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1 be in the middle of (doing) something
(to be busily occupied doing something: Please excuse my appearance. I was in the middle of washing my hair.) olla parhaillaan tekemässäEnglish-Finnish dictionary > be in the middle of (doing) something
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2 be in the middle of (doing) something
(to be busily occupied doing something: Please excuse my appearance. I was in the middle of washing my hair.) olla parhaillaan tekemässäEnglish-Finnish dictionary > be in the middle of (doing) something
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3 think twice about (doing) something
(to be very careful about considering (doing) something: I wouldn't think twice about sacking him.) harkita tarkoinEnglish-Finnish dictionary > think twice about (doing) something
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4 think twice about (doing) something
(to be very careful about considering (doing) something: I wouldn't think twice about sacking him.) harkita tarkoinEnglish-Finnish dictionary > think twice about (doing) something
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5 get into / out of the way of (doing) something
(to become accustomed to (not) doing; to get into / out of the habit of doing: They got into the way of waking up late when they were on holiday.) ottaa tavakseenEnglish-Finnish dictionary > get into / out of the way of (doing) something
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6 get into / out of the way of (doing) something
(to become accustomed to (not) doing; to get into / out of the habit of doing: They got into the way of waking up late when they were on holiday.) ottaa tavakseenEnglish-Finnish dictionary > get into / out of the way of (doing) something
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7 be in the habit of doing something
• tavataEnglish-Finnish dictionary > be in the habit of doing something
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8 with an eye to something
(with something as an aim: He's doing this with an eye to promotion.) silmällä pitäen -
9 he etc could be doing with / could do with
(it would be better if I, he etc had or did (something): I could do with a cup of coffee.) haluta, ottaa mielelläänEnglish-Finnish dictionary > he etc could be doing with / could do with
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10 talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
(to persuade (someone) (not) to do (something): He talked me into changing my job.) suostutellaEnglish-Finnish dictionary > talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
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11 talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
(to persuade (someone) (not) to do (something): He talked me into changing my job.) suostutellaEnglish-Finnish dictionary > talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
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12 talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
(to persuade (someone) (not) to do (something): He talked me into changing my job.) suostutellaEnglish-Finnish dictionary > talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
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13 talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
(to persuade (someone) (not) to do (something): He talked me into changing my job.) suostutellaEnglish-Finnish dictionary > talk (someone) into / out of (doing)
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14 set
• paikoilleen asetettu• panna kuntoon• panos• panna tekemään jotakin• painaa• panna• ryhmäkunta• ryhmä• tuijottava• nurkkakunta• nupukivi• normaali• hyytyä• hyydyttää• hyytelöityä• istukas• jakso• istuttaa• joukko• joukko (mat.)automatic data processing• joukko (ATK)• jähmettynyt• järkkymätön• joukko(tietotekn)• varmatechnology• vastaanotin• varusteet• virittää• vesa• astiasto• erä• sijoittaa• seurue• asetettu• asento• asettua• asettaa• asettaa sijoilleen• asettaa arvo• upottaa• usuttaa• vakiintunut• vakiintua• valmius• yhdistelmä• yhde• porukka• tehdä hedelmää• tasokurssi• teroittaa• kattaa• kattaa (pöytä)• kehystää• kiinnitetty• kerta• kohdistaa• kiinteä• kokoelma• kiintiöfinance, business, economy• kiinnittää• liikkumaton• kaavamainenfinance, business, economy• kalusto• jäykkä• jäykistyäforest and paper industry• haritus• harittaa• mennä mailleen• määrätä• määrätty• muodollinen• saattaa kovettumaan• sarja• setti• sovittaa• säädetty• säännellä• suuntaus• suunta• kovettua• kuvauspaikka• latoaautomatic data processing• laitteisto• laittautua• ladella• lajitelma• laittaa• laite• lavasteet• lavastus• laskeaelectricity• piiri• pino• piintynyt• piimiä• pistää• koneikko• kopiosarja• koristaa• lujittua* * *set 1. present participle - setting; verb1) (to put or place: She set the tray down on the table.) asettaa, panna2) (to put plates, knives, forks etc on (a table) for a meal: Please would you set the table for me?) kattaa pöytä3) (to settle or arrange (a date, limit, price etc): It's difficult to set a price on a book when you don't know its value.) määrätä4) (to give a person (a task etc) to do: The witch set the prince three tasks; The teacher set a test for her pupils; He should set the others a good example.) antaa5) (to cause to start