different between foley vs fley

English

Etymology

Named after foley pioneer Jack Foley; the surname Foley itself is from Irish Ó Foghlú and Old Irish Ó Foghladha (“plunderer”).

Noun

foley (countable and uncountable, plural foleys)

1. (uncountable, US) The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images
2. (countable, US) A foley artist
3. (medicine, colloquial) A Foley catheter.

Translations

Anagrams

• Foyle, foyle

English

Etymology

From Middle English fleien, from Old English fl?gan.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: fl?, IPA^(key): /fle?/
• Homophone: flay
• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

fley (third-person singular simple present fleys, present participle fleying, simple past and past participle fleyed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To frighten.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be frightened.

Anagrams

• flye, fyle, lyfe

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fley, from Proto-Germanic *flawj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flei?/
• Rhymes: -ei?

Noun

fley n (genitive singular fleys, nominative plural fley)

1. (poetic) ship, boat

Declension

Synonyms

• (ship, boat): bátur, skip, gnoð

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fl?a.

Noun

fley

1. Alternative form of fle

Etymology 2

From Old English fl??e.

Noun

fley

1. Alternative form of flye

Etymology 3

From Old English fl?ogan.

Verb

fley

1. Alternative form of flien