Flyname詞源 1

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  A river in Papua New Guinea

Flyname詞源 2

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  A surname.

flynoun詞源 1/ˈflaɪ̯/

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  biologynatural-scienceszoologyAny insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.

  • Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
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  Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).

  • When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
  • October in Orania can be charming. When the sun sets, long ribbons of burnt orange settle on the horizon. The flies and mosquitoes that come with the oppressive summer heat haven’t arrived yet. It is Magdalene Kleynhans’ favourite time of year. “You can sit outside until late into the night,” says the businesswoman, whose family spend much of their time outdoors. Her children fish from the banks of the Orange River whenever they choose. Kleynhans leaves the house unlocked. “It’s a good life. It’s a big privilege.”
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  Those or any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.

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  fishinghobbieslifestyleA lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.

  • I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.
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  hobbieslifestylesportsA chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)

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  hobbieslifestylesportsThe butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).

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  obsoleteA witch's familiar.

  • a trifling fly, none of your great familiars
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  obsoleteA parasite.

  • The fly that plays too near the flame burns in it.

flyverb詞源 2/ˈflaɪ̯/

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  To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

  • Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
  • The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane.
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  archaicTo flee, to escape (from).

  • Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
  • [V]pon a ſodaine, / As Falſtaffe, ſhe, and I, are newly met, / Let them [children dressed like "urchins, ouphes and fairies"] from forth a ſaw-pit ruſh at once / With ſome diffuſed ſong: Vpon their ſight / We two, in great amazedneſſe will flye: […]
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  To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

  • Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.
  • Why don’t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect.
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  To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.

  • He flew down the hill on his bicycle.
  • It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly?
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  To move suddenly, or with violence; to carry out an act suddenly or swiftly.

  • a door flies open
  • a bomb flies apart
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  To proceed with great success.

  • His career is really flying at the moment.
  • One moment the company was flying high, the next it was on its knees.
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  Of a proposal, project or idea, to be accepted, come about or work out.

  • Let's see if that idea flies.
  • You know, I just don't think that's going to fly. Why don't you spend your time on something better?
• 8

  To display (a flag) on a flagpole.

flynoun詞源 3/ˈflaɪ̯/

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  obsoleteThe action of flying; flight.

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  An act of flying.

  • There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.
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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesA fly ball.

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  A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.

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  obsoleteThe sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.

  • [T]he main part of the operation of pitching the tent, consisting of raising the flies, may be performed, and shelter afforded, without the walls, &c., being present.
  • The cavalcade drew up in line, / Pitch'd the marquee, and went to dine. / The bearers and the servants lie / Under the shelter of the fly.
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  A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.

  • Ha-ha! Your fly's undone!
  • February 2014 Y-Front Fly Y-Front is a registered trademark for a special front fly turned upside down to form a Y owned by Jockey® International. The first Y-Front® brief was created by Jockey® more than 70 years ago.
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  The moving portion of an extendable ladder.

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  historyhuman-sciencessciencesThe free edge of a flag.

flyverb詞源 4/ˈflaɪ̯/

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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).

  • Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.

flyadj詞源 5/ˈflaɪ̯/

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  datedslangQuick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.

  • be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing.
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  slangClandestine, surreptitious

  • Some say God was an alien that tampered with our DNA, the 3 kings followed ufos & Mary had a fly shag 🤔🤫
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  slangWell dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.

  • He's pretty fly.
  • when Ortega got fixed up in his fly duds like that, an ord'nary man's overcoat wouldn't make 'im a pair o' socks.
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  slangBeautiful; displaying physical beauty.

  • [Rahiem] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free
  • Word is bond she looked divine, she looked as fly as can be I thought she was different cause she was by herself She looked real wholesome, and in good physical health

flynoun詞源 6/ˈflaɪ̯/

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  A wing.

  • The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• fly route
• flywheel
• vly