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.
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.
Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
To leave, resign.
To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
To travel (a distance) by walking.
To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
A distance walked.
A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
A trip made by walking.
An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
A person's conduct or course in life.
An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.