Flying

Definition: Flying

Flying

Adjective

1. Capable of or engaged in flight; "the bat is a flying animal".

2. Moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the difficult passage with flying fingers".

3. Of or relating to passage through the air especially aviation; "a flying time of three hours between cities"; "unidentified flying objects".

4. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "a fluttering scarf"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze".

5. Designed for swift movement or action; "a flying police squad is trained for quick action anywhere in the city".

6. Hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit".

7. Done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in motion as they cross the starting line; "a flying start"; "crossed the goal line with a flying leap".

Noun

1. An instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Flying \Fly"ing\, adjective. [From Fly, intransitive verb.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Publishing & Graphic Arts

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

Synonyms: Flying

Celebration

Triumphal arch, bonfire, salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations.

Combatant

Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers.

Imagination

Flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar; (hope).

Navigation

Aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.

News

Report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.

Ostentation

Demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets; (celebration); pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; f_te, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant.

Adverb: with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors.

Success

Come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success.

Adverb: successfully; Adjective: well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly; a merveille, beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose; to one's heart's content.

Transientness

Adjective: transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying; Verb: fugacious, fugitive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous.

Trophy

Triumph; (celebration); flying colors; (show).

Unconformity

Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite.

Velocity

Spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate; Adjective: rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight.

Adjective: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping; Verb: light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow; Noun: quick as lightning; Noun: quick as a thought.

Crosswords: Flying

I'm Flying! (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

I am flying! And from way up here you all look like little ants (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

This is the second time I've shot this man while he was flying through the air. (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott)

, my bosoms come flying out (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)

Why you going to the airport, flying somewhere (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

We're flying above the clouds, I can see happiness from here (Above The Clouds; performing artist: Amber)

Just so my irons aren't always flying off the backswing (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Flying first class from New York City to Blackstreet (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

The enforcer, music flows like a flying saucer (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? (references; author: unknown)

Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another very expensive flying club. (references; author: unknown)

On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. (references; author: unknown)

You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building their nest on it. (references; author: unknown)

Fat frogs flying past fast. (references; author: unknown)

Fear of Flying (2000)

Flying Acquaintances (1973)

The Flying Sorcerer (1973)

Flying Sword and the Smart Lad (1970)

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969)

Smile a Little Smile For Me (performing artist: The Flying Machine)

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

References

• Flying Brands Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Aircraft Launching Gear, Deck-Arrestor and Similar Gear, Ground Flying Trainers, and Parts Thereof: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Flying Legends 2003 Calendar (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Australian Flying (reference)

• British Unidentified Flying Object Research Association Membership Bufora (reference)

• Flying (reference)

• Flying In Formation (reference)

• Flying Models (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Monty Python's Flying Circus: Set 3, Episodes 14-19 (reference)

• Flying High - 1995 Kodak-Albuquerque International Balloon Festival (reference)

• The Flying Deuces (available in EP mode only) (reference)

• The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus (reference)

• Monty Python's Flying Circus - Box Set 3 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Flying Dutchman: Introduction to Wagner (reference)

• FLYCALM A Solution to Stress Free Flying (reference)

• Flying Saucer Tour 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• B-17 Flying Fortress (reference)

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (reference)

• Jay Jay High Flying Circus (reference)

• Tweety's High Flying Adventure (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Flying Wing & QSRA. Credit: NASA.

Flying Oblique Wing. Credit: NASA.

Flying Saucer? Aliens?. Credit: NASA.

Flying Boat Construction. Credit: NASA.

Looming like a giant flying saucer in our outer solar system, Saturn puts on a show as the ... Credit: NASA.

When the ground sea is running Spray flying 50 feet after waves crash into rocks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Flying hybrid cow taking in the view Another sight to catch the eye. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Canada geese flying into the Jug Bay area at sunset. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Flying over the Kona Coast. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Transantarctic Mountains seen from the C-130 while flying to the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In addition to the engines installed in the seaplanes or flying boats above mentioned, one spare engine may be provided for each engine of each of these craft. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Queen spread out her arms again and went flying after it, and this time she succeeded in catching it for herself

Any sophisticated knowledgable person, who had knocked about, seen a few things, would probably have remarked on how much the craft looked like a filing cabinet--a large and recently burgled filing cabinet lying on its back with its drawers in the air and flying. The islanders, whose experience was of a different kind, were instead struck by how little it looked like a lobster

Nothing could be heard, but the faint cries of a flock of birds of passage, that were flying across the sky at an immense height

But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trifled as the flying beaks clove the air.

