Engels Woord van de dag

smell

ruiken

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Engels > Nederlands

smell

1. (je) ruikt

2. geur, reuk

3. ruiken

Engels > Engels

smell

1. n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

I love the smell of fresh bread.

2. n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.

3. v. To sense a smell or smells.

I can smell fresh bread.

Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.

4. v. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of".

The roses smell lovely.

Her feet smell of cheese.

The drunkard smelt like a brewery.

5. v. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.

Ew, this stuff smells.

6. v. (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.

A report smells of calumny.

7. v. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.

8. v. To detect or perceive; often with out.

9. v. (obsolete) To give heed to.

Nederlands > Engels

ruiken

1. v. To smell (i.e. to perceive a smell)

Het is net alsof ik ruik / Dat de bloemen alweer bloeien / En de zon weer altijd brandt — It is just as if I smell / That the flowers are blooming again / And the sun be again always burn

2. v. To smell (i.e. to emit a smell)

De houthakker rook naar kamille en goedkope parfum. - The lumberjack smelt like chamomile and cheap perfume.