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Fly   /flaɪ/   Listen
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



... best Eleonora, I shall soone returne: In the meane time be owner of this house, The possesour. All danger, sweet, shall dwell Far off: Ile but enquire the state of things In the Citty, and fly back to thee ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Various

... passed. Start not, and oh, do not look upon me thus. I know all that strength of nerve, of soul, which bids thee care not for the dangers round thee. I know that where I am thy loving spirit feels no fear; but oh, Agnes, for my sake, if not for thine own, consent to fly ere it be too late; consent to seek safety far from this fatal tower. Let me not feel that on thee, on thee, far dearer than my life, destruction, and misery, and suffering in a thousand fearful shapes may fall. Let me but feel thee safe, far from this terrible scene, and then, ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... down sufficiently, he took a little jar from the dressing-table and began to rub me with a rose-colored ointment. Weariness seemed to fly away from my ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit

... And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from ...
— The Revelation Explained • F. Smith

... colonel, at the head of a few soldiers, rushes on the enemy, who begin to fly, and whom Victory, hovering over his head, ...
— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat


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