wikipedia|fly (disambiguation)
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Pronunciation
AHD|flī
IPA|/flaɪ/
SAMPA|/flaI/
audio|en-us-fly.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|aɪ

Etymology 1
OE. flyge|flȳġe, fleoge|fl�oge. Cognate with Scots flee#Scots|flee, Dutch vlieg, German Fliege, Swedish fluga.

Noun
Image:Mouche verte dos.jpg|thumb|right|A fly (insect)
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en-noun|fl|ies

1. context|Zoology Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings, also called true fly|true flies.
2. context|non-technical Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
3. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
4. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
5. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, or underpants.
6. The free edge of a flag.
7. The horizontal length of a flag.
8. context|fishing A lightweight fishing lure resemble|resembling an insect.
9. baseball A fly ball.
10. weightlifting A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)

Antonyms
free edge of a flag
hoist

Derived terms
rel-top|Derived terms
blackfly
blowfly
botfly
caddis fly
cranefly
damselfly
dragonfly
firefly
fly agaric
flyswatter
flyweight
fruit fly
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gadfly
greenfly
horsefly
house fly
hoverfly
march fly
mayfly
sandfly, sand fly
sawfly
whitefly
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Translations
trans-top|insect of the order Diptera
Finnish: kaksisiipinen
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trans-top|insect of the family Muscidae
Albanian: mizë f
Amuzgo: kíchô�
Arabic: ARchar|ذبابة (ðub�ba) f
Armenian: ճանճ (�an�)
Aymara: chichillanka
Basque: euli
Bosnian: muha f
Catalan: mosca#Catalan|mosca
Chichewa: ntchenche
CJKV Characters: �, �, �
Chinese: ��, �� (c�ngyíng)
Croatian: muha f
Czech: moucha f
Danish: flue c
Dutch: vlieg m
Erzya: ка�во (karvo)
Esperanto: mu�o
Estonian: kärbes
Finnish: kärpänen
French: mouche f
Frisian: mich
German: Fliege f
Greek: μ�γα (mýga) f
Guaraní: mberu
Hebrew: ���� (zvuv) m
Hungarian: légy
Icelandic: fluga f
Igbo: ijiji
Ilocano: ngilaw
Indonesian: lalat, laler, langau
Interlingua: musca
Isthmus Zapotec: bialazi
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Italian: mosca#Italian|mosca f
Japanese: � (��, hae)
Javanese: laler
Korean: �리 (pari)
Kurdish: mê� f, KUchar|��ش
Latin: musca f
Latvian: muša f
Lithuanian: mus� f
Maltese: dubbiena f
Maori: rango
Mongolian: �лаа (yalaa)
Nahuatl: zayolin
Norwegian: flue f
Polish: mucha f
Portuguese: mosca#Portuguese|mosca f
Quechua: chuspi
Rohingya: masí
Romanian: musc� f
Romany: mach
Russian: м��а (múkha) f
Sardinian: musca f
Scottish Gaelic: cuileag f
Slovak: mucha f
Slovene: muha f
Spanish: mosca#Spanish|mosca f
Swedish: fluga c
Tagalog: langaw
Tamil: � (ī)
Telugu: �� (eega)
Thai: �มล�วั�
Tongan: lango
Tupinambá: mberu
Turkish: sinek
Tz'utujil: us#Tz'utujil|us
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trans-top|piece of canvas that covers the opening of a tent
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trans-top|strip that hides the opening of trousers/pants or underpants
Bosnian: Å¡lic#Bosnian|Å¡lic m
Danish: gylp c
Dutch: gulp#Dutch|gulp f
Finnish: sepalus
French: braguette f
German: Hosenschlitz m
Icelandic: rennilás m
Norwegian: glidelås m
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Polish: rozporek m
Portuguese: braguilha, zíper f
Romanian: fermoar n
Russian: �и�инка (širínka) f
Skolt Sami: brålleǩ
Spanish: bragueta f
Swedish: gylf c
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trans-top|free edge of a flag
Finnish: liehureuna
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trans-top|horizontal length of a flag
Finnish: leveys, (pituus)
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trans-top|lure
Danish: flue#Danish|flue c
Finnish: perho
French: mouche f
German: Fliege
Icelandic: fiskifluga f
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Romanian: mumeal� f
Spanish: mosca#Spanish|mosca f
Swedish: fluga
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trans-top|flyball
Finnish: kaaripallo
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ttbc|Afrikaans: flig

Etymology 2
OE. fleogan|fl�ogan, from Ger. *fleuganan, from PIE. *pleuk-. Cognate with Dutch vliegen, German fliegen, Swedish flyga; and (from Indo-European) with Lithuanian plaũkti �swim�.

