronogram__Noun__1
written_rep: chronogram
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: jaardicht
sense_list:
A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.


lexentry: eng/chronological__Adjective__1
written_rep: chronological
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chronologisch
sense_list:
(films, shows, books, etc) Relating to the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur within a story, rather than the order in which they are released.


lexentry: eng/chronology__Noun__1
written_rep: chronology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chronologie | tijdrekenkunde | tijdrekening | tijdsorde
sense_list:
(countable) An arrangement of events into chronological order; called a timeline when involving graphical elements.


lexentry: eng/chrononormativity__Noun__1
written_rep: chrononormativity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: heteronormativiteit
sense_list:
the use of time to organize individuals toward maximum productivity; for example, the appropriate time range to start working, have children, or to retire.


lexentry: eng/chronostasis__Noun__1
written_rep: chronostasis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chronostasis
sense_list:
(optics) A visual illusion in which a regular movement seems to pause the first time it is observed.


lexentry: eng/chrysalis__Noun__1
written_rep: chrysalis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pop
sense_list:
The pupa of a butterfly or moth, particularly bare and hanging or girdled, as opposed to enclosed in a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place.


lexentry: eng/chrysanthemum__Noun__1
written_rep: chrysanthemum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chrysant
sense_list:
Any of many flowering perennial plants, of the genus Chrysanthemum, native to China, that have showy radiate heads.


lexentry: eng/chrysoberyl__Noun__1
written_rep: chrysoberyl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chrysoberyl
sense_list:
(mineral) A vitreous mineral, often pale green, a mixed oxide of aluminium and beryllium with the chemical formula BeAl2O4, used as a gemstone.


lexentry: eng/chubby__Adjective__1
written_rep: chubby
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mollig | volslank
sense_list:
Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft. | Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.


lexentry: eng/chuchotage__Noun__1
written_rep: chuchotage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluistertolken
sense_list:
The interpretation or translation of speech in a whisper to a single person in proximity to other people.


lexentry: eng/chuck__Noun__1
written_rep: chuck
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: klauwplaat
sense_list:
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.


lexentry: eng/chufa__Noun__1
written_rep: chufa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aardamandel
sense_list:
Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).


lexentry: eng/chug__Verb__1
written_rep: chug
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: snappen
sense_list:
(transitive, colloquial) To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking.


lexentry: eng/chump__Noun__1
written_rep: chump
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sukkel
sense_list:
(colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. | (colloquial, pejorative) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.


lexentry: eng/chunder__Verb__1
written_rep: chunder
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: braken
sense_list:
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, slang) To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption.


lexentry: eng/chunk__Noun__1
written_rep: chunk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stuk | brok | klomp
sense_list:
A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.


lexentry: eng/church__Noun__1
written_rep: church
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kerk
sense_list:
(countable, Christianity) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place. [from 9th c.] | (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. [from 9th c.] | (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.


lexentry: eng/church_bell__Noun__1
written_rep: church bell
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kerkklok
sense_list:
A bell belonging to a church, usually housed in a tower or steeple, customarily rung before church services or for other occasions such as weddings.


lexentry: eng/church_service__Noun__1
written_rep: church service
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kerkdienst
sense_list:
A formalized period of communal worship, often but not exclusively occurring on Sunday, or Saturday in the case of those churches practicing Sabbatarianism.


lexentry: eng/churn__Verb__1
written_rep: churn
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: karnen | agiteren | klutsen
sense_list:
(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.


lexentry: eng/churn__Verb__1
written_rep: churn
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: schudden | woelen
sense_list:
(transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. | (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.


lexentry: eng/chute__Noun__1
written_rep: chute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buis
sense_list:
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.


lexentry: eng/chutney__Noun__1
written_rep: chutney
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chutney
sense_list:
A sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers. [from 1813]


lexentry: eng/chutzpah__Noun__1
written_rep: chutzpah
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gotspe
sense_list:
(informal) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.


lexentry: eng/château__Noun__1
written_rep: château
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: grendel
sense_list:
A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house. | Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.


lexentry: eng/cicada__Noun__1
written_rep: cicada
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cicade
sense_list:
Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.


lexentry: eng/cicero__Noun__1
written_rep: cicero
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Augustijn | cicero | mediaan
sense_list:
(typography, Continental, _, printing) The Continental equivalent of the English pica: a measure of 12 Didot points (4.51368 mm or about 0.178 in.) or a body of type in this size.


lexentry: eng/cicerone__Noun__1
written_rep: cicerone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cicerone
sense_list:
A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.


lexentry: eng/cicisbeo__Noun__1
written_rep: cicisbeo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galante ridder
sense_list:
(now, chiefly, historical) A man who escorts a married woman to social functions, especially in 18th-century Italy; a married woman's lover.


lexentry: eng/cider__Noun__1
written_rep: cider
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: cider | appelwijn | appelcider
sense_list:
(Australia) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples or pears. | (Japan, South Korea) A non-alcoholic, lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage.


