FLY


Meaning of FLY in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a ball flies/sails

The ball flew over the goalkeeper’s head and into the net.

a bird flies

Some birds fly incredible distances.

a bullet flies (= moves fast )

Bullets were flying around our heads.

a door flies/bursts open (= opens very suddenly and quickly )

Then the door burst open and two men with guns came in.

a flag is flying (= a flag is shown on a pole )

Flags were flying at half-mast because of the death of the Premier.

a flying insect

Toads mainly eat small dark flying insects.

a flying start (= a very good start )

The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a raffle.

a flying visit British English (= a very short visit )

Timpson was due to pay a flying visit to London.

a plane flies

Several planes flew overhead.

an insect flies

Insects were flying around the food on the counter.

come running/flying/speeding etc

Jess came flying round the corner and banged straight into me.

crane fly

flew open

The bar door flew open and a noisy group burst in.

fly ball

fly half

fly into a temper (= suddenly become very angry )

He flew into a temper at the slightest thing.

fly leaf

flying at an altitude

We’re flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet.

flying buttress

flying debris

She was hit by flying debris from the blast.

flying doctor

flying fish

flying fox

flying leap

He threw a stick into the river and the dog went after it in a flying leap .

flying officer

flying picket

flying saucer

flying squad

the head of Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad

flying tackle

fly/pilot a plane

I admire the guys who flew those planes.

fruit fly

knocked flying

Garry answered the door only to be knocked flying as two policemen came rushing in.

passed with flying colours (= got very high marks )

She passed with flying colours .

pop fly

rumours fly around (= are talked about by a lot of people )

There were wild rumours flying around the office on Wednesday.

sand fly

sparks...flying (= people were arguing angrily )

The sparks were really flying at the meeting!

tsetse fly

tzetze fly

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

air

Miranda found herself flying through the air .

Now he was lord of the air , flying wherever he would, envied of all.

Do not think that a command-and-control vehicle in the air was just a flying radio.

In Air Sugihan rumours flew that the settlers were to be shifted so that the elephants could be left in peace.

aircraft

The remaining seven aircraft were flown back to Prestwick for re-allotment.

The page also will list the types of aircraft each airline flies .

But witnesses in a nearby aircraft said the plane flew directly into the swamp.

Undamaged, the aircraft was later flown from the field direct to Renfrew by F/O Pickard.

Even aircraft are forbidden from flying closer than two and a half miles from the Gap.

Outraged residents protested last night over the decision to allow the crippled aircraft to fly over their homes.

Leaned, that aircraft will fly 116 miles on the same fuel which takes it only 100 miles in rich.

ball

A black metal ball flew from his right hand.

Striking the ball was a total physical pleasure, and the ball flew , bounced, and rolled some 220 yards.

There was a nasty moment before the ball flew over the three bunkers that block the fairway.

The ball flew fantastically well in the air of that glen and sat invitingly on its lively turf.

The ball flew towards the travellers, and one of the street urchins collided with the Doctor.

He blew his nose and sent the ball of tissue flying into the dark.

The ball flew high and wide of Judy and over the high wire fence behind her.

Aldridge, however, signalled a no-ball, ruling that the ball flew above the permitted height under the series rules.

bird

You then bring your hands down and show that the birds have flown .

Sometimes the hawk will begin to circle or glide and a smaller bird will fly directly beneath him.

The sky had darkened, clouds had gathered, and birds were returning, flying in belatedly to feed their chicks.

I was with her one day when a bird flew into her house.

I saw birds fly across, pigeons, I think.

The birds flew up noisily, circled, and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away.

Fairly large, long-necked, long-legged wading birds , habitually flying with neck outstretched: a useful distinction from herons.

door

Then the door of the laboratory flew open.

Not those nosy Klubocks, she thought, turning to see the back door fly open.

Martin and Mihal, gazing from the mountain-top, saw the door fly open.

He saw both truck doors fly open and the humans jumped out just as Jekub -.

