What is the meaning of fly?

noun

• Two-winged insects characterized by active flight.
• Flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent.
  • synonyms: tent-fly, rainfly, fly sheet, tent flap
• An opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth.
  • synonyms: fly front
• Baseball) a hit that flies up in the air.
  • synonyms: fly ball
• Fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect.

verb

• Travel through the air; be airborne.
  • usage: "Man cannot fly"
  • synonyms: wing
• Move quickly or suddenly.
  • usage: "He flew about the place"
• Operate an airplane.
  • usage: "The pilot flew to Cuba"
  • synonyms: aviate, pilot
• Transport by aeroplane.
  • usage: "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America"
• Cause to fly or float.
  • usage: "fly a kite"
• Be dispersed or disseminated.
  • usage: "Rumors and accusations are flying"
• Change quickly from one emotional state to another.
  • usage: "fly into a rage"
• Pass away rapidly.
  • usage: "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"
  • synonyms: fell, vanish
• Travel in an airplane.
  • usage: "she is flying to Cincinnati tonight"; "Are we driving or flying"
• Display in the air or cause to float.
  • usage: "fly a kite"; "All nations fly their flags in front of the U. N."
• Run away quickly.
  • usage: "He threw down his gun and fled"
  • synonyms: flee, take flight
• Travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft.
  • usage: "Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic"
• Hit a fly.
• Decrease rapidly and disappear.
  • usage: "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized"
  • synonyms: vanish, vaporize

adjective

• British informal. ( not to be deceived or hoodwinked).