lexentry: eng/cigar__Noun__1
written_rep: cigar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sigaar
sense_list:
A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.


lexentry: eng/cigarette__Noun__1
written_rep: cigarette
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sigaret
sense_list:
A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.


lexentry: eng/cilantro__Noun__1
written_rep: cilantro
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: koriander
sense_list:
(US) The stems and leaves of the coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum, used as a seasoning and garnish in cooking.


lexentry: eng/cinder__Noun__1
written_rep: cinder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: as
sense_list:
Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.


lexentry: eng/cinnabar__Noun__1
written_rep: cinnabar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinnaber | vermiljoen
sense_list:
A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.


lexentry: eng/cinnamic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: cinnamic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kaneelzuur
sense_list:
(carboxylic acid) The aromatic carboxylic acid C6H5-CH=CH-COOH obtained from cinnamon; it is used in perfumery etc


lexentry: eng/cinnamon__Noun__1
written_rep: cinnamon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: kaneelboom | kaneel
sense_list:
Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).


lexentry: eng/cinnamon__Noun__1
written_rep: cinnamon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: kaneel
sense_list:
(mostly, uncountable) A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.


lexentry: eng/circadian__Adjective__1
written_rep: circadian
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: circadiaan
sense_list:
(biology) Of, relating to, or showing rhythmic behaviour with a period of approximately 24 hours; especially of a biological process.


lexentry: eng/circle__Noun__1
written_rep: circle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cirkel | kring
sense_list:
(geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center). | (colloquial) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.


lexentry: eng/circle__Noun__1
written_rep: circle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: kring | cirkel
sense_list:
(astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.


lexentry: eng/circle__Verb__1
written_rep: circle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: omcirkelen
sense_list:
(transitive) To travel around along a curved path. | (transitive) To surround. | (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.


lexentry: eng/circuit_board__Noun__1
written_rep: circuit board
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bord
sense_list:
(electronics, computer hardware) A board on which electronic components and their interconnecting circuits are mounted or etched.


lexentry: eng/circuit_breaker__Noun__1
written_rep: circuit breaker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zekering
sense_list:
(electricity) An electrical switch capable of opening and closing an electrical circuit in all operating conditions, including fault situations.


lexentry: eng/circular_argument__Noun__1
written_rep: circular argument
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cirkelredenering
sense_list:
(philosophy, logic) An argument which commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove.


lexentry: eng/circular_economy__Noun__1
written_rep: circular economy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: circulaire economie | kringloopeconomie
sense_list:
(economics) An industrial economy that aims to reduce waste and pollution by means of reuse, recycling, etc.


lexentry: eng/circulatory_system__Noun__1
written_rep: circulatory system
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bloedsomloop | bloedvatenstelsel
sense_list:
(physiology) The parts of an animal body comprising the heart, blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries), and blood, which circulate the blood around the body. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/circumcise__Verb__1
written_rep: circumcise
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: besnijden
sense_list:
(military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.


lexentry: eng/circumference__Noun__1
written_rep: circumference
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: omtrek
sense_list:
(geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure. | (geometry) The length of such a line.


lexentry: eng/circumfix__Noun__1
written_rep: circumfix
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: circumfix | discontinu affix | omvoegsel
sense_list:
(grammar) An affix containing both a prefixing and a suffixing element existing as a single morphological unit.


lexentry: eng/circumflex__Noun__1
written_rep: circumflex
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: accent circonflexe | circonflexe | dakje | circumflex
sense_list:
A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.


lexentry: eng/circumstance__Noun__1
written_rep: circumstance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: omstandigheid
sense_list:
Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event. | An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status).


lexentry: eng/circus__Noun__1
written_rep: circus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: circus
sense_list:
A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent. [from late 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/cirl_bunting__Noun__1
written_rep: cirl bunting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cirlgors
sense_list:
A small Old World passerine bird, Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family (Emberizidae), very similar to the yellowhammer.


lexentry: eng/cirque__Noun__1
written_rep: cirque
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: keteldal
sense_list:
(geology) A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.


lexentry: eng/cirrhosis__Noun__1
written_rep: cirrhosis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cirrose
sense_list:
(pathology) A chronic disease of the liver caused by damage from toxins (including alcohol), metabolic problems, hepatitis, or nutritional deprivation, characterised by an increase in fibrous tissue and the destruction of liver cells.


lexentry: eng/cirrocumulus__Noun__1
written_rep: cirrocumulus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cirrocumulus | schapenwolk
sense_list:
(physics, meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a thin, white patch of cloud without shadows, composed of very small droplets in the form of grains or ripples. The elements may be merged or separate, and more or less regularly arranged; they subtend an angle of less than 1° when observed at an angle of more than 30° above the horizon. Holes or rifts often occur in a sheet of cirrocumulus. Abbreviated Cc.


