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

  • (..) transcripts we'll call you back . Thank you gentlemen. Good day. Thank you. We weren't playing Pac-Man, we were flying a plane for human beings. Some other, will have to remember it. This just doesn't seem right It's because this is not right You did everything you could, that's more than enough. (..)
    2016 Sully
  • (..) How do you feel when people call you a hero? I don't feel like a hero. I'm just a man who is doing his job. The right man for the job at the right time You've been flying for what? Nearly years? , That's been my life My whole life Aircraft Bomb-craft (..)
    2016 Sully