flying

English

Etymology

fly +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: fly‧ing

Adjective

flying (not comparable)

That can fly.
flying fox
Brief or hurried.
flying visit
(nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.

Derived terms

Terms derived from flying

Translations

that can fly

Catalan: volador (ca) m, voladora f
Danish: flyvende
Finnish: lentävä (fi)
French: volant (fr) m, volante (fr) f
German: fliegend (de)

Italian: volante (it)
Portuguese: voador (pt) m, voadora (pt) f
Spanish: volador (es), volante (es)
Swedish: flygande (sv)

brief, hurrying

Finnish: hätäinen

nautical: not secured by yards

Finnish: irti (fi)

Noun

flying (countable and uncountable, plural flyings)

An act of flight.
- 1993, John C. Greene, ‎Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
  "Flyings" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds" […]

MiG-17F flying

Translations

flying (noun) — see flight

Verb

flying

present participle of fly

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