flying

Meaning

Adj

1. That flies or can fly.
2. Brief or hurried.
3. Capable of speed
4. Not secured by yards.
5. Capable of foiling.
6. 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. An act of flight.
2. The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
3. The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.

Hyphenated as

fly‧ing

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

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

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