fly - Definition, Meaning and Synonyms

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Definitions

1
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
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Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
3
The action of flying; flight.
4
An act of flying.
There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.
5
A wing.
The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
6
Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
June 8, 1708, John Cock and William Nottingham desire 100 acres each [...] Isaac Davis desied a conveyance for the "greenbush" fly or swamp that he hath drained near his land, in the Jaagh Creupel-bosh.

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To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

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Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing.
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Definitions

1
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
2
Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
3
The action of flying; flight.
4
An act of flying.
There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.
5
A wing.
The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
6
Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
June 8, 1708, John Cock and William Nottingham desire 100 acres each [...] Isaac Davis desied a conveyance for the "greenbush" fly or swamp that he hath drained near his land, in the Jaagh Creupel-bosh.

1
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

1
Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing.
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