Finnish–English dictionary

jyrkentää kantaansa

(intransitive, figurative, by extension) To significantly increase a risk, investment, or other commitment; to respond to a challenge (e.g. to an opinion) by reinforcing or extending one's position rather than moderating it. [with on ‘something’]

jyrkkä

Difficult or exhausting to traverse.

jyrkkyys

A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

jyrsiä

(ambitransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.

jyrsijä

A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing.

jyrsintä

A channel cut in a material such as wood with a router or gouge.

jyry

A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

jysähdellä

To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

jysähdys

A loud sound.

jysähtää

To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

jysähtely

A dull, heavy sound.

jysäys

The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

jysäyttää

(transitive) To hit extremely hard.

jysäytys

A blow that produces a muffled sound.

jyske

A dull, heavy sound.

jyskiä

(ambitransitive, aviation, or, nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

jyskyä

(intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

jyskyttää

(intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

jyskytys

A beating, vibration or palpitation.

jytä

(music, slang) A powerfully energetic and/or very good song, especially in hip-hop and dance music.

jytinä

A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

jytky

The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

jytym

(mimesis) An explosion; the word is typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

jyvä

(by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.

jyväjemmari

An uncultured person; a vulgarian.

jyvänen

A small, hard particle.

jyvittää

To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.

jyystää

(slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

kaaderi

(chiefly, in, _, communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.

kaadin

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.

kaahata

(intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).

kaahaus

Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.

kaakao

The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

kaakaonvärinen

Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

kaakaopapu

The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.

kaakaopuu

A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

kaakattaa

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

kaakatus

The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.

kaakeli

A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.

kääkkä

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

kaakki

An old jaded horse.

kaakko

The intercardinal compass point halfway between east and south; specifically at a bearing of 135°.

kaakkoinen

situated in, or pointing to, the southeast

kaakkois-

situated in, or pointing to, the southeast

kaakkoon

From the southeast.

kaali

(by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.

kaaliperhonen

(entomology) Any of various largely white butterflies with dark markings in the family Pieridae, especially the species Pieris brassicae, Pieris canidia, and Pieris rapae.

kaalisalaatti

(US, Canada) Coleslaw.

kaamea

Very bad.

käämi

(electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

käämiä

To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

käämitys

(electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.

Kaana

(biblical) The site where Jesus miraculously turned water into wine.

kaani

(historical) A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.

käänne

A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.

käännekohta

(archaic) Chiefly in in the Godspeed of: the most important part of something, or point at which something happens; also, the last minute or last moment.

käännellä

(transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.

käännettävä

Able to be reversed.

käännetty

(slang) Stolen. [from the 20th c.]

käännös

(countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

käännösversio

Version; translation.

käännynnäinen

One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism.

käännyttää

(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).

käännyttäjä

A person or thing that converts.

käännyttäminen

(law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.

kaanon

A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

kaanoniin kuuluva

Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.

kaanonissa

(music) In the form of a canon.

kääntää

(computing) To translate from assembly language to machine code.

kääntää alaspäin

To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.

kääntää jonkun pää

(transitive) To convince not to try or do.

kääntää lapa pystyyn

(rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.

kääntää lappeelleen

(ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

kääntää lepuutusasentoon

(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.

kääntää nurin

(transitive, obsolete, also, figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.

kääntää oikein päin

(transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

kääntää päinvastaiseksi

(transitive, now, rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

kääntää poispäin

(transitive) To turn aside or away.

kääntää takkinsa

(idiomatic) To make a complete reversal in stance or opinion.

kääntää vetoasentoon

(rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.

kääntää vinoon

(transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

kääntää ylösalaisin

(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

kääntää ympäri

(transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.

kääntäen

(often, conjunctive) With a reversed relationship.

kääntäen verrannollinen

(mathematics) Proportional to the reciprocal of the independent variable.

kääntäjä

(software) A computer program that transforms source code into object code.

kääntämättömyys

The quality of being irreversible; the lack of an ability to be reversed.

kääntäminen

(countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

kääntäminen tuuleen

(Britain, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.

käänteentekevä

Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

käänteinen

(archaic) Opposite, opposed to.

käänteinen lause

(logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

käänteinen sanajärjestys

(grammar) Deviation from standard word order, as for example by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs; in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis; and in other rhetorical devices or unusual situations.

käänteinen toimenpide

The reverse of any procedure or process.

käänteinen väite

(logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

käänteisarvo

(mathematics) A second element which negates a first; in a binary operation, the element for which the binary operation—when applied to both it and an initially given element—yields the operation's identity element, specifically:

käänteislause

(logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

käänteisluku

The inverse element with respect to multiplication; the reciprocal.

kääntö

A movement or throw that overturns something.

kääntöistuin

A type of railroad passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel

kääntöpiiri

(geography) Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.

kääntöportti

A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.

kääntöpöytä

(rail transport, road transport) A rotating platform placed in a circular pit, used for turning locomotives, cars, or trucks.

kääntöpuoli

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

kääntötaso

(rail transport, road transport) A rotating platform placed in a circular pit, used for turning locomotives, cars, or trucks.

kääntyä

(transitive) To cause to change direction.

kääntyä jonkin ympäri

(transitive) To turn past a boundary.

kääntyä jonkun puoleen

(transitive, usually, reflexive) To address oneself; to refer.

kääntyä pois

(obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.

kääntyä tuuleen

(intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).

kääntyä vastaiseen

(intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).

kääntyä ympäri

(intransitive) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.

kääntyjä

(religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.

kääntyminen

The act of going backwards; a reversal. [from 15th c.]

kääntyminen kasvuun

An upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit.

kääntyminen poispäin

(obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

kääntyvä

(mathematics, especially of a function or matrix) Able to be inverted, having an inverse.

kaaos

A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.

kääpä

Any of various fungi of the family Polyporaceae, whose fruiting bodies form on trees and resemble shelves or brackets.

kaapaista

(intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.

kaapata

(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.

kaape

Something removed by being scraped.

kaapeli

A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

kaapelikanava

A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.

kaapelinmitta

(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

kaapeliverkko

(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.

kaapia

(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

kääpiö

(especially in, _, botany) Miniature.

kääpiöesikko

Specifically, the species Primula acaulis (syn. Primula vulgaris), also called common primrose.

Kaapo

A en given name.

kaappari

(historical) An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship; a government-sanctioned pirate. [from 17th c.]

kaapparilaiva

(nautical, historical) A ship that has been armed for such a task.

kaappaus

An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.

kaappi

A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

kaapu

A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

kääräistä

(transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.

kääre

Something that envelops; a wrapping.

kääreluokka

(object-oriented) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.

kaaret

(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

kaareutua

To curve upwards in the middle.

kaareva pinta

The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid. [from 19th c.]

kaarevuus

(aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.

kaari

An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.

kääriä

(transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.

kaarikäytävä

(architecture) A row of arches.

kaariminuutti

A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

Kaarina

A en given name.

käärinliina

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

käärintä

(object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

kaaripallo

(baseball, softball) A batted ball that has been hit into the air above the outfield; a fly.