flying

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. (not-comparable) That flies or can fly.
2. (not-comparable) Brief or hurried.
3. (not-comparable) Capable of moving rapidly; highly mobile.
4. (not-comparable) Not secured by yards.
5. (not-comparable) Capable of foiling.
6. (not-comparable) Designating a cattle brand consisting of a letter extended on both sides with tilde-like curved lines.

Verb

present participle and gerund of fly

Noun

1. (countable) An act of flight.
2. (uncountable) The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
3. (uncountable) The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.

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fly

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Concepts

volant

vol

✈️

aviation

rapide

jeûner

oiseau

🐦

vite

en vol

manipulation

volante

aéronautique

fourmi volante

bref

contrôle

guidage

Opposé de

flightless

Synonymes

flight

✈️

fast

quick

aviation

soaring

leaping

fast-flying

speedy

expeditious

passing

air

falling

bird

🐦

swift

fleet

volant

prompt

rapid

fluttering

leap

lento

navigation

on the fly

pilotage

piloting

play

precipitant

precipitate

presto

retreating

returning

running away

scattering

snappy

sortie

spanking

steering

turning back

volatile

winged

yare

to fly

put to flight

going up

springing up

flying away

soaring into the air by magic

moving in the sky

aerial

flapping the wings

Traductions

volante

Fliegen

fliegend

Flug

✈️

vuelo

✈️

ιπτάμενος

volador

voador

volo

✈️

volante

rápido

Luftfahrt

vol

✈️

payanda

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: fleynge

Hérité de ancien anglais: flēogende

Appartenant à saterlandais: fljoogend

Appartenant à frison occidental: fleanend

Appartenant à néerlandais: vliegend

Appartenant à allemand: fliegend

Appartenant à danois: flyvende

Appartenant à suédois: flygande

Appartenant à islandais: fljúgandi

Hérité de moyen anglais: flyinge

Appartenant à danois: flyvning

Appartenant à suédois: flygning

Appartenant à norvégien: flyvning

In summary

From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand,
ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).

Phrases

Hey look , a flying pig !

Hé regardez, un cochon volant!

It also has a airport which is used by a flying academy .

Il dispose également d'un aéroport utilisé par une académie de vol.

The Flying Corps owed to this man much more than they know or think .

Le Flying Corps devait à cet homme beaucoup plus qu'ils ne le savent ou ne le pensent.

To forget his fear of flying , he imagined how the stewardess would look like in a bikini .

Pour oublier sa peur de voler, il a imaginé à quoi ressemblerait la hôtesse de l'air dans un bikini.