fly
suomi-englanti sanakirjafly englannista suomeksi
lentää
liehuttaa, lennättää
halkiolista
ovela, terävä
perho
rynnätä
ovivaate
kiitää, rientää
korkea pallo
paeta
kärpänen
lennähtää
lyödä korkea pallo
ottaa tuulta">ottaa tuulta, tulla hyväksytyksi">tulla hyväksytyksi, lähteä lentoon">lähteä lentoon
Verbi
fly englanniksi
(senseid) Any insect of the order (taxfmt); characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called (vern).
(quote-journal)
(senseid) ''Especially'', any of the insects of the family (taxfmt), such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
(senseid) Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
(senseid) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
(quote-book)
(senseid) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (''also'' flye)
{{RQ:Jonson Alchemist
A parasite.
A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
A butterfly (combination of four options).
To travel through the air, another gas{{, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
(ux)
{{RQ:Chesterton Orthodoxy
(RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives)
(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Dryden Juvenal Satires)
(quote-book)|title=Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems|passage=And boyhood is a summer sunWhose waning is the dreariest one —For all we live to know is knownAnd all we seek to keep hath flown — (..)
{{quote-text|en|year=1954|author=J. R. R. Tolkien|title=The Fellowship of the Ring
To cause to fly (gloss): to transport via air or the like.
{{RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Pirates of Penzance
{{quote-text|en|year=2015|author=Jeromy Hopgood|title=Dance Production: Design and Technology|page=44
To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
''He flew down the hill on his bicycle.''
''It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly?''
{{quote-text|en|year=1645|author=John Milton|title=On Time
1870, (w) (translator), ''The Iliad'' (originally by (w))
- The dark waves murmured as the ship flew on.
To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
(RQ:Dickens Haunted House)
To proceed with great success.
''His career is really flying at the moment.''
''One moment the company was flying high, the next it was on its knees.''
To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
(quote-book)|title=Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay|passage=We'll fly the partridge, or go rouse the deer.
To be in the winged adult stage.
''This species flies from late summer until frost''.
An act of flying.
A ball.
(short for)
A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.
{{quote-text|en|year=1810|author=Thomas H. Williamson|title=The East India Vade-Mecum|page=452
{{quote-text|en|year=1816|title=The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi|page=152
{{quote-text|en|year=1885|author=Elizabeth Bacon Custer|title=Boots and Saddles
(senseid) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
February 2014 Y-Front Fly
- Y-Front is a registered trademark for a special front fly turned upside down to form a Y owned by Jockey® International. The first Y-Front® brief was created by Jockey® more than 70 years ago.
- Briefs were given an opening in the front. The point of this opening (the ‘fly’) was to make it easier to pee with clothes on
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 vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the card.
(quote-text)
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.
(short for)
A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised (m)).
(RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)|74
{{quote-text|en|year=1859|author=Wilkie Collins|title=The Woman in White|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/583/583-h/583-h.htm
{{quote-text|en|year=1861|author=Henry Mayhew; William Tuckniss|title=London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopœdia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work|volume=3|pageurl=https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=tVtHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA359&dq=fly+carriage&cd=10v=onepage&q=fly%20carriage&f=false|page=359
(RQ:Stoker Dracula)
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp) She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
{{quote-book|en|year=1924|author=Ford Madox Ford|title=Some Do Not…|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2012|series=Parade's End|page=54
Related terms: (l)
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.(R:Knight AM)
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a wheel or frame, to twist the yarn.
A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.(R:Knight AM)
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.
One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
To hit a ball; to hit a ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
''Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.''
Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
(quote-song)
(RQ:Noire Thug-A-Licious)
(quote-book) no naked pictures, no deep emotions (awkward), no tagging a bunch of people in a picture of some fly Nikes, no making dinner plans (just use a PHONE).
(quote-book) for her album launch. She tweeted a picture of the trio saying: ‘Thanks for coming my little fashionistas. Looking flyer than a mofo.’
Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
(quote-song)] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free
A wing.
(syn)
(hyper)
to flee
to shun
to (l)
(senseid) to (l) (to travel through air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface)
to cause to (l): to transport via air or the like
(senseid) to escape from
(ngd)
(senseid) tepid
(quote-web)