fly

Adjective

• (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked

Verb

• decrease rapidly and disappear
  • the money vanished in las Vegas
    
  • all my stock assets have vaporized
    

• hit a fly

• travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
  • Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic
    

• run away quickly
  • He threw down his gun and fled
    

• display in the air or cause to float
  • fly a kite
    
  • All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N.
    

• travel in an airplane
  • she is flying to Cincinnati tonight
    
  • Are we driving or flying?
    

• pass away rapidly
  • Time flies like an arrow
    
  • Time fleeing beneath him
    

• change quickly from one emotional state to another
  • fly into a rage
    

• be dispersed or disseminated
  • Rumors and accusations are flying
    

• cause to fly or float
  • fly a kite
    

• transport by aeroplane
  • We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America
    

• operate an airplane
  • The pilot flew to Cuba
    

• move quickly or suddenly
  • He flew about the place
    

• travel through the air; be airborne
  • Man cannot fly
    

Noun

• fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect

• (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

• an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth

• flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent

• two-winged insects characterized by active flight

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  vanish , vaporize , flee , take flight , fell , aviate , pilot , wing , fly ball , fly front , tent-fly , rainfly , fly sheet , tent flap