(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.
Overpass
Definition:
(v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.
(v. t.) To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.
(v. t.) To surpass; to excel.
(v. i.) To pass over, away, or off.
Example Sentences:
(1) I came to an overpass and looked at the railway lines beneath me.
(2) Militiamen took position on a highway overpass, offering cover as horse-mounted wranglers led protesters to face off against heavily equipped BLM rangers and snipers.
(3) A drug gang allied with the Sinaloa cartel left 35 bodies at a freeway overpass in the city of Veracruz in September, and police found 32 other bodies, apparently killed by the same gang, a few days after that.
(4) It added: “Police urge the protesters to stay calm, and stop charging police cordon lines and occupying the main roads, so that the roads can be reopened to emergency and public vehicles.” Officers appeared to be expecting a long night, with scores sleeping on the floors of a concrete overpass and an office and shopping complex.
(5) A source at the Giza public prosecutor’s office said Regeni’s body was found on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, on an overpass close to Cairo’s 6th October district and that his body appeared to have been dragged along the ground.
(6) After passing Parque Hundido and the City of Sports stadium complex, the avenue flows into a different kind of downtown, becoming an overpass in places as it crosses vital arteries headed east and west.
(7) Back on the highway overpass outside Appleton, a full moon overhead, Gillian Dale and her colleagues flashed their plea to vote for Barrett.
(8) The meso-diencephalic level 3 appears to be a critical impairment point: as long as the level is not overpassed, the half of the patients do improve and 10% only die.
(9) Increasing these doses up to 10 fold did not improve the antithrombotic effect which did not overpass 60-70% of the controls.
(10) These types include: overpass cupping, cupping without pallor of the neuroretinal rim, cupping with pallor of the neuroretinal rim, focal notching of the neuroretinal rim, and bean-pot cupping.
(11) "They started firing gas from the overpass and attacking us from all directions."
(12) Deep cups, striate openings on the lamina cribrosa and blood vessel overpasses were significantly more seen in POAG than in LTG Hemorrhages on the disc were more frequent in LTG than in POAG.
(13) In a second attempt, we showed, that even a TEA was possible, using a ringstripper which cut a typical cylinder of the atheriosclerotic vessel wall overpassing and including the stent.
(14) Then the internal temperature is modified by the increasing ambient temperature, but there is a superior limit of this deep body temperature: when it is overpassed, a strong corrective mechanism is applied.
(15) They were faced with military-style AR-15 and AK-47 weapons trained on them from a picket line of citizen soldiers on an Interstate 15 overpass, with dozens of women and children in the possible crossfire.
(16) The 64-year-old retired schoolteacher was part of the Light Brigade, activists who make illuminated boards with Christmas lights and stand shoulder to shoulder on overpasses, each holding a different word to form phrases.
(17) When the mixture of the insecticides is used at a concentration of 0.20%, the levels of chlorfenvinphos after 14 days is not higher than 0.14 ppm; however, when it is used at a 0.15% concentration, this value is overpassed in all the samples.
(18) Local media published photos of the nine bloodied bodies, some with duct tape wrapped around their faces, hanging from the overpass along with a message threatening the Gulf cartel: "This is how I will finish all the fools you send."
(19) Long lastingly, therefore, Witch-Hunt has been either overpassed straight away or just attributed to violent and pathological a manifestation of collective craze as its own name indicates.
(20) What I’m prepared to do,” he said, “is not just the National Guard, but [to deploy] our department of public safety, our Texas Ranger recon team, parks and wildlife wardens … and I will suggest to you there will be other individuals who come to assist in securing that border.” Overpasses for America plans nationwide protests on highway overpasses on 9 August.