To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
To be in the winged adult stage.
To hunt with a hawk.
To be accepted, come about or work out.
To proceed with great success.
To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
A wing.
A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
A butterfly (combination of four options).
An act of flying.
One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
waste cotton
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
Any similar, but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
The free edge of a flag.
The horizontal length of a flag.
A fly ball.
The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
Related terms: flyman
A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
To print or broadcast in the media.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To be a candidate in an election.
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
To control or manage, be in charge of.
To smuggle (illegal goods).
To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
To make run in a race.
To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
To cause to move quickly or lightly.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To speedrun.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
To move or spread quickly.
To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
To make a machine operate.
To become liquid; to melt.
To make something extend in space.
Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
To be presented in the media.
Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
To cost a large amount of money.
Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
Of a liquid, to flow.
To compete in a race.
Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
To make run in an election.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To have growth or development.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To flee from a danger or towards help.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.