Dutch
Encyclopedia
Dutch usually refers to:
  • Something from or related to the Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

  • Dutch people
    Dutch people
    The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

    , people from the Netherlands or their descendants
  • Dutch language
    Dutch language
    Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

    , spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Maarten, and Sint Eustatius.
  • Something associated with German, (Deutsch
    Deutsch (disambiguation)
    Deutsch is the German language word for German . Deutsche are Germans, while [eine] Deutsche/[ein] Deutscher is [a] German...

    ) through associated meaning and sound of the word
  • Pennsylvania Dutch
    Pennsylvania Dutch
    Pennsylvania Dutch refers to immigrants and their descendants from southwestern Germany and Switzerland who settled in Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries...

    , German settlers in Pennsylvania and their language


It may also refer to:

Personal nicknames
  • Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

    , 40th President of the United States
  • Dutch Schultz
    Dutch Schultz
    Dutch Schultz was a New York City-area Jewish American gangster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging alcohol and the numbers racket...

    , notorious gangster
  • Dutch Ruppersberger
    Dutch Ruppersberger
    Charles Albert "Dutch" Ruppersberger III is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party....

    , U.S. congressman from Maryland
    Maryland
    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

  • Dutch Clark, National Football League player
  • Dutch Leonard (left-handed pitcher)
    Dutch Leonard (left-handed pitcher)
    Hubert Benjamin "Dutch" Leonard, was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who had an 11-year career from 1913–1921, 1924-1925. He played for the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers, and holds the major league modern-era record for the lowest single-season ERA of all time — 0.96...

    , Major League Baseball player
  • Dutch Savage
    Dutch Savage
    Frank Stewart is a former professional wrestler and wrestling promoter, best known for his time spent competing in Pacific Northwest Wrestling under the ring name Dutch Savage.-Career:...

    , professional wrestler and promoter
  • Dutch Meyer
    Dutch Meyer
    Leo R. "Dutch" Meyer was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Texas Christian University from 1934 to 1952, compiling a record of 109–79–13. His TCU Horned Frogs football teams of 1935 and 1938 have been recognized...

    , American collegiate football coach
  • Dutch Boyd, professional poker player
  • Darren Daulton
    Darren Daulton
    Darren Arthur Daulton , nicknamed Dutch, is a former catcher in Major League Baseball best remembered for his years with the Philadelphia Phillies...

    , former professional baseball player, current radio and television baseball analyst
  • Cornelius Warmerdam
    Cornelius Warmerdam
    Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....

    , American pole vaulter
  • Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach, fictional character from The Shield
    The Shield
    The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...

     (aka Dutchboy)


Places
  • Dutch Island (Rhode Island)
    Dutch Island (Rhode Island)
    Dutch Island is an island lying west of Conanicut Island at an entrance to Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, USA. The island is a part of the town of Jamestown, Rhode Island, and has a land area of 0.4156 km² . It was uninhabited as of the 2000 census.-History:Dutch Island's Indian name was...

  • Dutch Gap
    Dutch Gap
    Dutch Gap is located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia near the site of the lost 17th-century city of Henricus.In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale, according to a method he had learned while campaigning in Holland, cut a ditch across a portion of land behind town...

    , on the James River in Virginia
  • Dutch Harbor, Alaska
  • Dutch Fort
    Dutch Fort
    The ruins of the Dutch Fort on Pangkor Island are the remnants of an outpost of Dutch attempts to control trade in the Malay peninsula. In the Malay language, the fort is called Kota Belanda....

    , Malay peninsula


In sports
  • Dutch Open (tennis), a defunct tennis tournament
  • Dutch Grand Prix
    Dutch Grand Prix
    The Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One automobile race held at Circuit Zandvoort, from 1948 to 1985. It was a part of the World Championship from 1952, and designated the European Grand Prix two times, 1962 and 1976, when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one grand prix...

    , a former Formula One car race
  • Dutch TT
    Dutch TT
    The Dutch TT is a motorcycling event, traditionally held on the last Saturday of June at the TT Circuit Assen in the Netherlands, as part of the MotoGP World Championship. In the past all classes , nowadays only the 125 cc, Moto2 and the MotoGP...

    , a motorcycle race, part of the MotoGP World Championship


Music
  • The Dutch, a band from The Netherlands, in the first half of the eighties


Other
  • Dutch, the magazine
    Dutch, the magazine
    Dutch, the Magazine is a bi-monthly Canadian magazine about The Netherlands and its people. It covers issues like society, politics, culture, history, food and travel. It covers the Netherlands and its inhabitants and Dutch settlements abroad, especially in North America. The magazine was launched...

