English-Danish translations for cradle

vuggeDet vil hjælpe os med at skabe en vugge-til-vugge-industri og fremme intelligent anvendelse af råvarer og en sund økonomi. It will help us create cradle-to-cradle industry and encourage intelligent use of raw materials and a healthy economy. Demokratiets vugge stod i Grækenland. Greece was the cradle of democracy. Grækenland er den europæiske kulturs vugge. Greece is the cradle of European culture.

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots
The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence
Infancy, or very early life
An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath
A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person
A suspended scaffold used in shafts
A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck
A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware
A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand
To contain in or as if in a cradle
To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively
To lull or quieten, as if by rocking
To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle
To put ribs across the back of , to prevent the panels from warping

a cradle of crime
the cradle of liberty
from the cradle to the grave
The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
He slammed the handset into the cradle.
cradling the injured man’s head in her arms

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