go off on a tangent
exit ramp
circumvolation
outswung
off the air
salient
midair
on the air
swoop
prosiliency
extort
waffle
gliding
wings
fast rope
flip turn
blench
transilience
flight
glance
take off
hop
zoom
bounce off
spang
jumping
soar
leading-edge
jump
upbreaking
take flight
fly
precipitation
balloon
rise with the sun
subsultory
die like flies
skyborne
loft
Immelmann turn
welter
attract
take aloft
fall down on
bogue
loop
touchdown
wing
atilt
whirl around
soarant
stagger
whirl
deadstick
inswinging
roll
up
sidelong
tumble
outwhirl
tumble in
outflight
leap at
upwing
leapable
pass over
flurry
upbow
go wild
ring
overfly
fall off one's perch
rocket
chopper
wind
wingover
dropwisely
eggbeater
upwreath
porpoise
break ground
parachute
plunge
aerobatic
hail down
whirlybird
mixer
helicopter
twist
winding
gyre
tumbleset
fly out
illapse
skidding
takeoff
outswung
salient
midair
leading-edge
subsultory
skyborne
soarant
deadstick
inswinging
up
sidelong
leapable
aerobatic
atilt
dropwisely
exit ramp
circumvolation
prosiliency
gliding
wings
flip turn
transilience
flight
hop
zoom
spang
jumping
soar
jump
upbreaking
fly
precipitation
Immelmann turn
touchdown
roll
outflight
chopper
wind
wingover
eggbeater
whirlybird
mixer
helicopter
twist
winding
tumbleset
fly out
illapse
skidding
takeoff
go off on a tangent
swoop
extort
waffle
fast rope
blench
glance
take off
bounce off
take flight
balloon
soar
rise with the sun
die like flies
loft
welter
attract
take aloft
fall down on
bogue
loop
fly
wing
whirl around
stagger
whirl
tumble
outwhirl
tumble in
leap at
upwing
pass over
flurry
upbow
go wild
ring
overfly
fall off one's perch
rocket
upwreath
porpoise
break ground
parachute
plunge
hail down
gyre
tumbleset
illapse
noun
adj
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
verb
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun
verb
- Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- To smash (something).
- Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
noun
- In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
noun
- The act of flying.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A paper airplane.
- The act of fleeing.
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- An air force unit.
- Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- An instance of flying.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A collective term for doves or swallows.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
verb
verb
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To look briefly (at something).
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
- To sparkle.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To graze at a surface.
noun
noun
- the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
- an informal dance where popular music is played
verb
noun
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- a sudden and decisive increase
- an abrupt transition
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
verb
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- make a sudden physical attack on
- increase suddenly and significantly
- be highly noticeable
- enter eagerly into
- rise in rank or status
- jump down from an elevated point
- run off or leave the rails
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- cause to jump or leap
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- bypass
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
noun
- An act of flying.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- A wing.
- A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- waste cotton
- Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- Any similar, but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
- That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
- The free edge of a flag.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A fly ball.
- The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- Related terms: flyman
- A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
adj
verb
- To be in the winged adult stage.
- To hunt with a hawk.
- To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- To be accepted, come about or work out.
- To proceed with great success.
- To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
noun
- the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
- the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
verb
- Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- To inflate like a balloon.
- To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- To increase or expand rapidly.
noun
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- A bomb or shell.
- The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- A woman's breast.
- A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- A speech bubble.
- Synonym of balloon payment
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
adj
verb
- To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- To propel high into the air.
- To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
- To furnish with a loft space.
- To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
noun
verb
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To move in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To place in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To form something into a loop.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To form a loop.
noun
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A ring road or beltway.
- The opening so formed.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
verb
noun
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- a unit of military aircraft
- the side of military or naval formation
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
- an addition that extends a main building
verb
verb
- In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To cause to reel or totter.
noun
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- One who attends a stag night.
- The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
adj
noun
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- a list of names
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- the act of throwing dice
- walking with a swaying gait
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
verb
- move by turning over or rotating
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- flatten or spread with a roller
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- begin operating or running
- shape by rolling
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- boil vigorously
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- show certain properties when being rolled
adj
- Aloft.
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
noun
- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- An up quark.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
verb
- To upload.
- To physically raise or lift.
- To increase the level or amount of.
- To promote.
- To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
verb
- fly around
- fall down, as if collapsing
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fall apart
- throw together in a confused mass
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- fall suddenly and sharply
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
noun
verb
verb
noun
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- A light, brief snowfall.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- Any sudden activity; a stir.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
verb
- To rise in the air spirally.
- To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- To telephone (someone).
- To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- to resound, reverberate, echo.
- Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- To produce music with bells.
- To enclose or surround.
- To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
noun
- A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A pleasant or correct sound.
- An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- A telephone call.
- A burner on a kitchen stove.
- An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
verb
verb
- To fly vertically.
- To carry something in a rocket.
- To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
- To rise or soar rapidly.
- To attack something with rockets.
noun
- A rocket engine.
- A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
- A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
- An ace (the playing card).
- A stupid or crazy person.
- Something that shoots high in the air.
- A very physically attractive woman.
- An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
- A blunt lance head used in jousting.
- A rocket propelled firework; a skyrocket.
- Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis).
- The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
noun
verb
noun
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- breath
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
verb
verb
- Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.
- Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
noun
verb
- To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
- To introduce into a place using such a device.
- To place (somebody) in an organisation in a position of authority without their having previous experience there; used with in or into.
noun
- A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.
- A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.
- A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.
- A piece of cloth used in physical education often colorful and surrounded by handles.
verb
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
- To remove a blockage by suction.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
noun
noun
- Synonym of tumbler
- A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.
- A mixing console.
- Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
- A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
- A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.
- One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
- A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment.
- One who mixes or socializes.
- A non-alcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails.
- A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
noun
- the act of winding or twisting
- an unforeseen development
- an interpretation of a text or action
- any clever maneuver
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a circular segment of a curve
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- a jerky pulling movement
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- turning or twisting around (in place)
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn in the opposite direction
- form into a spiral shape
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- do the twist
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
verb
noun
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