UFO
English
Etymology
Abbreviations.
Pronunciation
Noun
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, 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?, 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.
Descendants
Translations
an unidentified flying object
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Anagrams
Estonian
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈufo/, [ˈufo̞]
- Rhymes: -ufo
- Syllabification(key): U‧FO
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English UFO, initialism of unidentified flying object, itself translated into German as unidentifiziertes Flugobjekt or more commonly unbekanntes Flugobjekt.
Pronunciation
- 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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Declension
See also
- Fliegende Untertasse
Further reading
- “UFO” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Italian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈu.fo/
- Rhymes: -ufo
- Hyphenation: Ù‧FO
Japanese
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from English UFO, but pronounced like an acronym rather than a mere initialism.
Polish
UFO
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈu.fɔ/
- Rhymes: -ufɔ
- Syllabification: U‧FO
Noun
UFO n (indeclinable)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈu.fo/
- It is uncommon for the letters to be pronounced individually.
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