doing something: His behaviour set people talking.) saada tekemään6) ((of the sun etc) to disappear below the horizon: It gets cooler when the sun sets.) laskea7) (to become firm or solid: Has the concrete set?) jähmettyä8) (to adjust (eg a clock or its alarm) so that it is ready to perform its function: He set the alarm for 7.00 a.m.) säätää9) (to arrange (hair) in waves or curls.) laittaa (tukka)10) (to fix in the surface of something, eg jewels in a ring.) upottaa11) (to put (broken bones) into the correct position for healing: They set his broken arm.) panna kohdalleen2. adjective1) (fixed or arranged previously: There is a set procedure for doing this.) vakio2) ((often with on) ready, intending or determined (to do something): He is set on going.) valmis3) (deliberate: He had the set intention of hurting her.) harkittu4) (stiff; fixed: He had a set smile on his face.) jäykkä5) (not changing or developing: set ideas.) muuttumaton6) ((with with) having something set in it: a gold ring set with diamonds.) koristeltu3. noun1) (a group of things used or belonging together: a set of carving tools; a complete set of (the novels of) Jane Austen.) sarja2) (an apparatus for receiving radio or television signals: a television/radio set.) vastaanotin3) (a group of people: the musical set.) ryhmä4) (the process of setting hair: a shampoo and set.) hiusten laitto5) (scenery for a play or film: There was a very impressive set in the final act.) lavastus6) (a group of six or more games in tennis: She won the first set and lost the next two.) erä•- setting- setback
- set phrase
- set-square
- setting-lotion
- set-to
- set-up
- all set
- set about
- set someone against someone
- set against someone
- set someone against
- set against
- set aside
- set back
- set down
- set in
- set off
- set something or someone on someone
- set on someone
- set something or someone on
- set on
- set out
- set to
- set up
- set up camp
- set up house
- set up shop
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15 stop
• paikata• torjunta• tilke• tilkitä• tukkia• jähmettyä• jähmettää• tyrehdyttää• tyrehtyä• herjetä• himmentää• viivyttää• viivähtää• viipyä• asua• ehkäistä• estää• täyttää• vaieta• vangitaaviation• välilasku• pysäkki• pysäyttää• pysähtyä• pysähdys• pysähdyttää• pysähdyspaikka• pysähtyminentechnology• pysäytin• pysäys• pysähdysaika• pysäytys• päättyä• pysäytys-• rajaintechnology• rajoitin• tauota• tauko• katketa• keskeytys• keskeyttää• keskeytyä• jäädä• jäykistyä• jäädä paikalleen• haka• nauliutua• pidätin• pidättyä• pidättää• paussi• pidäke• seis• seisauttaa• seisahtua• seisahtaa• seisottaa• seisahduttaa• seisaus• salpa• seisokki• seisahdus• sulku• sulkea• säppi• lakkauttaa• lakata• piste• loppua• luopua• lopettaa* * *stop 1. past tense, past participle - stopped; verb1) (to (make something) cease moving, or come to rest, a halt etc: He stopped the car and got out; This train does not stop at Birmingham; He stopped to look at the map; He signalled with his hand to stop the bus.) pysäyttää, pysähtyä2) (to prevent from doing something: We must stop him (from) going; I was going to say something rude but stopped myself just in time.) estää3) (to discontinue or cease eg doing something: That woman just can't stop talking; The rain has stopped; It has stopped raining.) lakata4) (to block or close: He stopped his ears with his hands when she started to shout at him.) tukkia5) (to close (a hole, eg on a flute) or press down (a string on a violin etc) in order to play a particular note.) sulkea, painaa6) (to stay: Will you be stopping long at the hotel?) jäädä2. noun1) (an act of stopping or state of being stopped: We made only two stops on our journey; Work came to a stop for the day.) pysähdys, lopetus2) (a place for eg a bus to stop: a bus stop.) pysäkki3) (in punctuation, a full stop: Put a stop at the end of the sentence.) piste4) (a device on a flute etc for covering the holes in order to vary the pitch, or knobs for bringing certain pipes into use on an organ.) läppä, rekisterinappula5) (a device, eg a wedge etc, for stopping the movement of something, or for keeping it in a fixed position: a door-stop.) pysäytin•- stoppage- stopper
- stopping
- stopcock
- stopgap
- stopwatch
- put a stop to
- stop at nothing
- stop dead
- stop off
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16 way
• neuvo• tyyli• vauhti• elämäntapa• etäisyys• väylä• pääsy• päin• reitti• rata• telapölkyt• tie• keino• menettelytapa• peli• matka• suunta• taipale• tapa• taho• kulkutie• kulkureittifinance, business, economy• kurssi• kulku• konsti* * *wei 1. noun1) (an opening or passageway: This is the way in/out; There's no way through.) reitti2) (a route, direction etc: Which way shall we go?; Which is the way to Princes Street?; His house is on the way from here to the school; Will you be able to find your/the way to my house?; Your house is on my way home; The errand took me out of my way; a motorway.) tie3) (used in the names of roads: His address is 21 Melville Way.) tie4) (a distance: It's a long way to the school; The nearest shops are only a short way away.) matka5) (a method or manner: What is the easiest way to write a book?; I know a good way of doing it; He's got a funny way of talking; This is the quickest way to chop onions.) tapa6) (an aspect or side of something: In some ways this job is quite difficult; In a way I feel sorry for him.) tapa7) (a characteristic of behaviour; a habit: He has some rather unpleasant ways.) tapa8) (used with many verbs to give the idea of progressing or moving: He pushed his way through the crowd; They soon ate their way through the food.) tie2. adverb((especially American) by a long distance or time; far: The winner finished the race way ahead of the other competitors; It's way past your bedtime.) paljon- wayfarer- wayside
