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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

  • (..) for Santi Munez. His first start, and now his first early bath. Off comes Zinedine Zidane, and it's Gavin Harris who will come on. Plenty of tackles flying in out there, and that's Guti. Canizares, what is he doing? Not just with his hair either. This is not a typical (..)
    2007 Goal II: Living the Dream