All English words - page 1430

Meanings of Flyer:

noun

A person or thing that flies, especially in a particular way.

Usage examples:

Frequent flyers

adjective

Knowing and clever.

Usage examples:

She's fly enough not to get tricked out of it

Meanings of Flyers:

noun

A person or thing that flies, especially in a particular way.

Usage examples:

Frequent flyers

Meanings of Flying:

adjective

Moving or able to move through the air with wings.

Usage examples:

A flying ant

noun

Flight, especially in an aircraft.

Usage examples:

She hates flying

verb

(of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings.

Usage examples:

Close the door or the moths will fly in

Meanings of Flying colors:

idiom

Complete success

Meanings of Flyleaf:

noun

A blank page at the beginning or end of a book.

Usage examples:

This begins to explain why, on the flyleaves of many books by internationally known caribbean autho…

Meanings of Flyleaves:

noun

A blank page at the beginning or end of a book.

Usage examples:

This begins to explain why, on the flyleaves of many books by internationally known caribbean autho…

Plural of flyleaf

Meanings of Flyman:

noun

(in a theatre) a person positioned in the flies to raise and lower scenery.

Usage examples:

‘there's never any tension or stress backstage,’ said fuller, the head flyman.

Meanings of Flymen:

noun

(in a theatre) a person positioned in the flies to raise and lower scenery.

Usage examples:

‘there's never any tension or stress backstage,’ said fuller, the head flyman.

Meanings of Flyover:

noun

A bridge carrying one railway line or road over another.

Usage examples:

The msrdc bonds were issued in order to fund the mumbai-pune expressway, the mumbai flyover and rai…

Meanings of Flyovers:

noun

A bridge carrying one railway line or road over another.

Usage examples:

The msrdc bonds were issued in order to fund the mumbai-pune expressway, the mumbai flyover and rai…

Meanings of Flypaper:

noun

Sticky, poison-treated strips of paper that are hung indoors to catch and kill flies.

Usage examples:

There was flypaper dangling from the lamp

Meanings of Flypast:

noun

A ceremonial flight of aircraft past a person or a place.

Usage examples:

A fly-past by an raf formation

Meanings of Flyspeck:

noun

A tiny stain made by the excrement of an insect.

Usage examples:

The image is clean and sharp for the most part, with only random flaws from the source print - some…

Meanings of Flyways:

noun

A route regularly used by large numbers of migrating birds.

Usage examples:

Us farmworkers migrate along three principal streams, like the flyways of bird migration, and the c…

Meanings of Flywheels:

noun

A heavy revolving wheel in a machine which is used to increase the machine's momentum and thereby provide greater stability or a reserve of available power.

Usage examples:

These are the ones with a fixed wheel and a heavy flywheel with loads of centrifugal force.

Meanings of Flywire:

noun

Fine wire mesh designed to keep out flying insects.

Usage examples:

Mosquitoes, combined with a shortage of flywire, upset the new arrivals

Meanings of Fm:

abbreviation

Fathom(s).

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 100, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. fermium does not occur naturally and was discovered in 1953 in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion.

The chemical element fermium.

Meanings of Fo:

abbreviation

Folio.

Meanings of Foam:

noun

A mass of small bubbles formed on or in liquid, typically by agitation or fermentation.

Usage examples:

A beer with a thick head of foam

verb

Form or produce a mass of small bubbles; froth.

Usage examples:

The sea foamed beneath them

Meanings of Foamiest:

adjective

Producing or consisting of foam; frothy.

Usage examples:

A beach with foamy waves

Meanings of Foamy:

adjective

Producing or consisting of foam; frothy.

Usage examples:

A beach with foamy waves

Meanings of Fob off:

phrasal verb

Sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive

Meanings of Fob off with:

phrasal verb

To persuade someone to accept something that is of a low quality, or different to what they really wanted

Usage examples:

The bank delayed on his compensation claim for eight years while attempting to fob him off with muc…

Meanings of Fob-off-on:

phrasal verb

To make someone buy or accept something that is not of a good quality or not what they really wanted

Usage examples:

Discounts should not mean that shops can fob off faulty goods on bargain-hunters.

Meanings of Fobbed:

verb

Deceitfully attempt to satisfy someone by making excuses or giving them something inferior.

Usage examples:

I was fobbed off with bland reassurances

noun

A chain attached to a watch for carrying in a waistcoat or waistband pocket.

Usage examples:

In new york in 1890, the latest pocket watch and fob chain could carry seals the wearer could use t…

phrasal verb

To persuade someone to accept someone or something you want to get rid of

Usage examples:

Politics can be a way to fob off theoretical solutions on people demanding practical ones.