- be/get on one's way
- by the way
- fall by the wayside
- get/have one's own way
- get into / out of the way of doing something
- get into / out of the way of something
- go out of one's way
- have a way with
- have it one's own way
- in a bad way
- in
- out of the/someone's way
- lose one's way
- make one's way
- make way for
- make way
- under way
- way of life
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17 plan
• organisoida• intentio• järjestää• jäsennys• tuuma• ehdotus• ehdotelma• esitys• ajatus• ajatella• aikomus• aikoa• aie• asemakaava• puuha• pyrkimys• rakennella• kartta• kaava• kaavailla• kaavoittaa• hahmotelma• hanke• hahmotella• hankkia• menetelmä• mieli• muotoilu• muotoilla• sepittää• sommitella• suunnitelma• suunnitella(tietotekn)• suunnitella• tarkoitus• kyhätä• laatia• laatia suunnitelma• pohtia• piirustus• pohjapiirros• konsepti• luonnostella• luonnos* * *1. noun1) (an idea of how to do something; a method of doing something: If everyone follows this plan, we will succeed; I have worked out a plan for making a lot of money.) suunnitelma2) (an intention or arrangement: My plan is to rob a bank and leave the country quickly; What are your plans for tomorrow?) aikomus, suunnitelma3) (a drawing, diagram etc showing a building, town etc as if seen from above: These are the plans of/for our new house; a street-plan.) pohjapiirros, kaavio2. verb1) ((sometimes with on) to intend (to do something): We are planning on going to Italy this year; We were planning to go last year but we hadn't enough money; They are planning a trip to Italy.) aikoa, suunnitella2) (to decide how something is to be done; to arrange (something): We are planning a party; We'll have to plan very carefully if we are to succeed.) järjestää3) (to design (a building, town etc): This is the architect who planned the building.) suunnitella•- planner- planning
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18 argue
• osoittaa• todistella• inttää• järkeillä• elämöidä• esittää syitä• argumentoida• väitellä• väittää• riidellä• keskustella• kinata• kinastella• kiistellä• motivoida• perustella• penätä* * *1) ((with with someone, about something) to quarrel with (a person) or discuss (something) with a person in a not very friendly way: I'm not going to argue; Will you children stop arguing with each other about whose toy that is!) kiistellä2) ((with for, against) to suggest reasons for or for not doing something: I argued for/against accepting the plan.) esittää perusteluja3) ((with into, out of) to persuade (a person) (not) to do something: I'll try to argue him into going; He argued her out of buying the dress.) suostutella4) (to discuss, giving one's reasoning: She argued the point very cleverly.) perustella, väitellä•- arguable- argument
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19 bar
law• asianajajalaitos• lakimiesten ammattikunta* * *1. noun1) (a rod or oblong piece (especially of a solid substance): a gold bar; a bar of chocolate; iron bars on the windows.) tanko, harkko2) (a broad line or band: The blue material had bars of red running through it.) juova3) (a bolt: a bar on the door.) salpa4) (a counter at which or across which articles of a particular kind are sold: a snack bar; Your whisky is on the bar.) baari, baaritiski5) (a public house.) baari6) (a measured division in music: Sing the first ten bars.) tahti7) (something which prevents (something): His carelessness is a bar to his promotion.) este8) (the rail at which the prisoner stands in court: The prisoner at the bar collapsed when he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.) aitaus2. verb1) (to fasten with a bar: Bar the door.) teljetä2) (to prevent from entering: He's been barred from the club.) sulkea ulos3) (to prevent (from doing something): My lack of money bars me from going on holiday.) estää3. preposition(except: All bar one of the family had measles.)- barmaid- barman
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20 gain
• palkkio• saada• saada aikaan• saada hyötyä jostakin• tulo• tulot• hyödyttää• hyöty• hyötyä• edistää• etu• ansaita• ansio• vahvistus• vallata• voittaafinance, business, economy• voitto• päästä päämäärään• lisäys• hankkia• saavuttaa• säästöfinance, business, economy• kurssivoitto• kostua* * *ɡein 1. verb1) (to obtain: He quickly gained experience.) hankkia, saada2) ((often with by or from) to get (something good) by doing something: What have I to gain by staying here?) hyötyä3) (to have an increase in (something): He gained strength after his illness.) saada lisää4) ((of a clock or watch) to go too fast: This clock gains (four minutes a day).) edistää2. noun1) (an increase (in weight etc): a gain of one kilo.) lisäys2) (profits, advantage, wealth etc: His loss was my gain; He'd do anything for gain.) hyöty•- gain on
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