The word, which I interpret the Flying or Floating Island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology

I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill

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Health

Instead of hiding, the bat was making unusual noises and was having difficulty flying. (references)

Business

Their customers are flying clubs, flying schools and the military. (references)

The increase to nearly 60 airlines flying into South Africa alone, provides an indication of the strong growth in demand that is currently experienced by the industry. (references)

Seats on American carriers to the U.S. are currently offered through a code-share arrangement that is in place with international carriers having flying rights out of Dubai. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

At various times, the Taliban banned certain traditional recreational activities, such as flying kites and playing chess. (references)

Economic History

Oman

When flying to and from the Gulf, it is highly advised to reconfirm your reservations at least 72-hours in advance. (references)

Armenia

Aside from flying to NIS destinations, AAL has regular flights to Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Sofia, Athens, and Dubai (UAE). (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

The bomb killed one person, and flying glass wounded many others. (references)

Zambia

According to the Legal Resources Foundation, in January eight officers of the Kabwe flying squad tortured Adess Ngulube in her home and at a police station. (references)

Indonesia

Such incidents were similar to a series of police reactions to flag-raisings over the past 3 years; however, after the Papua Special Autonomy law was signed in November, allowing the Papua flag to be displayed as a cultural symbol, security forces seemed to allow the flying of the flag. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

However, during the August 2000 MPR session, legislators attacked Wahid's stance toward Papuans and demanded a tougher approach that rejected the flying of the independence flag, the use of the name Papua, and other perceived manifestations of proindependence sentiment. (references)

Indonesia

Security forces did not obstruct political activities related to the Papuan Special Autonomy Law; however, they did sporadically enforce a no-tolerance policy on flying the Papuan flag, until the Special Autonomy Bill passed Parliament, after which time security forces allowed the flying of the flag. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

The security forces inconsistently enforced a no-tolerance policy against flying the Papuan flag, tearing down and destroying flags and flag poles, and killing eight persons, and beating others who tried to raise or protect the flag prior to the signing into law of the Papua Special Autonomy Law, which permits the flying of the flag as a cultural symbol. (references)

Travel

Maldives

Air taxis stop flying one hour before sunset. (references)

Korea

For direct flights, flying time ranges from 12-16 hours, depending on the point of departure. (references)

Argentina

U.S. carriers flying to Argentina include Delta Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines. (references)

Women

Turkey

Other organizations include the Association to Support Women Candidates (Ka-Der), "The Flying Broom" women's advocacy group, the Turkish Women's Union, and the Foundation for the Evaluation of Women's Labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Expressions using "flying": acrobatic flying ♦ afraid of flying ♦ amateur flying ♦ amateur flying club ♦ american flying squirrel ♦ asiatic flying squirrel ♦ biplane flying fish ♦ blind flying ♦ block flying hours ♦ colors flying ♦ come flying ♦ come flying up ♦ come off with flying colours ♦ distinguished Flying Cross ♦ flying adder ♦ Flying army ♦ Flying artillery ♦ flying bird ♦ flying boat ♦ flying bomb ♦ flying boom ♦ flying bridge ♦ flying buttress ♦ Flying camp ♦ flying carpet ♦ flying cat ♦ flying colors ♦ flying colours ♦ flying deck ♦ Flying doe ♦ flying dragon ♦ flying drainpipe ♦ flying dutchman ♦ flying exhibition ♦ flying field ♦ flying fish ♦ flying fortress ♦ flying fox ♦ Flying frog ♦ flying gecko ♦ flying gurnard ♦ flying high ♦ Flying Hills ♦ flying horse ♦ flying hours ♦ flying jacket ♦ flying jib ♦ Flying kites ♦ flying lemur ♦ flying lemurs ♦ Flying level ♦ flying lizard ♦ Flying machine ♦ flying man ♦ flying mare ♦ flying marmot ♦ flying model ♦ flying mouse ♦ flying object ♦ flying off ♦ flying officer ♦ flying opossum ♦ Flying party ♦ flying personnel ♦ flying phalanger ♦ flying pig ♦ Flying pinion ♦ flying proa ♦ flying range ♦ flying reptile ♦ flying rings ♦ flying robin ♦ Flying sap ♦ flying saucer ♦ flying save ♦ flying school ♦ Flying shot ♦ flying sickness ♦ Flying spider ♦ flying spot ♦ flying squad ♦ Flying squadron ♦ Flying squid ♦ flying squirrel ♦ flying start ♦ flying through ♦ flying time ♦ Flying torch ♦ flying trip ♦ flying unit ♦ flying visit ♦ get off to a flying start ♦ go down with flags flying ♦ go flying ♦ he is flying high ♦ instrument flying ♦ keep the flag flying ♦ low flying ♦ monoplane flying fish ♦ northern flying squirrel ♦ pass with flying colors. Additional references.

