Terminology

Terminology

Terminology is the meaning of terms and thier use.

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Language; Terminology

Additionally, including your glossaries on brubru is a great way to build up your online profile for knowledge development and sharing; as the more terms you have, the higher the ranking of your ...

undertaker

Language; Terminology

An undertaker is a funeral director, or a mortician and not an entrepreneur (although he or she usually is), although the Dutch word ondernemer is indeed an entrepreneur, someone who undertakes ...

to fasten

Language; Terminology

To fasten is to 1. To attach firmly to something else, as by pinning or nailing. 2. To make fast or secure. b. To close, as by fixing firmly in place. To fasten is not to accelerate, to speed up ...

monster

Language; Terminology

A monster in the English language is not a sample, which it is in Dutch and confusingly also a monster, as in scary animal. Muddle this up and the result can be both amusing and confusing.

If you eat something 'uit de hand', you eat it unprocessed, like an apple. If you want to use the image of someone taking a bite, simply say he/she is taking a bite. The English phrase out of hand ...

registered accountant

Language; Terminology

The Dutch word registeraccountant, although it sounds English should be translated into charted accountant or registered accountant in the English language.

beamer

Language; Terminology

Ask an American or British colleague for a beamer and you are bound to receive raised eyebrows. A beamer is slang for a BMW. If a car is not what you require, you will have to use the term (computer) ...