Definitions for flying

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flying fly·ing

Spelling: [flahy-ing]

IPA: /ˈflaɪ ɪŋ/

Flying is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in flying (fgilny).

Definitions for flying

noun

1. the act of moving through the air on wings; flight.
2. a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners.
3. a flap forming the door of a tent.
4. Also called tent fly. a piece of canvas extending over the ridgepole of a tent and forming an outer roof.
5. an act of flying; a flight.
6. the course of a flying object, as a ball.
7. Baseball. fly ball.
8. British. a light, covered, public carriage drawn by one horse; hansom; hackney coach.
9. Machinery. a horizontal arm, weighted at each end, that pivots about the screw of a press so that when the screw is lowered the momentum of the fly will increase the force of the press.
10. Also called fan. Horology. a regulating device for chime and striking mechanisms, consisting of an arrangement of vanes on a revolving axis.
11. Printing. (in some presses) the apparatus for removing the printed sheets to the delivery table. Also called flyboy. (formerly) a printer's devil employed to remove printed sheets from a press.
12. the horizontal dimension of a flag as flown from a vertical staff. the end of the flag farther from the staff. Compare hoist (def 7).
13. flies, Also called fly loft. Theater. the space above the stage used chiefly for storing scenery and equipment.
14. Nautical. a propellerlike device streamed to rotate and transfer information on speed to a mechanical log.

Idioms

1. fly blind, to operate an airplane, especially during conditions of poor visibility, relying solely on instruments for guidance. to proceed with a complex task in the absence of directions by using one's own ability to determine what procedures to follow.
2. fly in the face of, to act in defiance of (authority, custom, etc.). Also, fly in the teeth of.
3. fly off the handle. handle (def 16).
4. go fly a kite, Slang. to put up with or get used to matters as they stand. to confine oneself to one's own affairs. to cease being a nuisance:
5. let fly, to hurl or propel (a weapon, missile, etc.). to give free rein to an emotion:
6. on the fly, during flight; before falling to the ground: hurriedly; without pausing:

adverb

1. Nautical. without being fastened to a yard, stay, or the like:

adjective

1. making flight or passing through the air; that flies:
2. floating, fluttering, waving, hanging, or moving freely in the air:
3. extending through the air.
4. moving swiftly.
5. made while moving swiftly:
6. very hasty or brief; fleeting or transitory:
7. designed or organized for swift movement or action.
8. fleeing, running away, or taking flight:
9. Nautical. (of a sail) having none of its edges fastened to spars or stays.

Verb phrases

1. fly out, Baseball, Softball. to be put out by hitting a fly ball that is caught by a player of the opposing team.

verb (used with object)

1. to make (something) float or move through the air:
2. to operate (an aircraft, spacecraft, or the like).
3. to hoist aloft, as for display, signaling, etc.:
4. to operate an aircraft or spacecraft over:
5. to transport or convey by air:
6. to escape from; flee:
7. Theater. to hang (scenery) above a stage by means of rigging supported by the gridiron. to raise (scenery) from the stage or acting area into the flies.

verb (used without object)

1. to move through the air using wings.
2. to be carried through the air by the wind or any other force or agency:
3. to float or flutter in the air:
4. to travel in an aircraft or spacecraft.
5. to move suddenly and quickly; start unexpectedly:
6. to change rapidly and unexpectedly from one state or position to another:
7. to flee; escape.
8. to travel in space:
9. to move or pass swiftly:
10. to move with an aggressive surge:
11. Baseball. to bat a fly ball: to fly out.
12. Informal. to be acceptable, believable, or feasible:

Origin of flying

before 1000; Middle English (noun); Old English flēogende (adj.). See fly¹, -ing², -ing¹

Examples for flying

My brother and Pierre went on a flying trip to the South-East in search of water.

He looked like a harbinger of tempest, a shipmate of the flying Dutchman.

At Gawler we were received by a crowd of people, and flags were flying to do us honour.

We on the other hand cross the ocean in sixteen hours in a flying machine.

That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

JetBlue has been flying charter jets to Cuba for three years, and others are sure to follow.

One report has the AirAsia Airbus flying at a speed very close to what would trigger a low speed stall.

It proved to be an autograph from the flying Dutchman to his wife.