DANISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Danish mean? 

• DANISH (noun)
  The noun DANISH has 2 senses:

1. a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark

2. light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese

  Familiarity information: DANISH used as a noun is rare.

• DANISH (adjective)
  The adjective DANISH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes or their language

  Familiarity information: DANISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DANISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Danish" is a kind of...):

Nordic; Norse; North Germanic; North Germanic language; Scandinavian; Scandinavian language (the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland)

Derivation:

Danish (of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes or their language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

danish; danish pastry

Hypernyms ("danish" is a kind of...):

coffee roll; sweet roll (any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze)

• DANISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Danish furniture

Pertainym:

Denmark (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea)

Derivation:

Danish (a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark)

 Context examples 

The theory that Earth has a solid core was first proposed in 1936 when female Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann reanalysed data from the magnitude-7.3 1929 earthquake that struck New Zealand's south island.

(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers compared records from 918 mother-child pairs who took part in the Danish National Birth Cohort, a study that followed the pregnancies of more than 91,000 women in Denmark.

(Pregnancy diet high in refined grains could increase child obesity risk by age 7, NIH)

They drew on 55,502 (26,400 men and 29,100 women) participants, aged between 50 and 64, from the population-based Danish Diet, Cancer and Health Study.

(Eat Chocolate for Steady Heartbea, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Loke lives at SDU's marine biology research station in the Danish town Kerteminde.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These common structural domains, so-named for their resemblance to Danish pastries known as kringlers, play a role in binding membranes, proteins, and phospholipids as well as in regulating proteolysis.

(Kringle Domain, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A Danish brand name for a laxative product containing glycerin and docusate sodium.

(Glyoktyl, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers with the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC) and the University of Waterloo in Canada conducted the study of almost 700 pregnant Danish women.

(Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Asthma Risk in Children by One-Third, VOA)

This is a method (named after the Danish bacteriologist, Hans Christian Gram) for staining and identifying bacteria.

(Gram Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Today, the same scientists have built on their previous findings by testing the amniotic fluid samples from the same 98 individuals sampled from the Danish Biobank, which has collected amniotic samples from over 100,000 pregnancies, but this time looking at another set of prenatal sex steroid hormones called oestrogens.

(High levels of oestrogen in the womb linked to autism, University of Cambridge)

And though he wasn’t the first or only person to observe this stellar spectacle, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wrote a book about his extensive observations of the event, gaining the honor of it being named after him.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)