How to pronounce“fly”in English
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Definitions of “fly”
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
“Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.”
Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
“When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.”
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
“Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.”
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