Crossword clues for flyover
flyover
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
flyover \flyover\ n.
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the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels; called in the United States an overpass; as, an overpass is called a flyover or a flypast in England.
Syn: overpass, flypast.
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a low-altitude flight (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground.
Syn: flypast.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (qualifier: British) 2 (context British English) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption. 3 (context US English) A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes
WordNet
Wikipedia
Flyover may refer to:
- Overpass, a high-level road bridge that crosses over a highway interchange or intersection
- Flypast or flyby, a celebratory display or ceremonial flight, a ceremonial or honorific flight of one or more aircraft
- Flyover reconnaissance, close-up aircraft reconnaissance
- Aerial survey
- Flyover country, a derisive term for the central areas of the United States
- Flyovers (play), a play by Jeffrey Sweet
Usage examples of "flyover".
It was almost dark by the time Johnny crossed the Hammersmith flyover in the moist smoky grey of the evening, and he lost himself twice in the maze of Belgravia before he found the narrow mews behind Belgrave Square and parked the Jaguar.
There had been no Deathbird re-con flyovers, but he attributed that to the unpredictable down and updrafts swirling among the peaks of the Bitterroot Range.
Desperately they exercise their talent here, dreaming of bitter ale and meadowsweet but cut off for ever, yes for ever, from the Piccadilly flyover and the Hyde Park State Museum and the Communal Beerhall on Hammersmith Broadway.
Above the main street, about five hundred metres from the end of Rostock Bridge, a flyover passed across, carrying a further line of traffic, this time that which was coming south from Alexandra, and bearing it towards the access road to the main north-south artery.
At this point we can only guess what our position is, but from some of the flyovers done by charter aircraft, and by guessing our speed, we estimate that within the hour we should be crossing the line of the Ryukyu Island chain, which is the border of the East China Sea.
Next there was a sky-darkening twist of concrete flyovers serpenting and intertwining above us, London underground tube stations now mixing with the suburban lines.
Despite the grimy cold-water apartment in the shadow and roar of the flyover, despite his nagging wife and their sick child, and the endless altercations with the landlord and the supermarket credit manager, Hathaway still retained his freedom intact.
Day after day the contractors complained to Hoskins that the way to build a motorway was to start at the beginning and go on to the end, or at least to stick to some sort of predetermined schedule and not go jumping all over the place digging up a field here and rooting out a wood there, starting a bridge and then abandoning construction to begin a flyover.
Now-almost in flyover forrnationhe RAF launched wave after wave against the Afrika Korps, which was thrusting north behind the Alamein position.
Intermittent flyovers had pinpointed the cat variously at Florida City, North Key Largo, Homestead, Naranja and South Miami—although Sergeant Dyerson believed the latter coordinates were a mistake, probably a malfunction of the radio tracking unit.
After a flyover of a neighboring green valley, and a pass across another dull brown unaltered one for comparison and contrast, they turned for the Serifosa Dome.