Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation sacrifice fly
- abbreviation science fiction
- abbreviation sinking fund
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- initialism
San Francisco - initialism
science fiction orspeculative fiction , often used to avoid having to choose between the two. - initialism square feet
- initialism
Sinn Fein , an Irish political party - initialism Smoker Friendly; an establishment that welcomes smokers and caters to their needs.
- initialism basketball
Small forward - initialism Suomi–Finland, former country code for
Finland
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Examples
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Nowadays I don't really care, but I consistently say and write sf not even SF, but sf -- that's just a convention I have adopted, and I see no reason to change it.
15 things I actually did know about sf, and a Neal Stephenson question x00c5;ka 2008
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Nowadays I don't really care, but I consistently say and write sf not even SF, but sf -- that's just a convention I have adopted, and I see no reason to change it.
Archive 2008-01-01 x00c5;ka 2008
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Thus sf fans once had to satisfy their need for SF books because no one published any.
Neil R. Jones Dark Worlds Club 2008
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At the back of the magazine is a long letter from Harlan Ellison, responding to a previous letter which seems to have suggested I don't have the issue it was printed in that there was something wrong with Ellison for wanting to be known as a "writer who writes some sf" rather than an SF writer.
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At the back of the magazine is a long letter from Harlan Ellison, responding to a previous letter which seems to have suggested I don't have the issue it was printed in that there was something wrong with Ellison for wanting to be known as a "writer who writes some sf" rather than an SF writer.
Archive 2004-02-01 2004
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hihhihih , man you're attracting quite a crowd...sf mike boy, i'm a busy working dad , can't make it to the the Mills show, are you gonna be around this weekend? we're thinking about going to SF, might stop and say hi, maybe we could get a bit to eat and catch up?
The Contemptuous Motorcade sfmike 2008
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That doesn’t mean that *all* SF should be like that, or that *all pessimistic SF* is without merit, but just that IMHO we need more of ingredient “O” in the greater written SF mix.
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Out The Door in SF is a killer example of a tap program (disclaimer we are on tap there)
Keg wine comes to the Finger Lakes, NY | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Ignoring the gender disparity in SF is not going to make it go away.
TOC: Eclipse 2 2008
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If the term SF has acquired negative brand equity, it may be time to rebrand the genre.
Burn After Reading – ‘Science Fiction, And Why It Needs Secret Decoder Rings’ by Gary Gibson 2009
frogapplause commented on the word SF
abbr. sacrifice fly
What is a sacrifice fly?
December 28, 2011
frogapplause commented on the word SF
Ho-hum. It's only baseball terminology. I'd hoped it had something to do with a virgin housefly plunging itself into a bowl of soup.
December 28, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word SF
When a flea-flicker won't suffice! InSufficent Flea-flickering. Who is fleeing?
*oh*
*Wrong sport*
December 28, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word SF
Untwisting fbharjo's cryptographic puns is like solving Sudoku puzzles.
I love them! In the present instance we see fs-SF chiasmus; flea/flee homophones each contrasting with the fly implied in the definition of SF; and baseball vs. football in sacrifice fly vs. flea-flicker.
When I analyze fjharbo's puns I feel like Roman Jakobson, who might term these and others a bright paronomasia.
December 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word SF
Yes--fbharjo's comments are always super fantastic, sagaciously fabulous, and stupendously fascinating. :-)
(That article about Roman Jakobson mentions Charles Sanders Peirce--thanks for that, hh.)
December 30, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word SF
When I see SF I am reminded of two of my favorite places - San Francisco and Santa Fe.
Thanks for the SF (so friendly) compliments, Ruzuzu.
December 30, 2011