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say it: flahy
fly is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "travel through the air; be airborne". It carries 20 recorded senses.
display in the air or cause to float
“fly a kite”
“All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N.”
travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
“Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic”
two-winged insects characterized by active flight
fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.