flying

Definition of flying

11 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)That flies or can fly.

“flying fox”
“a flying rumour”
“in a sudden hail of exploding flying glass”

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adj

(not-comparable)That flies or can fly.

“flying fox”
“a flying rumour”
“in a sudden hail of exploding flying glass”
(not-comparable)Brief or hurried.

“flying visit”
(not-comparable)Capable of moving rapidly; highly mobile.

“flying column”
(not-comparable)Not secured by yards.
(not-comparable)Capable of foiling.

“Flying ferries are the watercraft of the future!”
(not-comparable)Designating a cattle brand consisting of a letter extended on both sides with tilde-like curved lines.

“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.”
(in-compounds, not-comparable)Being able to glide through the air.

“flying squirrel”
“flying snake”

verb

(form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of fly

noun

(countable)An act of flight.

“"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" […]”
(uncountable)The action or process of sustained motion through the air.

“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.”
(uncountable)The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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”),…

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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”).

Anagrams of flying

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Words you can make from flying

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