Beginning with "flying": flying-ace, flying-angel, flying-boat, flying-boats, flying-bomb, flying-boot, flying-circus, flying-column, flying-fish, flying-glove, flying-helmet, flying-instrument, flying-jacket, Flying-jib boom, flying-jump, flying-off, flying-saucer, flying-start, flying-suit.

Ending with "flying": kite-flying, low-flying, night-flying, non-flying.

Albanian

fluturues (flyaway, flyer, soaring, volant), fluturak (ephemeral, fleeting, volant), valëvitës, i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), e shkurtër. (various references)

Arabic 

تحليق (circling), ‏وجيز (brief, terse), ‏طيار (airman, flier, pilot), ‏طيران (aviation, flight, fly, wing), ‏طار (fly, plane, rise, stream, swarm, take off, take wing, volatilize, whiffle, wing, winnow), ‏طائر في حالة الطيران, ‏رحلة جوية (flight). (various references)

Bulgarian 

летящ (fugacious, unfunded, volant), изгаряне (burn, burning, combustion, incineration, scorch), пилотиране (pilotage, piloting), полет (carry, drive, flight, fly), понесен във въздуха, бягащ (fugitive, running), бягство (bunk, escape, flight, getaway, runway), избухване (belch, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, puff), летене, развяващ се (flyaway, wavy), авиация (aircraft, aviation), много бърз (double quick, lighting, rapid), много кратък, висящ (in suspense, open, outstanding, pendant, pendent, pending, pendulous, pensile), хвърчащ, хвърчене, развяване (flutter), летателен. (various references)

Chinese 

飞行 (Flew, Flies, flight, Flown, FLY, Planed, Planing), 飛行 (aviation). (various references)

Czech

rychlý (expeditious, fast, hasty, high speed, nippy, quick, rapid, ready, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed), rozevlátý, letmý (casual, cursorial, cursory, fleeting, hurried, quick), letící, létající talíř (flying saucer, ufo), létající, létání. (various references)

Danish

støvning (misting). (various references)

Dutch

stuiven (gush, spurt, spurt out). (various references)

Finnish

painovärin lentäminen (misting), ilmailu (aviation). (various references)

French

voltige, volant (flounce, fly, flywheel), vol (flew, flight, flock), prospectus (flier, flyer), navigant, en vol (flown), aviation (flight, fly). (various references)

German

fliegend (flight, mobile, winging), fliegen/fliegend. (various references)

Greek 

ιπτάμενοσ (flier, volant), ιπτάμενος, πέταγμα (flight, throw, throwing), πιτσίλισμα (misting), πτητικόσ (volatile), ταχύσ (cursory, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, precipitate, presto, prompt, quick, rapid, spanking, speedy, swift). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעופף, תעופה (aviation, flight), עפיפה (evaporation, vanishing), עף (on the wing), התעופפות, התנופפות (fluttering, waving), התנוססות, הפרחה (fertilization, flowering, revival, spreading), הטסה (air transportation), הרקעה (beating, flattening, soaring high, zoom), דאיה (gliding, soaring), טיסה (flight), רחיפה (fluttering, hovering), רחוף (fluctuant, hovering, levitation). (various references)

Hungarian

repülés (aeronautics, airmanship, aviation, flight, fly, pilotage, wing), lobogó (banner, bickering, blazing, bunting, flag, flaming, flaring, flaunting, standard, streamer). (various references)

Indonesian

laron (ant-fly, flying white ant), kelambit (flying fox). (various references)

Italian

volante (flight, movable, steering wheel, steering-wheel, wheel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飛翔 (flight, soaring), 飛揚 (flight), 飛散 (dispersal, scattering), 航空　 (aviation), 航空 (aviation), フライス盤 (false start, flight, flight bag, flight control, flight data recorder, flight engineer, flight recorder, flight test, flight-number, fly-fishing, flying start, flywheel, fried chicken, fried potato, fright, fry pan, frying, frying pan, milling machine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フライング (false start, frying), ひしょう (flight, grief, petty, soaring, spending, this wretch, trifling, you wretch), ひさん (arsenic acid, disaster, dispersal, misery, pitiful, scattering, tragedy, wretched), ひよう (cost, expense, flight), こうくう (aviation, high altitude, mouth cavity). (various references)

