English-Dutch translations for cradle

wieg
De Middellandse Zee is de wieg van de beschaving zoals wij die kennen. The Mediterranean is the cradle of civilisation as we know it. En we mogen niet vergeten dat de wieg van de democratie in Griekenland heeft gestaan. It is important to remember that Greece was the cradle of democracy. Griekenland is de wieg van de Europese cultuur. Greece is the cradle of European culture.
omsluiten

armsteun
bakermat
Griekenland is de bakermat van de democratie. Greece was the cradle of democracy. Het oude Olympia is de bakermat van de civilisatie. Ancient Olympia is the cradle of civilisation. Egypte is de bakermat van de Midden-Oostenpolitiek. Egypt is the cradle of Middle Eastern politics.
haak
houder
omhullen
omvatten

steun
wiegen
Alsof - behalve in bijzonder tragische omstandigheden - het niet in de eerste plaats de vrouw is die het kind het beste kan wiegen, zich erover kan buigen, het liefhebben, troosten en opvoeden. As if - barring some tragedy - it were not she who is first and best able to cradle, protect, love, console and bring up her child.

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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