Fly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to move through the air
• to hit a ball high in the air in baseball
• (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings
• (of an aircraft or its occupants) travel through the air
• control the flight of (an aircraft)
• transport in an aircraft
• accomplish (a purpose) in an aircraft
• release (a bird) to fly, especially a hawk for hunting or a pigeon for racing.
• move or be hurled quickly through the air
• (of accusations or insults) be exchanged swiftly and heatedly
• (of a report) be circulated swiftly and widely
• hit a ball high into the air
• wave or flutter in the wind
• (with reference to a flag) display or be displayed on a flagpole
• go or move quickly
• depart hastily
• (of time) pass swiftly
• run away; flee
• escape from in haste; flee from
• be successful
• move through the air on wings or in an aircraft
• To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
• To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
• To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
• To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
• To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
• To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
• To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
• To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
• To hunt with a hawk.
• Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
• Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
• A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
• A familiar spirit; a witch\'s attendant.
• A parasite.
• A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
• The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the \"union\" to the extreme end.
• The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
• That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
• 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 heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
• The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
• The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
• A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
• Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
• A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
• The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
• One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
• The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
• A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
• travel through the air; be airborne
• move quickly or suddenly
• operate an airplane
• transport by aeroplane
• cause to fly or float
• be dispersed or disseminated
• change quickly from one emotional state to another
• pass away rapidly
• travel in an airplane
• display in the air or cause to float
• run away quickly
• travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
• hit a fly
• decrease rapidly and disappear
NOUN:
• an opening at the crotch of a pair of trousers, closed with a zip or buttons and typically covered with a flap.
• a flap of material covering the opening or fastening of a garment or of a tent.
• the space over the stage in a theatre.
• a one-horse hackney carriage.
• an attempt
• a flying insect of a large order characterized by a single pair of transparent wings and sucking (and often also piercing) mouthparts. Flies are of great importance as vectors of disease.
• used in names of flying insects of other orders, e.g. butterfly, dragonfly, firefly.
• an infestation of flying insects on a plant or animal
• a natural or artificial flying insect used as bait in fishing, especially a mayfly.
• two-winged insects characterized by active flight
• flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
• an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
• (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
• fisherman\'s lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
• fastening at the front of trousers
ADJECTIVE:
• shrewd, knowing
• knowing and clever
• fashionably attractive and impressive
• Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another\'s meaning.
• (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked
• sharp and cunning
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to hit a ball high into the air in baseball

Words related to FLY

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Words that contain FLY

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How to use FLY in a sentence

• Herzog followed with a slow low fly to right field, which fell safely.
• She had been about to fly from him as from something that she feared.
• When his strength failed him, so that he could not fly any farther, he was no longer on the lake.
• After warming up with two strikes, and letting three balls pass, he found the ball where he wanted it, and drove out into left-field a magnificent fly.
• A hearty laugh went the rounds, which Fly thought was decidedly silly.
• Most of the small birds fly by jerks, rising and falling as they advance.
• He tied four feathers along the shaft, and tried the arrow at a mark, and found that it did not fly well.
• The skin of the tail, fitted on a stick, was used as a fly brush.
• When they fly swiftly through the air, you can hear the whistle at a great distance.
• When you have had your desire, it will as lightly fly away.
• When the salmon takes the fly, there is no time for picking steps.
• He managed to fly back over our lines, and by great good luck he descended close to a motor ambulance, which at once conveyed him to a hospital.
• The trees and hedges seemed to fly swiftly by us, and one field, and the sheep, and the lambs passed away.
• Farther than this they could not fly, because the stout chains which fastened them were but ten feet long.
• He would have impaled a real dragon fly more readily.
• The kite will fly at right angles to the flying cord.
• The shells from the rear seemed to fly over at a less height.
• Even my feet feel to fly less lightly, and I forget to look at myself in the glass.
• A half-drowned fly put into the sun to dry would be overbearing and supercilious compared to you.
• None are supposed to be fit priests in the temple of government, but the persons who are compelled to fly into it for sanctuary.
• But he flapped his wings so vigorously, pretending to fly, that he lost his balance and fell.
• Howel is out of the fly, and Netta lifted in before she knows what she is about.

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