Associations to the word «Icao»

Wiktionary

ICAO SPELLING ALPHABET, noun. Shortened name for the ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization. This alphabet assigns names to letters of the alphabet for clearer enunciation (and for the same reason pronounces the numeral 9 as "niner"):

Dictionary definition

ICAO, noun. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats