fly

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈflɑɪ̯/|[ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯]|/ˈflɒɪ̯/|[ˈflɒ̈ɪ̯]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”). alt-of,alternative
    — 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.
  3. A wing. Northern-England,Scotland
    — The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
  4. The action of flying; flight. obsolete
  5. 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.
  6. An act of flying.
    — There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.
  7. Those or any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
  8. A fly ball.
  9. 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.
  10. Ellipsis of fly route. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  11. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
  12. A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
  13. The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent. India,obsolete
    — [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.
  14. The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
  15. A witch's familiar. obsolete
    — a trifling fly, none of your great familiars
  16. A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc. often,plural
    — Ha-ha! Your fly's undone!
  17. A parasite. obsolete
    — The fly that plays too near the flame burns in it.
  18. The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
  19. A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
  20. The free edge of a flag.
  21. A butterfly (combination of four options).
  22. The horizontal length of a flag.
  23. An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
  24. The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
  25. 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
  26. 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.
  27. Ellipsis of flywheel. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  28. A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys). historical
    — A fly carried him rapidly to Lady Clavering’s house from the station […]
  29. 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.
  30. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
  31. A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
  32. The person who took the printed sheets from the press. historical
  33. A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work. historical
  34. 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.
  35. Waste cotton.
动词 v.
  1. To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. intransitive
    — Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
  2. To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). intransitive
    — Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
  3. To flee, to escape (from). ambitransitive,archaic,poetic
    — Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
  4. To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like. ergative,transitive
    — Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.
  5. To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten. intransitive
    — He flew down the hill on his bicycle.
  6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly. intransitive
    — a door flies open
  7. To proceed with great success. intransitive
    — His career is really flying at the moment.
  8. To be accepted, come about or work out. colloquial,intransitive
    — Let's see if that idea flies.
  9. To display (a flag) on a flagpole. ergative,transitive
  10. To hunt with a hawk. transitive
    — We'll fly the partridge, or go rouse the deer.
  11. To be in the winged adult stage. intransitive
    — This species flies from late summer until frost.
形容词 adj.
  1. Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp. dated,slang
    — 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.
  2. Clandestine, surreptitious slang
    — Some say God was an alien that tampered with our DNA, the 3 kings followed ufos & Mary had a fly shag 🤔🤫
  3. Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool. slang
    — He's pretty fly.
  4. Beautiful; displaying physical beauty. slang
    — [Rahiem] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free

词形变化

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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 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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
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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.
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.
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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