fly

n. small winged insect; flap of fabric used to cover a zipper or buttons; zipper on the front of pants; flap which forms the door of a tent; flight

adj. quick, clever, cunning (Slang)

v. travel through the air; travel in an airplane; operate an airplane; make something travel through the air; flee; run; pass quickly; toss; cause to float or wave in the air; be waved; travel across or through (in flight)

True flies are insects of the Order Diptera (Greek: di = two, and pteron = wing), possessing a single pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax. The common housefly is a true fly and is one of the most widely distributed animals.The presence of a single pair of wings distinguishes true flies from other insects with "fly" in their name, such as mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, stoneflies, whitefly, fireflies, alderflies, dobsonflies, snakeflies, sawflies, caddisflies, butterflies or scorpionflies. Some true flies have become secondarily wingless, especially in the superfamily Hippoboscoidea, or among those that are inquilines in social insect colonies.
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Fly! is a flight simulator for PC and Apple Macintosh computers developed by Terminal Reality and published by Gathering of Developers. It included simulation of air traffic control features as well as aircraft's on-board systems, and was acclaimed for its highly detailed fully-working interactive cockpits. Featured aircraft were exclusively fixed-wing light to medium aircraft. It was succeeded by Fly! 2k, which included InfoMETAR (created by David Sandberg) and Sky! Special Edition (created by How in the World?). The sequel, Fly! II, was released in 2000 and featured a helicopter.
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Noun
1. two-winged insects characterized by active flight
(hypernym) dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron
(hyponym) housefly, Musca domestica
(member-holonym) Diptera, order Diptera
(part-meronym) alula, calypter
(derivation) wing
2. flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
(synonym) tent-fly, rainfly, fly sheet, tent flap
(hypernym) flap
(part-holonym) fly tent
3. an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or buttons concealed by a fold of cloth
(synonym) fly front
(hypernym) opening
(part-holonym) garment
4. (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
(synonym) fly ball
(hypernym) hit, hitting, striking
(hyponym) blast
(classification) baseball, baseball game, ball
5. fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
(hypernym) fisherman's lure, fish lure
(hyponym) dry fly
Verb
1. travel through the air; be airborne; "Man cannot fly"
(synonym) wing
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) buzz
2. move quickly or suddenly; "He flew about the place"
(hypernym) move
3. fly a plane
(synonym) aviate, pilot
(hypernym) operate, control
(hyponym) fly blind
(entail) wing
(derivation) aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer
(classification) air travel, aviation, air
4. transport by aeroplane; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America"
(hypernym) transport, carry
(hyponym) airlift, lift
(verb-group) aviate, pilot
(derivation) flight, flying
5. cause to fly or float; "fly a kite"
(hyponym) kite
(cause) float, drift, be adrift, blow
6. be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying"
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
7. change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage"
(hypernym) change
8. pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"
(synonym) fell, vanish
(hypernym) elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
(verb-group) vanish, vaporize
9. travel in an airplane; "she is flying to Cincinnati tonight"; "Are we driving or flying?"
(hypernym) travel
(hyponym) red-eye
(verb-group) aviate, pilot
(derivation) flier, flyer
(classification) air travel, aviation, air
10. display in the air or cause to float; "fly a kite"; "All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N."
(hypernym) show
11. run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled"
(synonym) flee, take flight
(hypernym) run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away
(hyponym) break
12. travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft; "Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic"
(hypernym) travel, journey
(verb-group) wing
(derivation) flight, flying
13. hit a fly
(hypernym) hit
(derivation) fly ball
(classification) baseball, baseball game, ball
14. decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized"
(synonym) vanish, vaporize
(hypernym) decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
(verb-group) fell, vanish
Adjective
1. (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked
(similar) alert
(classification) colloquialism
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

[Other] The fly was a predominant soul-symbol within many ancient religions. Many primitives believed that flies possessed souls of deceased persons, and by swallowing a fly the women conceived and bear children. Virgin mothers of Celtic heroes -- Etain, Cuchulainn -- conceived this way. The Greeks similarly believed that souls traveled from one life to the next in insect form; their very word for soul, psyche, meant a butterfly. As in the Middle East, Baal-Zebub or Beelzebub was "Lord of Flies" because he was a psychopomp, his title really meant "Lord of Souls." Such ideas and images indicate a very archaic mode of thought, which predates the discovery of fatherhood. Women thought they conceived by themselves. Both men and women were attempting to imagine methods by which the fetus entered the woman's body. 

Heb. zebub, (Eccl. 10:1; Isa. 7:18). This fly was so grievous a pest that the Phoenicians invoked against it the aid of their god Baal-zebub (q.v.). The prophet Isaiah (7:18) alludes to some poisonous fly which was believed to be found on the confines of Egypt, and which would be called by the Lord. Poisonous flies exist in many parts of Africa, for instance, the different kinds of tsetse. Heb. 'arob, the name given to the insects sent as a plague on the land of Egypt (Ex. 8:21-31; Ps. 78:45; 105:31). The LXX. render this by a word which means the "dog-fly," the cynomuia. The Jewish commentators regarded the Hebrew word here as connected with the word 'arab, which means "mingled;" and they accordingly supposed the plague to consist of a mixed multitude of animals, beasts, reptiles, and insects. But there is no doubt that "the 'arab" denotes a single definite species. Some interpreters regard it as the Blatta orientalis, the cockroach, a species of beetle. These insects "inflict very painful bites with their jaws; gnaw and destroy clothes, household furniture, leather, and articles of every kind, and either consume or render unavailable all eatables."