Finnish–English dictionary

koristeloimi

The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.

koristeltu

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

koristelu

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

koristemerkki

A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.

koristeompelija

The art or process of working with a needle especially in embroidery or needlepoint.

koristeompelu

The ornamentation of fabric using needlework.

koristereunus

A decorative strip around the edge of something.

koristevaljaat

Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.

korityö

The craft of making such material.

korjaaminen

The act of correcting.

korjaamo

(chiefly, Commonwealth, dated, in, _, US) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.

korjailla

(ambitransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.

korjata

(transitive) To make better; improve.

korjata aita

(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.

korjata sukupuolensa

(intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

korjattava

Capable of being fixed, repairable.

korjattu

Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.

korjaus

The settling or balancing of a financial account

korjauskelvoton

Incapable of being repaired, amended, cured or rectified; unrepairable.

korjausliike

A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.

korjauslukea

(transitive, and, intransitive) To check a written text for errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation.

korjauspala

(carpentry, masonry) A piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.

korjaustiedosto

(computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.

korkata

(transitive, slang) To take the virginity of (someone).

korkea

High or shrill.

korkea paikka

An eminence, hill, or high place.

korkea-arvoinen

Of or pertaining to a person of a high social position or high rank within a hierarchy or organization.

korkeakorkoinen kenkä

(usually, in the plural) A high-heeled shoe.

korkeakoulu

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

korkeakulttuuri

An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.

korkealaatuinen

Recognized for its quality.

korkealla

In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream. [first attested around 1150–1350]

korkeammaksi

To a higher figure or amount.

korkeampana

Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.

korkeampi

At a higher level, rank or position.

korkean paikan

Taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation.

korkean tason

Of or pertaining to a person of a high social position or high rank within a hierarchy or organization.

korkeana siintävä

(poetic) Very high; towering.

korkeasuhdanne

(economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.

korkein

At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest.

korkein aste

(figuratively) The highest or most developed point, or most splendid stage, of something; culmination, peak, zenith. [from 16th c.]

korkein kohta

(nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.

korkeintaan

At the most; at a maximum or upper limit.

korkeus

(used with His, Her or Your) A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.

korkeusero

The difference of elevations on a surface.

korkeuskäyrä

A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.

korkeuskulma

(astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.

korkeusmittari

An apparatus for measuring altitude.

korkeusperäsin

(aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.

korkittaa

(transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.

korkkari

(usually, in the plural) A high-heeled shoe.

korkki

A protective cover or seal.

korkkiruuvi

An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.

korkkivikainen

Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

korko

(uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]

korkokenkä

(usually, in the plural) A high-heeled shoe.

korkolappu

(shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.

korkolattia

In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

kornetti

(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

korni

The Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton.

korniisi

(architectural element) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.

kornilainen

Of or pertaining to Cornwall, a county of southwest England.

koroke

A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.]

korollaari

(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

korona

(uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.

koronaali

(phonetics) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.

koronaalinen

(phonetics) Relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.

koronkiskonta

(countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.

koronkiskuri

Someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest, especially illegally. [1900]

koronkorko

(banking, finance) Interest, as on a loan or a bank account, that is calculated on the total on the principal plus accumulated unpaid interest.

korostaa

(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.

korostaa valkoisia

(derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.

korostava

(linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.

korostettu

Raised up, amplified.

korostus

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

korotettu

(music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).

koroton

(finance) Not charging interest; not subject to interest payments.

korottaa

To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote. [from 14th c.]

korottaa [[all-in]]

(ambitransitive, poker slang) To go all in.

korottaa kolmanteen potenssiin

(transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

korottaa kuningattareksi

(chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.

korottaa neliöön

(transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

korottaa toiseen potenssiin

(transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

korottaminen

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.

korotus

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.

korotusmerkki

(music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.

korpi

A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

korpikenttä

An aircraft landing field, usually with one runway and only basic facilities.

korpinmusta

Of the color of the raven; jet-black.

korporaali

(ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.

korporaaliliina

(ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.

korporaatio

(historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.

korppi

A large all-black passerine bird in the crow family, Corvus corax.

korppikotka

Any of the large scavenging birds found in the Old World and belonging to the family Accipitridae.

korppu

a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)

korpus

(specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.

korrekti

With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

korrektisti

In a correct manner.

korrelaatio

(statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.

korrelaatti

(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.

korrelatiivinen

Mutually related; corresponding.

korreloiva

Mutually related; corresponding.

korroosio

The act of corroding or the condition so produced.

korruptio

Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.

korruptoida

(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

korruptoitunut

In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

korsetti

(archaic) Particularly a corset or other undershirt stiffened with whalebone.

korsi

(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

Korsika

An island and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia.

korsikalainen

Of, from or relating to Corsica, France or the Corsican language.

korskahdus

The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.

korskua

(intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.

korsu

(military, historic) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

korteista ennustaminen

Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.

kortikaalinen

(anatomy) Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.

kortisoni

(steroid hormone, pharmaceutical drug) A corticosteroid hormone, closely related to corticosterone, produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and antiallergy agent. 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, with formula C21H28O5.

kortteli

A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

korttelinväli

The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

korttelipommi

A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.

kortteliralli

Driving around without an exact destination, as a social activity.

kortti

Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

korttihai

(card games) A professional cheater at card games.

korttihuijari

(card games) A professional cheater at card games.

korttikartonki

A type of cardboard.

korttipakka

(cards) A pack or set of playing cards.

korttiteline

(bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.

koru

A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.

korukivi

A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.

korulasi

A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

korundi

(mineral) An extremely hard mineral, a form of aluminum oxide with the chemical formula Al2O3, that occurs in the form of the gemstones sapphire and ruby; it is used as an abrasive.

koruommel

The ornamentation of fabric using needlework.

koruommella

To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.

koruompelija

A person who embroiders

koruompelu

The ornamentation of fabric using needlework.

korusanainen

Elaborately ornate; flowery.

koruseppä

A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry.

korut

Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.

korutarvike

(jewelry) A self-contained component of assembled jewellery. [from 19th century]

koruton

Lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy.

korva

(slang) A person's ear.

korva-

Of or pertaining to the ear.

korvaamaton

(ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules. [16th–17th c.]

korvaamattoman arvokas

(obsolete) Not valuable; valueless; worthless.

korvaamattomuus

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.

korvaaminen

The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim

korvake

(biology) Any appendage in the shape of an ear or earlobe.

korvakkeellinen

(botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

korvakoru

(archaic) A pendant for the ear; an earring.

korvakuuloke

A speaker placed inside or held near to the ear.

korvalappustereot

A portable audio cassette player.