Definition of flying

"flying" in the noun sense

1. flight, flying

an instance of traveling by air

"flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

"flying" in the verb sense

1. fly, wing

travel through the air be airborne

"Man cannot fly"

2. fly

move quickly or suddenly

"He flew about the place"

3. fly, aviate, pilot

operate an airplane

"The pilot flew to Cuba"

4. fly

transport by aeroplane

"We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America"

5. fly

cause to fly or float

"fly a kite"

6. fly

be dispersed or disseminated

"Rumors and accusations are flying"

7. fly

change quickly from one emotional state to another

"fly into a rage"

8. fly, fell, vanish

pass away rapidly

"Time flies like an arrow"

"Time fleeing beneath him"

9. fly

travel in an airplane

"she is flying to Cincinnati tonight"

"Are we driving or flying?"

10. fly

display in the air or cause to float

"fly a kite"

"All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N."

11. flee, fly, take flight

run away quickly

"He threw down his gun and fled"

12. fly

travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft

"Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic"

13. fly

hit a fly

14. vanish, fly, vaporize

decrease rapidly and disappear

"the money vanished in las Vegas"

"all my stock assets have vaporized"

"flying" in the adjective sense

1. fast-flying, flying

moving swiftly

"fast-flying planes"

"played the difficult passage with flying fingers"

2. flying, quick, fast

hurried and brief

"paid a flying visit"

"took a flying glance at the book"

"a quick inspection"

"a fast visit"

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Quotations for flying

No flying from fate. [ Proverb ]

No flying without wings. [ Proverb ]

Silver from the living
Is gold in the giving:
Gold from the dying
Is but silver a-flying.
Gold and silver from the dead
Turn too often into lead. [ Fuller ]

All my past life is mine no more,
The flying hours are gone
Like transitory dreams given over,
Whose images are kept in store,
By memory alone. [ Rochester ]

High flying hawks are fit for princes. [ Proverb ]

Gather the rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. [ Herrick ]

Against the flying ball no valor avails. [ Luther ]

It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse. [ Proverb ]

When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

Swift, speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,
Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. [ Samuel Daniel ]

O love, they die, in yon rich sky.
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul.
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. [ Tennyson ]

The string that jars
When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense,
With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers,
Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. [ Rowe ]

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]

He will ill catch a bird flying that cannot keep his own in a cage. [ Proverb ]

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity. [ Montaigne ]

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. [ N. P. Willis ]

The stroke that comes transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? [ Carlyle ]

Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tiptop and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a very beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]

flying in Scrabble®

The word flying is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters flying:

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flying in Words With Friends™

The word flying is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters flying:

FLYING
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Words within the letters of flying

2 letter words in flying (2 words)

3 letter words in flying (6 words)

5 letter words in flying (2 words)

6 letter words in flying (1 word)

flying + 1 blank (3 words)

flying + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence flying

Words that start with flying (1 word)

Words with flying in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving flying

Shorter words in flying

fly

in yin lying

Longer words containing flying

butterflying

highflying

kiteflying

nonflying

outflying

sailflying