From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[Flying]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm] (also [enm], [enm],
etc.), from [en], from [en], present participle of [en], equivalent to [en].
Cognate with [stq], [fy], [nl], [nds-de], [de], [da], [sv], [is].
**** Adjective
[-]
1. That flies or can fly .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | url=https://archive.org/details/deistsreplytoall00spoo | year=1836 | title=The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity | author=w:Lysander Spooner | location= Boston | page= 34 (see https://archive.org/details/deistsreplytoall00spoo/page/34)
|passage=Matthew (26—6 to 13), Mark (14—3 to 9), and Luke (7—37 and 38) also
heard of, and related, the circumstance of Mary, whom John says (11 — 2) was
the _sister_ of Lazarus, anointing the head of Jesus with ointment, yet they
neither of them utter a syllable about his raising her brother from the dead.
It is difficult to account for this fact, unless we suppose that John was
actually dishonest, or that he took up, believed and recorded a FLYING story,
which an occurrence of some kind had given rise to, but which was without any
foundation in truth.}}
1. Brief or hurried .
2. Capable of moving rapidly ; highly mobile .
3. [en] Not secured by yard s.
4. [en] Capable of foiling .
5. [Designating a cattle brand consisting of a letter extended on both sides with tilde -like curved lines.]
6. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1911 | journal=Boys' Life | volume=1 | issue=1 | page=25
|passage=He brands his cow W ( FLYING W) or — (two-bar).}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1972 | author=Willie Newbury Lewis | title=Tapadero: The Making of a Cowboy | page=154
|passage=[...] some seventy-five cows belonging to William and Bernie with a
FLYING W [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Janette Kenny | title=One Real Cowboy
|passage=Wyles cut the fence, keeping the FLYING D cowboys occupied rounding
up their cattle.}}
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|actual flying time |elapsed flying time |flubber |flying arch |flying
army |flying baker |Flying Banana |flying bishop |flying boat |flying bomb
|flying brick |flying bridge |flying buttress| flying spaghetti monster|
|flying camp |flying car |flying carp |flying carpet |flying cat |flying
circus |flying coffin|flying hatchetfish |flying colours |flying column
|flying cone |flying cymbal |flying disc |flying disc golf |flying disk
|flying doctor |Flying Dutchman |flying fig |flying fish |Flying Fortress
|flying fox |flying freehold |flying frog |flying fuck |flying ginny |flying
gurnard |flying jenny |flying jib |flying jib boom |flying junction |flying
kiss |flying knee |flying lap |flying lemur |flying lizard |flyingly |flying
mare |flying meet |flying monkeys |flying mouse |flying officer |flying
ointment |flying party |flying phalanger |flying picket |flying purple people
eater |flying rat |flying rib |flying rod |flying rowan |flying saucer |flying
shit |flying shot |Flying Spaghetti Monster |flying squad |flying squid
|flying squirrel |flying start |flying stationer |flying toilet |flying visit
|flying voter |flying wedge |flying wing |free-flying |give a flying shit
|high-flying |instrument flying |nonflying |non-flying |southern flying
squirrel |take a flying fuck |unflying |what the flying fuck }}
***** Translations
[that can fly]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[brief, hurrying]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Irish: [ga]
[trans-bottom]
[nautical: not secured by yards]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], equivalent to [en].
Cognate with [da], [sv], [no], [no], [no], [no].
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] An act of flight .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1993 | author=John C. Greene; Gladys L. H. Clark | title=The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 | page=58
|passage=" FLYINGS" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and
could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the
flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, FLYINGS and sinkings
are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds"
[...]}}
1. [en] The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
2. * [Hauke]
3. [en] The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en|kiteflying|paraflying|sailflying|dayflying |flying ace |flying
machine |flying school }}
***** Translations
[flying (noun)]
*** Anagrams
- [en]