The back door flew open and Norm rushed in, pulling off his filthy shirt.

A moment later the sounds of the storm were magnified suddenly in the hut as the door at one end flew open.

When I pedal-turned the tail away from the flames, my door flew open.

face

The decades since Malthus's time have seen progress of a kind that flies in the face of everything he foresaw.

But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.

I find this hard to believe since it flies in the face of all the principles of wrestling.

Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.

Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.

Whatever the riddle is called, it flies in the face of 3, 000 years of logical philosophy.

It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption.

That concept is irrational and unworkable because it flies in the face of everything we know about human nature.

flag

A smaller, lower battle flag will fly in front of the capitol, beside a monument to slain Confederate soldiers.

He is expected eventually to rule that the Union flag must fly , and he called the row unnecessary.

There are no white flags flying outside the former Santa Rosa.

Now I am passing an area where the crescent moon flag flies over shops, bakeries and mosques.

Watch out for his flag being flown from the church towers on this day.

The flags were flying at half-mast.

Don't enter the firing ranges when the red flags are flying - usually from prominent places such as hilltops.

helicopter

James Carney may have been hurled from a flying helicopter .

She was flown to hospital by helicopter in a coma but died of multiple skull fractures.

You either patrolled an area close by or you were flown by helicopter to the more remote places.

At roundup time, Mercer teams with his oldest son, Gary, who flies a helicopter .

She was flown by helicopter to hospital in Orlando.

Maybe I ought to fly my helicopter up there and find out.

kite

All of these generalisations depend of course on a constant wind speed sufficient to fly the kite within its designed wind window.

We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites , and swam in lakes.

Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.

Baldwin merely intended to fly a policy kite at Plymouth.

In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.

This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites .

The Government flies these kites of disinformation then people feel grateful when they don't happen.

night

His soul would have no repose and would hover over the place, flying through the night .

They were gone and they had left me alone with whatever was flying the night sky.

They often flew through the night without the benefit of fighter escort.

We flew at night with a minigun set up on the doors of the aircraft and a starlight scope.

This is useful if you fly by night or live in murky waters.

The summer Kim turned sixteen, they flew every night his father was home.

Often flies by night , and hovers for insects in dusk.

Any minute I expected the poor little madman to go flying in the night , dead.

pilot

She became a pilot and now flies jumbo jets between Bali, Hawaii and Los Angeles.

One pilot flew Dade County commissioners over the crash site, another pilot said.

A helicopter pilot has to fly to a point 200 kilometres due East.

Marine pilots flew their big H-34s off the rolling deck of their carrier to the hazy coastline and then returned.

The pilot was flying the aircraft fairly close to the ground and was using road signs to help determine his location.

Aspiring pilots get to fly seven Imperial fighters, each with its own characteristics.

This is very noticeable with experienced pilots flying into cloud without the help of the instruments.

But recently, Brothers' pilots have flown over Havana, dropping leaflets urging protests of the Castro regime.

plane

The unarmed plane flew very fast and very high.

While a second airframe shell was built as a back-up, it was destroyed after the plane stopped flying .

Other aircrew who died in the crash were ... In Lyneham, the transport planes were flying again today.

The disclosure came in response to reporters' questions about why the planes were not flying .

Looking out of the window, Branson saw flames streaming momentarily from an engine; then the plane righted itself and flew on.

He looked up at the sky and heard the rumble of planes flying above the cottony blanket of sky.

rage

Mitch was going to fly into a rage .

Whenever Stewart showed signs of rejecting that outlook, Joe would fly into a rage .

Maclean immediately flew into a rage .

He flew into a rage with him and brained him with his lute.

The Collector had flown into a rage .

I flew into a rage and quit.

He gambled and drank, and she had to humour him always to prevent him from flying into rages ....

Caledor flew into a towering rage and dismissed their fears as groundless.

spark

They've a revolutionary scoreboard for the fans and on the pitch soccer to set the sparks flying .

