Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past participle of fly1.
- adj. Archaic Filled to excess.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Past participle of fly.
- Flooded; steeped; filled; made full.
- Decorated by means of color freely blended or flowed, as a glaze. See flow, intransitive verb, 8.
Wiktionary
- v. Past participle of fly
GNU Webster's 1913
- p. p. of fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb
to be . - adj. Flushed, inflated.
Etymologies
- Obsolete past participle of flow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Of course, the computers say the paper rocket that has never flown is much more reliable than the Delta.”
Delta IV Heavy is Cheaper Than Ares 1. Wow. Who Knew. - NASA Watch
“He is also no stranger to the skies above Washington, having flown from the Capitol more than once.”
“My maid (who heretofore has been an impeccable source of information) tells me he has again flown the coop.”
“A $7 million surveillance plane equipped to detect air, land and sea threats was flown from the Canadian border to Colorado Springs in April to ...”
“A $7 million surveillance plane equipped to detect air, land and sea threats was flown from the Canadian border to Colorado Springs in April to assist in an investigation of marijuana-growing operations that apparently resulted in charges against six people.”
“The budget carrier, which two years ago overtook Philippine Airlines as the largest domestic carrier in terms of passengers flown, is planning to expand its fleet to 47 aircraft from 29 within the next five years.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cebu Pacific Gains Altitude on First Day
“He felt his heart beating against the bottle, and he thought of the chickadee that had flown from the Indian's coat earlier that day.”
The Huffington Post: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline'
“He had flown from the murders and tried to lose himself, but by an amazing grace he had found Julia instead.”
The Huffington Post: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline'
“What shold NOT be flown is any political or pressure group banner. on May 17, 2009 at 4: 50 pm TaffyMedic”
“While the double ll as a separate letter has flown from the REA dictionary, it is still included in the teaching of the alphabet in a goodly number of Mexican primary schools.”
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Interesting words
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
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nimble wimble
hole wholes AND/OR headlight or lighthead
wimble, nimble, aureole, glory, annulus, corona, haloing, surrounding, surrealround, anthelion, gloriole, sundog and 16 more...
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