Finnish–English dictionary

yksilönkehitys

The generation and development of an individual organism from fertilization to adulthood.

yksilönvapaus

(by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.

yksimielisesti

In a unanimous manner; without objection.

yksimielisyys

(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

yksin

By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.

yksin asuva

Living or being alone; solitary.

yksinään

By oneself, solitary.

yksinäinen

By oneself, solitary.

yksinäinen susi

One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others.

yksinäisyys

Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.

yksineläjä

One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others.

yksineuvoisuus

The property of being unisexual (having characteristics of a single sex); (especially, in, _, botany) the property of being imperfect, i.e. having only male (stamina) or female (pistils) reproductive organs in one flower (monoecism) or individual (dioecism).

yksinkertainen

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

yksinkertainen enemmistö

A true numerical majority, more than 50% of the items being counted.

yksinkertainen ihminen

A simple-minded person.

yksinkertaisesti

(sentence adverb) Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.

yksinkertaistaa

(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.

yksinkertaistettu

Made more simple; having its complexity reduced.

yksinkertaistettu kanji

The simplified form of Japanese kanji used after 1947.

yksinkertaistua

(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.

yksinkertaistus

(US, figurative) Said of canned insight; a slogan or saying that is trite or lacks depth.

yksinoikeudella

(focus) to the exclusion of anything or anyone else; solely or entirely

yksinoikeusjuttu

Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.

yksinomainen

Whole, undivided, entire.

yksinvalta

(uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

yksinvaltius

(uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

yksiö

(Canada) A bachelor apartment.

yksipäinen kuokka

(when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.

yksipuolinen

Out of proportion or lopsided.

yksipyöräinen

(cycling) A pedal cycle that has only one wheel.

yksipyöräinen polkupyörä

(cycling) A pedal cycle that has only one wheel.

yksiraiteinen

a railroad system where the trains run on one rail

yksiselitteinen

Unambiguous; without equivocation or ambiguity; singularly clear, unmistakable, or unquestionable

yksiselitteisesti

In a manner that is not ambiguous; leaving no doubt; clearly

yksiselitteistää

To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.

yksisuorittaminen

Focusing on a single task.

yksisuuntainen

(computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.

yksitäryinen tremulantti

(phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

yksitavuinen

a word consisting of one syllable

yksitavuinen sana

a word consisting of one syllable

yksitellen

Individually in succession.

yksiteräinen

(of a knife) Having only one sharp side.

yksiteräinen kuokka

(when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.

yksitoikkoinen

Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.

yksitoikkoisuus

Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

yksitoista

The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

yksitotinen

Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.

yksittäinen

Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.

yksittäisnäytös

An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.

yksittäisolio

(computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.

yksituumaisuus

The condition of agreement by all parties, the state of being unanimous.

yksityinen

Confidential; private.

yksityinen ajotie

(UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage.

yksityis-

(legal) Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters.

yksityisesti

Privately, in an area where no one else can see or hear.

yksityisetsivä

A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.

yksityiskohdat

(idiomatic) The details or fine points of something.

yksityiskohta

(archaic) Evasive or indirect language; circumlocution.

yksityiskohtainen

Detailing every action or occurrence completely.

yksityiskoulun oppilas

(US) A student of a prep school. [from mid 20th c.]

yksityiskuski

(motor racing, chiefly, _, North America, Australia) A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team. [from 20th c.]

yksityisomisteinen

Privately owned.

yksityistää

(economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.

yksityistäminen

The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.

yksityisviesti

(Internet) A message sent to another user of a social media or chat platform through a private channel as opposed to a publicly accessible area or chatroom.

yksityisyys

(uncountable) Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.

yksivärinen

(botany, zoology, especially, entomology) Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings.

yksivuotinen

Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.

yksivuotinen kasvi

(botany) An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial.

ylä-

(education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.

ylähanka

(nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.

yläjyrsin

A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.

yläkerrassa

Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level.

yläkertaan

Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level.

yläkunta

(taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.

yläliikki

The top edge of a sail.

