What's the difference between flight and fly?

Flight


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
  • (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
  • (n.) Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
  • (n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
  • (n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
  • (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
  • (n.) The husk or glume of oats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (3) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (4) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
  • (5) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (6) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
  • (7) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
  • (8) When I commiserate about the overnight flight that brought them here, Linney gives a wry grimace.
  • (9) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
  • (10) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
  • (11) 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).
  • (12) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (13) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (14) The infected flight muscle fibres of both "resistant" Aedes aegypti and "susceptible" Aedes togoi are almost totally devoid of glycogen granules, but show no other ultrastructural change from the uninfected state.
  • (15) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
  • (16) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
  • (17) Pyridinoline was isolated from the cross-linked peptide by preparative amino acid analysis and reversed-phase HPLC and identified by its ultraviolet absorption spectra, its fluorescence excitation and emission spectra and, for the first time, its time-of-flight secondary ion-mass spectrum.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) The two flight attendants feature in February and March in the annual Ryanair charity calendar.
  • (20) Flight surgeon support of the Libyan Air Strike on April 14-15, 1986 is reviewed.

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.
  • (a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.