Crossword clues for flown
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fly \Fly\ (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. Flew (fl[=u]); p. p. Flown (fl[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Flying.] [OE. fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle['o]gan; akin to D. vliegen, OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[=u]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma feather, E. plume. [root]84. Cf. Fledge, Flight, Flock of animals.]
To move in or pass through the air with wings, as a bird.
To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
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To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.
--Milton.The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on.
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To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight.
--Milton.Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ?
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To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. To fly about (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. To fly around, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] To fly at, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. To fly in the face of, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. To fly off, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt. To fly on, to attack. To fly open, to open suddenly, or with violence. To fly out.
To rush out.
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To burst into a passion; to break out into license. To let fly.
To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. ``A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim.''
--Addison.(Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.
Flown \Flown\, p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
Flown \Flown\, a. Flushed, inflated.
Note: [Supposed by some to be a mistake for blown or swoln.]
--Pope.
Then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle of fly (v.), from Middle English flogen, flowen. Also formerly the past participle of flow (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of fly English)
WordNet
v. travel through the air; be airborne; "Man cannot fly" [syn: wing]
move quickly or suddenly; "He flew about the place"
transport by aeroplane; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America"
cause to fly or float; "fly a kite"
be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying"
change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage"
pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" [syn: fell, vanish]
travel in an airplane; "she is flying to Cincinnati tonight"; "Are we driving or flying?"
display in the air or cause to float; "fly a kite"; "All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N."
run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn: flee, take flight]
travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft; "Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic"
hit a fly
decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" [syn: vanish, vaporize]
n. two-winged insects characterized by active flight
flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent [syn: tent-fly, rainfly, fly sheet, tent flap]
an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or buttons concealed by a fold of cloth [syn: fly front]
(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air [syn: fly ball]
fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
See fly
Usage examples of "flown".
He issued instructions to have the CRAF aircraft inspected by maintenance experts from his old squadron and, if it passed muster, have it put back in service and flown to Atlanta for repainting as an Aer Lingus cargo aircraft on charter to the UN.
Almost simultaneously with the disappearance of the swarm over New York, all other Africans had flown to water - the sea, lakes, rivers, even reservoirs - and drowned there.
Yggdrasil spun again, it could be flown or towed under no-g conditions to an airdock in the trunk.
He had holly and mistletoe flown in and kept in the refrigerator until it was time to put them up, and Alberta entered into the spirit of the season by scouring cookbooks for traditional Christmas recipes.
There were four carts loaded with missiles and aviation ordnance men standing by, just waiting to download the antiair missiles Tombstone had flown in with.
Since his arrival in the Oriente, Nate had often flown over Auca territory, his trained eye trying to find houses or villages.
Saul had flown into Tel Aviv five hours too late to join the fighting even as a medic, but not too late to hear young Aaron and Isaac tell and re-tell the second-hand exploits of their older brother, Avner, a captain in the Air Force.
Passes, since the planet had awoken from its long sleep in interstellar space, caught in a long orbit of this yellow star, the South had flown the same number of ships in the Great Harvest.
According to an FBI informant, a wealthy Barnett supporter in Mississippi had arranged for four P-51 Mustang Canadian surplus fighter planes to be flown from Wisconsin to an abandoned World War II B-17 airstrip in western Tennessee, then flown to Mississippi and placed at the disposal of Governor Barnett.
In Jackson, Governor Barnett ordered all state flags flown at half- mast to mourn the invasion of his state.
For that reason, and despite the years flown in between, Belos is worth avenging.
The control boards of the city stretched before him, still largely useful, but dead forever in one crucial bloc-the bank that had once flown the city from star to new star.
Both were from the Bremerhaven area, both had flown combat jets, and both had the same birthday, although Gruder was a year younger.
THE decorations for the Fourth of July party were flown into Bucharest late Saturday afternoon and trucked directly to a United States government warehouse.
In Washington, he used the Cabbagehead facilities to edit the Arlen Duggal-directed footage that was flown to him on a daily basis.