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Rossin piikki lennonjohtajille tuli päivää sen jälkeen kun heitä, samoin kuin lentäjiä ja lentoemäntiä, edustava järjestö varoitti, että hallinnon sulkeminen aiheutti merkittäviä turvallisuusriskejä.
Ross’s jab at the air traffic controllers came a day after organizations that represent them, as well as pilots and flight attendants, warned that the shutdown was causing major safety and security risks.
(Damian Paletta in Washington Post on Jan. 24, 2019)
(figuratively)spike(sharp increase in demand of anything, sharp peak in graph)
Ruokapankit ovat maanlaajuisesti raportoineet käyntipiikistä ja jotkut ovat avanneet huomiota herättämätömiä palvelupisteitä auttaakseen liittovaltion työntekijöitä, jotka pelkäävät leimaantumista ilmaisen ruoan vastaanottamisen takia.
Food banks nationwide have reported a spike in visits, and some have begun setting up services in discreet locations to help federal workers who are worried about the stigma of accepting free food.
(Damian Paletta in Washington Post on Jan. 24, 2019)
(mycology)tooth(spore on a tooth- or spine-like projection)
(sports)lead(leading position, especially in horseracing)
“piikki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.
References
Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “piikki”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn