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Definition: FLOWN |
FLOWN1. P. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown. Adjective1. Flushed, inflated. Past participle1. Of Fly |
Date "FLOWN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Phrase: the bird has flown, non est inventus. |
Escape | Phrase: the bird has flown the coop. |
Imagination | Romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic. |
Ornament | Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FLOWN |
| English words defined with "FLOWN": ensign ♦ Falco subbuteo, flag ♦ grandiloquence, grandiosity ♦ hobby ♦ kite ♦ magniloquence ♦ national flag ♦ rhetoric ♦ Way warden. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FLOWN": Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, air mileage indicator, aircraft charter dispatcher, AIRPLANE PILOT, COMMERCIAL, AIRPLANE-CHARTER CLERK, airplane-rental clerk, allowable cabin load, allowable cargo load, armed reconnaissance ♦ commercial pilot ♦ Earth Radiation Budget Experiment ♦ Flag of Convenience, Flee, FLIGHT-CREW-TIME CLERK, Fly ♦ go-no go ♦ Hawk and Handsaw ♦ MANAGER, FLIGHT-RESERVATIONS, Marshall Space Flight Center, most economical range, Multispectral Scanner ♦ ozone sonde ♦ Psaphon's Birds ♦ solar backscatter ultraviolet radiometer, SPINSTER ♦ thematic mapper, TMA, Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer ♦ Visible/Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) He's flown into a Flemish painting (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie; writing credit: Trace Beaulieu, Paul Chaplin, Bridget Jones, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl) I've never flown first class before (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Stryker, have you ever flown a multi-engine plane before (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) Actually no, it will have to be flown out to a very precise location (24; writing credit: Mark Clompus; Marvin Close) | |
Lyrics | 'Cause you've flown away ("One Sweet Day"; performing artist: Boyz II Men/Mariah Carey) Now that I've flown away I see you've chosen to stay behind me (... On The Radio (Remember The Days); performing artist: Nelly Furtado) Daddy's flown across the ocean ("Another Brick in the Wall"; performing artist: Pink Floyd) Yet today my love has flown away, I am without my love ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; performing artist: The Platters) | |
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 | This movie depicts the airborne laser altimeter collecting data. In 1993 and 1994, NASA researchers surveyed the Greenland ice sheet using an airborne laser altimeter. Ten flight lines flown in 1993 in southern Greenland were resurveyed in 1998. Sci. Credit: NASA. |  | Astronomers using the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), flown aboard the Shuttle ASTRO-2 ... Credit: NASA. |
 | B-17 used for aerial photography following WWII This was the last operational B-17- dubbed "Old Rotten Wings" by aircraft crew Flown by Coast Guard crew with C&GS navigator and cameraman. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Figure 32. Meteorological kite flown from the PRINCESS ALICE II. Professor Hugo Hergesell of Strasbourg interested Prince Albert in exploring the high atmosphere. As such, the first studies of the upper atmosphere while at sea were conducted off the PRINCESS ALICE II on April 12, 1904, to an altitude of 4500 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 33. Meteorological register used with hydrogen weather balloons flown from the PRINCESSE ALICE II on April 5, 1905 from a station north of Corsica. The balloons and register attained a height of 8000 meters before the balloons burst and the instruments were parachuted to the sea for recovery and reading. Readings from two temperature sensors and a pressure sensor were recorded. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Flown by pilots from the German Air Force's 73rd Fighter Squadron, Soviet built MiG-29 Fulcrums, stationed at Laage Air Base, Germany, lineup with F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano AB, Italy. The two teams are about to engage i. |
 | F-22 Raptor 4002 fires an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile during a separation test at 40,000 feet Dec. 13. Flown at a 26-degree angle-of-attack at only Mach .4 speed, the test flight demonstrated the Raptor's ability to operate at slow speeds in a co. |  | Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack planes (later nicknamed "Betty") fly low through anti-aircraft gunfire during a torpedo attack on U.S. Navy ships maneuvering between Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the morning of 8 August 1942. Note that these planes are being flown without bomb-bay doors. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Steams into heavy seas on 24 February 1945, while en route to take part Task Force 58's second Tokyo raid of the month. Photographed from atop the battleship's forward fire control platform. Spray is enveloping the forecastle 40mm gun mounts in weather that curtailed the number of strikes flown on 25 February and forced the cancellation of those planned for the 26th. Credit: NAVY. |  | 1901 glider being flown as a kite, Wilbur at left side, Orville at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Ward Beecher | Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest, from which the bird has flown. |
