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delft

1

[ delft ]

noun

  1. earthenware having an opaque white glaze with an overglaze decoration, usually in blue.
  2. any pottery resembling this.


Delft

2

[ delft ]

noun

  1. a city in W Netherlands.

Delft

/ dɛlft /

noun

  1. a town in the SW Netherlands, in South Holland province. Pop: 97 000 (2003 est)
  2. Also calleddelftware tin-glazed earthenware made in Delft since the 17th century, typically having blue decoration on a white ground
  3. a similar earthenware made in England
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of delft1

First recorded in 1705–15; after Delft
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Example Sentences

It’s a mind-bogglingly difficult metric, but such bean-counting is needed to hold the planet to a livable temperature, says low-carbon systems expert Andrea Ramirez Ramirez of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

The first two papers from researchers at RIKEN in Japan and QuTech, a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, use quantum dots for qubits.

“It is, of course, a success story,” says Chris Zevenbergen, an expert in urban flood-risk management at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands and a visiting professor at China’s Southeast University.

Dedoussi works at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

As a result, for complex calculations, “the output will be garbage,” says quantum physicist Barbara Terhal of the research center QuTech in Delft, Netherlands.

Gerard ter Borch made headlines, while his rival in Delft was painting maids with earrings.

When the captain came for the fare, I took out a handful of money, and said Delft, and also pointed to uncle George.

You will find it enriched with towels, dishes of delft ware, forks, and all the most necessary utensils.

Steve asked, coming to the door when she was beating cream into butter in a delft bowl.

It was a little trim delft-blue linen frock with a white piqué collar and a loose blue tie.

It was therefore on the tenth of April in the year 1583, that Grotius was born, at Delft.

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