Verb
en-verb|flies|flying|flew|flown|

1. intransitive To travel through the air.

#:Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
#:The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane.
#:It takes about eleven hours to fly from Frankfurt to Hongkong.
#:The little fairy flew home on the back of her friend, the giant eagle.

1. intransitive To flee, to escape.

#:Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!

1. transitive ergative To cause to move through the air, to transport by air.

#:Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.
#:Why don�t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect.
#:Birds fly their prey to their nest to feed it to their young.
#:Each day the post flies thousands of letters around the globe.

1. intransitive colloquial Of a proposal: to be accepted.

#:Let's see if that idea flies.

Derived terms
rel-top|Terms derived from the verb to fly
fly a kite
fly-by-night
fly like a bird<!--simile-->
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fly like the wind<!--simile-->
fly off the handle
overfly
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Translations
trans-top|to travel through the air
Albanian: fluturon
Catalan: volar
Croatian: letjeti
Danish: flyve
Dutch: vliegen
Estonian: lendama
Finnish: lentää
French: voler
German: fliegen
Hebrew: �ס
Hungarian: repül
Icelandic: fljúga
Ido: flugar
Indonesian: terbang
Italian: volare
Japanese: �� (��, tobu), ��� (���, tobasu)
Kurdish: firrîn, KUchar|����
Latvian: lidot
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Norwegian: fly
Polish: lata�
Portuguese: voar
Rohingya: uro
Romanian: zbura
Romany: ural
Russian: ле�е�� (letét�); пе�еле�а�� (pereletát�) (birds)
Scottish Gaelic: itealaich, dèan iteag, falbh air iteig
Serbian: Cyrillic ле�е�и, Latin leteti
Slovak: lietať
Slovenian: leteti
Spanish: volar
Swedish: flyga
Tagalog: lumipad
Thai: �ิ�
Turkish: uçmak
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trans-top|to flee, to escape
:See translations at flee.
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trans-top|to cause to travel through the air
Dutch: besturen (aircraft)
Finnish: lentää, ohjata, lennättää
French: piloter (airplane), faire voler (kite)
German: fahren (zeppelins)
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Russian: ве��и (vestí) (airplane), п��ка�� (puskát�) (kite)
Telugu: ��రవ�య� (egaravaeyu)
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trans-top|to become accepted
Finnish: lähteä lento|lentoon, tulla hyväksytty|hyvksytyksi
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Russian: п�о�оди�� (prokhodít�)
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ttbc|Bosnian: letjeti
ttbc|Chinese Characters: �, �
ttbc|Chinese: �, � (f�i)
ttbc|Frisian: fleane
ttbc|Guarani: veve
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ttbc|Ilocano: agtayab
ttbc|Indonesian: layang, layang|melayang, terbang|menerbangkan
ttbc|Interlingua: volar
ttbc|Italian: pilotare italbrac|airplane, far volare italbrac|kite
ttbc|Tupinambá: bebé
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Etymology 3
From the noun fly (above), sense flyball.

Verb
en-verb|flies|flying|flied|flied

1. context|intransitive|baseball To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball which is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).

#:Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.

Translations
trans-top|to hit a flyball
Finnish: lyödä kaaripallo
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Etymology 4
Origin uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.

Adjective
en-adj|fli|er

1. slang quick-witted|Quick-witted, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense).
2. slang Well dressed, smart in appearance.

Translations
trans-top|quick-witted
Finnish: fiksu (colloquial), terävä
German clever, smart
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trans-top|well dressed
Finnish: tyylikäs
German: smart
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Danish

Noun
fly

1. airplane

Category:Danish nouns

Norwegian

Pronunciation
IPA|/fɽy�/ or IPA|/fly�/

Noun
no-noun-n1

1. airplane

Verb
no-verb-4|fly

1. to fly

Swedish

Pronunciation
audio|Sv-fly.ogg|audio

Verb
sv-verb-irreg|fly|flyr|flydde|flytt|fly|flyende|flydd
fly

1. flee, run away, escape.

#:Fångarna försökte fly från fängelset.
#::The prisoners tried to escape from jail.
#:Med tårarna strömmande ned för sina kinder flydde hon undan de andra tjejernas glåpord.
#::With tears streaming down her cheeks, she fled the taunting words of the other girls.

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