(v. t.) To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.
(v. i.) To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.
Example Sentences:
(1) The GMB had contacts with him via Fulham football club; 'Pal Fayed', the local paper, the Rhondda Leader, called him on their front page.
(2) Cas Anvar is Dodi Fayed, the billionaire boyfriend who died with Diana in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.
(3) Fay Ballard, daughter of the writer JG Ballard , is describing what happened when her mother, Mary, died of pneumonia, aged 34, on a family holiday in Alicante, Spain.
(4) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
(5) Tony Pulis came down on the side of boldness, recalling Abdou Faye and Andy Wilkinson in defence after suspension in the strongest available line-up.
(6) 1986 Tory MP Tim Smith begins taking cash in brown envelopes from Fayed in return for asking Commons questions and other parliamentary activities.
(7) Fay Ballard in her garden with a sculpture JG Ballard made in the early 1960s.
(8) Conspiracy theories, many put forward by Mohamed Al Fayed, former Harrods owner and father of Dodi Fayed , Diana's companion at the time, who was also killed in the crash on 31 August 1997, were demolished in the course of the much-delayed inquest, held in the high court between October 2007 and April 2008.
(9) To all involved – including our presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, the film-makers, and our fans watching worldwide – we apologise.” The Academy said it spent Sunday night and the following day “investigating the circumstances” to “determine what actions are appropriate going forward”.
(10) With his dying breath, Fred Ery identified Floyd "Buzz" Fay as his murderer.
(11) We previously showed that in pupae of Hyalophora cecropia, eight hemolymph proteins (P1 through P8) were selectively synthetized after immunization (Faye et al., Infect, Immun.
(12) "When I reached the age of 34, that was a milestone," says Fay.
(13) Reporter Fay Schlesinger tweeted : "James Harding's departure is a massive loss for us.
(14) Sutherland and Johnson both agreed the picture was Austen; Le Faye did not.
(15) Harrods was sold by Mohammed Al Fayed in 2010 to an investment trust of the Qatari royal family for a reported £1.5bn .
(16) Though it's clear that this was a traumatic experience for Ballard, Fay says that he actually quite liked being in Lunghua camp and based his novel Empire of the Sun on that time.
(17) Peter Barlow's son, Our Simon, is particularly irksome, and Faye, who has been used to address the issue of bullying, has it coming.
(18) "I remember taking it for granted that there would be whisky on his study table at 9am," says Fay.
(19) In his last high profile victory, a year ago, he successfully defended the Harrods owner Mohammed Al Fayed, who was sued by Neil Hamilton over allegations that the former Tory MP took cash for asking parliamentary questions.
(20) Atypical facial pain was first described by Temple Fay in 1927 as a vascular syndrome of dull, throbbing pain situated deep in the eye and malar region often referred toward the ear, lateral neck, and shoulders.
Fly
Definition:
(v. i.) To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
(v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
(v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
(v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
(v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
(v. i.) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
(v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
(v. t.) To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
(v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.
(v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
(v. i.) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
(v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
(v. i.) A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
(v. i.) A parasite.
(v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
(v. i.) The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
(v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
(v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
(v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
(v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
(v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
(v. i.) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
(v. i.) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
(v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
(v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
(v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
(v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
(1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(2) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(3) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
(4) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(5) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(6) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(7) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
(8) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(9) It flies in the face of everything I believe and everything I stand for.” On a day of tension within the party, the former Labour leader Ed Miliband called for activists to stop abusing opposition MPs who were backing airstrikes.
(10) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
(11) Histopathology examination from the margin of the ulcerative area confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, which was infested secondarily with larvae of flies.
(12) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(13) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(14) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
(15) Police told him he had been placed on the US no-fly list, although he had never in his life been accused of breaking any law.
(16) Flies were observed to lack strong host specificity.
(17) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
(18) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
(19) "What I want to do is to fly 100% of the schedule and to remove any uncertainty.
(20) It is present throughout development and is as abundant in embryos as in larvae and adult flies.