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flies
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball flies/sails
▪ The ball flew over the goalkeeper’s head and into the net.
a bird flies
▪ Some birds fly incredible distances.
a bullet flies (=moves fast)
▪ Bullets were flying around our heads.
a door flies/bursts open (=opens very suddenly and quickly)
▪ Then the door burst open and two men with guns came in.
a plane flies
▪ Several planes flew overhead.
an insect flies
▪ Insects were flying around the food on the counter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as the crow flies
▪ My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.
▪ The distance between the two towns is only 10 kilometres as the crow flies, but it can take up to 2 hours along the narrow coastal road.
▪ Similarly a stone's throw, as the crow flies, etc.
▪ The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.
▪ The distance between Avonmouth, near Bristol, and Poole in Dorset is only 65 miles as the crow flies.
be dropping like flies
▪ Players from both teams are dropping like flies.
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
be dying/dropping etc like flies
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ The men were dying like flies, of fever.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
the fur flies
▪ When Marcia found out where Keith was all night, that's when the fur really started to fly.
there are no flies on sb
time flies
▪ "Hasn't the afternoon passed quickly?" said Carol. "Time flies when you're having fun."
▪ Is it 5:30 already? Boy, time sure flies!
▪ Is Richard eight already? Doesn't time fly?
▪ Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.
▪ There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.
▪ Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.
time flies
▪ Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.
▪ There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.
▪ Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flies

Fly \Fly\, n.; pl. Flies (fl[imac]z). [OE. flie, flege, AS. fl[=y]ge, fle['o]ge, fr. fle['o]gan to fly; akin to D. vlieg, OHG. flioga, G. fliege, Icel. & Sw. fluga, Dan. flue. [root] 84. See Fly, v. i.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.

    2. Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.

  2. A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing. ``The fur-wrought fly.''
    --Gay.

  3. A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.]

    A trifling fly, none of your great familiars.
    --B. Jonson.

  4. A parasite. [Obs.]
    --Massinger.

  5. A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.]

  6. The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the ``union'' to the extreme end.

  7. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.

  8. (Naut.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
    --Totten.

  9. (Mech.)

    1. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.

    2. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).

  10. (Knitting Machine) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
    --Knight.

  11. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

  12. (Weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
    --Knight.

    1. Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.

    2. A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.

  13. The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.

  14. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.

  15. The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.

  16. (Baseball) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly. Also called fly ball. ``a fly deep into right field''

  17. (Cotton Manuf.) Waste cotton.

    Black fly, Cheese fly, Dragon fly, etc. See under Black, Cheese, etc. -- Fly agaric (Bot.), a mushroom ( Agaricus muscarius), having a narcotic juice which, in sufficient quantities, is poisonous. -- Fly block (Naut.), a pulley whose position shifts to suit the working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- Fly board (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly. -- Fly book, a case in the form of a book for anglers' flies.
    --Kingsley. Fly cap, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. -- Fly drill, a drill having a reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward.
    --Knight. Fly fishing, the act or art of angling with a bait of natural or artificial flies; fishing using a fly[2] as bait.
    --Walton. -- -- Fly fisherman, one who fishes using natural or artificial flies[2] as bait, especially one who fishes exclusively in that manner. -- Fly flap, an implement for killing flies. -- Fly governor, a governor for regulating the speed of an engine, etc., by the resistance of vanes revolving in the air. -- Fly honeysuckle (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus ( Lonicera), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pairs, as L. ciliata and L. Xylosteum. -- Fly hook, a fishhook supplied with an artificial fly. -- Fly leaf, an unprinted leaf at the beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc. -- Fly maggot, a maggot bred from the egg of a fly.
    --Ray.

    Fly net, a screen to exclude insects.

    Fly nut (Mach.), a nut with wings; a thumb nut; a finger nut.

    Fly orchis (Bot.), a plant ( Ophrys muscifera), whose flowers resemble flies.

    Fly paper, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it.

    Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies.

    Fly press, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and having a heavy fly.

    Fly rail, a bracket which turns out to support the hinged leaf of a table.

    Fly rod, a light fishing rod used in angling with a fly.

    Fly sheet, a small loose advertising sheet; a handbill.

    Fly snapper (Zo["o]l.), an American bird ( Phainopepla nitens), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray.

    Fly wheel (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a variable or intermitting resistance. See Fly, n., 9.

    On the fly (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground..

Wiktionary
flies

n. 1 (fly English) 2 (context pluralonly English) The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung. 3 The trouser zip vb. (en-third-person singularfly)

WordNet
flies

n. (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

Wikipedia
Flies (disambiguation)

Flies are insects of the order Diptera.

Flies may also refer to:

  • "Flies" (Asimov short story) (1953), by Isaac Asimov
  • "Flies" (Silverberg short story) (1967), by Robert Silverberg
  • Bernhard Flies, 18th century amateur composer and doctor of medicine
  • The Flies (1943), a play by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Flies (English band), an English psychedelic pop band
  • The Flys (US band), an American post-grunge group
  • The Flys (UK band), an English punk band
  • " The Flies Crawled Up the Window", a 1930s song
Flies (Asimov short story)

"Flies" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1953 issue of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and later appeared in Asimov's collections Nightfall and Other Stories (1969).

The author's original title for the story was " King Lear, IV, i, 36–37", but Anthony Boucher, editor at the time, suggested a different title, which became "Flies".