Finnish–English dictionary

läiskäistä

(transitive) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.

laiskajaakko

(slang, vulgar) A person who is lazy.

laiskamato

A lazy person.

laiskanläksy

(UK, school, or, university, _, slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

laiskanvirka

A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.

laiskasti

In a lazy manner.

läiskäyttää

To slap or hit someone.

läiskikäs

Colored in patches; spotted.

laiskimus

One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight.

laiskotella

To be lazy, waste time.

laiskuri

A lazy person.

laiskuus

Habitual laziness or sloth.

läiskyttää

To play or splash in a puddle.

laissez-faire

(economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.

laissez-faire-politiikka

(economics, politics) A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.

laistaa

(idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.

laita

(ice hockey, often, in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.

laita-

Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.

laitahyökkääjä

(American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed. [from 19th c.]

laitakaupunki

A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.

laitama

A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.

laitamat

The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.

laitapuolustaja

(soccer) A player who plays on the left or right side of defence.

laitataklaus

(ice hockey) A penalty called for pushing into the boards.

laite

A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices.

laiteohjelma

(computing, software) Software that is intended for such embedded computer applications.

laiteohjelmisto

(computing, software) Software that is intended for such embedded computer applications.

laitettu

(of hair) Fixed in a certain style.

laitimmainen

Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.

laiton

Illegally produced, transported or sold; pirated.

laitos

(countable) A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.

laittaa

(transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)

laittaa arkkuun

(transitive) To place in a coffin.

laittaa esille

(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

laittaa huumausainetta

(transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

laittaa käsiraudat

(transitive) To apply handcuffs to someone.

laittaa kello

(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

laittaa koukkuun

(transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

laittaa kuonokoppa

(transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.

laittaa kuppiin

(transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.

laittaa mukaan

(transitive) To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.

laittaa mustalle listalle

(transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

laittaa ojennukseen

(military) To arrange (soldiers or troops) into proper formation; especially, to adjust (soldiers or troops) into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other; to align.

laittaa päälle

(transitive) To commence the operation of; to activate; to launch.

laittaa paikalleen

(transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.

laittaa pesään

(transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.

laittaa pois päältä

(chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

laittaa poskipunaa

(ambitransitive) To apply rouge (makeup).

laittaa postimerkki

(transitive) To apply postage stamps to.

laittaa rinnakkain

To arrange or occur side by side.

laittaa ruokaa

(ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

laittaa sisään

(transitive) To put in between or into.

laittaa sisäkkäin

(transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

laittaa syvennykseen

(also, reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.

laittaa talliin

(transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.

laittaa tauolle

(intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

laittaa umpeen

(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.

laittaa väliin

(transitive) To put in between or into.

laittaa valmiiksi

(transitive) To prepare; to make ready or prepared.

laittautua

(intransitive) To put on special or fancy clothes.

laitteisto

A complex machine or instrument.

laittomasti

In an illicit way, i.e. not permitted by the law or regulations.

laittomasti moneen kertaan äänestävä

(US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.

laittomuus

A lack of law; a lack of law and order; anarchy.

laitumen totutelleet eläimet

A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.

laituri

(nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).

laiturin vieri

(also, attributive) An area alongside a quay.

laituripaikka

(by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.

laiva

On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. [from ca. 1350—1470]

laivakorppu

(especially, nautical) Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.

laivakuljetus

Passage or transport on a ship.

laivalastillinen

(nautical) The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.

laivamatka

A trip made by boat or ship.

laivamekaanikko

(naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.

laivanrakentaja

A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.

laivanupotus

A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

laivapäiväkirja

(nautical) A book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.

laivareitti

(nautical) A lane or route at sea that is regularly used by ships; a sea lane or trade route.

laivassa

Carried or used on or in a vehicle or vessel.

laivasto

A group of vessels or vehicles.

laivastoamiraali

(military) The appointed commander of a navy, regardless of formal title. [1440]

laivastolippu

(nautical, now, rare, historical) A jackcrosstree. [from 19th c.]

laivastonsininen

Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.

laivastopeli

A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

laivata

(transitive) To send by water-borne transport.

laivaus

Passage or transport on a ship.

laivaväylä

A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that is navigable.

läjä

A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.

läjähdys

(countable) A sudden impact or blow.

läjähtää

To fall down hard with a thump.

läjäpäin

(figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.

laji

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

laji-

(originally, finance, and, commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.

lajike

All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

lajinimi

(taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.

lajinkehitys

Evolutionary development of a species.

lajirikkaus

(ecology) The number of types in a community.

lajitella

(transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

lajitella koon mukaan

(transitive) To classify or arrange by size.

lajitelma

A collection of varying but related items.

läjittää

(transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

lajitteleminen

Categorizing.

lajittelija

One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

lajittelu

An act of sorting.

lajityypillinen

Constituting or relating to a species.

lajityyppi

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

lajityyppinen

(physics) A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).

lajiutuminen

(medicine, pathology) The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.

läkähtyä

(informal, hyperbole) Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.

lakaisija

One who sweeps floors or chimneys.

lakaista

(transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.

lakaisu

A single action of sweeping.

lakanakangas

Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.

lakastua

(of a plant) To pass from flowering or ripening to the formation of seeds.

lakastuminen

The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.

lakastuttaa

(transitive) To cause to fatigue; to exhaust.

lakata

(formal, intransitive) To stop.

lakeija

A servant or valet.

lakeus

A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.

lakh

One hundred thousand rupees.

laki

(law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.

lakiasäätävä

Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.

lakiehdotus

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

lakiesitys

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

lakikivi

(architecture) The top stone of an arch.

lakikorkeus

(aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight.

lakimääräinen

Of, relating to, enacted or regulated by a statute.

lakimies

A lawyer, as in King's Counsel (KC) or Queen's Counsel (QC).

lakimieskunta

(law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.

lakimuutos

In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.

lakio

(sometimes, ironic) An informal term of address.

lakiperusteinen

Of, relating to, enacted or regulated by a statute.

lakipiste

(heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point).

lakipunos

(heraldry) A twist of cloth or wreath, typically placed underneath and forming part of a crest (as an orle or wreath) and customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on; rarely, it occurs as a charge.

lakisääteinen

Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.

lakka

A species of slow-growing bramble, Rubus chamaemorus.

lakkaamaton

Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.

lakkaamatta

In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.

lakkaaminen

(formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.

lakkauttaa

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

lakkauttaminen

The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.

lakkimakaki

A variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica.

lakko

A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.

lakkoilija

A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.

lakkolainen

A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.

lakkovahti

A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

lakkovartio

A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

lako

(agriculture) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.

lakoninen

Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

lakritsa

Licorice in confectionery form.