flying

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: fly‧ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand, ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), equivalent to fly +‎ -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).

Adjective

flying (not comparable)

1. That can fly.

   flying fox

2. Brief or hurried.

   flying visit

3. (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.

Derived terms

• flying fish
• flying fox
• flyingly
• flying saucer
• flying squad
• flying squid
• flying squirrel
• flying start
• flying visit

 

Translations

that can fly

• Catalan: volador (ca) m, voladora f
• Danish: flyvende
• Finnish: lentävä (fi)
• French: volant (fr) m, volante (fr) f
• German: fliegend (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πτηνός (ptēnós)

• Irish: eitilte
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• Italian: volante (it)
• Latin: volucer
• Portuguese: voador (pt) m, voadora (pt) f
• Spanish: volador (es), volante (es)
• Swedish: flygande (sv)
• Welsh: hedegog (cy)

brief, hurrying

• Finnish: hätäinen
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• Irish: eitleach

nautical: not secured by yards

• Finnish: irti (fi)
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Verb

flying

1. present participle of fly

Etymology 2

From Middle English flyinge, fleyng, fleyinge, fleynge, fleghyng, fleiʒeyng, flyeghynge, equivalent to fly +‎ -ing. Cognate with Danish flyvning (“flying”), Swedish flygning (“flying”), Norwegian flyvning, flygning, flyging, flying (“flying”).

Noun

flying (countable and uncountable, plural flyings)

1. (countable) An act of flight.
   • 1993, John C. Greene, ‎Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)

     "Flyings" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds" […]

2. (uncountable) The action or process of sustained motion through the air.

MiG-17F flying

Translations

flying (noun) — see flight

Anagrams

• flingy