flying

Meanings

Adjective

• That flies or can fly.
• Brief or hurried.
• Not secured by yards.

Verb

• Present participle of fly

Noun

• An act of flight.
• The action or process of sustained motion through the air.

Origin

• From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand,
• ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą, equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend, West Frisian fleanend, Dutch vliegend, German Low German flegend, German fliegend, Danish flyvende, Swedish flygande, Icelandic fljúgandi.
• From Middle English flyinge, fleyng, fleyinge, fleynge, fleghyng, fleiʒeyng, flyeghynge, equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Danish flyvning, Swedish flygning, Norwegian flyvning, flygning, flyging, flying.