Definitions from Wiktionary (fly)
▸ noun: (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
▸ noun: (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
▸ noun: Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
▸ noun: (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
▸ noun: (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
▸ noun: (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
▸ noun: (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A parasite.
▸ noun: (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
▸ noun: (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
▸ verb: (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
▸ verb: (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
▸ verb: (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
▸ verb: (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
▸ noun: An act of flying.
▸ noun: (baseball) A fly ball.
▸ noun: A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
▸ noun: (India, obsolete) The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.
▸ noun: (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
▸ noun: (vexillology)
▸ noun: The free edge of a flag.
▸ noun: The horizontal length of a flag.
▸ noun: (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
▸ noun: The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
▸ noun: (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
▸ noun: Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
▸ noun: (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
▸ noun: In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
▸ noun: The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
▸ noun: (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
▸ noun: (printing, historical)
▸ noun: The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
▸ noun: A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
▸ noun: One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
▸ noun: (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
▸ verb: (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
▸ adjective: (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
▸ adjective: (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
▸ adjective: (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
▸ noun: (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
▸ noun: A river in Papua New Guinea
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (American football) Short for fly route. [(American football) A pattern run by a receiver, straight upfield towards the end zone, with the aim of outrunning any defensive backs and getting behind them, catching an undefended pass while running untouched for a touchdown.]
▸ noun: Short for flywheel. [(mechanical engineering) A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.]
▸ noun: Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”). [(US, chiefly New York, now chiefly in place names) A small swampy or marshy area, especially near a stream.]
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