"FTL" meaning in English

See FTL in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: En-au-FTL.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|+}} FTL (comparative form only)
  1. (science fiction) Initialism of faster-than-light. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, comparative-only, initialism Alternative form of: faster-than-light Categories (topical): Science fiction, Faster-than-light travel
    Sense id: en-FTL-en-adj-dyEymKrf Disambiguation of Faster-than-light travel: 40 1 40 10 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 1 16 35 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 1 27 23 22 Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction

Noun

Audio: En-au-FTL.ogg [Australia] Forms: FTLs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} FTL (countable and uncountable, plural FTLs)
  1. (logistics) Initialism of full truck load. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: full truck load Categories (topical): Logistics
    Sense id: en-FTL-en-noun-qr-aNn87
  2. (science fiction) Initialism of faster-than-light. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: faster-than-light Categories (topical): Science fiction, Faster-than-light travel
    Sense id: en-FTL-en-noun-dyEymKrf Disambiguation of Faster-than-light travel: 40 1 40 10 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 1 16 35 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 1 27 23 22 Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction

Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-FTL.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} FTL, {{en-PP}} FTL
  1. (Internet, slang) Initialism of for the loss. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Alternative form of: for the loss Categories (topical): Internet, Faster-than-light travel
    Sense id: en-FTL-en-prep_phrase-vis8OAGI Disambiguation of Faster-than-light travel: 40 1 40 10 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 1 16 35 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 1 27 23 22
  2. (Internet, slang) Initialism of for the lulz. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Alternative form of: for the lulz Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-FTL-en-prep_phrase-HTUqUax- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 1 16 35 33 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 19 1 19 27 35 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 1 27 23 22

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-au-FTL.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "FTL"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.