Finnish–English dictionary

vararikkoon joutunut

Bankrupt.

vararikossa

(finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent. [from 1565]

varas

(slang) A thief.

varastaa

(transitive, colloquial) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).

varastaa taskuista

(transitive) To pick pockets; to steal.

varastaa taskusta

(transitive) To pick pockets; to steal.

varastaminen

The act of stealing.

varasteleva

That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal

varastelu

The action of theft.

varastettu

That has been stolen.

varastetun tavaran kauppa

A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

varasto

(literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.

varastohuone

A room used for storage.

varastoida

(transitive) To place in a cache.

varastointi

(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

varastoluettelo

(operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.

varastopalje

(music) A small bellows in an organ, regulated by a spring, which controls variations of wind pressure.

varastorakennus

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.

varastosiilo

(military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.

varasuunnitelma

An alternative plan to be put into operation if needed, especially in case of emergencies, or if a primary plan fails.

varat

Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

varat ja velat

The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19th c.]

varata

To set aside for a purpose.

varaton

Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.

varattomuus

An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.

varattu

(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

varattu aika

(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.

varaukseton

Impartial and free from prejudice.

varauma

A conditional provision to an agreement.

varaus

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

varausjärjestelmä

(sports, American English) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.

varausjohto

A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash

varautua

(transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

varautuminen

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

varautuneisuus

Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

varautunut

Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

varavuode

(Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

väre

A faint or remote possibility (as it were a flash of light).

väreilevä

(archaic, or, obsolete) Of a body of water, skin, etc.: having a surface which is rippled or wrinkled.

väreillä

(intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.

väreily

A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.

värekarva

(cytology) A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.

varhain

At a time before expected; sooner than usual.

varhainen

At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.

varhaiskypsä

Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.

varhaislapsuus

The state or period of infancy.

varhaismurrosikä

The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.

varhemmin

Earlier than (in time).

väri

(heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.

väri-indigo

An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.

väriään vaihtava

(of a species) Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.

väriaine

A pigment, dye etc added to something to change its colour or hue.

väriala

All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

varianssi

(statistics) The second central moment in probability.

variant-muuttuja

(programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.

variantti

Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.

väriherne

Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

värijauhe

A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.

värikalvo

(botany) A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See w:Iris (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).

värikäs

(figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.

varikko

(military) A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.

värikorjattu

Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.

värikrappi

A dye made from the plant.

variksenpelätin

An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there. [from 1530s]

variksenpelätti

An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there. [from 1530s]

värikuula

(countable) The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.

värikuulapeli

(countable) The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.

värikuulasota

(countable) The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.

värikylläisyys

(art) The intensity or vividness of a colour.

väriliitu

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

värillinen

Having a particular color or kind of color.

värilliset

(laundry) A colored article of clothing.

värimatara

A dye made from the plant.

värimataran juuri

The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.

värimuunnos

(zoology) In certain organisms, one of two or more colour variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age.

värin muuttuminen

disguise or discoloration

värinä

The rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.

värinähälytys

The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.

värinätoiminto

The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.

värinauha

An awareness ribbon.

värinen

Having a particular color or kind of color.

värinokkonen

Any of certain plants in the mint family, many used as ornamentals for their colorful, variegated leaves, sometime included in genus Plectranthus (spurflowers), sometimes in their own genus Coleus,

värinpitävä

Having colors that have been dyed or applied to the material in a way that will prevent them from being washed out, running, or fading.

värintoistoala

All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

värintoistoalue

All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

väripaletti

The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.

väriraita

A broad well-defined band of color.

värireseda

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

väriresedasta tehty väriaine

The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

varis

A member of the bird family Corvidae, including crows, ravens, jays, choughs, treepies etc.

värisaflori

A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.

värisävy

A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.

värisevä

Vibrating, resonant or resounding.

varislintu

A member of the bird family Corvidae, including crows, ravens, jays, choughs, treepies etc.

väristä

(intransitive) To make rapid irregular movements.

väristää

(transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.

väristin

A device that vibrates or causes vibration.

varisto

(algebraic geometry) The set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition.

väristys

A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

värisyttää

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

värit

(in the plural) A standard or banner.

väritahra

A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

väritetty

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

väritön

(now, _, rare) Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.

värittää

(intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

värittää siniseksi

(transitive) To colour blue.

värittää sinisellä

(ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.

värittäminen

act or process

värittynyt

Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

väritys

act or process

värivirhe

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

värjääminen

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

värjääntyminen

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

värjäri

One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.

värjätä

(transitive) To give something color.

värjätä leppärisuilla

(transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.

värjätä siniseksi

(ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.

värjätä vihreäksi

(transitive) To make or turn (something) green or greener.

värjätty

Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.

värjäysaine

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

värjäytyä

(American spelling) To change or lose color.

varjeleminen

The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.

varjella

(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

varjelus

(countable) A blessing; something to be thankful for.

varjo

(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.

varjohaikara

A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the family Scopidae and related to the herons.

varjoinen

Abounding in shades.

varjoisa

Abounding in shades.

varjokuva

An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be. [mid 19th c.]

varjopuoli

(countable) The side of something that is in darkness or unlit, or has less illumination.

varjostaa

To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.

varjostaja

One who secretly or furtively follows another.

varjostaminen

(education) A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

varjostava

Causing shade.

varjostin

A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.

varjostuminen

The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.

varjostus

(typography) A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.

varkain

(transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

varkaus

(legal, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently. [from mid-15th c.]

varma

Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.

varmakäytöksinen

Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

varmasti

In a way which is certain; with certainty.

varmenne

(computing) A certificate that uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity — used to verify that a public key belongs to a particular person.

varmennus

Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.

varmistaa

(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.

varmistaa itselleen

To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

varmistin

(mechanics) A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.

varmistus

(computer programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

varmuus

Self-confidence; poise; composure.

varmuuskopio

(computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.