lexentry: eng/cirrus__Noun__1
written_rep: cirrus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: windveer | cirrus | vederwolk
sense_list:
(meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.


lexentry: eng/cisterna__Noun__1
written_rep: cisterna
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cisterne
sense_list:
(biology) Any of the various membranes sections comprising some organelles like the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum.


lexentry: eng/citadel__Noun__1
written_rep: citadel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: citadel
sense_list:
A strong fortress that sits high above a city. | (sometimes, figurative) A stronghold or fortified place.


lexentry: eng/citation__Noun__1
written_rep: citation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: citaat | aanhaling
sense_list:
The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing.


lexentry: eng/citizen__Noun__1
written_rep: citizen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: burger | staatsburger
sense_list:
A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/citizen__Noun__1
written_rep: citizen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: burger | poorter | stadsburger | inwoner | particulier
sense_list:
(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/citizen_journalism__Noun__1
written_rep: citizen journalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burgerjournalistiek
sense_list:
(media) A form of independent reporting, often carried out by amateurs who are on the scene of an event, and is then disseminated by new media.


lexentry: eng/citizen_of_the_world__Noun__1
written_rep: citizen of the world
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wereldburger | wereldburgeres
sense_list:
A person regarded as part of the global citizenry; specifically, one who takes the view that they belong to no particular country or state.


lexentry: eng/citric_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: citric acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: citroenzuur
sense_list:
(carboxylic acid) A colourless crystalline compound, 2-hydroxy-1,2,3-propanetricarboxylic acid, C6H8O7, found in citrus fruit; it is used as a food additive and in the manufacture of citrates.


lexentry: eng/city__Noun__1
written_rep: city
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stad
sense_list:
A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place. | (UK, historical, _, in, _, Ireland, and) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.


lexentry: eng/city_council__Noun__1
written_rep: city council
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gemeenteraad
sense_list:
A governing body of people elected to oversee management of a city and represent the interests of residents.


lexentry: eng/city_wall__Noun__1
written_rep: city wall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stadsmuur
sense_list:
(usually, in plural) A wall around a city, built to define the city's boundaries, and sometimes to protect it from aggressors.


lexentry: eng/civet__Noun__1
written_rep: civet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: civetkat
sense_list:
Any of the small carnivorous catlike mammals encompassing certain species from the families Viverridae, Eupleridae, and Nandiniidae, native to tropical Africa and Asia.


lexentry: eng/civil__Adjective__1
written_rep: civil
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: civiel | burgerlijk
sense_list:
(uncomparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.


lexentry: eng/civil_code__Noun__1
written_rep: civil code
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burgerlijk wetboek
sense_list:
(legal) A systematic collection of laws addressing dealings between private parties, such as business contracts and negligence lawsuits.


lexentry: eng/civil_disobedience__Noun__1
written_rep: civil disobedience
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid
sense_list:
A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.


lexentry: eng/civil_engineering__Noun__1
written_rep: civil engineering
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burgerlijke bouwkunde
sense_list:
The technical design and construction of public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, public greens, roads, etc., and/or technically equivalent private (usually corporate) ones.


lexentry: eng/civil_law__Noun__1
written_rep: civil law
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: Romaans-Germaans recht | continentaal recht
sense_list:
(law) A legal system primarily based on a legal code, which commonly derives from the Corpus Juris Civilis.


lexentry: eng/civil_partnership__Noun__1
written_rep: civil partnership
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geregistreerd partnerschap
sense_list:
A union similar to marriage which same-sex couples, and in some jurisdictions opposite-sex couples, may form, which affords rights and responsibilities similar or identical to those afforded by civil marriage.


lexentry: eng/civil_registry__Noun__1
written_rep: civil registry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burgerlijke staat
sense_list:
A government repository, database recording the vital events (births, deaths, etc.) of its citizens and residents, its office.


lexentry: eng/civil_rights__Noun__1
written_rep: civil rights
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: burgerrechten
sense_list:
(US) Those rights which are guaranteed protection by the US Constitution and are considered to be unquestionable, deserved by all people under all circumstances, especially without regard to race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and disability.


lexentry: eng/civil_service__Noun__1
written_rep: civil service
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ambtenarij | rijksdienst
sense_list:
In parliamentary forms of government, the branches of government that are not military, legislative, or judicial, but work to apply its laws and regulations.


lexentry: eng/civil_service__Noun__1
written_rep: civil service
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ambtenarenapparaat | ambtenarij
sense_list:
The body of civilian employees of any level of government, not subject to political appointment and removal, normally hired and promoted largely on the basis of competitive examination.


lexentry: eng/civil_society__Noun__1
written_rep: civil society
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: maatschappelijk middenveld
sense_list:
All of the institutions, voluntary organizations and corporate bodies that are less than the state but greater than the family. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/civil_union__Noun__1
written_rep: civil union
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geregistreerd partnerschap
sense_list:
A legal union similar to marriage, established to allow same-sex couples (and, in some jurisdictions, opposite-sex couples) rights similar to those married couples have.


