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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | The passage of an interplanetary vehicle(moving on a planetocentric hyperbola)by a planet without going into orbit, entering atmosphere, or landing on the surface. May or may not involve the application of thrust. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Ski-equipped C-130's on a fly-by at South Pole Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "FLY-BY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLY-BY" is used about 9 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FLY-BY": fly-by-night, fly-by-nights, fly-by-wire. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLY-BY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pasigurt (chancy, crazy, Dickey, dicky, disputable, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), временен (ambulatory, fly-by-night, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, makeshift, provisional, provisory, temporary, tentative, transient, working), нощна пеперуда (fly-by-night, moth), несериозен (easy, fly-by-night, futile, half-baked, light, pococurante, superficial), ненадежден (fly-by-night, shaky, slippery, trustless, unreliable, wonky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | taet passage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vlucht op korte afstand van een planeet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ohitus (overtaking), ohilento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vol courte distance d'une planète, survol orbital d'une planète. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vorbeiflug (deviated flight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πτήση σε κοντινή απόσταση από πλανήτη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kormányszervek elektromos mûködtetése (fly-by-wire), kisszerû (fly-by-night, small time, two-by-four). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | volo in prossimit di un pianeta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | flid (flirt, fly-by-night, jilt, nitwit, silly person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | y-byflay voo na proximidade de um planeta, sobrevoo orbital de um planeta. (various references) ненадежный (dicky, fair weather, fast and loose, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, shaky, slippery, tricksy, troublesome, trustless, truthless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unsure, untrustworthy, wonky). (various references) prolazan (brief, caducous, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugacious, momentary, negotiable, passable, passing, perishable, pervious, temporary, transient, transitory), neodgovoran (fly-by-night, irresponsible, unaccountable, unamenable). (various references) vuelo en la proximidad de un planeta, sobrevuelo orbital de un planeta. (various references) nattmänniska (fly-by-night), ekonomiskt opålitlig (fly-by-night). (various references) ไม่น่าไว้วางใจ (fly-by-night), ไม่ซื่อ (fly-by-night). (various references) vurguncu (adventurer, dodger, fly-by-night, jobber, looter, profiteer, racketeer, spiv), kapkaççı (fly-by-night), gece kelebeği (fly-by-night), alacaklıdan gece gizlice kaçan borçlu (fly-by-night). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flyby. | |
| Words within the letters "b-f-l-y-y" | |
-2 letters: fly. | |
-3 letters: by. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-f-l-y-y" | |
+1 letter: flyboy, flybys. | |
+2 letters: flyboys. | |
+4 letters: syllabify. | |
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