yläluokkainen

Aristocratic.

ylämaalainen

A person from the Highlands.

ylämaalaisrykmentin sotilaat

(uncountable) Preceded by the: a group of people customarily wearing tartan; Scottish Highlanders or Scottish people collectively; also, the soldiers of a Scottish Highland regiment collectively.

ylämäki

(geomorphology) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

ylänkö

A largely level expanse of land at a high elevation; tableland.

yläosa

A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.

yläosaton

Lacking a top.

yläosattomana

Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.

yläotsake

A portion of text at the top of a letter, identifying the sender and often giving their address etc., used for formal correspondence.

yläpaarre

(architecture) One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.

yläpidennys

(typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.

yläpuolella

Higher in rank, power, or position. [first attested around 1150–1350]

yläpuolella oleva

Located above, especially over the head.

yläpuoli

Above, overhead, in a high place; up.

yläpuolinen

Located above, especially over the head.

yläpuolinen indeksointipilkku

The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

yläraja

The highest limit.

yläreuna

(in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.

ylärima

(sports) The top of the goal structure.

ylärusto

(anatomy) The incurved rim of the external ear.

yläruumis

The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.

yläsatula

(musical instruments, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

yläsävel

(physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series. [from 1867]

yläseula

(agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed

ylätasanko

Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

ylätunniste

The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

ylävartalo

The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.

ylävatsa

Related to, or located in the hypochondrium.

ylävireinen

(music) Higher in pitch than required.

yleensä

(idiomatic) In general; most often.

yleinen

Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational. [First attested by Locke in 1689.]

yleinen osakeanti

(finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.

yleinen vapaapäivä

(UK, Ireland) A weekday, often a Monday, on which most businesses are closed, and granted to workers as a national holiday.

yleis-

Indicates that a term applies in a general manner.

yleisavain

A key designed to open a set of several locks; a passkey.

yleisesti

As a rule; frequently; usually.

yleisesti levinnyt

Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

yleishyödyllinen yhteisö

Ellipsis of nonprofit organization (“an organization that exists for reasons other than to make a profit, such as a charitable, educational or service organization”).

yleiskaavoitus

(legal) Legislative action for the purpose of regulating the use of property and the construction of buildings within the area under the jurisdiction of the legislative body concerned.

yleiskäsite

Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.

yleiskatsaus

An outline or summary; also, words that summarize.

yleiskäyttöinen

For general purposes; all-purpose.

yleiskunto

(dated) The general health of a person.

yleiskuva

A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

yleiskuvaus

A general description of some subject.

yleislääkäri

A physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education; a family doctor.

yleislääke

A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.

yleislähetin

(computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.

yleisluontoinen

Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.

yleismaailmallinen

(biology, ecology) Growing or living in many parts of the world; widely distributed.

yleismaailmallisesti

In a universal manner.

yleismies

A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.

yleisnero

A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

yleisnimi

A noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city; contrasted with a proper noun, which refers to a single named entity, such as Socrates or Tokyo.

yleisö

A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. [from 15th c.]

yleisölle soveltuva

Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reservations.

yleisöpuhelin

A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.

yleispätevä

Common to all members of a group or class.

yleispostimerkki

(philately) an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand

yleissilmäys

The act of surveying; a general view.

yleistä etua ajava

Now chiefly in public spirit and public-spirited: seeking to further the best interests or well-being of the community or nation.

yleistää

(transitive) To infer by extending known information.

yleistajuinen

Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public; accessible; also, having an obvious application.

yleistäminen

The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.

yleistävä

Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.

yleistyöntekijä

An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.

yleistys

Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

yleisurheilija

A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.

yleisurheilijoiden

(not comparable) Having to do with athletes.

yleisurheilu

(sports, especially, _, Britain) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.

yleisyys

Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample. [First attested in the late 19th century.]

ylellinen

Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.

ylellisyys

(countable, dated) A refinement or luxury.

ylemmäksi

Towards a (higher) position closer to the sky than the ground.