different between flying vs winged

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• flingy

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge.

Alternative forms

• wingèd (chiefly poetry)

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?ng(?)d
• IPA^(key): /w??(?)d/

Adjective

winged (not comparable)

1. Having wings.
2. Flying or soaring as if on wings.
3. Swift.
4. (in combination) having wings of a specified kind

   weak-winged

5. (in combination) having the specified number of wings

   The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.

Derived terms

• light-winged (adjective)

Translations

Etymology 2

See wing (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??d/

Verb

winged

1. simple past tense and past participle of wing

Etymology 3

See winge (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?nd?d/
• Homophone: whinged

Verb

winged

1. simple past tense and past participle of winge

References

Anagrams

• Dewing, Gwendi, dewing