saucer
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈsɔːsər/
:
platillo
- So Nancy and Jack got back into their saucer boat and started to try to get back up the river.
- a flying saucer
- a crashed saucer
- flying saucers crash
Similarly, flying saucers show up exclusively in my satire.
- Similarly, flying saucers show up exclusively in my satire.
- He was an engineer that built and designed tons of flying saucer, saucer shape and and and other weird shaped aircraft.
- And one day after rehearsal, she was pulling out in in a gorgeous Range Rover And even that was like a flying saucer to me.
- His thoughts were that that it was a real flying saucer that was in our possession.
- Maybe there's a cult inside of our government that has replaced angels with saucer shaped aircraft.
- So they make a press announcement to the whole world that they recovered a flying saucer.
- Well, so the spirituality of the flying saucer.
- Now he, I'm not did it, you know, was it a plane crash because of the flying, because of the flying saucer?
- The next time you encounter a flying saucer and are kidnapped, for God's sake, steal something.
Examples
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So you folks who called in to say you saw a flying saucer land--
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Sarah eased up the window and set the saucer on the brick sill.
Fiction book (2000) -
You can see here how it would work if you focus on the flying saucer like object on the right.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer.
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The force of the explosion hits the saucer section, knocking it toward the planet.
Fiction book (1994) -
Out of the forest, on the valley floor, sits the saucer, the source of the eerie glow.
Fiction book (2000) -
The media got wind of the story and labeled these mystery objects flying saucers or flying disks.
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On television, a flying saucer wobbled against a starred background, obviously suspended by thin filament thread.
Fiction book (1997) -
After finishing her tea, Sarah placed the cup on the saucer to prevent any spills.
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The saucer in the garden was used for holding decorative plants.
Synonyms
62
1.4
A flat, thin round object or surface
Compounds
- Archaic
15
5.6
A round flat object in the sky that people think comes from another planet
A small tree like a garden shrub with large pink to purple open flowers in spring
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Saucer began as a 'small dish for sauce' (from sauce + -er), and later the name moved to anything that is 'round and flat'. That is why a sports disk is often called a saucer — it looks like a small, shallow dish.