John Milton | And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The High Contracting Parties agree to recognise the flag flown by the vessels of an Allied or Associated Power having no seacoast which are registered at some one specified place situated in its territory; such place shall serve as the port of registry of such vessels. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All his blood had flown back to his heart |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Moldova | According to Amnesty International, on July 13, 2000, a Kurdish Turk was seized by unidentified men in Chisinau and flown to Turkey where he faces charges that could carry a death sentence. (references) |
Economic History | Democratic Republic of Congo | Two thousand French and Belgian troops, some of whom were flown in on U.S. Air Force planes, arrived to evacuate the 20,000 endangered foreign nationals in Kinshasa. (references) |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | After the congress, he met with Presidium Council leaders and reemphasized the Government's firm stance against Papuan independence, but said it was permissible to fly Papuan independence flags as long as they were smaller and flown below the Indonesian flag. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bhutan | Cases that cannot be dealt with in the country are flown to other countries (usually India) for treatment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Melanie Griffith | I was asleep and my husband woke me up because he'd just flown in from Spain and he was awake and he watched it live. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "FLOWN" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLOWN" is used about 1,097 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 100% | 1,097 | 6,886 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "FLOWN": flown glass ♦ high flown ♦ kilometer flown ♦ the bird has flown ♦ the bird has flown the coop ♦ the bird is flown. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FLOWN": flown-in. | |
Ending with "FLOWN": hand-flown, high-flown, newly-flown, test-flown. | |
Containing "FLOWN": high-flown radical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
capitol flag flown over | 5 |
capital flag flown over | 3 |
flown having photo spirits tour | 2 |
flag flown house over white | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ekstravagant (crazy, fancy, florid, high-flown). (various references) | |
Arabic | طائر (bird, climber, volatile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 飞行 (Flew, Flies, flight, FLY, flying, Planed, Planing). (various references) | |
Czech | příè.min. od flow. (various references) | |
Danish | smelteglas-lag (flown glass). (various references) | |
Dutch | opgesmolten glaslaag (flown glass). (various references) | |
Finnish | virtauslasi (flown glass), liput olivat puolitangossa (flags were flown at half-staff). (various references) | |
French | s'envoler (fly away, fly off), en vol (flying). (various references) | |
German | geflogen (flew, winged). (various references) | |
Greek | μετοχή του fly. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מופרח (disseminated), מועף. (various references) | |
Hungarian | felpuffadt (distended), püffedt, dagadt (puffy, chuff, lardass, swollen), duzzadt (swollen, chuff), elfut (to give legs), elmenekül (to go south, to scuttle off), elröpít (flew, to fly), ömlött, megduzzadt (swollen), szökik (flew, fly, to escape, to fly), puffadt (puffy), repülőgépen szállít (flew, to fly), repülőgépen visz (flew, to fly), repülőgépet vezet (flew, to fly), repült (flew), száll (fly, to be on the wing, to feather), szálldos (to float), lebeg (to drift, to flap, to poise). (various references) | |
Italian | volato, gonfio (baggy, inflated, puffy, swollen). (various references) | |
Korean | 비행하는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ownflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flutuar (float, swim), voar (fly), tremular ao vento (fly), precipitar-se (fling, hail, huddle, lunge, plunge, whip). (various references) | |
Romanian | participiu trecut de la fly. (various references) | |
Russian | от fly (flew), летать (flew, flitter, fly, voyage). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paricip od fly. (various references) | |
Spanish | volado (frilled), pp de fly. (various references) | |
Swedish | flytglas (flown glass). (various references) | |
Turkish | yok oldu (the bird is flown), toz oldu (the bird is flown), süslü (arrayed, bombastic, chichi, fancy, figurative, florid, flowery, frilly, high-flown, luxuriant, natty, ornate), ortadan kayboldu (the bird is flown). (various references) | |
Turkmen | epeя (bombastic, high flown, respectable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | керований (controlled, dirigible, governable, guided, navigable, operated), переповнений (chock full, crowded, heaped, heaping, overflowing, replete). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phình ra, phồng ra (bulging, bulgy, expansile). (various references) | |