Korean 

비행 (flight). (various references)

Manx

roie (bolt, burst, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flow, flowing, ladder, race, range, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, smuggling, sprinting), etlee. (various references)

Pig Latin

yingflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fuga (bolt, break, bunk, chevy, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, lam, leakage, loophole, scape, scurry, trail), flutuante (afloat, awash, buoyant, floating, flowing, supernatant, unfunded, wavy), voltigem (misting), volante (helm, joystick, rudder, shuttlecock, steering wheel, volant), voador, vôo (flit, wing), ondeante, móvel (cause, fitment, flexile, mobile, movable, moving, piece of furniture, portable, rolling, shifting, traveling, travelling, wandering), evasão (escape, evasion), em fuga, aviação (aeronautics, air force, aviation). (various references)

Romanian

fãcut în grabã (cursory, nailed-up), fâlfâitor, zburãtor (airman, flier, flyer, winged), zbor (flight, fly, gliding, race, soar, soaring, towering, volitation, wing), se deplaseazã rapid, provizoriu (interim, makeshift, passing, provisionally, temporarily, temporary), grabnic (early, hurried, sudden, unexpected, urgent, urgently), de zbor, care zboarã, care se mişcã (moving). (various references)

Russian 

летучий (volatile), летный (navigable), летающий (volant), летать полет, летательный, быстрый (agile, expedite, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, hasty, light, lively, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rath, rathe, sharpish, slippy, smart, snappy, spanking, speedy, straightaway, swift, tantivy, winged, wing-footed). (various references)

Scottish

itealaich (flutter, nf. flying), beart-itealaich (nf. flying machine; inflected on the first element). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

leteći (volant), letački. (various references)

Spanish

vuelo (flight, wing), volatil, volante (balance, balance wheel, bird, flier, flywheel, handbill, handlebars, handout, helm, joystick, rudder, shuttle, shuttlecock, steering-wheel, volant, wheel), volando (airborne, jump to it), volador (helicopter), vaho (blur, fume, haze, mist, steam, vapor, vapour, whiff), neblina (fog, haze, Hazel, mist), el volar. (various references)

Swedish

flygning (aviation, flight). (various references)

Thai

สามารถบินได้, ที่ปลิวสะบัดอยู่ในอากาศ. (various references)

Turkish

uçuş (flight, fly, homing, hop), uçma (flight, fly, freak out, getting high, high, trip, volatilization, wing), uçan (flyer, roving, volant), uçak kullanma, savrulan, kısa (brief, capsule, compendious, concise, curt, mini, short, stumpy, succinct), havacılık (aerial navigation, aero, aeronautic, aeronautical, aeronautics, aeros, airmanship, aviation), hızla geçen, geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile), dalgalanan (floating, fluctuating, surging, surgy, undulant, undulating), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl). (various references)

Ukrainian

льотний (air, navigable), літаючий (volant, winged), літальний (aircraft), пілотування (pilotage, steering), політ (flight, fly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự bay chuyến bay, chớp nhoáng, bay mau chóng. (various references)

Welsh

hedegog (high-flown). (various references)

volatilis, volucre, volucrem, volucres, volucresque, volucri, volucribus, volucris, volucrum. (various references)

... vazemnô. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "flying": flyings. (additional references)

Words ending with "flying": butterflying, nonflying, outflying, overflying, reflying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blying, fliing, fluing, flyin, flyn, flynge, flyring, flyting, flytings, fyling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fling, lingy, lying.

-2 letters: inly, ling, liny.

-3 letters: fig, fil, fin, fly, gin, lin, nil, yin.

-4 letters: if, in, li.

+1 letter: flaying, fleying, flyings, flyting, lignify.

+2 letters: flytings, fumingly, reflying.

+3 letters: failingly, fawningly, feelingly, fittingly, flamingly, flaringly, flowingly, flurrying, gainfully, nonflying, outflying, salifying, uglifying, vilifying.

+4 letters: amplifying, bafflingly, calcifying, clarifying, coalifying, driftingly, dulcifying, falsifying, fetchingly, flaggingly, fleeringly, fleetingly, flyblowing, freezingly, frowningly, fumblingly, glorifying, jellifying, jollifying, ladyfinger, lignifying, liquefying, liquifying, lithifying, mollifying, nullifying, overflying, qualifying, stiflingly, unfadingly.