flying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aerodynamics
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
biology
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand,
ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).
Base: fly
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: flyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That flies or can fly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: flying fox
a flying rumour
in a sudden hail of exploding flying glass
Matthew (26—6 to 13), Mark (14—3 to 9), and Luke (7—37 and 38) also heard of, and related, the circumstance of Mary, whom John says (11 — 2) was the sister of Lazarus, anointing the head of Jesus with ointment, yet they neither of them utter a syllable about his raising her brother from the dead. It is difficult to account for this fact, unless we suppose that John was actually dishonest, or that he took up, believed and recorded a flying story, which an occurrence of some kind had given rise to, but which was without any foundation in truth.
gloss: Brief or hurried.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: flying visit
gloss: Capable of moving rapidly; highly mobile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: flying column
gloss: Not secured by yards.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Capable of foiling.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Flying ferries are the watercraft of the future!
gloss: Designating a cattle brand consisting of a letter extended on both sides with tilde-like curved lines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He brands his cow W (flying W) or — (two-bar).
[…] some seventy-five cows belonging to William and Bernie with a Flying W […]
Wyles cut the fence, keeping the Flying D cowboys occupied rounding up their cattle.
gloss: Being able to glide through the air.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: flying squirrel
flying snake
gloss: An act of flight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "Flyings" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds" […]
gloss: The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His seconde hawke wexyd gery
And was with flyenge wery.
She had flowyn so oft,
That on the rode loft
She perkyd her to rest.
gloss: The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: actual flying time
elapsed flying time
flubber
flying arch
flying army
flying baker
Flying Banana
flying bishop
flying boat
flying bomb
flying brick
flying bridge
flying buttocks
flying buttress
flying camp
flying car
flying carp
flying carpet
flying cat
flying circus
flying coffin
flying colours
flying column
flying cone
flying cymbal
flying disc
flying disc golf
flying disk
flying doctor
Flying Dutchman
flying eaves
flying fig
flying fish
Flying Fortress
flying fox
flying freehold
flying frog
flying fuck
flying ginny
flying gurnard
flying hatchetfish
flying jenny
flying jib
flying jib boom
flying junction
flying kick
flying kiss
flying knee
flying lap
flying lemur
flying lizard
flyingly
flying mare
flying meet
flying monkeys
flying mouse
flying officer
flying ointment
flying party
flying phalanger
flying picket
flying purple people eater
flying rat
flying rib
flying rod
flying rowan
flying saucer
flying shit
flying shot
Flying Spaghetti Monster
flying spaghetti monster
flying squad
flying squid
flying squirrel
flying start
flying stationer
flying toilet
flying visit
flying voter
flying wedge
flying wing
free-flying
give a flying shit
hangar flying
high-flying
instrument flying
non-flying
nonflying
southern flying squirrel
take a flying fuck
unflying
what the flying fuck
bush flying
dayflying
flying ace
flying machine
flying school
kiteflying
paraflying
sailflying
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