What's the difference between fly and remain?

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.

Remain


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
  • (v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
  • (v. t.) To await; to be left to.
  • (n.) State of remaining; stay.
  • (n.) That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
  • (n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (3) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (4) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
  • (5) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
  • (6) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
  • (7) Fifteen sera ICA-IgG and ICA-protein A positive with high titres remained positive thereafter.
  • (8) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
  • (9) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
  • (10) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
  • (11) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
  • (12) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (13) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
  • (14) The norepinephrine values remained constant on the three days.
  • (15) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
  • (16) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (17) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (18) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (19) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (20) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.