different between flying vs barnstorm

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)

1. 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.

2. Brief or hurried.

   flying visit

3. (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.

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Verb

flying

1. 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)

1. (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" […]

2. (uncountable) The action or process of sustained motion through the air.

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Anagrams

• flingy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??(?)nst??(?)m/
• Rhymes: -??(r)m

Etymology

barn +? storm

Verb

barnstorm (third-person singular simple present barnstorms, present participle barnstorming, simple past and past participle barnstormed)

1. To travel around the countryside making political speeches etc.
2. (US) To appear at fairs and carnivals in exhibitions of stunt flying, sporting events, or theater.
3. (US, of a sports team) To travel from town to town performing in front of small crowds. [1][2][3] [4]

Quotations

• 1899, Mark Twain, as cited in 1901, J. B. Pond, Eccentricities of Genius, page 227

  I'm not going to barnstorm the platform any more, but I am glad you have corralled Howells.

• 2005, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, Mencken: The American Iconoclast, page 109

  It wasn't just the smell of perfumes that assailed his nose every time he entered a stuffy auditorium that he found unwelcome; it was the childish playwriting and barnstorm acting that was driving out the intelligent theatergoer and the production of less commercial plays.

• 2006, Ethan Wolff, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Manhattan, page 242

  Smaller bands play the clubs ..., while the more established acts barnstorm through New York's surfeit of midsize halls.

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Noun

barnstorm (plural barnstorms)

1. A series of appearances in small country towns, as by a politician or a travelling theatre group.

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