druk

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• IPA^(key): /drʌk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

druk (plural druks)

1. (chiefly attributive) A kind of spherical Czech glass bead used in crafting.
   • 1997, Martha Stewart, Christmas with Martha Stewart living: Decorating for the holidays:

     They come in such varied styles and colors, you can fashion anything, from beaded eggs tightly cocooned in strands of glittering rocailles to snowflakes that artfully blend tiny tri-cut beads with bugle beads and druks.

• Kurd

• IPA^(key): /drœk/

From Dutch drukken.

druk (present druk, present participle drukkende, past participle gedruk)

1. to press, print

From Dutch druk.

druk (attributive drukke, comparative drukker, superlative drukste)

1. busy, hectic

druk (plural drukke, diminutive drukkie)

1. pressure
2. printing, edition (of a book)

• IPA^(key): /drʏk/

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• Hyphenation: druk
• Rhymes: -ʏk

From Middle Dutch druc. Equivalent to a deverbal from drukken. Cognate with German Druck.

druk m (plural drukken, diminutive drukje n)

1. (physics) pressure
2. edition (e.g. of a book)

• afdruk
• bloeddruk
• drukwerken
• indruk
• luchtdruk
• nadruk
• opdruk

• Afrikaans: druk
• Negerhollands: dryk

druk (comparative drukker, superlative drukst)

1. busy, crowded, hectic (of a place)
2. busy, preoccupied (of a person)
3. restless, uneasy
4. gaudy, messy, restless

• drukte

• drukken

• Afrikaans: druk
• → Caribbean Javanese: dreg, drig
• → Papiamentu: drùk

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

druk

1. first-person singular present indicative of drukken
2. imperative of drukken

Borrowed from German Druck.

• IPA^(key): /druk/

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: druk
• Homophone: dróg

druk m inan

1. printing (the process of printing)

   Te książki właśnie wyszły z druku. ― Those books have just come from printing.

2. print (the letters forming the text of a document)

   Ten tekst napisany jest zbyt małym drukiem. ― The print in this text is too small.

• druk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• druk in Polish dictionaries at PWN