Over the past few weeks they'd been rubbing along fairly civilly, though not without the occasional spark flying between them.

There would be blue sparks flying .

The last person to use it saw sparks fly .

Nothing Less likely to start sparks flying Than a burnt-out flame.

All clear: sparks fly along the nerve wires, pins and needles and it's over.

A spark flew , igniting the gaseous oxygen in the tank.

Stirring the embers with a stick sent sparks flying , echoes of the vast starry night.

■ VERB

learn

The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I'd learned to fly .

After learning to fly she took a job as a pilot with a small commuter airline based in Humberside.

He learned to fly , naturally, on seaplanes.

It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly .

She let her daughter learn to fly and try to become the youngest child to fly cross-country.

At best this will always be a compromise-which explains why this is one of the most difficult aspects of learning to fly .

If you made it through that initiation, you got to the flight line and actually began to learn to fly .

let

At playtime she opened the tin and let the cockroach fly into my blouse.

With computers you can write quickly, letting your fingers fly from key to key.

Quench me quick and clean: let the ashes fly lightly where they will; no plaques.

The slicks slowed from 100 knots to about 80 to let the gunships fly ahead.

Alternatively, let him fly high to act as a aerial patrol to intercept an enemy trying the same thing.

There are many ways to engage in a productive argument, and letting it fly is certainly one of them.

So we dismantled the screen over the window and let them fly around the back of the barn.

Away with me! Let us fly these deadly waters!

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a flying jump/leap

a flying start

David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start, scoring after 31 seconds, and Andy Rammell added their second.

However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.

It's given them a flying start ahead of their Japenese competitors, who until now were the traditional market leaders in electronics.

Racers, once the top team in Britain, will want a flying start to the season to reassert themselves.

That nagging thought deepened as the captain came in first, and gave the innings a flying start.

The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a jumble sale and raffle.

Video-Taped report follows Voice over Despite missing 7 first team regulars Gloucester got off to a flying start.

Well, it seems we have a flying start.

a flying visit

Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.

as the crow flies

My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.

The distance between the two towns is only 10 kilometres as the crow flies, but it can take up to 2 hours along the narrow coastal road.

Similarly a stone's throw, as the crow flies, etc.

The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.

The distance between Avonmouth, near Bristol, and Poole in Dorset is only 65 miles as the crow flies.

fly a kite

And, let's go fly a kite .

In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.

Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.

This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites .

We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites , and swam in lakes.

fly into a passion

fly/slip under sb's/the radar

keep the flag flying

leave/fly the nest

After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest .

Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.

If, however, the host appears reluctant to leave the nest , the cuckoo has a more direct approach.

It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest , to have them all together again.

Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs.

She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest .

Unfortunately for her, the host bird showed no inclination to leave the nest .

When the host leaves the nest , the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.

pigs might fly

the bird has flown

the fur flies

When Marcia found out where Keith was all night, that's when the fur really started to fly.

time flies

Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.

There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.

Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.

with flying colours

And they now look set to promote more harmonious race relations in the community after passing with flying colours.

Fortunately, like the other tests, the 31-year-old convent-educated beauty passed with flying colours.

He passed his exams with flying colours.

He would have passed it with flying colours.

Now he's gone back to driving school in an effort to pass with flying colours.

So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours.

The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.

Trinity High School has just been inspected by Ofsted and come out with flying colours.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Are you going to fly or drive?

As I slowed down another car flew past me and turned to the left.

Brenda's learning to fly .

Fighter jets fly at incredibly high speeds.

Flocks of seagulls flew overhead.

Her long hair was flying in the wind.

His company flew him to Rio to attend the conference.

I'm not allowed to fly visitors into the National Park area without permission.

I flew Aeroflot out of Moscow.

Lindbergh was the first man to fly the Atlantic.

Medical equipment and food are being flown into the areas worst hit by the disaster.

My mother never liked flying.

Papers were flying around in the wind.

Some kids were flying kites in the park.

