fly
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
美 /ˈflɑɪ̯/|[ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯]|/ˈflɒɪ̯/|[ˈflɒ̈ɪ̯]
英文释义
名词 n.
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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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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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A wing.
— The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
- The action of flying; flight.
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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.
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An act of flying.
— There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.
- Those or any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- A fly ball.
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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.
- Ellipsis of fly route.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
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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.
- The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
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A witch's familiar.
— a trifling fly, none of your great familiars
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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!
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A parasite.
— The fly that plays too near the flame burns in it.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- The free edge of a flag.
- A butterfly (combination of four options).
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
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That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
— to the fly of the compass, which before was made equal, I was still constrained to put some small piece of wire on the south part there
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
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A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
— A fly carried him rapidly to Lady Clavering’s house from the station […]
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
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One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
— It was as if I been idling on a brightly lit stage-set of a country garden, ripe with every sort of pastoral fancy, and then had turned a flat and come on the stagehands and the wings, the propped sets, the men working in the flies—all the dark mechanics that produced the pretty picture the audience saw.
- Waste cotton.
动词 v.
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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.
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To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
— Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
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To flee, to escape (from).
— Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
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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.
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To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
— He flew down the hill on his bicycle.
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To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
— a door flies open
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To proceed with great success.
— His career is really flying at the moment.
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To be accepted, come about or work out.
— Let's see if that idea flies.
- To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
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To hunt with a hawk.
— We'll fly the partridge, or go rouse the deer.
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To be in the winged adult stage.
— This species flies from late summer until frost.
形容词 adj.
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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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Clandestine, surreptitious
— Some say God was an alien that tampered with our DNA, the 3 kings followed ufos & Mary had a fly shag 🤔🤫
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Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
— He's pretty fly.
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Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
— [Rahiem] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free
词形变化
词汇关系
下位词
barfly
blackfly
blowfly
blue-banded eggfly
botfly
butterfly
cabbage root fly
caddis fly
cranefly
damselfly
dragonfly
drain fly
firefly
fly-eyed
fruit fly
gadfly
grape fly
greenfly
horn fly
horsefly
housefly
hoverfly
march fly
mayfly
moth fly
phorid fly
pomace fly
reverse fly
sandfly
sand fly
sawfly
tachina fly
vinegar fly
warble fly
whitefly
wine fly
fly a kite
flying cone
fly into a rage
fly like a bird
fly like a rock
fly like the wind
fly off the handle
fly out the window
fly solo
overfly
衍生词
a closed mouth catches no flies
adder fly
alderfly
alkali fly
and no flies
antifly
apple fly
assassin fly
awl-fly
banana fly
bar fly
bat fly
bee fly
beetfly
Bill Gates' flower fly
black fly
blind-fly
blister fly
blow fly
blue fly
bobfly
bot fly
bottlefly
break a fly on a wheel
break a fly on the wheel
break a fly upon a wheel
break a fly upon the wheel
breezefly
brine fly
Brues' soldier fly
bull-fly
burrel fly
bush fly
cabbage fly
canker fly
carrot fly
carrot rust fly
catchfly
cheese fly
cluster fly
coffin fly
corn fly
crane fly
dance fly
dayfly
dead fly biscuit
deer fly
deerfly
deer fly fever
die like flies
dobsonfly
dogfly
dolphin fly
drink with the flies
dry fly
dungfly
eggfly
eye fly
face fly
fairyfly
fire-fly
fishfly
flesh fly
fleshfly
flesh-fly
flower-fly
flower fly
fly agaric
fly amanita
fly-ass
flybane
fly belt
fly biscuit
fly-bitten
flyblow
fly-blown
flyblown
fly-boat
flyboat
fly-bombed
flybook
fly box
fly-box
fly-boy
fly car
flycatcher
fly-catcher
flyfish
fly-fish
flyfisher
flyfisherman
fly fishing
fly-fishing
flyflap
flyflapper
fly fungus
fly-grazing
fly grazing
fly in the buttermilk
fly in the ointment
fly killer
flyleaf
flyless
fly line
flyloft
flymaker
flymph
flynet
fly on the wall