lexentry: eng/civil_war__Noun__1
written_rep: civil war
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burgeroorlog | burgerkrijg
sense_list:
A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or a similar political entity.


lexentry: eng/civilian__Noun__1
written_rep: civilian
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burger
sense_list:
A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the armed forces. | (informal) A person who does not belong to a particular group or engage in a particular activity, an outsider.


lexentry: eng/civilization__Noun__1
written_rep: civilization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beschaving
sense_list:
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.


lexentry: eng/civilization__Proper_noun__1
written_rep: civilization
part_of_speech: properNoun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beschaving
sense_list:
(inherently emic, sometimes, capitalized) Collectively, those people and places of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. (Compare refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World.


lexentry: eng/clad__Adjective__1
written_rep: clad
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gekleed
sense_list:
(of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.


lexentry: eng/clad__Adjective__1
written_rep: clad
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bekleed
sense_list:
(of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.


lexentry: eng/cladding__Noun__1
written_rep: cladding
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: bedekking
sense_list:
(construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.


lexentry: eng/claim__Noun__1
written_rep: claim
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: bewering
sense_list:
A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.


lexentry: eng/clairvoyance__Noun__1
written_rep: clairvoyance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: helderziendheid
sense_list:
(parapsychology) The power to see or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.


lexentry: eng/clam__Noun__1
written_rep: clam
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mossel
sense_list:
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. | (US, slang, mostly, in the plural) A dollar.


lexentry: eng/clamp__Noun__1
written_rep: clamp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lijmklem | sergeant
sense_list:
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together. | A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.


lexentry: eng/clamp_down_on__Verb__1
written_rep: clamp down on
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ontbreken
sense_list:
(transitive, idiomatic) To take measures to stop (something); to put an end to (something); to exert tighter control of (something); to treat (someone or something) more harshly.


lexentry: eng/clan__Noun__1
written_rep: clan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: clan | stam | sibbe
sense_list:
A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.


lexentry: eng/clanger__Noun__1
written_rep: clanger
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: blunder
sense_list:
(chiefly, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, informal, often in the phrase drop a clanger) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.


lexentry: eng/clapometer__Noun__1
written_rep: clapometer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: applausmeter
sense_list:
An audience-reaction monitor used to give a visual interpretation of applause; once used on some television game shows.


lexentry: eng/clapper__Noun__1
written_rep: clapper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: klepel | bengel
sense_list:
An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.


lexentry: eng/clapper__Noun__1
written_rep: clapper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: klapper | klepper | ratel
sense_list:
A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.


lexentry: eng/clapperboard__Noun__1
written_rep: clapperboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klapbord
sense_list:
(film) A device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production to be able to synchronize picture and sound during editing.


lexentry: eng/clarification__Noun__1
written_rep: clarification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: opheldering | verduidelijking
sense_list:
The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.


lexentry: eng/clarify__Verb__1
written_rep: clarify
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klaren
sense_list:
(ergative, of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.


lexentry: eng/clarify__Verb__1
written_rep: clarify
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: verduidelijken | ophelderen | klaren | opklaren
sense_list:
(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.


lexentry: eng/clarinet__Noun__1
written_rep: clarinet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klarinet
sense_list:
(woodwind instrument) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).


lexentry: eng/clarion__Noun__1
written_rep: clarion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klaroen
sense_list:
(brass instrument, historical, or, poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.


lexentry: eng/clash__Verb__1
written_rep: clash
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: botsen
sense_list:
(intransitive, of clothes, decor, colours) To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.


lexentry: eng/clasp__Noun__1
written_rep: clasp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: slot | gesp | greep | haak | knip | kram
sense_list:
(countable) A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together, such as a fastener or a holder.


lexentry: eng/class__Noun__1
written_rep: class
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klasse | klas
sense_list:
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. | (uncountable) The division of society into classes. | (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance. | (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation. | (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. | (object-oriented, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.


lexentry: eng/class__Noun__1
written_rep: class
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: klasse | laag
sense_list:
(sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.


lexentry: eng/class__Noun__1
written_rep: class
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: klas | klasse
sense_list:
(education, countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.


lexentry: eng/class__Noun__1
written_rep: class
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: klasse
sense_list:
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class. | (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).


lexentry: eng/class_action__Noun__1
written_rep: class action
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: groepsvordering | groepszaak
sense_list:
(law, chiefly, US, Canada) A lawsuit brought by a single plaintiff or small group of plaintiffs as a representative of a large group of others having a common interest, with everyone in the large group eligible to receive damages if the plaintiff is successful.


lexentry: eng/class_consciousness__Noun__1
written_rep: class consciousness
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klassenbewustzijn
sense_list:
(Marxism, social sciences) An individual's awareness of their relative place within the class system of society.


