Finnish–English dictionary

totalitaarinen

Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.

totalitarismi

A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

toteamus

(countable) A very or notably brief expression.

toteava

Of, relating to, or providing a description.

toteemi

Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.

totella

(transitive) To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.

toteutettu

Completed; effected; established.

toteuttaa

(transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

toteuttaja

A person who carries out some task.

toteuttaminen

The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.

toteuttamiskelpoinen

Capable of being executed.

toteuttamiskelpoisuus

The property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed.

toteutua

(transitive) To make real; to realize.

toteutuminen

The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.

toteutus

The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).

toti

An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.

totinen

Practical, not tolerating from others or concerning oneself with anything silly or unimportant.

totisesti

(biblical) Certainly; verily.

toto-kone

(British, AU) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.

totta

(informal) Genuine, true; serious, earnest.

totta kai

(idiomatic, colloquial) Used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true

totta puhuakseni

(sentence adverb) In truth, to tell the truth.

tottakai

Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.

tottelematon

Not obedient.

tottelemattomuus

Refusal to obey.

tottelevainen

Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.

tottelevaisesti

In an obedient manner.

tottelevaisuus

The quality of being obedient.

tötterö

(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.

tottua

(ambitransitive) To make or become familiar with something or someone.

tottua ilmastoon

(transitive) To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate.

totutella

(agriculture) To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.

totuttaa

(transitive, often, passive, or, reflexive, with to) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.

totuttaa ilmastoon

(transitive, chiefly, US) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

totuudenjälkeinen

(chiefly, politics, media) Beyond or superseding the importance of truth; pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected; (usually, pejorative) not caring about factual accuracy.

totuudenjälkeisyys

The fact or state of being post-truth; a time period or situation in which facts have become less important than emotional persuasion.

totuudenmukainen

Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.

totuudenmukaisesti

(manner) In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.

totuudenmukaisuus

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

totuudenpuhuja

(obsolete) One who tells the truth; a truthful person.

totuus

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

totuusarvoinen

(logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

totuusarvomuuttuja

(logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

touchdown

(American football, Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

touché

(fencing) An acknowledgement of a hit.

touhottaa

(intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.

touhotus

(countable, or, uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

touhu

(countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.

touhuaminen

(countable, or, uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

touhuava

Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies).

touhukas

Busy; full of energy and noisy activity.

touhuta

(colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.

toukka

The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.

toukka-aste

(figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.

toukkavaihe

(figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.

Touko

A en given name, usually pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning.

toukokuu

The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.

toukokuussa kukkiva kukka

Any of several plants that flower in May - especially the hawthorn (in Britain) and the trailing arbutus (in the US).

Toulouse

The capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France.

touvi

(nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.

toveri

A companion; a comrade.

toverikunta

(archaic) An association, a fellowship.

toverillinen

Having the characteristics of a worthy companion; friendly and sociable.

toveruus

Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates.

töyhtö

A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

töykeä

(chiefly, UK, informal) Obstinate; stubborn.

töykeästi

In a rude manner.

töykeys

The property of being rude.

töyräs

(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

töyssy

A protuberance on a level surface.

traaginen

Causing great sadness or suffering.

Traakia

A historical region of Southeast Europe, now divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

traakki

(countable) An inhabitant of Thrace, regardless of ethnicity.

traani

(uncountable, countable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea).

traditio

A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.

traditionalistinen

A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices.

tragedia

A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.

traileri

A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.

träkkääjä

(computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.

träkkeri

(computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.

traktaatti

A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.

traktio

(medicine) A mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb.

traktori

(agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.

traktorikaivuri

(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).

trampoliini

A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric or rubber stretched over a (usually steel) frame using many coiled springs as anchors.

trance

(uncountable, music genre) Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).

trans-

To or on the other side of, beyond; outside of.

transaktio

The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

transatlanttinen

(geography) On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

transferenssi

(psychology, psychiatry) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.

transformer

(machine learning) A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.

transgressio

(geology) A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.

transihminen

A transgender or transsexual person.

transiitti

(astronomy) The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

Transilvania

A historical region in western Romania.

transistori

(semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.

transkriboida

To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.

transkriptio

(linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.

translaatio

(genetics) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.

translitteroida

(transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.

translitterointi

(linguistics, translation studies) The act or product of transliterating, of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.

transponderi

A radar or radio transceiver that transmits some signal in response to receiving a predetermined signal.

transponoida

(transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.

transponointi

(music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.

transpoosi

(linear algebra) The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.

transpositio

(especially, _, mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.

transsendenssi

(countable) The act of surpassing usual limits.

transsendentaalinen

(philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.

transsendenttinen

(algebra, field theory, of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.

transsi

A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.

transsukupuolinen

(narrowly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary identity).

transsukupuolisiin liittyvä

Of or pertaining to transgender people (sense 1), or their experiences or identity.

transsukupuolisille sallittu

Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people.

transsukupuolisille tarkoitettu

(broadly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender. [from 1974]

transu

(countable) Abbreviation of transvestite.

transversaali

(geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see w:Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)

transversaalinen

A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.

trapetsi

A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

tratti

A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.

trauma

Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

traumaattinen

Of, caused by, or causing trauma.

traumatisoida

(transitive, figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.

tredesiimi

(music) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

treenata

(intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.

treeni

(countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.

treenit

An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.

treffata

(intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.

treffit

A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

treidata

(transitive, sports) To trade or send (a player) to another team.

tremulantti

(phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.

trendi

(uncountable) Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.

trendikäs

(slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.

trepidaatio

(astronomy, obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

tri

The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.

tri-

Three.

triaali

(grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.)

triadi

A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

triangeli

(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.

triathlon

An athletics event in which contestants compete in swimming, cycling and running in turn.

tribunaali

(legal) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.

tribuuni

(historical) An elected official in Ancient Rome, a tribune of the plebs.

tribuutti

A payment made by one nation to another in submission.

trifekta

(US politics) The complete legislative and executive control of state or federal government by one party: governorship, the upper house, and the lower house of state or federal legislatures.

trifle

(cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

triggeri

(music) A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.

trigoninen

(crystallography) Of or pertaining to a crystal system with three equal and equally inclined but not perpendicular axes.

trigonometria

(surveying, countable, informal) A trig point.

trikki

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

trikoot

A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)

trilby

narrow-brimmed type of felt hat, described as having a "shorter brim which is angled down at the front and slightly turned up at the back" in comparison to the fedora