Fly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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. isim Those or any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
4. isim A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.

   “I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.”

5. isim A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
6. isim The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
7. isim A witch's familiar.

   “a trifling fly, none of your great familiars”

8. isim A parasite.

   “The fly that plays too near the flame burns in it.”

9. isim A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
10. isim A butterfly (combination of four options).
11. fiil To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

    “Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.”

12. fiil To flee, to escape (from).

    “Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!”

13. fiil To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

    “Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.”

14. fiil To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.

    “He flew down the hill on his bicycle.”

15. fiil To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.

    “a door flies open”

16. fiil To proceed with great success.

    “His career is really flying at the moment.”

17. fiil To be accepted, come about or work out.

    “Let's see if that idea flies.”

18. fiil To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
19. fiil To hunt with a hawk.

    “We'll fly the partridge, or go rouse the deer.”

20. fiil To be in the winged adult stage.

    “This species flies from late summer until frost.”

21. isim The action of flying; flight.
22. isim An act of flying.

    “There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.”

23. isim A fly ball.
24. isim Ellipsis of fly route.
25. isim A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
26. isim The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.

    “[T]he main part of the operation of pitching the tent, consisting of raising the flies, may be performed, and shelter afforded, without the walls, &c., being present.”

27. isim A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.

    “Ha-ha! Your fly's undone!”

28. isim The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
29. isim The free edge of a flag.
30. isim The horizontal length of a flag.