verb
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To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
example
Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
verb
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To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
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Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
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To flee, to escape (from).
example
Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
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To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
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Birds fly their prey to their nest to feed it to their young.
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(of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
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Let's see if that idea flies.
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To travel very fast, hasten.
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To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
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a door flies open; a bomb flies apart
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To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
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To hunt with a hawk.
adjective
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That flies or can fly.
example
a flying rumour
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Brief or hurried.
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(of a sail) Not secured by yards.
Examples of flying in a Sentence
Quinn says she's flying out here.
She turned to run, panic flying through her at the feral look he gave her.
Her emotions were flying and intense.
Deidre's heart was flying at his nearness.
As inconvenient as it would be, Betsy and I would continue to travel north each weekend, flying at Howie's expense.
The other pen and pad of paper went flying out the window.
Alex didn't know about her fear of flying and she'd just as soon he didn't learn.
When Dean struck out at the alarm clock, he sent it flying across the room.
Toward what place was the eagle flying when you last saw it?
He must have been flying a hundred miles an hour to make that mess.
I remembered the flying saucer analogy.
Her blood was flying with desire.
She watched in fascination, not understanding what it was until a floor several below hers exploded into flying stone and fire.
She rolled onto her stomach away from him, blood flying with desire and heat.
You wouldn't have to make a big deal out of; like seeing a flying saucer, I added with a smile.
The two brothers stared at each other, and she choked back a sob, joy and horror flying through her.
A friend who is staying in Telluride has a private plane and is flying back to the coast.
Deidre gasped, gaze flying up to him.
I don't much give a flying you-know-what who cut her husband's rope as long as no one is blaming me, or any of us.
No we're flying back at eight.
It then leaps into the air and alights upon its four feet, but instantaneously erecting itself, it makes another spring, and so on in such rapid succession as to appear as if rather flying than running.
Weight and power are always associated in living animals, and the fact that living animals are made heavier than the medium they are to navigate may be regarded as a conclusive argument in favour of weight being necessary alike to the swimming of the fish and the flying of the bird.
To avoid the delay thus caused the branch line which would occasion the diamond crossing if it were taken across on the level is sometimes carried over the main line by an over-bridge (" flying junction ") or under it by an under-bridge (" burrowing junction ").
A similar map has been in progress for Sumatra since 1883, while the maps for the remaining Dutch Indies are still based, almost exclusively, upon flying surveys.
The birds, as Mr Necker very truly describes, appear like flying brilliant sparks."
The British government rejoined by commissioning a flying squadron and by calling attention to the London Convention, reserving the supervision of the foreign relations of the Transvaal to Great Britain.
The rodents are represented by an abundance of rats, with comparatively few mice, and by the ordinary squirrel, to which the people give the name of tree-rat (ki-nezumi), as well as the flying squirrel, known as the momo-dori (peach-bird) in the north, where it hides from the light in hollow tree-trunks, and in the south as the ban-tori (or bird of evening).
A system more elaborate than anything antecedent was then introduced under the name of flying transport.
He suggested the use of experimental tanks for testing the powers of ship models, invented an ear-trumpet for the deaf, improved the common house-stove of his native land, cured smoky chimneys, took a lively interest in machine-guns and even sketched a flying machine.
This flying machine consisted of a light frame covered with strong canvas and provided with two large oars or wings moving on a horizontal axis, and so arranged that the upstroke met with no resistance while the downstroke provided the lifting power.
By the 6th century it was evidently virtually independent again; its Christianization had begun with the immigration of Monothelite sectaries, flying from persecution in the Antioch district and Orontes valley.
They inhabit the densest jungles and are very shy, avoiding contact with strangers, and flying to the hills on the least alarm; but they bear a good character for honesty and truthfulness.
Among the fish may be mentioned the tunny, dolphin, mackerel, sardine, sea-bream, dentice and pagnell; wrasse, of exquisite rainbow hue and good for food; members of the herring family, sardines, anchovies, flying-fish, sea-pike; a few representatives of the cod family, and some flat fish; soles (very rare); Cernus which grows to large size; several species of grey and red mullet; eleven species of Triglidae, including the beautiful flying gurnard whose colours rival the angel-fish of the West Indies; and eighteen species of mackerel, all migratory.
Among its ecclesiastical edifices (nine Roman Catholic and four Protestant churches) the most noteworthy is the Roman Catholic cathedral, with huge pointed windows, slender columns and numerous flying buttresses, which, begun in the 13th century and consecrated in 1546, belongs to the period of the decadence of the Gothic style.
With drums beating and colours flying, every unit within call went forward for the final effort.
But the remainder of the troops had to be withdrawn, and confusion breaking out in their rear, exposed to all the random bullets and shells of the French, a panic ensued, thousands of men breaking away and flying in wildest confusion through Gravelotte towards the west.
The same day he charged his fellow-citizens to keep the national flag flying on their houses.
Flying from the country, he encountered the plague at Pinczoff; three of his four children were carried off; and he himself, worn out by age and misfortune, died in solitude and obscurity at Schlakau in Moravia, about the end of 1564.
The " Nurnberg " ceased firing for several minutes to allow her to surrender, then gave her a final broadside, and she went down at half-past nine with flag flying.
Finally the presence of the flying lizards (Pterydactylus, Rhamphorhynchus) and the ancient birds (Archaeopteryx) is determined from remains in a most wonderful state of preservation in these ancient deposits.
Instead, the country was traversed by flying columns, and the guerillas dealt with by a French service of " contre-guerilla," who fought with much the same savagery as their foes.
He is god of omens and ruler of the omen birds; but the hawk is not his messenger, for he never leaves his house; stories are, however, told of his attending feasts in human form and flying away in hawk form when all was over.
The market cross is of the 14th century, much restored, having an open arcade supporting a pinnacle, with flying buttresses.
They associate in parties and are mainly arboreal, leaping from bough to bough with an agility that suggests flying through the air.
But, with the exception of these two battalions, the French army was quickly transformed into a flying rabble.
There is a considerable variety of insects, many of them with remarkable peculiarities of structure, and with a predominance of forms incapable of flying.
The valley of the Rhine from Coblenz to Deutz was ravaged, and the advance of winter prevented Charles from sending more than a flying column to drive back the Saxons.
Other prairie birds are the prairie chicken, and there are a great many birds that sing while flying; among them are the horned lark, bobolink, Smith's longspur and chestnut collared longspur, lark-sparrow, lark-bunting and Sprague's pipit.
Abandoning therefore all a priori theoretical assumption, Bashforth set to work to measure experimentally the velocity of shot and the resistance of the air by means of equidistant electric screens furnished with vertical threads or wire, and by a chronograph which measured the instants of time at which the screens were cut by a shot flying nearly horizontally.
Europeans in the East know these animals as "flying lemurs."