Fly Meaning and Definition

Word: Fly

How to pronounce: flaɪ

Intransitive verb

Definitions:

1. (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings.

Example sentences: "Close the door or the moths will fly in"

2. Move or be hurled quickly through the air.

Example sentences: "Balls kept flying over her hedge"

3. (especially of hair) wave or flutter in the wind.

Example sentences: "They were running, hair flying everywhere"

4. Go or move quickly.

Example sentences: "She flew along the path"

5. Be successful.

Noun

Definitions:

1. An opening at the crotch of a pair of pants, closed with a zipper or buttons and typically covered with a flap.

Example sentences: "Interesting alternatives are Velcro straps or, if the shorts fit perfectly, stylish button flies."

2. The space over the stage in a theater.

Example sentences: "The rest, even while the scenery keeps rising from the floor or descending from the flies, remains unremittingly flat."

3. Short for fly ball

Example sentences: "He led off the top of the ninth inning with a high fly down the left field line."

4. A one-horse hackney carriage.

Example sentences: "The season at Solentsea was now past: the parade was gloomy, and the flys were few and cheap."

Noun

Definitions:

1. A flying insect of a large order characterized by a single pair of transparent wings and sucking (and often also piercing) mouthparts. Flies are noted as vectors of disease.

Example sentences: "Almost 40 years ago Ed Lewis discovered a remarkable fly that differs from an ordinary fly by one extra pair of wings."

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Stylish and fashionable.

2. Knowing and clever; worldly-wise.

Synonyms:

swoop down

pass

depart

fly apart

fly in

travel

aviate

go

flight

wing

pilot

soar

do some flying

shoot

escape

abscond

flutter

flit

overfly

jet

rocket

glide

plane

whirl

gnat

midge

blow

breeze

tear

run

flee

scoot

run off

scurry

skedaddle

swoop

ram

hurtle

rush

hurry

speed

race

hurl

dash

vanish

get out

go away

break

drive

Antonyms:

drop

sit

drop down

land

Derivations:

flying

flyer

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Fly in Other Languages...

Spanish: Volar

German: Fliegen

French: Voler

Italian: Volare

Turkish: Uçma