Stan flew helicopters in Vietnam.

The bus was flying along when suddenly the driver slammed on the brakes.

The ship is flying the Dutch flag.

They were forced to fly the country in 1939.

We'll be flying from New York to Munich.

We're flying nonstop from Milwaukee to Orlando.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters, joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters.

Her fa-ther stood up, and the magpie, delighted, flew round and round with a marvelous clatter.

Her heart broke and her soul flew to heaven.

I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air, never to be seen again.

Stop flying before it becomes too windy to move or fly the glider.

The number of training sorties flown by its pilots had dropped 7. 8 percent a year for nearly a decade.

This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile.

By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters, joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters.

Her fa-ther stood up, and the magpie, delighted, flew round and round with a marvelous clatter.

Her heart broke and her soul flew to heaven.

I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air, never to be seen again.

Stop flying before it becomes too windy to move or fly the glider.

The number of training sorties flown by its pilots had dropped 7. 8 percent a year for nearly a decade.

This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again.

III. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

black

The air is stale and acrid, and a cluster of black flies hovers over the bed.

They gazed at him with blue- black fly filled eyes, and a small glimmer of happiness grew on their faces.

A fat black fly was buzzing against the windowpane.

Heat waves dazzled off the chugging hood of the truck and fat black flies clung to its warm, splattered sides.

■ NOUN

crane

A brown and white female appeared with a crane fly in her beak.

fruit

Worms and fruit flies , too, have had all their units read off.

The drug tests have been done so far only in fruit flies .

A search through their genes reveals a set almost identical to those that help make the wing of a fruit fly .

Then make sure you cover it, because those citrus pieces will attract fruit flies .

Mutation could once be studied only in bacteria or in fruit flies .

The only problem with the Clivus to date has been an outbreak of fruit flies inside the tank.

Rotting guavas and fruit flies that hover around them are also prevalent on the ridge route.

tsetse

The female tsetse fly retains her young for even longer.

This transformed trypanosome line, ST3, was then transmitted through tsetse flies and the resulting bloodstream forms cloned in mice.

■ VERB

attract

An unkempt coat will provide a refuge for parasites, and if soiled with faecal matter is likely to attract flies .

Then make sure you cover it, because those citrus pieces will attract fruit flies .

The reconditioned air attracts the flies so we wander round like lost nomads thinking about the next meal.

bite

These microscopic biting flies would dry and shrivel in minutes out in the sun.

catch

The reason is that where you get cobwebs, you get spiders - and spiders catch flies !

drop

Then Souness comes and they drop like flies for two seasons running!

Our kids are dropping like flies .

They should be dropping like flies , but that hasn't been the case.

hurt

He wouldn't hurt a fly .

You couldn't hurt a fly with that thing.

keep

It consists of a plastic bin with a lockable lid that will keep out flies , children and so on.

Then, of course, he had a cover for keeping the flies off.

The safe being a large cabinet with a fine wire-mesh door to keep flies off fresh food.

The floor was of beaten earth, the walls washed white with lime to keep off the flies .

To keep the flies away, crush garlic cloves in boiling water, allow to cool and then sponge over horse.

She consoled herself with the thought that the acrid smoke would serve to keep flies out of the room.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a flying jump/leap

a flying start

David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start, scoring after 31 seconds, and Andy Rammell added their second.

However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.

It's given them a flying start ahead of their Japenese competitors, who until now were the traditional market leaders in electronics.

Racers, once the top team in Britain, will want a flying start to the season to reassert themselves.

That nagging thought deepened as the captain came in first, and gave the innings a flying start.

The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a jumble sale and raffle.

Video-Taped report follows Voice over Despite missing 7 first team regulars Gloucester got off to a flying start.

Well, it seems we have a flying start.

a flying visit

Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.

as the crow flies

My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.

The distance between the two towns is only 10 kilometres as the crow flies, but it can take up to 2 hours along the narrow coastal road.

