different between fyle vs flye

English

Verb

fyle (third-person singular simple present fyles, present participle fyling, simple past and past participle fyled)

1. (Scotland, transitive) Alternative form of file

Anagrams

• fley, flye, lyfe

Middle English

Noun

fyle

1. Alternative form of fiele

English

Alternative forms

• fly

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fla?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: fly

Noun

flye (plural flyes)

1. (weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
   • 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22.

     […] then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench, five sets of dumbbell flyes and two sets of twenty cable flyes—all designed to bulk, shape, striate and clarify the pectoralis muscles of the chest […]

Anagrams

• fley, fyle, lyfe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fl?oge, fl?e?e, *fl??e, from Proto-Germanic *fleug?.

Alternative forms

• fleie, fleye, fle?e, flei, fley, fflye, vlye, fli?e, vli?e, flie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fli?(?)/, /?fl?i?(?)/

Noun

flye (plural flyes or fli?en)

1. Any insect capable of motion in the air.
2. A fly (insect in the order Diptera)

Related terms

• boterflye

Descendants

• English: fly
• Scots: flee, fle, flei

References

• “fl?e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Etymology 2

Verb

flye

1. Alternative form of flien