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flying
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fla?.??/
- Hyphenation: fly?ing
Etymology 1
From Middle English fleynge, flee?inge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand,ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English fl?ogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleugan? (“to fly”), equivalent to fly +? -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).
Adjective
flying (not comparable)
- That flies or can fly.
- flying fox
- a flying rumour
- 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.
- Brief or hurried.
- flying visit
- (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
flying
- present participle of fly
Etymology 2
From Middle English flyinge, fleyng, fleyinge, fleynge, fleghyng, flei?eyng, flyeghynge, equivalent to fly +? -ing. Cognate with Danish flyvning (“flying”), Swedish flygning (“flying”), Norwegian flyvning, flygning, flyging, flying (“flying”).
Noun
flying (countable and uncountable, plural flyings)
- (countable) An act of flight.
- 1993, John C. Greene, Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
- "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" […]
- 1993, John C. Greene, Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
- (uncountable) The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
Translations
Anagrams
- flingy
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airspeed
English
Etymology
air +? speed
Noun
airspeed (plural airspeeds)
- (aviation) The speed of an aircraft relative to the air through which it is flying.
Derived terms
- airspeed indicator
See also
- flight recorder
Anagrams
- Pereidas, pedaries, præside
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