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alien

An alien is a person, animal, plant or thing that is not part of the group you look at. An alien is a person who lives in a foreign country. An alien is a living thing not from earth. Nobody has ever seen an alien.

alien

If something is alien, it is strange or unfamiliar to you.

alien

(= foreign) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper jealousy is foreign to her nature (= exotic) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world alien customs exotic plants in a greenhouse exotic cuisine (= foreigner) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country transfer property or ownership The will aliened the property to the heirs (= stranger) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found (= extraterrestrial being) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere (= alienate) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious

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Those ideas are alien to our way of thinking.
This gold Rolex is an expensive watch alien to my lifestyle.
Their ideas seem totally alien to us.
The alien shot his ray gun and blasted a hole in the spaceship's hull.
I heard they found an alien artifact on the moon.
Do you think Tom could be an alien?
The green alien is humanoid and stands at 3.7 metres.
The alien is a small intelligent multidimensional parasite that attaches to the host's nervous system.
The Earth is under attack by alien invaders.
This desert looks like an alien landscape.
This landscape looks like an alien landscape.
Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.
It's an anime about a normal Japanese schoolboy who married his alien teacher. Things like this happen in Japan.
This is not an alien, it's just a strange animal.
I won't stake my reputation on it, but I think it's a genuine alien life form.
I swear, I saw an alien!
Tatoeba is a project centered on Earthlings-it still only has one alien language on it.
The alien uses levitation and telekinesis.
Tom dressed as an alien for Halloween.

Movie subtitles

Over the next hour, we'll show you how the hunt for alien life has dramatically changed over the past few decades.
And it's helping us understand and imagine how life might emerge on an alien world.
And, finally, we'll show you how new technologies are being used to search for, and possibly communicate with, advanced alien civilisations.
After all, alien life needs a home.
Millions are alive right now, and that fact alone tells scientists a lot as they comb the cosmos for alien life.
In the hunt for alien life, scientists are focusing their efforts on finding small, rocky planets like Earth.
We have to understand that life will evolve under conditions which seem horribly hostile, horribly alien.
New discoveries constantly shift our perspective on where alien life might exist.
It would be really fun if we could find an alien that could, you know, send me an email or twitter or whatever, all day long, but the profound question is life or nonlife.
Any sort of alien that resembles a human is ludicrous - two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
There's no reason an alien would have to be adapted this way.
Right now, in our own Milky Way galaxy alone, there may be numerous intelligent alien civilisations.
With the nearest star 400 trillion kilometres away, our current technology could get us there in, say, 1 00,000 years, so travelling to see an alien civilisation clearly isn't going to work.
We could think of communicating with an alien civilisation as like a game of cosmic catch.
There are people who only see the light and darkness is alien to them.
Take it because the years are long and full of sharp, wearing days that change us into people we do not know lest you and I, who love each other now should wake some morning strangers and enemies in an alien world, far off.
After living in the U.S.A. for more than 30 years they called me an undesirable alien.
Not 50 yards from our home, she is living under the protection of this alien.
Maybe the results of atomic radiation. on plant life or animal life. some weird alien organism, a mutation of some kind.
Their bodies were now hosts. harboring an alien form of life, a cosmic form. which, to survive, must take over every human man.
An alien cannot be deported if it works a hardship on an American citizen.
Of Israel's religion, yes, but not alien.
Now, my lord, there is, within the confines of Persia, A people called Judeans who defiantly worship an alien god. The law is clear.
There are alien gods who are jealous of you and envious of Chemosh.
If she and I are strangers in Judah. we should be even more alien elsewhere.
Was not her father a priest in the service of an alien god?
Maybe tommy's an alien.
It is, to me, an alien voice.
I tried to appear to respect his beliefs. but wanted to remain alien to his activities.
It's just that this story is so alien to me, to my way of thinking.
Go to the Office of Alien Affairs at San Lorenzo.
Yes, it's certainly alien to anything on your planet.
If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds would that satisfy you?
Our people could not resist because violence is alien to them.
An alien?
So the extrapolator was programmed to go to Plan B - to lock on to the nearest alien power source and open the rift.
And the ship's telepathic, it gets inside your head, translates alien languages.
Violence is totally alien to people on this planet.
Or it also could be manned by an alien crew.
An alien from the darkness of space, but the shape inside the cocoon..
Not from the planet Morok - alien.

News and current affairs

This work is set to expand as more than 40 million tons of invasive alien plants are harvested for power-station fuel.
Mathematics was outlawed as irreligious and alien, and was later made subservient to religion.
The shoot-out's individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate.
Moderate believers must look to examples such as Indonesia, where Islam has encountered and interacted with new and alien forces.
For millions of workers, not to mention their bosses, union solidarity has become an antiquated or even alien concept.
That horror is what makes parasites such a great device for science fiction movies such as Alien.
Countries such as Nigeria, for example, have suffered horribly from terrorism based on a brand of religious extremism that is alien to their society.
Underlying this discrimination, especially in Europe, is cultural aversion to immigrants from regions with alien cultures, which may account for the absence of widespread protests against the EU's eastward enlargement.
This culturally desiccated world is much more alien than the red desert of the Martian landscape that Tereshkova and her cosmonaut friends - including her husband - dreamed of in their youth.
But another, more sympathetic response would be to show that individual rights and notions of freedom are by no means alien to non-Western civilizations.
Some of the concepts the Constitution contained were so alien to Japanese tradition that new ideograms had to be created to express them.
Others feel suffocated by the prevailing toxic discourse that casts European Muslims as foreign, alien, and suspect.
Indeed, focusing on market-based growth has often been identified with the semi-alien values of America.
We appropriate land and resources for our purposes, release harmful wastes, and introduce alien species that displace natives.
Fixated on stability - a concept alien to US politicians and policymakers - the Chinese prefer, instead, to play a more active role in managing the adjustment of their currency.
Millions of Britons long for someone or something to protect them from the seemingly alien forces that threaten to steal their livelihoods.
When this new power is a nation of 1.3 billion people living under an alien political system and ideology, its rise is bound to cause even more uneasiness.
Convict laborers, like the rest of the Chinese workforce on such projects, are housed near the project site. That way, if any convict worker escaped, he would be easy to find in an alien setting.
The Arab public overwhelmingly regards Israel as an alien and illegitimate entity imposed by force on Palestinian land with Western support.
But recent evidence suggests that large changes, caused by the absorption of a chunk of alien genetic material, may be just as significant.
It is quaint that the 1933 World Economic Conference took place in the Geological Museum in London's Kensington, at a time when international cooperation seemed as alien as a fossilized dinosaur.
For millions of workers, not to mention their bosses, union solidarity has become an antiquated or even alien concept. This is hardly surprising.
But most of the traditional religious teachers in such schools practice Senegalese rituals of respect, and, in any case, view Saudi Arabian-style schools as alien competitors.
The radical solution was to separate all the assets that were alien to the bank's core business, mainly real estate companies, but also firms in the manufacturing, construction, and service industries.
There is an excellent chance that we will find it and its brethren within a decade, and search for signs of an alien biosphere in these worlds' atmospheric compositions or climates.
Japanese businessmen may be a little puzzled by the creative chaos of India; the argumentative culture can seem alien to them.
Intraregional economic cooperation, which is essential to achieving sustained growth and social development, much less a regional security framework to ensure peace and stability, remains an alien idea.

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