Слово англійською: fly

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Переклад fly українською: муха

Детальний опис

fly

noun
/flaɪ/
(plural flies)

    insect

  1. [countable] a small flying insect with two wings. There are many different types of fly and many of them spread disease.
    • A fly was buzzing against the window.
    • Flies rose in thick black swarms.
    • A fly settled on the butter.
    • I swatted the fly with a newspaper.
    see also crane fly, fruit fly, tsetse fly

    2. in fishing

  2. [countable] a fly or something made to look like a fly, that is put on the end of a fishing line and used as bait to catch fish
    • fly fishing
    Wordfinder
    • bait
    • bite
    • dragnet
    • fishing
    • fly
    • hook
    • line
    • net
    • rod
    • trawl
    3.

    on trousers/pants

  3. [singular]
    (British English also flies)
    an opening down the front of a pair of trousers that fastens with a zip or buttons and is usually covered over by a narrow piece of material
    • Your fly is undone!
    • Your flies are undone!
    4.

    on tent

  4. [countable] a piece of material that covers the entrance to a tent
    5. see also flies

    in baseball

  5. (also fly ball)
     a ball that is hit high into the air see also pop fly
    6. Word Originnoun senses 3 to 4 Old English flēogan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vliegen and German fliegen, also to fly, the insect. noun senses 1 to 2 Old English flȳge, flēoge, denoting any winged insect, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieg and German Fliege, also to fly (verb).
Idioms
die/fall/drop like flies
  1. (informal) to die or become ill and fall down in very large numbers
    • People were dropping like flies in the intense heat.
a/the fly in the ointment
  1. a person or thing that makes a situation or an occasion less pleasant, successful, etc.
a fly on the wall
  1. a person who watches others without being noticed
    • I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he tells her the news.
    • fly-on-the-wall documentaries (= in which people are filmed going about their normal lives as if the camera were not there)
(there are) no flies on somebody
  1. (informal) the person mentioned is clever and not easily tricked
not harm/hurt a fly
  1. to be kind and gentle and unwilling to cause unhappiness
on the fly
  1. (informal) if you do something on the fly, you do it quickly while something else is happening, and without thinking about it very much
  2. (computing) while a computer program or application is operating, without completely restarting it
    • Now, while I'm on the desktop, I can switch between open apps on the fly.
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