Finnish–English dictionary

Theron

Theron of Akragas (died 473 BC), a tyrant of Akragas in Sicily.

Theseus

A legendary Ancient Greek hero most famous for defeating the minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete.

Thessaloniki

A port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.

thing

(chiefly, historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.

Thor

(Norse mythology, and, paganism) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.

thorn

A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

Thule

The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).

ti

Abbreviation of Tuesday.

tiainen

A small passerine bird (songbird) of the genus Parus or the family Paridae.

tiara

The three-tiered papal crown.

tie

A type of public roadway.

tiede

(countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill. [from 14th c.]

tiedejulkaisu

A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.

tiedekunta

A specialized division of a university.

tiedemies

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

tiedenainen

One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

tiedeyhteisö

(collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. [from 1956]

tiedoksianto

An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

tiedonantaja

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

tiedonanto

(countable) A formal notification or warning.

tiedonhaluinen

Eager to acquire knowledge; acquisitive.

tiedonhaluisuus

The quality of being inquisitive; curiosity.

tiedonjanoinen

Eager to acquire knowledge; acquisitive.

tiedontallennusväline

(usually, uncountable, computer hardware) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.

tiedostaa

To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

tiedostamaton

(physiology) Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally) , below the threshold where a response can be produced. [from late 19th c.]

tiedostava

(originally, AAVE, slang) Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.

tiedosto

(computing) A computer file that stores data for use by an application or system.

tiedostomuoto

(computing) A file type.

tiedostosilppuri

(computing) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.

tiedot

(uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]

tiedote

A time-sensitive news item or short news report.

tiedotettu

Informed, appraised or made aware.

tiedoton

(psychology) Without directed thought or awareness.

tiedottaa

(transitive) To announce (something) by means of such a report or publication.

tiedottaja

(by extension) A spokesman; one who speaks on behalf of someone else.

tiedottaminen

An act of announcing, or giving notice.

tiedottomasti

In an unconscious manner; unknowingly

tiedottomuus

(medical) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]

tiedotus

An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.

tiedotusväline

(often, treated as, _, uncountable) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.

tiedotusvälineet

(usually, with a definite article; often treated as, _, uncountable) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

tiedustella

(intransitive, US, Canada, Australia) To ask (about something).

tiedustelu

The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

tiedustelutieto

(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

tiehöylä

A machine used to sort food by size or quality.

tiejyrä

A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.

tiekarhu

A machine used to sort food by size or quality.

tiellä

Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.

tielle

Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.

tienata

(idiomatic) To have employment which provides remuneration to satisfy the basic needs of oneself and one's family.

tienhaara

(geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.

tienlaita

The area on either side of a road.

tiennumerokilpi

(transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.

tienoilla

Nearly; approximately; about.

tienoo

A roughly-defined geographical area.

tienraivaaja

(proscribed) An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.

tienristeys

(figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.

tiensyrjä

The area on either side of a road.

tienvarsi

(US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.

tienvieri

(US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.

tienviitta

A board that shows the direction (and often distance) to a named place; especially one of several attached to a milepost.

tiepäällyste

(now, chiefly, North America) A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface. [from 13th c.]

tiesulku

Something that blocks or obstructs a road.

tietä

(to a crowd) Make way! Clear a path!

tietää

(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.

tietäjä

A very wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.

tietämätön

Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.

tietämättä

(followed by to) Without the knowledge of.

tietämättään

In an unconscious manner; unknowingly

tietämättömyys

(uncountable) Ignorance.

tietämys

(uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

tietäväinen

Educated and well-informed.

tieteellinen kommunismi

(rare) Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).

tieteellinen tutkielma

A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in the US and a non-doctoral degree in the UK; a thesis.

tieteenala

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

tieteilijä

One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

tieten tahtoen

On purpose; intentionally.

tieto

(archaic, commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence

tieto lisää tuskaa

A lack of knowledge or awareness about certain facts or situations results in happiness or reduced anxiety.

tietoinen

Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]

tietoinen läsnäolo

(Buddhism, psychology) Paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally.

tietoisesti

In a conscious manner; knowingly, volitionally.

tietoisuus

(uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

tietoisuus itsestä

The state or property of being self-aware; state of being aware of oneself as an individual.

tietojen kalastelu

The act of circumventing security with an alias.

tietojen mukaan

According to reports or rumors. [from 19th c.]

tietojenkäsittely

The use of a computer or computers.

tietojenkäsittelytiede

The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.

tietokanta

(general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.

tietokantaohjelma

(computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.

tietokirjallisuus

Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

tietokohde

(databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.

tietokone

(video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player; AI.

tietokoneen käyttö

The use of a computer or computers.

tietokoneistus

The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.

tietokonekotelo

(slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.

tietokoneohjelma

A complete piece of software.

tietokonevirus

(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.

tietolähde

One who informs someone else about something.

tietoliikenne

The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

tietoliite

(geography) A dictionary or index of geographical locations.

tietomuoto

(computing) A file type.

tietomurtautuja

(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.

tietomurtoyritys

(computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.

tietorikas

Educated and well-informed.

tietosanakirja

(figuratively, colloquial) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.

tietosisältö

(communication) The actual data in a data stream.

tietty

Having been determined but not specified.

tietue

(computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

tigre

A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.

Tigris

A river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.

tiheä

Compact; crowded together.

tiheälyöntisyys

(medicine, cardiology) A rapid resting heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute; palpitations. [from 19th c.]

tiheästi asuttu

Densely populated.

tiheikkö

A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.

tihentää

(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

tiheys

(physics) A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.

tihku

(physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.

tihkua

(intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

tihkua läpi

(transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.

tihkuinen

Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.

tihkuminen

The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.

tihkusade

Light rain.

tihkusateinen

Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.

tihkuttaa

To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.

tihtaali

(nautical) A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.

tihuttaa

(impersonal) To rain lightly.

tihutyö

(uncountable) Harm or trouble caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.

tii

(golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.

tiiauspaikka

(golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.

tiibet

Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.

tiibetiläinen

Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.

tiikeri

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

tiilenpunainen

The colour brick red.

tiili

(computing) A rectangular graphic.

tiilinen

(colloquial, AAVE, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.

tiiliskivi

(jocular) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.

tiilittää

(GUI) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).

tiilivarvi

(masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.

tiimalasi

A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows.

tiimi

Two or more people acting alternately to accomplish some task.

tiimityö

The cooperative effort of a team of people to achieve a common goal.

tiinehtyä

(obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

tiineys

The period of time this condition prevails.

tiineysaika

The period of time this condition prevails.

tiipii

A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.

tiira

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

tiirailla

(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

Tiiri

A en given name.