Finnish–English dictionary

kuultava

Emitting light.

kuultokuva

(photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.

kuulua

Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.

kuulua miehistöön

To be a member of a work or production crew

kuuluisa

famous or widely praised

kuuluisuus

(uncountable, uncommon outside high registers) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about. [from 17th c.]

kuulumaton

Unable to be heard or not loud enough to be heard.

kuulumattomasti

In a manner which is incapable of being heard or not loud enough to be heard.

kuuluminen

(geometry) The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.

kuulumiset

(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.

kuulustella

To interrogate.

kuulustelu

(countable, legal) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.

kuuluttaa

(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly. [from 15th c.]

kuuluttaja

One who makes announcements.

kuulutus

The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).

kuuluva

Able to be heard.

kuuluvasti

In context of possibility of being heard; in an audible manner.

kuuluvuusalue

The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.

kuuma

(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

kuuma linja

A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.

kuuma pakkaus

(slang, originally, Australian) A physically or sexually attractive person.

kuumakalle

(pejorative) One who angers easily or goes in search of arguments or fights.

kuumapää

(pejorative) One who angers easily or goes in search of arguments or fights.

kuumapäinen

Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.

kuume

(informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.

kuumeinen

(symptom) Being in the state of delirium.

kuumemittari

An apparatus used to measure temperature.

kuumennus

(countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.

kuumentaa

(transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

kuumis

(slang, originally, Australian) A physically or sexually attractive person.

kuumoittaa

(intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

kuumottaa

(intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

kuumottava

(colloquial, of a person) Very physically or sexually attractive.

kuumotus

Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

kuumuudenkestävä

Not affected by great heat.

kuumuus

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

kuun valaisema

(sometimes, attributive) The light reflected from the Moon.

kuunari

(watercraft) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.

kuunkehä

A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

kuunnella

To attend an academic class without the opportunity to receive academic credit.

kuunnella tarkasti

(archaic, often, imperative) To listen attentively.

kuunnella tarkkaan

(intransitive) To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

kuunnella tarkkaavaisesti

(archaic, often, imperative) To listen attentively.

kuunnousu

The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.

Kuuno

A en given name.

kuunsäde

A shaft of moonlight.

kuunsirppi

The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.

kuuntelen

(procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.

kuunteleva

Of something or someone that listens.

kuuntelu

An act by which something or somebody is listened to.

kuuntelukuva

(UK, television, informal) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding at the person being interviewed (or sometimes the interviewee nodding at the interviewer), often used to cover an editing gap in an interview.

kuuntelulaite

(slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.

kuunvalo

(sometimes, attributive) The light reflected from the Moon.

kuura

A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.

kuuraantua

(intransitive) To become covered with frost.

kuurata

(nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

kuuri

Someone from Courland

kuuro

Unable (or partially able) to hear.

kuuropuuska

(often, nautical) A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.

kuurottainen

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

kuurous

The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear.

kuurouttaa

(transitive) To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently.

kuuruoho

(countable) Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).

kuusama

Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia

kuusi

The digit or figure 6.

kuusikko

Any group of six people or things.

kuusikymmentä

The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

kuusikymmentäluku

(The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)

kuusiottelu

(athletics) An athletic contest comprising six events.

kuusipuinen

(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.

kuusisakarainen aaltoileva tähti

(heraldiccharge) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, as opposed to the straight lines of a mullet.

kuusitahokas

(geometry) A hexahedron.

kuusitoista

The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.

kuutamo

(sometimes, attributive) The light reflected from the Moon.

kuutamoinen

(sometimes, attributive) The light reflected from the Moon.

kuutio

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

kuutioida

(transitive) To cut into cubes.

kuutiollinen

(crystallography) Having three equal axes and all angles 90°.

kuutonen

One of a group of six persons or animals born from the same mother during the same birth.

kuutti

A young seal.

kuututkimus

(astronomy, geography, cartography) The scientific study of the Moon's geographic features; geography of the Moon.

kuva

(countable) A drawing or painting.

kuva-arvoitus

An arrangement of pictures, symbols, and/or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.

kuvaaja

Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

kuvaamataito

(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.

kuvaaminen

(linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.

kuvaannollinen

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.

kuvaannollisesti

(manner) In a figurative manner.

kuvaava

Revealing information; bearing significance.

kuvaileva

Of, relating to, or providing a description.

kuvaileva tutkimus

(linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.

kuvailla

To describe or depict with words or gestures.

kuvailu

(linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.

kuvain

(computing, information science) A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.

kuvainpalvonta

The use of images as symbols that provide an inspiration and aid to worship.

kuvajainen

(obsolete, or, poetic) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.

kuvake

(graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.

kuvakirjoitus

(specifically, heraldry) An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.

kuvalauta

(Internet) A type of message board that revolves around the posting of images, with optional associated text, often characterized by the near lack of moderation and by the freedom to discuss any topic.

kuvalehti

A newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof.

kuvallinen

Drawn, pictorial.

kuvamainen

(figurative) Famously and distinctively representative of its type.

kuvamateriaali

(usually, uncountable) An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.

kuvamerkki

A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.

kuvan ulkopuolinen

Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen

kuvankaunis

Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful.

kuvanlukija

A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]

kuvanmuokkaus

(Internet slang) An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of amateur, petty fauxtography.

kuvannos

(computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.

kuvantaa

(transitive) To create an image of.

Kuvanveistäjä

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

kuvanveisto

(countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

kuvapatsaat

Statues considered collectively.

kuvapatsas

A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.

kuvapiste

One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

kuvapuoli

(cards) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).

kuvareportaasi

An article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs.

kuvaruutu

A piece of photographic film containing an image.

kuvastaa

(transitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely.

kuvastin

A way into a bizarre world.

kuvasto

A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.

kuvastua

(figurative) To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.

kuvat

Images in general, or en masse.

kuvata

To depict, represent with pictures.

kuvata uudelleen

To photograph or film again.

kuvataide

(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.

kuvateksti

A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

kuvauksellinen

Described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid.

kuvaus

A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

kuvausjoukko

(mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.

kuve

(anatomy) The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.

kuvepaisti

(cooking) A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.

kuvernööri

(politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.

kuvernoraatti

The territory governed by a governor; a province.

kuvio

A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

kuviointi

A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

kuviollinen

(of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.

kuviosaha

A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts.

kuvitella

(transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.

kuvitella todeksi

To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.

kuvitelma

That which comes from one's imagination.

kuviteltavissa oleva

Able to be imagined; conceivable.

kuviteltu

False or imagined.

kuvittaa

To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.

kuvittaja

(obsolete) A book illustrator.

kuvittaminen

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct.

kuvitteellinen

Unreal or imagined.

kuvittelu

That which comes from one's imagination.

kuvitus

(uncountable, reprographics) The graphical elements to be included in a reproduced work.

kuvituskuva

A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.