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FLY-BY

Specialty Definition: FLY-BY

DomainDefinition

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.

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Photo Album: FLY-BY

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Usage Frequency: FLY-BY

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: FLY-BY

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.

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Modern Translation: FLY-BY

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

   

Portuguese

  

voo na proximidade de um planeta, sobrevoo orbital de um planeta. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

vuelo en la proximidad de un planeta, sobrevuelo orbital de un planeta. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nattmänniska (fly-by-night), ekonomiskt opålitlig (fly-by-night). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไม่น่าไว้วางใจ (fly-by-night), ไม่ซื่อ (fly-by-night). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FLY-BY

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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