different between butterflies vs flies
butterflies
English
Noun
butterflies
- plural of butterfly
Noun
butterflies pl (plural only)
- (by ellipsis) butterflies in one's stomach
Derived terms
- butterflies in one's stomach
Verb
butterflies
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butterfly
Anagrams
- filter tubes, flutterbies
butterflies From the web:
- what butterflies eat
- what butterflies are poisonous
- what butterflies migrate
- what butterflies mean
- what butterflies are migrating right now
- what butterflies symbolize
- what butterflies look like monarchs
- what butterflies do
flies
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fla?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
Noun
flies
- plural of fly
Noun
flies pl (plural only)
- The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
- 1792, Charles Dibdin, Hannah Hewit: or, the Female Crusoe, London, for the author, Volume 1, Chapter 6, p. 167,[1]
- […] I was born in the dressing-room, suckled in the flies, educated in the lobby, and brought up in the property-room […]
- 1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Only a Dancing Girl” in The “Bab” Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, p. 25,[2]
- Hung from the “flies” in air,
- She acts a palpable lie,
- She’s as little a fairy there
- As unpoetical I!
- 1937, Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder, New York: Jove Books, 1978, Chapter 14, p. 156,[3]
- One of the staff was up in the flies fixing the weight for the mast. The head mechanist and Ted Gascoigne were down below on the stage, having an argument. Suddenly, the gentleman in the flies got all careless and dropped the weight.
- 1792, Charles Dibdin, Hannah Hewit: or, the Female Crusoe, London, for the author, Volume 1, Chapter 6, p. 167,[1]
Derived terms
- catch flies
- drop like flies
- no flies on
Verb
flies
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fly
Anagrams
- Files, files, lifes
flies From the web:
- what flies without wings
- what flies in the thermosphere
- what flies in the sky
- what flies in the stratosphere
- what flies when it is born
- what flies eat
- what flies to use for trout
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