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"text": "→ Italian: UFO, ufo"
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"Celestial inhabitants",
"Forteana",
"Fictional abilities",
"Gravity",
"Science fiction",
"Space access",
"Demonyms",
"Fictional characters",
"Pseudoscience",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Acceleration",
"Astrophysics",
"Mechanics",
"Astronautics",
"Names",
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"Sciences",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
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"Astronomy",
"Applied sciences",
"Space",
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"Proper nouns",
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"word": "UFOer"
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"_dis1": "94 6",
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"ref": "1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →OCLC, page 13",
"text": "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 UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.",
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"ref": "2004, George Carlin, “THEY CAME FROM OUT OF THE SKY”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 12",
"text": "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.",
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
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"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "yū ʔaf ʔaw",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "يُو أَف أَو"
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"roman": "aṭ-ṭabaq aṭ-ṭāʔir",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "الطَّبَق الطَّائِر"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ČʿTʿŌ",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ՉԹՕ"
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NUO"
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"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "NLA",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO (ju¹ e¹ fu⁴ ou¹, ju¹ e¹ fou¹)"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飛碟"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"alt": "fei¹ dip⁶⁻²",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飞碟"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "不明飛行物"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùmíng fēixíngwù",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "不明飞行物"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飛碟"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēidié",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飞碟"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yōufú",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "幽浮"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"neuter"
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"word": "UFO"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
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"word": "ufo"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ufo"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NIFO"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "nifo"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "OVNI"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ovni"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "amo",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ამო"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "UFO"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ATIA",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ΑΤΙΑ"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "'abám",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "עב\"ם"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufó"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "FFH"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "úfó"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo m or OVNI"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ＵＦＯ (yūfō)"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"alt": "みかくにんひこうぶったい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mikakunin hikō buttai",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "未確認飛行物体"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "csb",
"lang": "Kashubian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maniewid"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "BŪN",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "БҰН"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "vɔɔtthohɑhhaəmɨnskŏəlʼɑɑttɑɑhññiən",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "វត្ថុហោះហើរមិនស្គាល់អត្តសញ្ញាណ"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yuepeuo",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "유에프오"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mihwaginbihaengmulche",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "미확인비행물체"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NLO"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NSO"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "НЛО"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ufo"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "yufo",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "یوفو"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "óvni"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ovni"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "OZN"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "НЛО"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "НЛО"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"Roman"
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"word": "NLO"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NLP"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ovni"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "ufo"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "paṟakkumtaṭṭu",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "பறக்கும்தட்டு"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "uçan daire"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "НЛО"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NUJ"
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{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "vật thể bay không xác định"
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"ref": "2007, Kerry Wills, The Close-knit Circle: American Knitters Today, page 107",
"text": "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.",
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"ipa": "/ˈjuːfəʊ̯/",
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"UK"
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"ipa": "/ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ/",
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"US"
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"ipa": "/ˈjufoʊ̯/",
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"US"
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"ipa": "/ˈʌfoʊ̯/",
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"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/2 syllables"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "UFOer"
},
{
"word": "ufologist"
},
{
"word": "ufology"
},
{
"word": "UFO religion"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cs",
"2": "UFO",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Czech: UFO",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Czech: UFO"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "ufo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: ufo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: ufo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "et",
"2": "UFO",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Estonian: UFO",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Estonian: UFO"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fi",
"2": "UFO",
"3": "ufo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Finnish: UFO, ufo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Finnish: UFO, ufo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "UFO",
"alts": "1",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: UFO, Ufo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: UFO, Ufo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "ούφο",
"alts": "1",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Greek: ούφο (oúfo)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Greek: ούφο (oúfo)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "UFO",
"alts": "1",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: UFO, ufo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: UFO, ufo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "UFO",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "yūfō"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: UFO (yūfō)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: UFO (yūfō)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "-",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian:",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "ufo"
},
"expansion": "ufo",
"name": "l"
}
],
"text": "→ Norwegian: ufo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "UFO",
"alts": "1",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: UFO, ufo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: UFO, ufo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "ufo",
"alts": "1",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Swedish: ufo, UFO",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Swedish: ufo, UFO"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Abbreviations.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "UFOs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "UFO (plural UFOs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "USO"
},
{
"word": "flying saucer"
},
{
"word": "IFO"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "(loosely) an alien spacecraft",
"word": "unidentified flying object"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Ufology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →OCLC, page 13",
"text": "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 UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, George Carlin, “THEY CAME FROM OUT OF THE SKY”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 12",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft."
],
"links": [
[
"unidentified flying object",
"unidentified flying object#English"
],
[
"alien",
"alien"
],
[
"spacecraft",
"spacecraft"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Kerry Wills, The Close-knit Circle: American Knitters Today, page 107",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An \"unfinished object\" in knitting or other kinds of craft."
],
"links": [
[
"knitting",
"knitting"
],
[
"craft",
"craft"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) An \"unfinished object\" in knitting or other kinds of craft."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌjuːɛfˈəʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjuːfəʊ̯/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjufoʊ̯/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʌfoʊ̯/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-UFO.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-UFO.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-UFO.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-UFO.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-UFO.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "UAP"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "OFP"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "yū ʔaf ʔaw",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "يُو أَف أَو"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "aṭ-ṭabaq aṭ-ṭāʔir",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "الطَّبَق الطَّائِر"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ČʿTʿŌ",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ՉԹՕ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NUO"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UNO"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "OHE"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "NLA",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "НЛА"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "НЛО"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ovni"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO (ju¹ e¹ fu⁴ ou¹, ju¹ e¹ fou¹)"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飛碟"
},
{
"alt": "fei¹ dip⁶⁻²",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飞碟"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "不明飛行物"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùmíng fēixíngwù",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "不明飞行物"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飛碟"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēidié",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "飞碟"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yōufú",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "幽浮"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NIFO"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "nifo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "OVNI"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ovni"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "amo",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ამო"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ATIA",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ΑΤΙΑ"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "'abám",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "עב\"ם"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufó"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "FFH"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "úfó"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo m or OVNI"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ＵＦＯ (yūfō)"
},
{
"alt": "みかくにんひこうぶったい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mikakunin hikō buttai",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "未確認飛行物体"
},
{
"code": "csb",
"lang": "Kashubian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maniewid"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "BŪN",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "БҰН"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "vɔɔtthohɑhhaəmɨnskŏəlʼɑɑttɑɑhññiən",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "វត្ថុហោះហើរមិនស្គាល់អត្តសញ្ញាណ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yuepeuo",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "유에프오"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mihwaginbihaengmulche",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "미확인비행물체"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NLO"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NSO"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "НЛО"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "yufo",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "یوفو"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "NOL"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "óvni"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ovni"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "OZN"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "НЛО"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "НЛО"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "NLO"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NLP"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ovni"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "paṟakkumtaṭṭu",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "பறக்கும்தட்டு"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "ufo"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "uçan daire"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "NLO",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "НЛО"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "NUJ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "UFO"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "an unidentified flying object",
"word": "vật thể bay không xác định"
}
],
"word": "UFO"
}
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