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UK
/flˈaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈfɫaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫaɪ/ ]
VERB
-
travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic -
change quickly from one emotional state to another
fly into a rage -
display in the air or cause to float
fly a kite
All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N.
fly a kite -
be dispersed or disseminated
Rumors and accusations are flying -
transport by aeroplane
We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America -
travel through the air; be airborne
Man cannot fly -
pass away rapidly
Time flies like an arrow
Time fleeing beneath him -
decrease rapidly and disappear
all my stock assets have vaporized
the money vanished in las Vegas -
cause to fly or float
fly a kite
fly a kite -
run away quickly
He threw down his gun and fled -
move quickly or suddenly
He flew about the place -
operate an airplane
The pilot flew to Cuba - hit a fly
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travel in an airplane
Are we driving or flying?
she is flying to Cincinnati tonight
NOUN
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
ADJECTIVE
- (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked
How To Use fly In A Sentence
- While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
- It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
- It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- If it were a little more curved it would collapse, imploding on itself in a cosmic crunch; a little less curved, and every star, planet, sun and galaxy would fly apart from each other and so would every atom of matter in each of them.
- But the process to extend his term became bogged down in a series of disputes that had raised an outside chance that Mr. Mueller's tenure would be briefly interrupted. NYT > Home Page
- Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
- Concorde was the first supersonic passenger jet - capable of flying faster than the speed of sound. Times, Sunday Times
- Millions of passengers fly British Airways every year.
- These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
- And she was learning how to fly an airplane.
