fly

Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.

Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.

Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).

When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

October in Orania can be charming. When the sun sets, long ribbons of burnt orange settle on the horizon. The flies and mosquitoes that come with the oppressive summer heat haven’t arrived yet. It is Magdalene Kleynhans’ favourite time of year. “You can sit outside until late into the night,” says the businesswoman, whose family spend much of their time outdoors. Her children fish from the banks of the Orange River whenever they choose. Kleynhans leaves the house unlocked. “It’s a good life. It’s a big privilege.”

Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.

A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.

I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.

A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)

To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.

The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane.

To flee, to escape (from).

Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!

[V]pon a ſodaine, / As Falſtaffe, ſhe, and I, are newly met, / Let them [children dressed like "urchins, ouphes and fairies"] from forth a ſaw-pit ruſh at once / With ſome diffuſed ſong: Vpon their ſight / We two, in great amazedneſſe will flye: […]

To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.

Why don’t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect.

To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.

He flew down the hill on his bicycle.

It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly?

To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.

a door flies open

a bomb flies apart

The action of flying; flight.

An act of flying.

There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.

A fly ball.

Ellipsis of fly route.

A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.