    , a magazine in English about the Netherlands and the Dutch
  • Dutch (film)
    Dutch (film)
    Dutch is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Faiman and written by John Hughes. The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri...

    , a 1991 American comedy starring Ed O'Neill
  • Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
    Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
    Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan a 1999 biography with fictional elements by Edmund Morris, a Kenyan-born writer now living in the United States, about Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States...

  • Dutch Boy Paint


Collocations
Various expressions, not necessarily related to the Netherlands or the Dutch language (cf. Dutch uncle
Dutch uncle
Dutch uncle is a term for a person who issues frank, harsh, and severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage, or admonish someone. Thus, a "Dutch uncle" is a person who is rather the reverse of what is normally thought of as avuncular or uncle-like .-Origins:In Britain, at the time of the...

 for discussion)
  • Dutch angle
    Dutch angle
    Dutch tilt, Dutch angle, Dutch shot, oblique angle, German angle, canted angle, Batman angle, or jaunty angle are terms used for one of many cinematic techniques often used to portray the psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed...

    , a cinematic technique in which the camera is placed at an angle to the horizon
  • Dutch book
    Dutch book
    In gambling a Dutch book or lock is a set of odds and bets which guarantees a profit, regardless of the outcome of the gamble. It is associated with probabilities implied by the odds not being coherent....

     in economics and gambling, a set of prices or transactions which systematically favor one party
  • Dutch cap
    Dutch cap
    A Dutch cap or Dutch bonnet is a style of woman's hat associated with the various traditional Dutch woman's costumes. Usually made of white cotton or lace, it is sometimes characterized by triangular flaps or wings that turn up on either side. It can resemble some styles of nurse's hat.Many parts...

    , a style of bonnet
  • Dutch cap, slang for a contraceptive diaphragm
    Diaphragm (contraceptive)
    The diaphragm is a cervical barrier type of birth control. It is a soft latex or silicone dome with a spring molded into the rim. The spring creates a seal against the walls of the vagina.-Use:...

  • Dutch courage
    Dutch courage
    Dutch courage or liquid courage refers to courage gained from intoxication by alcohol. Originally the phrase 'Dutch courage' referred to the courage that results from indulgence in Dutch gin , but 'Dutch courage' can also apply to the gin itself.In 1650 Franciscus Sylvius, a Dutch doctor, created...

    , bravery induced by drunkenness
  • Dutch door
    Dutch door
    A Dutch door , or stable door , or half door , is a door divided horizontally in such a fashion that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens...

    , a horizontally divided door
  • Dutching
    Dutching
    In gambling, Dutching is sharing the risk of losing across a number or runners by backing more than one selection in a race or event. The process calculates the correct stake to place on each selection so that the return is the same if any of them wins...

    , in gambling, betting on more than one outcome
  • Dutch metal
    Dutch Metal
    Dutch metal is a form of brass being an alloy of copper, 84% and zinc 16%.It is very malleable and ductile and can be beaten into very thin sheets. It is these sheets that are sold as Dutch Metal, for use as metal leaf or imitation gold leaf....

     or Dutch gold
    Dutch Gold
    Dutch Gold is a low-cost, imported, pilsner lager beer sold in the Republic of Ireland. It was launched in 1995.-The beer:The beer is brewed and canned in the EU under licence of, and distributed by, Zuidhollandse Bierbrouwerij, a trading name of InBev, a large Belgian brewery that owns the 'Dutch...

    , a cheap imitation of gold
  • Dutch oven
    Dutch oven
    A Dutch oven is a thick-walled cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid. Dutch ovens have been used as cooking vessels for hundreds of years....

    , a kind of cooking pot
  • Dutch uncle
    Dutch uncle
    Dutch uncle is a term for a person who issues frank, harsh, and severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage, or admonish someone. Thus, a "Dutch uncle" is a person who is rather the reverse of what is normally thought of as avuncular or uncle-like .-Origins:In Britain, at the time of the...

    , a person who criticizes harshly rather than avuncularly
  • Going Dutch
    Going Dutch
    "Going Dutch" is a term that indicates that each person participating in a group activity pays for himself or herself, rather than any one person paying for anyone else, particularly in a restaurant bill...

    , Dutch date, or Dutch treat, an activity where each participant pays for him or herself.

See also

  • List of all pages beginning with "Dutch"
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