flying

Definition

  • noun: the activity of traveling in an aircraft
  • noun: travel by air
  • adjective: moving or able to move in the air
  • adjective: moving or capable of moving in the air
  • used especially of livestock brand marks
  • synonyms: volant, volitant, circumvolant

Examples

  • A flag 'flies' in front of the building. = There is a flag 'flying' in front of the building.

  • The restaurant 'made a flying start' by filling up on opening night.

  • After some difficult years, the company is 'flying high' again.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) will be lost. Get the senator on the phone. So... it worked. Yeah. Apparently, Kirk had a change of heart and he's flying in tomorrow for the meeting. You know what that means, right? You know what Mr. Reddington's gonna do. I'm not okay with this. Are you? (..)
    2016 TvShow: The Blacklist Title: Alexander Kirk (No. 14): Conclusion Season: 3 Episode 23
  • (..) out of the shot. Then in one shot they hit each other. That's what I thought he was thinking. So, you want to see them flying and hitting in one shot. -Right? -That's what we were thinking. He says he doesn't have enough people to draw ... (..)
    2001 The Matrix Revisited
  • (..) about whether or not ... ... we will be able to execute a lot of the choreography. We've been through it, so we're not ... ... flying in the dark like the last time. We know how hard it's gonna be, so it's ... We know the challenges ahead. The thing about it, it was true (..)
    2001 The Matrix Revisited