Similarly a stone's throw, as the crow flies, etc.

The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.

The distance between Avonmouth, near Bristol, and Poole in Dorset is only 65 miles as the crow flies.

be bitten by the showbiz/travel/flying etc bug

be dropping like flies

Players from both teams are dropping like flies.

Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.

Our kids are dropping like flies.

They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.

fly into a passion

fly/slip under sb's/the radar

go flying/laughing/rushing etc

Any minute I expected the poor little madman to go flying in the night, dead.

Bodies not strapped in by seat belts go flying.

But shouldn't you try and find out some more about him before you go rushing off?

It tripped on a book and almost went flying, but it just succeeded in remaining upright.

So why had she gone rushing north from Lima to see this half-brother of hers?

Spit went flying, seen by millions.

The doll and blanket went flying, bounced off the far end of the block, and fell into the make-believe river.

The next member of the team took his place at the stumps only to see both bails go flying.

pigs might fly

send sb/sth flying/sprawling/reeling etc

the bird has flown

the fur flies

When Marcia found out where Keith was all night, that's when the fur really started to fly.

time flies

Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.

There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.

Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.

with flying colours

And they now look set to promote more harmonious race relations in the community after passing with flying colours.

Fortunately, like the other tests, the 31-year-old convent-educated beauty passed with flying colours.

He passed his exams with flying colours.

He would have passed it with flying colours.

Now he's gone back to driving school in an effort to pass with flying colours.

So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours.

The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.

Trinity High School has just been inspected by Ofsted and come out with flying colours.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The flies were swarming around the garbage cans.

Your fly is unzipped.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Real fishermen know how to tie flies and cast them so that they dance over the water.

The sun was very bright; flies and insects buzzed on the littered veranda.

Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another.

There are three ground pegging points at each bellend and one on either side of the fly .

There might be bees, but there are clearly no flies on old Mel.

There was a moment of indecisive silence, then rising voices, then the flies again.

IV. adjective

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

as the crow flies

My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.

The distance between the two towns is only 10 kilometres as the crow flies, but it can take up to 2 hours along the narrow coastal road.

Similarly a stone's throw, as the crow flies, etc.

The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.

The distance between Avonmouth, near Bristol, and Poole in Dorset is only 65 miles as the crow flies.

be bitten by the showbiz/travel/flying etc bug

be dropping like flies

Players from both teams are dropping like flies.

Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.

Our kids are dropping like flies.

They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.

fly a kite

And, let's go fly a kite .

In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.

Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.

This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites .

We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites , and swam in lakes.

fly into a passion

fly/slip under sb's/the radar

go flying/laughing/rushing etc

Any minute I expected the poor little madman to go flying in the night, dead.

Bodies not strapped in by seat belts go flying.

But shouldn't you try and find out some more about him before you go rushing off?

It tripped on a book and almost went flying, but it just succeeded in remaining upright.

So why had she gone rushing north from Lima to see this half-brother of hers?

Spit went flying, seen by millions.

The doll and blanket went flying, bounced off the far end of the block, and fell into the make-believe river.

The next member of the team took his place at the stumps only to see both bails go flying.

keep the flag flying

leave/fly the nest

After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest .

Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.

If, however, the host appears reluctant to leave the nest , the cuckoo has a more direct approach.

It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest , to have them all together again.

Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs.

She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest .

Unfortunately for her, the host bird showed no inclination to leave the nest .

When the host leaves the nest , the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.

pigs might fly

send sb/sth flying/sprawling/reeling etc

the bird has flown

the fur flies

When Marcia found out where Keith was all night, that's when the fur really started to fly.

time flies

Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.

There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.

Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Mmm, that Sharlene is one fly girl.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

If you go fly fishing you are normally wanting to catch either trout or salmon.

Of course you'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity.

What makes fly fishing different from coarse and sea fishing is the way you cast.

When fly fishing you only have the fly tied on the line.

When fly fishing you use an artificially made fly.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.