lexentry: eng/class_struggle__Noun__1
written_rep: class struggle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klassenstrijd
sense_list:
Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes); the active expression of a theoretical class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective.


lexentry: eng/classic__Noun__1
written_rep: classic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: klassieker
sense_list:
An artistic work of lasting worth, such as a film or song; a work of enduring excellence. | A major, long-standing sporting event.


lexentry: eng/classic__Noun__1
written_rep: classic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: classicus
sense_list:
(dated) One learned in the literature of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; a student of classical literature.


lexentry: eng/classical_antiquity__Proper_noun__1
written_rep: classical antiquity
part_of_speech: properNoun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klassieke oudheid
sense_list:
(history) The era of the height of Greco-Roman civilization in southern Europe, roughly comprising the 6th century BC to the 5th century (AD), although sometimes distinguished from Late Antiquity


lexentry: eng/classical_guitar__Noun__1
written_rep: classical guitar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klassieke gitaar
sense_list:
A type of flat-tabled guitar of Spanish origin used primarily for Western classical music, flamenco, and Latin American music, with six nylon (formerly gut) strings, usually played with the fingers rather than with a plectrum.


lexentry: eng/classical_music__Noun__1
written_rep: classical music
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klassieke muziek
sense_list:
(music genre) Music of the classical period; the music of Mozart, Haydn, etc; the musical period before the romantic.


lexentry: eng/classicism__Noun__1
written_rep: classicism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: classicisme
sense_list:
(uncountable) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.


lexentry: eng/classification__Noun__1
written_rep: classification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: classificatie
sense_list:
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.


lexentry: eng/classified_advertisement__Noun__1
written_rep: classified advertisement
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: annonce
sense_list:
Any of a list of newspaper or website advertisements included with others under a heading describing the category of product or service offered or sought.


lexentry: eng/classism__Noun__1
written_rep: classism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klassisme
sense_list:
Discrimination or prejudice that is based on social class, especially against those of lower social class.


lexentry: eng/clastic__Adjective__1
written_rep: clastic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klastisch
sense_list:
Made up of parts that are easily removable. | (geology, of rock) Made from fragments of pre-existing rocks.


lexentry: eng/clause__Noun__1
written_rep: clause
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bijzin
sense_list:
(grammar) A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.


lexentry: eng/clause__Noun__1
written_rep: clause
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: bijzin | nevenschikking
sense_list:
(grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a sentence.)


lexentry: eng/clavichord__Noun__1
written_rep: clavichord
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klavechord | klavichord
sense_list:
(musical instruments) An early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades (called tangents) attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings.


lexentry: eng/clavicle__Noun__1
written_rep: clavicle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sleutelbeen
sense_list:
(skeleton) The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.


lexentry: eng/clavicytherium__Noun__1
written_rep: clavicytherium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clavicytherium
sense_list:
(musical instruments) A harpsichord in which the soundboard and strings are mounted vertically facing the player. [early 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/claw__Noun__1
written_rep: claw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: schaar
sense_list:
The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod. | (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.


lexentry: eng/clawed_frog__Noun__1
written_rep: clawed frog
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klauwkikker
sense_list:
Any of a group of aquatic carnivorous frogs in the genus Xenopus, which are very small and have small claws.


lexentry: eng/clay__Noun__1
written_rep: clay
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klei
sense_list:
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.


lexentry: eng/clean__Noun__1
written_rep: clean
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: voorslaan
sense_list:
(weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.


lexentry: eng/clean_and_jerk__Noun__1
written_rep: clean and jerk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stoot
sense_list:
(weightlifting) The act of lifting the barbell from the floor to a resting position across the front of the shoulders (the clean phase), pausing, and thrusting the barbell over the head to a stationary position in one movement (the jerk phase). The normal technique for both parts of this act involves propelling the barbell upwards, quickly lowering the torso, and then straightening the legs.


lexentry: eng/clean_someone's_clock__Verb__1
written_rep: clean someone's clock
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: met iemand de vloer aanvegen | iemand uitschakelen
sense_list:
(idiomatic, informal) To defeat someone decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation.


lexentry: eng/cleaner__Noun__1
written_rep: cleaner
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: reiniger | reinigingsmiddel
sense_list:
A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.


lexentry: eng/clear__Verb__1
written_rep: clear
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: verrekenen
sense_list:
(intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.


lexentry: eng/clear_one's_throat__Verb__1
written_rep: clear one's throat
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kuchen
sense_list:
To forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expell air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorously than to cough.


lexentry: eng/clearance_rate__Noun__1
written_rep: clearance rate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ophelderingspercentage | oplossingspercentage
sense_list:
(crime, law enforcement) The proportion of crimes that are solved by the police with respect to the total number of crimes reported.


lexentry: eng/clearing_house__Noun__1
written_rep: clearing house
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: verrekeningskamer
sense_list:
A central point where clearing banks and other financial firms exchange checks, settle accounts, etc.


