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Fly

fly is on the Basic English 850 List.

flower - fly - fold

fly is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

floor - fly - follow

Pronunciation

enPR: flī, IPA ^(key): /flaɪ/
SAMPA: /flaI/
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Verb

Plain form
fly

Third-person singular
flies

Past tense
flew

Past participle
flown

Present participle
flying

A bird flying.

(transitive & intransitive) To move through the air without touching the ground
The bird will fly away in the winter.

The airplane flies very high in the air.

He was the first person to fly a plane around the world.

Noun

Singular
fly

Plural
flies

A fly on a leaf

(countable) A fly is a type of small insect with wings
I won't eat my soup because there's a fly in it.

There are many flies near the garbage.
In baseball a ball that goes high in the air.
The piece of cloth hiding the zipper, buttons at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, or underpants.

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