Finnish–English dictionary

kersantti

A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian, US and UK Navy and the US Coast Guard; roughly equivalent to a sergeant in the army

kerskailija

One who boasts; a braggart.

kerskailla

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

kerskua

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

kerskuja

One who boasts; a braggart.

kerskunta

An instance of vaunting; a boast.

kerta

A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred. [from 15th c.]

kertaa

(mathematics) Multiplied by (see also 'ratio of comparison' sense at 'time).

kertaerä

(by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

kertailla

(obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.

kertainen

Used to make adjectives meaning times.

kertaisesti

Used to make adverbs meaning times.

kertakaikkinen korvaus

A relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments.

kertakaikkinen maksu

A relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments.

kertakäyttö-

That is designed to be discarded rather than reused, refilled or repaired.

kertakäyttöinen

That is designed to be discarded rather than reused, refilled or repaired.

kertakäyttötavara

Any object that is designed to be disposed of, rather than refilled or repaired.

kertakorvaus

A relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments.

kertaluku

(algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial. [from 18th c.]

kertaluokka

(physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

kertaluonteinen

Not recurring; occurring only once.

kertamaksu

(banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

kertasuoritus

A group, set, or unit.

kertaus

Containing multiple items.

kertausjakso

(music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.

kertoa

(transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.

kertoa auki

(mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.

kertoa etukäteen

(uncountable) Prior notification.

kertoa mielipiteensä

(intransitive, transitive) To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).

kertoa omin sanoin

(ambitransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase. To repeat a written or spoken phrase/quote using different words, often in a simpler and shorter form, or sometimes in a humorous context.

kertoa sadalla

(transitive) To increase or multiply something by a hundred.

kertoa uudelleen

To count again.

kertoja

A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.

kertolasku

(countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.

kertoma

(mathematics, combinatorics) The result of multiplying a given number of consecutive integers from 1 to the given number. In equations, it is symbolized by an exclamation mark (!). For example, 5! = 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 = 120.

kertomus

(countable, and, uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.

kertosäe

A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.

kertova

Telling a story.

Kerttu

A en given name.

kerttuli

Any of the New World warblers of the genus Parula.

kertyä

(intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.

kertymä

An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose

kertyminen

(finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.

kerubi

(art) A cupid or putto (representation of a naked baby or small child, often with wings).

kesä

One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

kesäaika

The practice in some places of adjusting clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall, usually by one hour, so that the adjustment causes the time to coincide with the greatest period of illumination by the sun over the course of the day.

kesäasunto

A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.

kesakko

A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.

kesäkurpitsa

(British, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.

kesäkuu

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.

kesämökki

A second home used for holidays.

kesannoida

(transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

kesannoitu

(of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

kesannolla

(of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

kesanto

(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

kesätalo

A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.

kesävihanta

(botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.

kesiä

(intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

keskari

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.

keskeinen

Being very important, or key to something.

keskeinen piirre

A significant feature of something.

keskellä

Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)

kesken

Shared in confidence.

keskenään

(reflexive pronoun) The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).

keskenään riippuvaiset

Mutually dependent; reliant on one another.

keskenään vaihtokelpoinen

Freely substitutable; that may be swapped at will.

keskeneräinen

Not complete; not finished.

keskenkasvuisuus

Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown

keskenmeno

(now, rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

keskeyttää

To interrupt suddenly. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]

keskeyttää kasvu

(transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

keskeyttää ohjelma

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

keskeyttäminen

(medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.[from 16th c.]

keskeytyä

(intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

keskeytymätön

Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.

keskeytys

(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.

keskeytyslääke

(obsolete) A medicine that causes abortion, an abortifacient.

keski-

Of, at, or related to a center.

keski-ikä

The period of life directly preceding old age, often defined roughly as ages 45–65; midlife.

keskialue

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

keskiarvo

(statistics, probability) The measure of central tendency of a set of values computed by dividing the sum of the values by their number.

keskiaukeama

The single larger sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication, folded so as to open wider than a standard page spread.

keskiaukeamakuva

A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man.

keskiaukeaman poika

The person appearing in such a photograph.

keskiaukeaman tyttö

The person appearing in such a photograph.

keskihakuinen

Directed or moving towards a centre.

keskihermo

(anatomy, now, _, rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]

keskijana

(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.

keskikaide

(chiefly, British) A strengthened barrier installed on the sides of a (usually major) road to keep vehicles on the carriageway and reduce the risk and/or impact of crashes.

keskikeho

The central part of a human body; the waist.

keskikenttä

(sports) The middle of the field of play.

keskikesäinen

Occurring in the middle of summer.

keskikohta

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

keskikokoinen

Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.

keskikonsoli

(automotive) A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.

keskikypsä

Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.

keskiluku

(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

keskiluokka

(political, collectively, usually, in the plural) The middle class.

keskiluokkainen

Of or relating to the middle class (often, pejorative) , and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

keskiluokkaistuminen

(urban studies) The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.

keskimäärä

(countable, dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.

keskimääräinen

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

keskimääräisesti

In an average manner.

keskimmäinen jäsen

(mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.

keskinäinen

Having the same relationship, each to each other.

keskinkertainen

Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

keskinkertaisesti

In an average manner.

keskinkertaisuus

(uncountable) The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.

keskiö

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.

keskiosa

The middle section of something.

keskipäivä

(now, rare) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

keskipakoinen

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

keskipiste

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

keskiranka

(botany) The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged

keskirunko

The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.

keskiruoti

(botany) The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet.

keskiruumis

(entomology, and, arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.

keskiselänne

(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.

keskisormi

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.

keskisyys

The condition of being salient.

keskitaso

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

keskitie

The raised centre of a road.

keskitin

(networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.

keskittää

(transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.

keskittää huomionsa

(intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention on something; to have as one's central point of interest, concern, etc.

keskittäminen

The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.

keskittyä

(intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).

keskittymä

(slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).

keskittyminen

The direction of attention to a specific object.

keskittynyt

Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.

keskitys

A concentrated discharge of projectile weapons.

keskivaikea

(pathology) more than mild, less than severe

keskivartalo

The central part of a human body; the waist.

keskiverto

(mathematics) A measure of central tendency of a set of n values computed by extracting the nth root of the product of the values.

keskivertous

(uncountable) The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.

keskiviikko

The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.

keskiyö

The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.

keskonen

(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.

keskoskaappi

(medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.

keskus

A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.

keskus-

Being in the centre.

keskushyökkääjä

(American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays.

keskuskulma

(geometry) An angle positioned with its vertex at the center of a circle.

keskusliitto

An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.

keskuspaikka

A place of concentrated activity or influence.

keskussuoritin

(computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.

keskusta

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

keskusta-

Of, at, or related to a center.

keskustalainen

Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.

keskustan ulkopuoliset alueet

(specifically, Singapore, chiefly, in the plural) Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.