Finnish–English dictionary

kokeilla

(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

kokeilu

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

kokeilu-

Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.

kokelas

One who is examined, e.g. for medical reasons.

kokematon

(figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.

kokemattomuus

A lack of experience.

kokemuksen puute

A lack of experience.

kokemus

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

kokemusperäinen

Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.

kokenilli

A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.

kokenillikirva

(countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).

kokenut

Having experience and skill in a subject.

koketeerata

To act as a flirt or coquet.

koketti

A flirtatious female; a coquette.

kokinhattu

(specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs

kokis

(countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.

kokka

(nautical) The front of a boat or ship.

kokkapuu

(ship parts) A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface.

kokkare

A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.

kokkareinen

Similar in shape to blobs; amorphous and rounded in appearance; partially irregular in appearance like bubbles.

kokkeli

The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

kokki

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

kokkiniili

(uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal insects.

kokko

A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.

koko

Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).

koko ajan

(duration, idiomatic) For the entire time; always.

koko joukko

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

koko kasvukauden kukkiva

(botany) Flowering throughout the growing season.

koko omaisuus

(countable) The totality of one's possessions.

koko sivun levyinen otsikko

(journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.

kokoaja

One who compiles.

kokoaminen

The act of collecting together, of aggregating.

kokoava

Tending to collect; forming a collection.

kokoelma

A large collection.

kokoluokka

(engineering, design, commerce) The geometry of an object, especially in engineering design; configuration.

kokonaan

(intensifier, sometimes, _, childish) Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

kokonainen

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.

kokonais-

(of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

kokonaisluku

(arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.

kokonaislukuosa

(mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

kokonaismäärä

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

kokonaissumma

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

kokonaistulot

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

kokonaisuudessaan

Wholly; completely; entirely.

kokonaisuus

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

kokonaisuuteen kuuluva

Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable

kokonaisvaltainen

All-encompassing, all around.

kokonaisvaltaisesti

In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.

kokonaisvelka

All debts totalled.

kokongi

The silky case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, protecting the pupa within.

kokooja

(countable) One who assembles items.

kokoojakisko

An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution system; typically a thick strip, or a tube, of copper or aluminium.

kokoojalinssi

(optics) A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.

kokoon

Into one place; into a single thing; combined.

kokoon keittäminen

(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.

kokoon puristettu

Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

kokoonpanija

(countable) One who assembles items.

kokoonpano

The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

kokoonpano-osa

(computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.

kokoontua

(ergative) To gather as a group.

kokoontuminen

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

kokopuku

(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.

kokosävel

(language, dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

kokouimapuku

A one-piece swimsuit (for women).

kokouma

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

kokous

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

kokouskutsu

A call to do something, especially to come.

kokouspaikka

A place for gathering.

koksata

(transitive) To produce coke from coal.

koksautua

(intransitive) To turn into coke.

koksi

(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

koksittaa

(transitive) To produce coke from coal.

koksu

Clipping of coaxial.

kolahdus

An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.

kolahtaa

(transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

kolajuoma

A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.

kolari

(transportation) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)

kolaroida

(intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.

kolauttaa

To make such a sound.

kolea

Cold enough to cause discomfort.

koleerinen

(humorism, historical) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry.

koleerisuus

(historical, medicine) Synonym of yellow bile.

kolehti

A contribution given at a religious service.

kolektomia

(surgery) The surgical procedure to remove all or part of the large intestine or colon.

kolera

(pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

kolesteroli

(biochemistry) A sterol lipid synthesized by the liver and transported in the bloodstream to the membranes of all animal cells; it plays a central role in many biochemical processes and, as a lipoprotein that coats the walls of blood vessels, is associated with cardiovascular disease.

kolhaista

(intransitive) To create a dimple in one's face by smiling.

kolhaisu

A light blow or jolting collision.

kolhia

(transitive) To break small pieces from.

kolhia mustelmille

(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.

kolhiintua

(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.

kolhoosi

(especially, in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.

kolhu

A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

Köli

(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

kolibakteeri

(often, attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

kolibri

Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

koliikki

(pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).

kolikko

Operated, or activated, by placing coins in a slot.

kolikonheitto

(idiomatic) The practice of flipping a coin in the air, to choose between two alternatives based on which side lands face up.

kolina

An intermittent noise, as from vibration.

kolipottu

(slang) An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.

kolista

(transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

kolistaa

(intransitive) To make a rattling sound.

kolistaja

Something that makes a clanking noise.

kolistella

(transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

kolisuttaa

(intransitive) To make a rattling sound.

kolitsihousut

(US) Informal cotton trousers, with an elasticated or drawstring waist, used for exercise etc.

kolja

A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.

Kolkata

The capital city of West Bengal, India, formerly known in English as Calcutta.

kolkka

A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).

kolkkapoika

(dated) A Boy Scout of the lowest rank.

kolkko

Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

kolkutin

(architectural elements) A knocker mounted on a door.

kollaasi

A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

kollaboraatio

(uncountable) The act of collaborating.

kollaboraattori

A person who cooperates traitorously with an enemy.

kollageeni

(biochemistry) The main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of the connective tissues of many animals.

kollapsi

The act of collapsing.

kollarit

(US) Informal cotton trousers, with an elasticated or drawstring waist, used for exercise etc.

kollega

A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.

kollegio

(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

kollehtarukous

(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

kollektiivi

(by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.

kollektiivinen

(grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.

kollektiivinen substantiivi

(grammar) A collective noun or name.

kollektiivitila

A farm owned by a collection of people.

kollektivismi

An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively

kollektori

(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

kolli

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

kollinminttu

Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless pheromone-based intoxication among certain cats.

kolloidi

(physical chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.

kollokaatio

(linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.

kollokoida

(linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.

kolmanneksi viimeinen

Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.

kolmannen asteen

(geometry) Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.

kolmannes

One of three equal parts of a whole.

kolmas

(mathematics) Raised to the third power.

kolmas pyörä

(idiomatic, informal) Anything superfluous or unnecessary.

kolmasosa

One of three equal parts of a whole.

kolmasti

(somewhat, dated, outside, Asia, Canada, Australia, &) Three times.

kolmastoista

The ordinal form of the number thirteen.

kolmastoistaosa

One of thirteen equal parts of a whole.

kolme

The digit/figure 3.

kolme asteriskia

A rarely used typographical symbol of three asterisks arranged in a triangle, ⁂, used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book. Distinct from a dinkus which also uses asterisks to separate.

kolme kertaa

(somewhat, dated, outside, Asia, Canada, Australia, &) Three times.

kolme pistettä

(typography, mathematics) A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.

kolme tuumaa

(obsolete) Three inches.

kolmekuukautisjakso

A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter.

kolmekymmentä

The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.

kolmekymmentäluku

A decade starting with the year xx30, most usually the decade from 1930 to 1939.