TO FLY OFF

  

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TO FLY OFF

Definition: TO FLY OFF

TO FLY OFF

1. To separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Usage: TO FLY OFF

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Screenplays

Centrifugal force is the force that appears to cause a body circulating a centure to fly off its circular path. (Head Start; writing credit: Andrea Del Bosco; Glen Dolman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO FLY OFF

Language Translations for "TO FLY OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

aus der Haut fahren (to fly off the handle). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hirtelen más tárgyra tér (to fly off at a tangent, to go off at a tangent), begurul (to be off the handle, to fly off the handle, to go off the deep end, to roll in). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay yflay offay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO FLY OFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-f-l-o-o-t-y"

-2 letters: flyoff, fylfot.

-3 letters: footy, lofty, toffy.

-4 letters: fool, foot, loft, loof, loot, toff, tool, toyo.

-5 letters: fly, foy, loo, lot, off, oft, oot, too, toy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO FLY OFF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      46 4C 59      4F 46 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01001100 01011001 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#70 &#76 &#89 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0046 004C 0059      004F 0046 0046

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544924046592494040

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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