Flying

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  • adjective. Of or relating to aviation.
  • adjective. Capable of or engaged in flight.
  • adjective. Situated, extending, or functioning in the air.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Swiftly moving; fleet.
  • adjective. Done or performed swiftly in or as if in the air.
  • adjective. Brief; hurried.
  • adjective. Capable of swift deployment or response; extremely mobile.
  • adjective. Not secured by spars or stays. Used of a sail.
  • noun. Flight in an aircraft or spacecraft.
  • noun. The piloting or navigation of an aircraft or spacecraft.
  • idiom. (with flying colors) With complete or outstanding success.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of moving through the air on wings; flight.
  • noun. plural Loose or floating waste of any kind.
  • Swift; equipped for swift motion: as, a flying party.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
  • adjective. a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm.
  • adjective. artillery trained to rapid evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to spring upon the guns and caissons when they change position.
  • adjective. See under Bridge, and Camp.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. a contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch.
  • adjective. flags unfurled and waving in the air.
  • adjective. to be victorious; to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking.
  • adjective. a young female kangaroo.
  • adjective. A meteor. See under Dragon.
  • adjective. A spectral ship.
  • adjective. See Flying fish, in the Vocabulary.
  • adjective. see Flying fox in the vocabulary.
  • adjective. either of two East Indian tree frogs of the genus Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and Rhacophorus pardalis), having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps.
  • adjective. a species of gurnard of the genus Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance.
  • adjective. a sail extended outside of the standing jib, on the flying-jib boom.
  • adjective. an extension of the jib boom.
  • adjective. light sails carried only in fine weather.
  • adjective. See Colugo.
  • adjective. a reconnoissance level over the course of a projected road, canal, etc.
  • adjective. See Dragon, n. 6.
  • adjective. a torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at night.
  • adjective. the opossum mouse (Acrobates pygmæus), a marsupial of Australia. Called also feathertail glider.
  • adjective. a body of soldiers detailed to hover about an enemy.
  • adjective. one of several species of small marsuupials of the genera Petaurus and Belideus, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar squirrel (Belideus sciureus), and the ariel (Belideus ariel), are the best known; -- called also squirrel petaurus and flying squirrel. See Sugar squirrel.
  • adjective. the fly of a clock.
  • adjective. the rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with earth.
  • adjective. a shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing.
  • adjective. See Ballooning spider.
  • adjective. an oceanic squid (Ommastrephes Bartramii syn. Sthenoteuthis Bartramii), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel.
  • adjective. See Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary.
  • adjective. a start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while the vessels are under way.
  • adjective. undefined
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That which can fly.
  • adjective. Brief or hurried.
    • Word Usage
    "Mark Haisma doesn't like the term "flying winemaker.""
    cross-reference
    aviation  flying army  flying artillery  
    Equivalent
    flying camp  hurried  moving  
    Form
    flyingly  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    allying  applying  belying  buying  complying  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aeronautics  agile  air service  airborne  airline  
    verb-stem
    fly  
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