Engels Woord van de dag

bone

bot

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Engels > Nederlands

bone

1. been

2. bot, been

Engels > Engels

bone

1. n. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

2. n. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

3. n. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

4. n. A bonefish

5. n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

6. n. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

7. n. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

8. n. (figurative) The framework of anything.

9. n. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

(color panel, E4D4BA)

10. n. (US, informal) A dollar.

11. n. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.

12. n. (slang) A domino or dice.

13. adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

14. v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

15. v. To fertilize with bone.

16. v. To put whalebone into.

to bone stays

17. v. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

boning rod

18. v. (vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

19. v. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

20. v. (usually with "up") To study.

bone up

21. v. To polish boots to a shiny finish.

22. v. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

23. v. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

24. n. (slang) (clipping of trombone)

Nederlands > Engels

bot

1. adj. not sharp, blunt, dull

De schaar is te bot om het papier goed te knippen. - The scissors are too blunt to cut the paper properly.

2. adj. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude

Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens. - His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.

3. n-n. (topics, Body parts)bone

De dokter heeft vastgesteld dat hij een gebroken bot heeft. - The doctor has determined that he has a broken bone.

4. n-m. flounder (a type of fish)

Ik heb een heerlijke bot gevangen tijdens het vissen. - I caught a delicious flounder while fishing.

5. n-f. (Belgium) boot

6. n-m. A bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games).

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

The two dogs fought over the bone.
    De twee honden vochten voor het been.
He may own a lot of books but there's not an intelligent bone in his body.
    Hij mag dan wel veel boeken bezitten, hij heeft geen één intelligent bot in zijn lichaam.
Two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs away with it.
    Als twee honden vechten om een been, loopt de derde ermee heen.
He gave the dog a bone.
    Hij gaf een bot aan de hond.
The dog was busy burying his bone in the garden.
    De hond was bezig met het begraven van zijn bot in de tuin.

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