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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

  • (..) You'll regret this tomorrow. You should have learned by now that I don't have regrets. - One more round, Lily. - Z, you've had enough. - I'm not flying with a drunken pilot. - I can't fly sober. What is that? - That is the constellation Leo. - No, that! - It's the ECON. - After all these years? (..)
    1996 Star Trek: First Contact