What's the difference between flying and pterodactyl?

Flying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fly
  • (v. i.) Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

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.

Pterodactyl


Definition:

  • (n.) An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Afterward she looked at the extras and asked: ‘Do you want to make a pterodactyl?’ Without hesitating I said: ‘Yes, I do.’