What's the difference between flier and flyer?

Flier


Definition:

  • (v.) One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
  • (v.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
  • (n.) See Flyer, n., 5.
  • (n.) See Flyer, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
  • (2) In 27% of the households, someone recalled receiving the flier.
  • (3) "I'm making that recommendation because I think those career average schemes are fairer to the broad majority of people who work in public services whose careers are not marked by sudden salary spikes like the high fliers.
  • (4) Work experience has changed from something that was seen as nice to have on a CV to something that’s become a necessity,” said Martin Birchall, managing director of High Fliers Research , which undertook the survey.
  • (5) I was an only child and I grew up among adults who were all quite high-fliers - famous actors and poets and playwrights - and so I never really felt I knew how to fit in.
  • (6) Yet the Tory attack dogs behind the election flier believe things are changing here, and elsewhere, and they are not waiting for Ukip to prove them right.
  • (7) Operation KKK (@Operation_KKK) All will be revealed next month around the one year anniversary of #OpKKK October 22, 2015 In November 2014, a local Missouri chapter of the KKK distributed fliers threatening violence against activists.
  • (8) There is a subset of fliers with "office hypertension" who may be on medication needlessly.
  • (9) A significant number of fliers are in a high or extremely high risk category for the development of CAD based on NIH criteria.
  • (10) And it’s not just people the cable car carries: sheep and cattle are frequent fliers, too.
  • (11) With this method 2 young fliers were freed of calculi and allowed to resume their chosen career.
  • (12) Hester admitted RBS was having to offer guaranteed bonuses to retain staff – and also to attract new high-fliers.
  • (13) by D. D. Bond, and "Notes on Men and Groups Under Stress of Combat," by D. G. Wright (a single volume, 1945); "Personality Disturbances in Combat Fliers," by N. A.
  • (14) The fliers showed higher superoxide dismutase and catalase activities and glutathione concentration than crawlers, whereas, the amount of inorganic peroxides (H2O2) and TBA-reactants was higher in the crawlers than in fliers.
  • (15) "They [final salary schemes] are fundamentally unfair – fundamentally unfair to the vast majority who work in the public sector, and can lead to high-fliers getting almost twice as much back in pensions than those on more modest earnings for the same amount of pension contributions.
  • (16) Females receiving their food by flight only ("forced fliers") show a shorter mean life span (which is more pronounced in virgin flies).
  • (17) We studied the evolving characteristics, as well as the qualification criteria, applied to 261 fliers with incomplete right bundle branch block (IRBBB), detected in a presumable healthy population of 7,685 males engaged in civilian flying activities (prevalence 3.4%).
  • (18) Jiban Ghimire, owner of Shangri-La Nepal, lost four of his team with one still missing, some of them working for an NBC crew filming the attempt by wing-suit flier Joby Ogwyn to base jump from the top of the mountain.
  • (19) The flier group reflected lower scores than the non-fliers.
  • (20) On this measure, Michael O'Leary is the green flier and Branson is the polluter.

Flyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One that uses wings.
  • (n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
  • (n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
  • (n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
  • (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
  • (n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
  • (n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
  • (2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (3) I suppose I may be one of the most frequent flyers on the NHS, and therefore one of your best customers.
  • (4) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
  • (5) Two aircrew members lost a total of 9 "duties not to include flying" (DNIF) days: one flyer was grounded for 1 d with a corneal abrasion and another for 8 d with epithelial microcysts.
  • (6) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (7) Got warrants from Beverly Hills?” the flyer asked.
  • (8) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (9) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
  • (10) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
  • (11) After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
  • (12) I was a nervous flyer so he had the plane done out like a sweetshop.
  • (13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
  • (14) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
  • (15) He didn't mind telling you, for instance, that his wife's family had been interned in camps in the country to which they were now returning; if he saw someone handing out flyers in the street, he would delve deeply into their purposes; he was not shy of doorstepping ancient members of the KGB.
  • (16) The Bundesliga high flyers unveiled Hernández at a press conference on Tuesday and he said: “I want to go back to feeling important and happy.
  • (17) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Only buy newspapers, magazines, books, toilet paper and copier paper made from recycled materials 0.1 Block direct mail, choose electronic bills and statements, buy secondhand books and share papers 0.1 'I'm a frequent flyer.
  • (18) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
  • (19) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
  • (20) We would walk around and see flyers that said stuff like, ‘Video is out now text 831 to 7988’ or whatever the number was.