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Fly

verb

(past flew; past part. flown; pres. part. flying)

1.

Travel through the air; be airborne. Synonym: wing.

2.

Move quickly or suddenly.

3.

Operate an airplane. Synonyms: aviate, pilot.

4.

Transport by aeroplane.

5.

Cause to fly or float.

6.

Be dispersed or disseminated.

7.

Change quickly from one emotional state to another.

8.

Pass away rapidly. Synonyms: fell, vanish. "Time fleeing beneath him"

9.

Travel in an airplane. "Are we driving or flying?"

10.

Display in the air or cause to float. "All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N."

11.

Run away quickly. Synonyms: flee, take flight.

12.

Travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft.

13.

Hit a fly.

14.

Decrease rapidly and disappear. Synonyms: vanish, vaporize. "All my stock assets have vaporized"

noun

(pl. flies)

1.

Two-winged insects characterized by active flight.

2.

Flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent. Synonyms: fly sheet, rainfly, tent-fly, tent flap.

3.

An opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth. Synonym: fly front.

4.

(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air. Synonym: fly ball.

5.

Fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect.

adjective

1.

(British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked.

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"Fly" Quotes from Famous Books

... intend now that you'll get off lightly. You'll have to pay me not a fiver but fifty pounds to-night. So go back to the hotel and bring me out a cheque. I'll wait at the Wish Tower. But mind it isn't a dud one. If it is, then, by gad! I'll tell them right away. And won't the fur fly then, eh?" ...

— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux

... are fully sufficient to enable him to fly, for the larger birds, he noted, employ but a small part of their strength in keeping themselves afloat in the air—by this theory he attempted to encourage experiment, just as, when his time came, Borelli reached the opposite conclusion and ...

— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian

... the ship could never fly, and work was suspended. She was afterwards used for carrying out certain experiments and at a later date ...

— British Airships, Past, Present, and Future • George Whale

... that my love of natural history enables me to draw amusement from objects that are deemed by many unworthy of attention. To me they present an inexhaustible fund of interest. The simplest weed that grows in my path, or the fly that flutters about me, are subjects ...

— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill

... influence on the actions and understanding, and is able to impose on the very senses. When an object is found by-experience to be always accompanyed with another; whenever the first object appears, though changed in very material circumstances; we naturally fly to the conception of the second, and form an idea of it in as lively and strong a manner, as if we had infered its existence by the justest and most authentic conclusion of our understanding. Nothing can undeceive us, not even our senses, which, instead of correcting this false ...

— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

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