UFO
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌjuːɛfˈəʊ/, /ˈjuːfəʊ̯/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ/, /ˈjufoʊ̯/, /ˈʌfoʊ̯/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
Noun edit
UFO (plural UFOs)
- Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
- 1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile[1], Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:
- After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an[sic] UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.
- 2004, George Carlin, “THEY CAME FROM OUT OF THE SKY”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?[2], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:
- To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed—and, by the way, unexplained—sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.
- (colloquial) An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft. [from 20th c.]
- 2007, Kerry Wills, The Close-knit Circle: American Knitters Today, page 107:
- UFOs differ from WIPs in that a WIP is a project one is actively pursuing, while a UFO runs the risk of never getting finished.
Synonyms edit
unidentified flying object
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unidentified flying object
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unidentified flying object
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an unidentified flying object
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unidentified flying object
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UFO
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UFO
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UFO
- UFO (unidentified flying object)
German edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English UFO, initialism of unidentified flying object, itself translated into German as unidentifiziertes Flugobjekt or more commonly unbekanntes Flugobjekt.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈuːfo/
- It is entirely unusual to pronounce the letters individually and such a pronunciation would be unlikely to be understood.
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UFO n (strong, genitive UFOs or UFO, plural UFOs or UFO)
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Declension of UFO [neuter, strong]
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- “UFO” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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UFO m (invariable)
- UFO
- Synonyms: oggetto volante non identificato m, alieno m
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Orthographic borrowing from English UFO, but pronounced like an acronym rather than a mere initialism.
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- Synonym of 未確認飛行物体 (mikakunin hikō buttai, “unidentified flying object”); a UFO
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Orthographic borrowing from English UFO.
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UFO n (indeclinable)
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Unadapted borrowing from English UFO.
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UFO m (plural UFOs)
- Synonym of OVNI