Finnish–English dictionary

poikkeava arvo

(statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.

poikkeavuus

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

poikkeuksellinen

Exceptional; very good.

poikkeuksellisen

To an unusual, remarkable or exceptional degree.

poikkeuksetta

(idiomatic) Without exception; excluding nothing else of the same kind.

poikkeuma

(countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system)

poikkeus

A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.

poikkeuslupa

A legal exemption from jurisdiction.

poikkeuttaa

(transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.

poikkeutus

(countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system)

poikkeutuskela

A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.

poikki

From one side to the other.

poikki!

(intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

poikkipalkki

Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.

poikkipuu

A horizontal structural beam that runs perpendicular to the primary support beams; a girder.

poikkitelainen

(botany) Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.

poikue

A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).

poikuus

The state or condition of being a boy.

poimia

To capture or round up.

poimia käpyjä

(UK, dialectal, rare) To collect fir-cones.

poimija

one who picks.

poimittu

(figurative) Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.

poimu

A twist or fold.

poimuinen

(biology) Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.

poimukas

(biology) Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.

poimuri

(computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.

poimuttua

(chiefly, _, biology) To fold or pleat (usually used in passive).

poimutus

A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

pointe

(ballet) The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.

pointteri

(hunting) A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.

pointti

A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.

pois

Away from the front or from an edge.

pois heitetty kortti

A discarded playing card in a card game.

pois heittäminen

The disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value.

pois jättäminen

The deliberate omission of something.

pois lukien

To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception. [from late 16th c.]

pois päältä

(predicative, _, only) Inoperative, disabled.

poisi

(physics) A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.

poisjättäminen

The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]

poisjättö

The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]

poislukien

To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception. [from late 16th c.]

poismennyt

(euphemistic) Dead.

poismeno

(formal) Death, departure from life.

poismuutto

The act of vacating something; moving out. [from 19th c.]

poisnukkuminen

(euphemistic) The process of death or the actual death itself.

poispääsy

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

poispäin

Away from the front or from an edge.

poispäin kääntynyt

Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).

poispilattu

(of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.

poissa

(set phrase, idiomatic) Unable to come closer; at a distance.

poissa (oleva)

(not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

poissa tolaltaan

(idiomatic) Overcome; consumed by an emotion.

poissaoleva

(comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

poissaolo

A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship

poissulkeminen

The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]

poissulkeva

(literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.

poistaa

(transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission. [First attested in the late 15th century.]

poistaa aktiivipalveluksesta

(also, reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service.

poistaa asennus

(computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.

poistaa duplikaatit

(transitive, computing) To eliminate redundant duplicate data from.

poistaa hilse

(transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

poistaa huurre

(transitive) To remove frost from.

poistaa jää

(transitive) To remove frost from.

poistaa kädestä

(intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.

poistaa kaksoiskappaleet

(transitive, computing) To eliminate redundant duplicate data from.

poistaa karva

(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

poistaa karvat

To remove all hair from skin so as to make it smooth.

poistaa kavereista

(social media) To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).

poistaa käytöstä

To take out of service or to render unusable.

poistaa kentältä

(US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.

poistaa kierrosta

(transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.

poistaa kivi

(transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.

poistaa luut

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

poistaa pää

(fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).

poistaa pääjuuri

To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

poistaa salaisuusluokitus

to remove the classification from; to lift the restrictions on

poistaa salakuuntelulaitteet

(electronics) To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere).

poistaa suola

To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater for use in a domestic water supply

poistaa vahalla

(transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.

poistaa valinta

(transitive) To not select; to rule out of selection.

poistaa varsi

To remove the stem from.

poistaa viritys

(transitive) To render into a state in which something is no longer armed, or prepared for use (such as to disable the security systems on).

poistaa ydin

To extract the pith from (something or (figurative) someone).

poistaminen

Leading away; a carrying away. [from early 17th century.]

poisto

The distribution of the cost of an intangible asset, such as an intellectual property right, over the projected useful life of the asset.

poistoaine

A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.

poistohöyry

The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

poistoilma

The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

poistua

(idiomatic, chiefly, as imperative, pejorative, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.

poistuma

(human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death.

poistuminen

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:

poistunut

Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.

poistuva

(figurative) Almost obsolete; nearing an end.

poisvetäminen

Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.

poisvienti

Leading away; a carrying away. [from early 17th century.]

pojanpoika

A son of one's child.

pojantytär

The daughter of someone's child.

pojat

Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

poju

A boy or young man.

poka

(informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

pokaali

A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.

pokara

A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.

pokata

(British, slang) To blag, to steal something; to acquire something illegally.

poke

(informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc. to decide who can enter, maintain order, and deal with patrons who cause trouble.

pokeri

(card games) All the four cards of the same rank.

pokerinaama

(poker) An impassive facial expression cultivated to prevent other players from determining whether one's actions in the game are the result of a quality hand, or of bluffing.

pökerryksissä

Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.

pökerrys

The state of being dazed

pökerryttää

(transitive) To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.

pökertyminen

An act of collapsing into a state of temporary unconsciousness.

pökertynyt

Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.

pokka

(uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.

pökkelö

(informal) A stupid or clumsy person.

pökkyrä

A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly, symptom) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.

pökötti

A car manufactured by the French automobile brand Peugeot.

poks

A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

poksahdus

A slightly hollow, percussive sound.

poksahtaa

(intransitive) To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun sense 1).

poksauttaa

(transitive, UK, AU) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.

polaari

(mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.

polaarinen

(mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.

polaarisuus

(chemistry) The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. Wp

polakki

(now, _, North America, _, now, _, offensive) A Pole, or person of Polish descent.

polarisoitunut

(US) Having a distinctive polarization.

polariteetti

The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.

polemisoida

(intransitive) To engage in argument.

polenta

Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.

poletti

A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.

poliisi

(informal) A police officer or prison guard.

poliisiasema

A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.

poliisimies

(informal) A police officer or prison guard.

poliisipiiri

(US, law enforcement) A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.

poliisivankila

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

poliitikko

One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.

poliittisesti

In a political manner.

poliklinikkapotilas

(healthcare) A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.

polio

(pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.

poliomyeliitti

(pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.

polis

(historical) A Greek city-state.

pölistä

(intransitive, pejorative) To talk rapidly without making much sense.

politiikka

(countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.

politikoida

(intransitive) To engage in or discuss politics.

pöljä

(slang, derogatory, sometimes affectionately, humorous) A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.

poljettu

(figuratively) Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated.

poljin

A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.

polkaisu

An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.

polkea

To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.

polkea (jalkaa)

(intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

polkea taaksepäin

(intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.

pölkky

A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.