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flying

/flahy-ing/US // ˈflaɪ ɪŋ //UK // (ˈflaɪɪŋ) //

飞行,飞行的,飞行的方式

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : making flight or passing through the air; that flies: a flying insect; an unidentified flying object.
    • : floating, fluttering, waving, hanging, or moving freely in the air: flying banners; flying hair.
    • : extending through the air.
    • : moving swiftly.
    • : made while moving swiftly: a flying leap.
    • : very hasty or brief; fleeting or transitory: a flying visit; a flying remark.
    • : designed or organized for swift movement or action.
    • : fleeing, running away, or taking flight: They pursued the flying enemy.
    • : Nautical. having none of its edges fastened to spars or stays.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of moving through the air on wings; flight.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Nautical. without being fastened to a yard, stay, or the like: a sail set flying.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Road trips and domestic travel have largely superseded flying and international travel.

  • Mention drones and Amazon in the same breath, and most people will immediately think of the company’s grand plans for aerial delivery or maybe ill-advised late-night internet purchases involving the latest consumer flying machines.

  • Believe me, we would be seeing super-spreading events if flying wasn’t safe.

  • The International Air Transport Association has warned that long-distance flying will take years to return to 2019 levels and has urged countries to unify travel rules to speed the comeback.

  • It was clear in Rachel Daly’s brace and goal-line save, in Shea Groom’s superhero-like, flying header or her back-heel assist on Kristie Mewis’s goal against the Utah Royals.

  • That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

  • The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

  • Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

  • The “pilot flying” was more probably the far less experienced copilot.

  • One report has the AirAsia Airbus flying at a speed very close to what would trigger a low speed stall.

  • I asked him to tell me how he produced a certain effect he makes in his arrangement of the ballad in Wagner's Flying Dutchman.

  • These Eskimos were very fond of kite-flying, for its own sake, without reference to utility!

  • Pretty well for "a cross between an Astley's chariot, a flying machine and a treadmill."

  • I've seen just enough of flying fishes to hanker after Mandalay, just enough of Spaniards to long for a sight of Spain.

  • The graceful flying-fish, like a fair white bird, goes glancing above the blue magnificence of the tropical seas.