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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flier
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
frequent
▪ The response: No one ever tried to seize frequent flier miles.
▪ He is a frequent flier and knows some of the pilots by name.
▪ But with electronic ticketing, you can still get advanced seat assignments, check in at curbside and accrue frequent flier mileage.
▪ A: They have the same value to other carriers as frequent flier tickets: None.
high
▪ Well, a retired high flier in the Civil Service.
▪ Mr Kilroy-Silk, a high flier on the egg circuit, tells me he can do the trick with three eggs simultaneously.
▪ At work he was a high flier and his salary was commensurate with his ability.
■ NOUN
miles
▪ The response: No one ever tried to seize frequent flier miles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A promotional flier some one handed him, in front of a new pizzeria, two nights ago in New York.
▪ But it suddenly took a flier and I knew I was in trouble.
▪ But with electronic ticketing, you can still get advanced seat assignments, check in at curbside and accrue frequent flier mileage.
▪ He is a frequent flier and knows some of the pilots by name.
▪ None are to be taken of the flier, under any circumstances.
▪ The response: No one ever tried to seize frequent flier miles.
▪ Well, a retired high flier in the Civil Service.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flier

Flier \Fli"er\ (fl[imac]"[~e]r), n. [Form Fly, v.; cf. Flyer]

  1. One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
    --Shak.

  2. (Mach.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b) .

  3. (Spinning) See Flyer, n., 5.

  4. (Arch.) See Flyer, n., 4.

  5. An a["e]roplane or flying machine.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flier

see flyer.

Wiktionary
flier

n. (alternative form of flyer English) vb. (alternative form of flyer English)

WordNet
flier
  1. n. someone who travels by air [syn: flyer]

  2. someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flyer]

  3. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flyer, throwaway]

Wikipedia
Flier (fish)

The flier (Centrarchus macropterus) is a sunfish ( family Centrarchidae) native to muddy-bottomed swamps, ponds, weedy lakes, and riverine backwaters across the American South, from southern Illinois east to the Potomac River basin and south to Texas.

C. macropterus is currently the only species of genus Centrarchus, but Lacépède had originally assigned it to Labrus (now confined to some marine wrasses). The generic name, Centrarchus, derives from the Greek κέντρον (center, in this sense "sting") and ἀρχός (ruler), in reference, presumably, to the sharp spines on the anal fin. Centrarchus being the type genus of family Centrarchidae, it gives its name to the whole sunfish family. The specific name, macropterus, derives from μακρόν πτερόν (long fin).

The flier, which can live up to five years, grows to a maximum recorded length of about 30 cm (1.0 ft). The maximum recorded weight of the species is just over one-half kilogram (about 19 oz). Fliers are occasionally kept in aquaria by North American native-fish fanciers. C. macropterus is currently the only species of genus Centrarchus, but Lacépède had originally assigned it to Labrus (now confined to some marine wrasses). The generic name, Centrarchus, derives from the Greek κέντρον (center, in this sense "sting") and άρχος (ruler), in reference, presumably, to the sharp spines on the anal fin. Centrarchus being the type genus of family Centrarchidae, it gives its name to the whole sunfish family. The specific name, macropterus, derives from μακρόν πτερόν (long fin). A Gato-class submarine, USS Flier, built in 1943, was named for this species. In addition, the newsletter of the Native Fish Conservancy is entitled Flier

Flier (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a flier is an aero- robot that functions in an atmospheric environment. They possess a driven mode of locomotion through and/or supported by the atmosphere. Fliers include various designs, but usually lie within a device class that can be delineated as aircraft, which includes any vehicle designed to move through the air (aerodynes or aerostats).

One idea for a solar powered blimp is to use the principle of the Solar balloon, and a standard photopopper circuit.

Flier (surname)

Flier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Henk van der Flier (born 1945), Dutch psychologist
  • Jaap Flier (born 1934), Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Jeffrey Scott Flier (born 1948), American physician, endocrinologist, researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University
  • Manon Flier (born 1984), Dutch volleyball player
  • Yakov Flier (1912-1977), Russian concert pianist and teacher

Usage examples of "flier".

It may consist of an advertisement or a series of promotional pieces-a directmail flier, a radio commercial, a TV storyboard or a logo design.

One would be to continue to go to the aviary with the princess and see what happened through a process of trial and error with the fliers.

It is only the large black door at the bottom of the aviary that they fliers cannot move by their own powers.

Carroll and James Baler cut through the thin air of Mars in a driver-wing flier at a terrific rate of speed.

At the end of that time, during which Jim Baler had been inspecting the searchlight-thing on the top of the little house, he called to his friend, and Jim entered the flier lugging the thing on his shoulders.

Let the fliers watch fuel economy and not botch their navigation, and there would be no splashes.

After breakfasting the following morning we set out to see Kadabra, and as, through the generosity of the prince of Marentina, we were well supplied with the funds current in Okar we purchased a handsome ground flier.

At the top of the cloud, when the flier was little more than a red dot, it executed a wide loop and then, to the accompaniment of a citywide intake of breath, it banked to the left and fell like a stone.

Jim, this dingbat looks an awful lot like one of the drivers we use in our spaceships and driver-wing fliers.

On this account then he would have no difficulty whatever in leading his comrade straight back to the villa in which the entire Lafayette Escadrille of American fliers was quartered.

The general recognized Farfalla aboard the lead flier, even as Farfalla caught sight of him and came in to land.

The men at Ninar Foan had been sneering about the palace fliers of the Royal Guard, but if that performance was typical, then it was the locals who had much to learn.

Perhaps like Kcoock the Philosopher, who had spent his life measuring wild fliers when they dropped into the edge of the sea, and in constructing his marvelous globe, he too would spend the rest of his life studying the New Glitterer before he came to an answer.

And from out of the bright fires and noise came the four fliers, high overhead in the cold, liftless morning skies, flying toward the lakes.

Whoever had seen them was not a flier, otherwise Mana would have known they were flying two hundred meters above the ground.