Used in a Sentence

helsinki

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for helsinki.

Editorial note

It's nearing 8pm local time here in Helsinki and the sun is still quite high in the sky.

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Quick take

The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of helsinki gathered in one view.

noun

The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

noun

(metonymic) The Finnish government.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for helsinki.

noun

The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

Example sentences

1

It's nearing 8pm local time here in Helsinki and the sun is still quite high in the sky.

2

The Declaration of Helsinki has to do with medical research ethics specifically, not the broad field of medical ethics.

3

The Akvo developer team has tech hubs in London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Helsinki and Bangalore with a further distributed presence.

4

But it could also have been placed in Hamburg or Helsinki and they would still have been okay with it.

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In Helsinki (or Finland in general), the taxis are not cheap but they are very reliable.

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There's a datacenter in Helsinki that pushes its heat to a district heating system.

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There are no tourist predator cabs in Helsinki because the cops stop anyone suspected of running an illegal cab service, including Uber rides.

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Also, near where I live, the new highway between Helsinki and Lahti was built under budget and exceeding schedule.

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I wouldn't even have thought that Helsinki needed that much cooling in the summer.

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District heating has been functional in Helsinki since 1953.

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(This was in the 1970s, a long time after Nürnburg Code and after Helsinki agreement).

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But I think it's actually a kind of Helsinki syndrome...

Quote examples

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More specifically, medical ethics work under the Declaration of Helsinki, and not "first, do no harm".

2

A more accurate title would be "Helsinki server room may eventually heat houses." Perhaps it's a small point, but anyone can plan to heat houses with waste heat.

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Helsinki already has "town heating" - a network of hot water pipes that take heat from the power station cooling systems into many houses and buildings, and even a couple of streets in the city are heated to prevent ice.

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It’s one of the more user-friendly variants of Linux, which first appeared in 1991 when a student at the University of Helsinki wrote his own version of a then-popular operating system invented at AT&T in the 1970s." what appeared first?

Proper noun examples

1

The essence is that they are using the heat from the underground server rooms to heat 500 homes in Helsinki.

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Helsinki district heating covers more than 93 percent of the heating energy demand.

3

This has happened in Helsinki, for example (where the local taxi service is very reliable, albeit somewhat expensive and may be busy at certain hours).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use helsinki in a sentence?

It's nearing 8pm local time here in Helsinki and the sun is still quite high in the sky.

What does helsinki mean?

The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

What part of speech is helsinki?

helsinki is commonly used as noun.