lexentry: eng/clearness__Noun__1
written_rep: clearness
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: duidelijkheid
sense_list:
The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/cleavage__Noun__1
written_rep: cleavage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: decolleté
sense_list:
The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline. [from 20th c.] | (by extension) Any similar separation between two body parts, such as the buttocks or toes.


lexentry: eng/cleave__Verb__1
written_rep: cleave
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: splitsen
sense_list:
(transitive) (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules. | (intransitive) To split.


lexentry: eng/clef__Noun__1
written_rep: clef
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sleutel | muzieksleutel
sense_list:
(music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/clematis__Noun__1
written_rep: clematis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clematis
sense_list:
(botany) Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.


lexentry: eng/clementine__Noun__1
written_rep: clementine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clementine
sense_list:
A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.


lexentry: eng/clerestory__Noun__1
written_rep: clerestory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lichtbeuk
sense_list:
(architecture) The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.


lexentry: eng/clerihew__Noun__1
written_rep: clerihew
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clerihew
sense_list:
A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. [from 1920s]


lexentry: eng/clerk__Noun__1
written_rep: clerk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bediende | klerk
sense_list:
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.


lexentry: eng/clever_clogs__Noun__1
written_rep: clever clogs
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: betweter
sense_list:
(slang, UK, and, Ireland) Somebody who is rather too clever; a smart aleck; sometimes used as an epithet.


lexentry: eng/clever_dick__Noun__1
written_rep: clever dick
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wijsneus
sense_list:
(informal, chiefly, British) A person who annoyingly tries too hard to impress with their cleverness.


lexentry: eng/clevis__Noun__1
written_rep: clevis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vork
sense_list:
A U-shaped coupling having holes at each end, through which a bolt is run; used especially to fit attachments to a tractor or other vehicle as it allows a degree of rotation about the bolt.


lexentry: eng/clevis_pin__Noun__1
written_rep: clevis pin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gaffelpen
sense_list:
Part of clevis fastener that allows rotation of the connected parts about the axis of the pin. A clevis pin consists of a head, shank and hole. The hole passes through the shank at the opposite end of the pin from the head. A cotter pin or similar through the hole keeps the clevis pin in place.


lexentry: eng/cliché__Noun__1
written_rep: cliché
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cliché | platitude | gemeenplaats
sense_list:
(rhetoric) Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/click__Noun__1
written_rep: click
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: klikken
sense_list:
(GUI) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.


lexentry: eng/click_beetle__Noun__1
written_rep: click beetle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: smid
sense_list:
Any of various beetles of the family Elateridae, generally less than 20 mm long, which, if turned upside down, flip themselves into the air with a clicking sound.


lexentry: eng/client__Noun__1
written_rep: client
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klant | cliënt
sense_list:
A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services. | A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.


lexentry: eng/client__Noun__1
written_rep: client
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: client
sense_list:
(computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.


lexentry: eng/clientele__Noun__1
written_rep: clientele
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klandizie | klantengroep
sense_list:
The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.


lexentry: eng/climacterium__Noun__1
written_rep: climacterium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: climacterium
sense_list:
(medical) The bodily and mental changes linked to the reproductive and endocrine function in men and women occurring during the latter part of middle age.


lexentry: eng/climate__Noun__1
written_rep: climate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klimaat
sense_list:
The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years). | (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.


lexentry: eng/climate_change__Noun__1
written_rep: climate change
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: klimaatsverandering | klimaatwijziging
sense_list:
Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.


lexentry: eng/climate_refugee__Noun__1
written_rep: climate refugee
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klimaatvluchteling
sense_list:
A person who is forced to flee their home due to anthropogenic climate change that made their region unliveable. [from 1980s]


lexentry: eng/climate_sceptic__Noun__1
written_rep: climate sceptic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klimaatscepticus
sense_list:
A person who does not believe climate change is happening or does not believe it is caused by human activity.


lexentry: eng/climate_strike__Noun__1
written_rep: climate strike
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klimaatstaking
sense_list:
A protest in which people absent themselves from professional or educational activities in order to join demonstrations calling for action to counter climate change.


lexentry: eng/climber__Noun__1
written_rep: climber
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klimplant | slingerplant
sense_list:
(botany) A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.


lexentry: eng/climbing__Noun__1
written_rep: climbing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klimmen | klimsport
sense_list:
(uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.


lexentry: eng/clinch__Noun__1
written_rep: clinch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: clinch
sense_list:
(wrestling, combat sports) The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.


lexentry: eng/clingy__Adjective__1
written_rep: clingy
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kleverig
sense_list:
Having a tendency to cling. | (informal, usually, derogatory) Pathetically attached to, or possessive of someone, usually a significant other.


lexentry: eng/clinic__Noun__1
written_rep: clinic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kliniek
sense_list:
A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.


lexentry: eng/clinical_death__Noun__1
written_rep: clinical death
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klinisch dood
sense_list:
(medicine, legal) A state in which usual medically observable vital signs—such as respiration, heartbeat, and corneal reflex—are not present, but from which patients are sometimes revived.


