Synonyms of the word fly


FLYALERT - AVIATE - BUNK - CARRY - CHANGE - CONTROL - DECREASE - DIMINISH - DIPTERAN - ELAPSE - ESCAPE - FALL - FELL - FLAP - FLEE - GO - HIT - HITTING - JOURNEY - LAM - LAPSE - LESSEN - LOCOMOTE - MOVE - OPENING - OPERATE - PASS - PILOT - RUN - SCARPER - SCAT - SHOW - STRIKING - TRANSPORT - TRAVEL - VANISH - VAPORIZE - WING

fly

  • n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
  • n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
  • n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
  • n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
  • n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
  • n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
  • n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
  • n. (obsolete) A parasite.
  • n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
  • v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
  • v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
  • v. To hunt with a hawk.
  • v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
  • n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
  • n. An act of flying.
  • n. (baseball) A fly ball.
  • n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
  • n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
  • n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
  • n. The free edge of a flag.
  • n. The horizontal length of a flag.
  • n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
  • n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
  • n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
  • n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
  • n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
  • n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
  • n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
  • n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
  • n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
  • n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
  • n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
  • n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
  • n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
  • adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
  • adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
  • adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

alert

  • adj. Attentive; awake; on guard.
  • adj. (obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  • n. An alarm.
  • n. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
  • v. To give warning to.

aviate

  • v. To operate an aircraft.

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

carry

  • v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
  • v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
  • v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
  • v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
  • v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
  • v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
  • v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
  • v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
  • v. To be pregnant (with).
  • v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
  • v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
  • v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
  • v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
  • v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
  • v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
  • v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
  • v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
  • n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
  • n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
  • n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

control

  • v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
  • v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
  • n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
  • n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
  • n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
  • n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
  • n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
  • n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
  • n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
  • n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
  • n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
  • n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

decrease

  • v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
  • n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
  • n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

diminish

  • v. (transitive) To make smaller.
  • v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
  • v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
  • v. (intransitive) To taper.
  • v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
  • v. To take away; to subtract.

dipteran

  • n. Any of very many flies, of the order Diptera, that have two wings.
  • adj. Alternative form of dipterous.

elapse

  • v. (intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.

escape

  • v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
  • v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  • v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  • v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
  • v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
  • n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
  • n. (computing) escape key.
  • n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
  • n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
  • n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
  • n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
  • n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  • n. (obsolete) A sally.
  • n. (architecture) An apophyge.

fall

  • n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
  • n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
  • n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
  • n. A loss of greatness or status.
  • n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
  • n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
  • n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
  • n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
  • n. See falls.
  • n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
  • v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
  • v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
  • v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
  • v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
  • v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
  • v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
  • v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
  • v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

fell

  • v. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
  • v. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
  • v. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
  • n. A cutting-down of timber.
  • n. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat,…
  • n. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
  • n. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
  • n. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
  • n. (archaic outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
  • n. (archaic outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
  • adj. Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
  • adj. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
  • adv. Sharply; fiercely.
  • n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
  • n. (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

flap

  • n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  • n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  • n. A hinged leaf.
  • n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
  • n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
  • n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  • n. A disease in the lips of horses.
  • n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
  • n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  • n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
  • v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
  • v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

flee

  • v. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
  • v. (transitive) To escape from.
  • v. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hit

  • v. (heading, physical) To strike.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
  • v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
  • v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
  • v. (heading, games) To make a play.
  • v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
  • n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
  • n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
  • n. An attack on a location, person or people.
  • n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
  • n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
  • n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  • n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
  • n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  • n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  • n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
  • n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
  • adj. Designating of a popular song.
  • pron. (dialectal) It.

hitting

  • n. A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
  • n. The skill of hitting.
  • v. present participle of hit.

journey

  • n. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
  • n. (obsolete) A day.
  • n. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  • n. (obsolete) A day's work.
  • v. To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

lam

  • n. Used in the expression on the lam to mean "on the run" (after the dated verb), when a person is fleeing…
  • v. (transitive) To beat or thrash.
  • v. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
  • n. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

lapse

  • n. A temporary failure; a slip.
  • n. A decline or fall in standards.
  • n. A pause in continuity.
  • n. An interval of time between events.
  • n. A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
  • n. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer…
  • n. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator,…
  • n. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
  • v. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
  • v. (intransitive) To become void.
  • v. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence,…

lessen

  • v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
  • v. (intransitive) To become less.

locomote

  • v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

opening

  • v. present participle of open.
  • n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
  • n. Something that is open.
  • n. An act or instance of beginning.
  • n. Something that is a beginning.
  • n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
  • n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
  • adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

operate

  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical;…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  • v. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner,…
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

pilot

  • n. A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
  • n. A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel…
  • n. An instrument for detecting the compass error.
  • n. (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
  • n. (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
  • n. A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
  • n. Something serving as a test or trial.
  • n. A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
  • n. A sample episode of a proposed TV series.
  • n. (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
  • n. A pilot light.
  • n. One who flies a kite.
  • n. A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
  • adj. Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability. (pilot run, pilot plant).
  • adj. Used to control or activate another device. (pilot light).
  • adj. A vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination. (pilot vehicle).
  • adj. Used to indicate operation ("pilot lamp").
  • v. (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
  • v. (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
  • v. (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.).

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

scarper

  • v. (Britain, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.

scat

  • n. A tax; tribute.
  • n. (Britain dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
  • n. (biology) Animal excrement; dung.
  • n. (slang) Heroin.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
  • n. (slang) Coprophilia.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
  • n. (music, jazz) Scat singing.
  • v. (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative…
  • v. (colloquial) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).
  • v. (colloquial) An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

show

  • v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
  • v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
  • v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
  • v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
  • v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
  • v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
  • n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  • n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
  • n. (countable) A demonstration.
  • n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
  • n. (countable) A movie.
  • n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
  • n. A project or presentation.
  • n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
  • n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
  • n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  • n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

striking

  • adj. Making a strong impression.
  • v. present participle of strike.
  • n. The act by which something strikes or is struck.

transport

  • v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
  • n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • n. (historical) A deported convict.

travel

  • v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
  • v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  • v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
  • v. (transitive) To force to journey.
  • v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
  • n. The act of traveling.
  • n. pl A series of journeys.
  • n. pl An account of one's travels.
  • n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  • n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
  • n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

vanish

  • v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  • v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
  • n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
  • n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

vaporize

  • v. To turn into vapour.

wing

  • n. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side…
  • n. (slang) Human arm.
  • n. Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
  • n. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
  • n. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  • n. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of…
  • n. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  • n. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  • n. Passage by flying; flight.
  • n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  • n. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
  • n. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air,…
  • n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  • n. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
  • n. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service.
  • n. (Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
  • n. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
  • n. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the…
  • n. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
  • n. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger.
  • n. (botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.
  • n. (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
  • n. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
  • n. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
  • v. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
  • v. (intransitive) To fly.
  • v. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
  • v. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
  • v. (transitive) To throw.

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