Welsh | hedegog (flying, high-flown). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai serafin eisthkeisan kuklw autou ex pterugeV tw eni kai ex pterugeV tw eni kai taiV men dusin katekalupton to proswpon kai taiV dusin katekalupton touV podaV kai taiV dusin epetanto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Seraphin stabant super illud sex alae uni et sex alae alteri duabus velabant faciem eius et duabus velabant pedes eius et duabus volabant |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Serafyn stoden vp on it, sixe wenges to the oon, and sixe to the other; with two they couereden the face of hym, and with two thei couereden the feet of hym, and with two thei flown. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Above it stood seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Sa ibabaw kaniya diha ang mga serafines: ang tagsatagsa may unom ka mga pako; sa duruha gitabonan ang iyang nawong, ug sa duruha gitabonan ang iyang mga tiil, ug sa duruha siya milupad. |
| Croatian | Iznad njega stajahu serafi; svaki je imao po šest krila: dva krila da zakloni lice, dva da zakrije noge, a dvama je krilima letio. |
| Danish | Serafer stod hos ham, hver med seks Vinger; med de to skjulte de Ansigtet, med de to Fødderne, og med de to fløj de; |
| Dutch | De serafs stonden boven Hem; een iegelijk had zes vleugelen; met twee bedekte ieder zijn aangezicht, en met twee bedekte hij zijn voeten, en met twee vloog hij. |
| Finnish | Serafit seisoivat hänen ympärillään; kullakin oli kuusi siipeä: kahdella he peittivät kasvonsa, kahdella he peittivät jalkansa, ja kahdella he lensivät. |
| French | Des séraphins se tenaient au-dessus de lui; ils avaient chacun six ailes; deux dont ils se couvraient la face, deux dont ils se couvraient les pieds, et deux dont ils se servaient pour voler. |
| German | Seraphim standen über ihm; ein jeglicher hatte sechs Flügel: mit zweien deckten sie ihr Antlitz, mit zweien deckten sie ihre Füße, und mit zweien flogen sie. |
| Haitian Creole | Yon bann bèt vivan te kanpe fè wonn li. Yo te klere kou flanm dife. Yo chak te gen sis zèl, de zèl pou kouvri figi yo, de zèl pou kouvri pye yo, de zèl pou yo vole. |
| Hungarian | Szeráfok állanak vala felette: mindeniknek hat-hat szárnya vala: kettõvel orczáját fedé be, kettõvel lábait fedé be, és kettõvel lebegett; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di sekeliling-Nya berdiri makhluk-makhluk yang bernyala seperti api, masing-masing mempunyai enam sayap. Dua sayap menutupi muka, dua menutupi badannya, dan dua sayap lagi dipakai untuk terbang. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kelilingnya adalah berdiri beberapa serafim, pada masing-masing adalah enam sayapnya; dengan dua sayap ditudungnyalah mukanya dan dengan dua sayap ditudungnyalah kakinya dan dengan dua sayap terbanglah ia. |
| Italian | Attorno a lui stavano dei serafini, ognuno aveva sei ali; con due si copriva la faccia, con due si copriva i piedi e con due volava. |
| Maori | E tu ana nga herapima i runga ake i a ia: e ono nga parirau o tetahi, o tetahi; i hipokina e ia tona mata ki tetahi rua, ona waewae hoki ki tetahi rua, a ko tetahi rua hei rere mana. |
| Norwegian | Serafer stod omkring ham. Seks vinger hadde hver; med to dekket han sitt åsyn, med to dekket han sine føtter, og med to fløi han. |
| Portuguese | Ao seu redor havia serafins; cada um tinha seis asas; com duas cobria o rosto, e com duas cobria os pés e com duas voava. |
| Rumanian | Serafimii stqteau deasupra Lui, wi fiecare avea wase aripi: cu douq kwi acopereau faya, cu douq kwi acopereau picioarele, wi cu douq sburau. |
| Russian | чПЛТХЗ оЕЗП УФПСМЙ уЕТБЖЙНЩ; Х ЛБЦДПЗП ЙЪ ОЙИ РП ЫЕУФЙ ЛТЩМ: ДЧХНС ЪБЛТЩЧБМ ЛБЦДЩК МЙГЕ УЧПЕ, Й ДЧХНС ЪБЛТЩЧБМ ОПЗЙ УЧПЙ, Й ДЧХНС МЕФБМ. |
| Spanish | Por encima de él había serafines. Cada uno tenía seis alas; con dos cubrían sus rostros, con dos cubrían sus pies y con dos volaban. |
| Swedish | Serafer stodo omkring honom. Var och en av dem hade sex vingar: med två betäckte de sina ansikten, med två betäckte de sina fötter, och med två flögo de. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FLOWN": outflown, overflown, reflown. (additional references) | |
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"FLOWN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fiow, flawen, flewn, floaw, floin, floon, floow, floun, flowd, flowg, flowin, flowr, flowy, flwo, foln, fown, lown. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLOWN" (pronounced flō"n) |
| 3 | -l ō" n | alone, blown, clone, Cologne, cyclone, loan, lone, overblown. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-n-o-w" | |
-1 letter: flow, fowl, lown, wolf. | |
-2 letters: fon, low, now, owl, own, won. | |
-3 letters: lo, no, of, on, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: inflow. | |
+2 letters: flowing, fowling, inflows, reflown, wolfing. | |
+3 letters: downfall, flyblown, fowlings, outflown, snowfall, townfolk, wrongful. | |
+4 letters: downfalls, downfield, fallowing, fellowing, fellowman, fellowmen, flowering, flowingly, flowstone, following, interflow, overflown, reflowing, snowfalls, snowfield, snowflake, sunflower, townsfolk, underflow, upflowing, wolfhound, wolfsbane, womenfolk, wonderful, yellowfin. | |
+5 letters: batfowling, brownfield, coneflower, cornflower, downfallen, fallowness, flowstones, flyblowing, followings, frowningly, moonflower, outflowing, snowfields, snowflakes, sunflowers, twinflower, underflows, windflower, woefulness, wolfhounds, wolfsbanes, womenfolks, wrongfully, yellowfins. | |
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