lexentry: eng/clinical_psychology__Noun__1
written_rep: clinical psychology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klinische psychologie
sense_list:
(psychology) A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.


lexentry: eng/clinician__Noun__1
written_rep: clinician
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ziekenhuisarts
sense_list:
(chiefly, US) Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.


lexentry: eng/clinker-built__Adjective__1
written_rep: clinker-built
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: overnaads
sense_list:
(nautical) Of a boat or ship: having the hull constructed using planks or plates laid so that each plank overlaps the edge of the plank or plate below it, and in the case of plates, behind it; the planks were traditionally secured by nails which had been clenched (or clinched), that is, after being hammered through the planks the points of the nails were bent to make them unremovable.


lexentry: eng/clinker__Noun__1
written_rep: clinker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klinker
sense_list:
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. [from 17th c.] | Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/clinometer__Noun__1
written_rep: clinometer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clinometer
sense_list:
An apparatus for measuring a vertical angle, a slope, or the height of a large object (e.g. a tree).


lexentry: eng/clip__Noun__1
written_rep: clip
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: kam
sense_list:
(military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.


lexentry: eng/clip_art__Noun__1
written_rep: clip art
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clipart
sense_list:
(computing) A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copied and pasted into documents or other files.


lexentry: eng/clipboard__Noun__1
written_rep: clipboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: klembord
sense_list:
(computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.


lexentry: eng/clipper__Noun__1
written_rep: clipper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: klipper
sense_list:
(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.


lexentry: eng/clipping__Noun__1
written_rep: clipping
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: verkorting
sense_list:
(countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.


lexentry: eng/clitic__Noun__1
written_rep: clitic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cliticum
sense_list:
(linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).


lexentry: eng/clitoral_hood__Noun__1
written_rep: clitoral hood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clitorishoed | clitoriskap
sense_list:
A fold of skin that surrounds and protects the clitoris, homologous with the male foreskin; the female prepuce.


lexentry: eng/clitoris__Noun__1
written_rep: clitoris
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clitoris | kittelaar
sense_list:
(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/cloaca__Noun__1
written_rep: cloaca
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cloaca
sense_list:
(anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, marsupials and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.


lexentry: eng/clobber__Verb__1
written_rep: clobber
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: overschrijven
sense_list:
(transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.


lexentry: eng/cloche__Noun__1
written_rep: cloche
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: klok
sense_list:
A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim. | A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.


lexentry: eng/clock__Noun__1
written_rep: clock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: klok
sense_list:
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.


lexentry: eng/clock_face__Noun__1
written_rep: clock face
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wijzerplaat
sense_list:
The surface of a clock that contains the dial and hands (via the traditional design of clocks); such an arrangement on either a clock or a watch.


lexentry: eng/clock_in__Verb__1
written_rep: clock in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aannemen
sense_list:
(US) To begin working time, especially by punching in (entering a workplace by punching a time card with the time clock).


lexentry: eng/clock_tower__Noun__1
written_rep: clock tower
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klokkentoren
sense_list:
(architecture) A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.


lexentry: eng/clockwork__Noun__1
written_rep: clockwork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: uurwerk
sense_list:
A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.


lexentry: eng/clod__Noun__1
written_rep: clod
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klomp | klont | kluit
sense_list:
A lump of something, especially earth or clay. | Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.


lexentry: eng/cloister__Noun__1
written_rep: cloister
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kloostergang | kruisgang
sense_list:
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:


lexentry: eng/cloister_vault__Noun__1
written_rep: cloister vault
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kloostergewelf
sense_list:
(architecture) A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel vaults crossing in a right angle. The angles of intersection are groins with projecting angles at the base, which die away at the summit.


lexentry: eng/clone__Noun__1
written_rep: clone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kloon
sense_list:
A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. | (cytology) A group of identical cells derived from a single cell. | A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.


lexentry: eng/close,_but_no_cigar__Phrase__1
written_rep: close, but no cigar
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bijna telt niet | het is net niks
sense_list:
(idiomatic, originally, US, colloquial) Used to indicate that one is almost correct or has almost succeeded, but not quite. [from early 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/close-up__Noun__1
written_rep: close-up
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: close-up
sense_list:
(photography) A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.


lexentry: eng/close__Adjective__1
written_rep: close
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: drukkend | zwoel
sense_list:
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so. | (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.


lexentry: eng/close__Verb__1
written_rep: close
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sluiten
sense_list:
(ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed. | (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow. | (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.


lexentry: eng/close_ranks__Verb__1
written_rep: close ranks
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: de rangen sluiten
sense_list:
(figuratively) To regroup forces, especially when this involves overlooking differences in order to face a challenge or adverse situation. Often implies making a show of unity, especially to the public.


