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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

... came here to propose for her, I know he did, they were talking together for—oh!—barely a quarter-of-an-hour in the drawing-room, when I heard her fly up stairs, and he rushed away, slamming the door as if he would take the front of the house out. Katherine has never been herself since. It is my firm belief she is strongly attached ...

— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander

... does not like the way in which the gentleman thinks fit to address me. I take upon myself to say that if any man alive spoke to me as he ought not to speak, I should know how to resent it myself. But I cannot fly into a passion with an old gentleman for calling me by my Christian name, when he has ...

— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope

... the morning of departure, and Dexter would have given anything to stay, but he went off manfully with the doctor in the station fly, passing Sir James Danby and ...

— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn

... themselves, the Marquis of Falmouth and Master Richard Mervale regarded each the other, irresolutely, like strange curs uncertain whether to fraternize or to fly at one another's throat. Then Master Mervale lay down in the young grass, stretched himself, twirled his thin black mustachios, ...

— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell

... inevitable that, at this point, her thoughts should fly to Dan. What a nice boy he was! She would see him to-morrow night—she had promised him that! And before that? Would it be too undignified for her to steal up again to that bench on the after boat-deck—would it—would it precipitate ...

— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson

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