fly orchid
flypaper
fly-paper
fly paper
fly-papered
fly pie
fly powder
flyproof
fly rail
flyrobin
flyrod
fly rod
fly-rod
fly screen
flyscreen
fly sheet
flysheet
fly-sheet
fly slip
flyspeck
fly spray
flystrike
flystruck
fly swat
flyswat
fly swatter
flyswatter
flytime
flytrap
flyweight
flywhisk
flywire
forest fly
freeloader fly
frit fly
froth-fly
fruitfly
garbage fly
glow fly
gout fly
green bottle fly
griffinfly
harm a fly
harvest fly
hawk-fly
hawthorn fly
Hessian fly
hippo fly
honey catches more flies than vinegar
honeymoon fly
hop fly
hornet fly
horse bot fly
horse fly
horse-fly
hover-fly
hurt a fly
ichneumon fly
lady-fly
lake fly
lanternfly
lanthorn-fly
leaf-miner fly
like a blue-arsed fly
like flies on a rib roast
like flies on pie
long-legged fly
lord of the flies
louse fly
mango fly
mantidfly
mantisfly
March fly
meat fly
Mediterranean fruit fly
mistfly
muck fly
Mydas fly
Nairobi fly
night fly
no flies on
noon fly
olive fly
olive fruit fly
onion fly
orl fly
owlfly
oxfly
palmfly
Paul Allen's flower fly
peacock fly
penis fly trap
petroleum fly
phantom crane fly
picture-winged fly
potato fly
rail fly
robber fly
robberfly
root fly
rust fly
sac fly
sacrifice fly
scorpionfly
scuttle fly
sedge fly
sewer fly
shadfly
shoo-fly pie
shoofly pie
shoo-fly plant
shoot fly
shore fly
smother-fly
snakefly
snipe fly
snow fly
soldier fly
Spanish fly
spider fly
squashed fly biscuit
stable fly
stalk-eyed fly
stiletto fly
St. Mark's fly
stonefly
sugarcane soldier fly
superfly
syrphus fly
timber fly
tsetse fly
tumbu fly
turnip fly
upwing fly
urfly
Venus fly trap
wet fly
whame fly
wheat fly
willow fly
window fly
wouldn't harm a fly
wouldn't hurt a fly
you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
fly ash
afly
as the crow flies
as the gull flies
as the raven flies
backspot flying fish
befly
build the plane while flying it
could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
fill and fly
flag-flying
flyable
fly a desk
fly and flop
fly apart
fly at
flyaway
flyback
fly baker
flybar
fly blind
fly bomb
flyboy
flybridge
fly by
flyby
fly-by-light
fly-by-night
fly-by-nighter
fly by the seat of one's pants
fly-by-wire
flycatch
flycatching
flycraft
flycrank
fly cutter
flyer
flyey
fly high
fly in
fly-in
fly-in fly-out
flying ace
flying army
flying bishop
flying bomb
flying brick
flying bridge
flying camp
flying car
flying carp
flying carpet
flying cat
flying circus
flying coffin
flying colors
flying colours
flying disc
flying disc golf
flying doctor
flying dragon
flying fig
flying freehold
flying frog
flying fuck
flying ginny
flying gurnard
flying handkerchief
flying helmet
flying jenny
flying jib
flying jib boom
flying kiss
flying knee
flying lap
flying lemur
flying machine
flying mare
flying meet
flying monkeys
flying mouse
flying ointment
flying party
flying phalanger
flying picket
flying purple people-eater
flying purple people eater
flying rat
flying rod
flying rowan
flying saucer group
flying school
flying shot
flying sport
flying stationer
flying toilet
flying wedge
flying white
flying wing
fly in the face of
fly into
fly low
fly off
flyoff
fly off the shelves
flyout
fly out
fly out of the blocks
fly out of the traps
flyover
fly-over
fly-past
flypast
fly-pitch
fly-pitcher
flypost
fly-poster
fly-posting
fly the blue pigeon
fly the coop
fly the flag
fly the freak flag
fly the kite
fly the nest
fly-through
flythrough
fly-tip
fly-tipper
fly-tipping
fly too close to the sun
fly-under
flyunder
fly under the radar
fly up
fly upon
flyway
flywheel
fly with leaden wings
fly without a licence
flyworthy
free-fly
fur-flying
give a flying fuck
go fly a kite
high-flying
if pigs had wings, they would fly
in flying colors
in flying colours
Japanese flying squid
keep the flag flying
kiss and fly
kite flying
let fly
make the dust fly
make the feathers fly
make the fur fly
Malabar flying frog
Malaysian flying lemur
monkeys might fly out of my butt
non-flying
outfly
overfly
Philippine flying lemur
pigs can fly
pigs may fly
pigs might fly
pilot flying
pilot not flying
refly
Siberian flying squirrel
sparks fly
speed flying
straighten up and fly right
Sunda flying lemur
take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
take a flying leap
test-fly
the feathers fly
the fur flies
time flies
time flies like an arrow
fruit flies like a banana
time flies when you're having fun
unidentified flying object
upfly
watch the feathers fly
watch the fur fly
when pigs can fly
when pigs fly
with flying colors
with flying colours
yogic flying
big fly
fly ball
fly-coach
fly half
flyhawk
flyman
flyperson
fly system
fly window
infield fly
infield fly rule
keyhole fly
no-fly
no-fly list
no fly list
no-fly zone
on the fly
on-the-fly
pop fly
flycop
flyness
相关词
词源
词源 1
From Middle English flye, flie, from Old English flȳġe, flēoge (“a fly”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleugā, from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”).
Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.
Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Old English flēogan
Middle English fliender.
English fly
From Middle English flien, from Old English flēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleugan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (*plew-k-, “to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Compare Etymology 1.
See also Saterland Frisian fljooge, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, German fliegen, Danish flyve, Norwegian Nynorsk flyga; also Lithuanian plaũkti ‘to swim’). More at flee and flow.
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Old English flēogan
Middle English fliender.
English fly
From Middle English flien, from Old English flēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleugan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (*plew-k-, “to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Compare Etymology 1.
See also Saterland Frisian fljooge, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, German fliegen, Danish flyve, Norwegian Nynorsk flyga; also Lithuanian plaũkti ‘to swim’). More at flee and flow.
词源 3
From Middle English flye (“flying, flight”), from Old English flyġe (“flying, flight”), from Proto-Germanic *flugiz.
词源 4
Uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.
词源 5
Related to German Flügel (“a wing”), Dutch vleugel (“a wing”), Swedish flygel (“a wing”).
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