lexentry: eng/close_the_stable_door_after_the_horse_has_bolted__Verb__1
written_rep: close the stable door after the horse has bolted
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: achter de feiten aanlopen | als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To attempt to prevent a problem that has already occurred; to design and implement a preventive mechanism that is too late (after the first failure instead of before).


lexentry: eng/closed__Adjective__1
written_rep: closed
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: afgesloten | dicht | gesloten | toe
sense_list:
(computing, of a file, document, etc.) Not in current use; not connected to as a resource. | Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc. | Not available for use or operation.


lexentry: eng/closet__Noun__1
written_rep: closet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kast
sense_list:
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. | (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air. | (archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions. | (archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch. | (figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing. | (now, rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly): | (obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves. | (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord. | (archaic) One used to store curiosities. | (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet. | (obsolete) One used to store valuables. | (slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case. | A private cabinet, (particularly): | (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes. | (now, chiefly, Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side room. | (obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet. | (heraldiccharge) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad. | (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer. | A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity. | The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret. | (archaic) A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?


lexentry: eng/closeup__Noun__1
written_rep: closeup
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: close-up
sense_list:
(film) A video or film recording made with the camera positioned close to an actor, often so that only the head or face is visible.


lexentry: eng/cloth__Noun__1
written_rep: cloth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: doek | kleed
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. | (metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.


lexentry: eng/clothes_dryer__Noun__1
written_rep: clothes dryer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wasdroger
sense_list:
An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.


lexentry: eng/clothes_moth__Noun__1
written_rep: clothes moth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klerenmot | kleermot
sense_list:
Any of several small, yellowish or buff-colored moths of the family Tineidae, feeding on textiles (wool, fur, feathers).


lexentry: eng/clothes_peg__Noun__1
written_rep: clothes peg
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wasknijper | wasspeld
sense_list:
(British, Australia, NZ, Canada) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.


lexentry: eng/clothesline__Noun__1
written_rep: clothesline
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: waslijn | wasdraad
sense_list:
A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry. | (North America, informal) The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.


lexentry: eng/clotted_cream__Noun__1
written_rep: clotted cream
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: strijkroom
sense_list:
A thick, sweet dairy product, made by skimming the thickened layer off the top of unhomogenized cream that has been heated and allowed to stand. Fat content is at least 55%.


lexentry: eng/cloud__Noun__1
written_rep: cloud
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: wolk
sense_list:
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. | Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy. Example: The clouds were grey so James thought it was about to rain. | A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.


lexentry: eng/cloud__Noun__1
written_rep: cloud
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: cloud | wolk
sense_list:
(cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.


lexentry: eng/clouded_leopard__Noun__1
written_rep: clouded leopard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nevelpanter
sense_list:
(especially) A mainland clouded leopard, a medium-sized, arboreal cat of species Neofelis nebulosa, found in Southeast Asia.


lexentry: eng/clout__Noun__1
written_rep: clout
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: doelwit | roos
sense_list:
(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.


lexentry: eng/clove__Noun__1
written_rep: clove
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: kruidnagel
sense_list:
(uncountable, or, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.


lexentry: eng/clove_hitch__Noun__1
written_rep: clove hitch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mastworp
sense_list:
(nautical) a bend formed by two half hitches in the same direction, used to make a line fast to a spar or to a larger rope; it will not slip


lexentry: eng/clover__Noun__1
written_rep: clover
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klaver
sense_list:
A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.


lexentry: eng/cloverleaf_interchange__Noun__1
written_rep: cloverleaf interchange
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: klaverblad | klaverbladknooppunt
sense_list:
(US, Canada) A junction of two highways, one crossing over the other, having a series of exit and entrance ramps, arranged in the form of a four-leaf clover, such that traffic may proceed from either highway in all directions.


lexentry: eng/clown__Noun__1
written_rep: clown
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clown
sense_list:
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig. | A person who acts in a silly fashion.


lexentry: eng/clown_nose__Noun__1
written_rep: clown nose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clownsneus
sense_list:
A fake nose, typically near spherical, bright red in color and sometimes capable of producing a honking sound when squeezed, commonly used by clowns and occasionally as a prop by people during parties.


lexentry: eng/clownfish__Noun__1
written_rep: clownfish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clownvis
sense_list:
Any of the colorful fish of genera Amphiprion and Premnas in subfamily Amphiprioninae of family Pomacentridae, native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, notable for their mutual relationship with sea anemones.


lexentry: eng/club__Noun__1
written_rep: club
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: knuppel
sense_list:
(countable) A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.


lexentry: eng/club__Noun__1
written_rep: club
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: club
sense_list:
(countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.


lexentry: eng/club__Noun__1
written_rep: club
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: klaveren
sense_list:
(card games) A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.


lexentry: eng/club_moss__Noun__1
written_rep: club moss
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: wolfsklauw
sense_list:
Any of various simple microphyllous vascular plants, of the family Lycopodiaceae, that resemble mosses and produce spores.


