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On The Fly

Definition: On The Fly

On The Fly

Adverb

1. On the run or in a hurry; "she wrote those letters on the fly".

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


Crosswords: On The Fly

English words defined with "on the fly": bee killer ♦ Cabbage fly, Corn fly ♦ Essorant ♦ fair catch, flesh fly, Flying machine ♦ keel ♦ robber fly, rolled, rolled-up ♦ Sarcophaga carnaria, skirl ♦ Telescope fly, To wait on, Tomato gall, tumble ♦ whirl, whirl around, Willow gall. (references)
Specialty definitions using "on the fly": airborne target, Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, autonomously replicating sequence, aviation medical examiner, aviators'physician ♦ BLACK FLY, bob-fly ♦ Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System ♦ destruct line, dynamic storage ♦ ghost ♦ House ♦ King, Kite-flying ♦ Moakkibat, Myron ♦ nasal demons ♦ remotely piloted vehicle ♦ Simon Magus, Sombonaza, sycophant ♦ Trypanosoma vivax, trypanosomiasis, trypanosomosis ♦ X-1 ♦ Youth. (references)

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Specialty Definition: On the fly

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In relation to computer technology, on the fly describes activities that develop or occur dynamically rather than as the result of something that is statically predefined. For example, the content of a page that is sent to you from a Web site can be developed (and varied) "on the fly" based on dynamic factors such as the time of day, what pages the user has looked at previously, and specific user input. The Web server calls an program to produce the "on-the-fly" page that is to be returned. There are several techniques for on-the-fly page development, including the server side include, the use of cookies (information previously stored about you that is located in a special file on your hard disk), and Microsoft's Active Server Pages.

In colloquial use, it means at the moment.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "On the fly."

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Commercial Usage: On The Fly

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Books

  • Whitefish Can't Jump and Other Tales of Gamefish on the Fly (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: On The Fly

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I will get a snapshot of Castro on the fly. Credit: Library of Congress.

Company "C," 3rd U.S. Infantry, caught on the fly, near Fort Meade. Bear Butte in the distance. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translations: On The Fly

Language Translations for "on the fly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

röptében (on the wing), levegőben (afloat, midair, mid-air). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onay ethay yflay

   

Russian 

  

на лету (on the wing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: On The Fly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-h-l-n-o-t-y"

-2 letters: felony.

-3 letters: ethyl, felon, flyte, foehn, hefty, helot, holey, honey, hotel, hotly, hoyle, lefty, lento, lofty, often, thole, toney.

-4 letters: enol, felt, fley, floe, fohn, font, heft, helo, hent, hole, holt, holy, hone, hyte, left, leno, lent, loft, lone, loth, noel, note, only, then, they, tole, tone, tony, tyne.

-5 letters: eft, elf, eon, eth.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-h-l-n-o-t-y"
 

+4 letters: youthfulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: On The Fly


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

4F 6E      54 68 65      46 6C 79

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

        

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

01001111 01101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000110 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#110 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#70 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006E      0054 0068 0065      0046 006C 0079

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

498025474712407891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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