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- noun Plural form of
fly . - noun The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
- noun The
trouser zip - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)
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Examples
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The most important of them, the block system for egg collection and replica plating in flies is my first Drosophila publication, in Drosophila
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If an acronym flies out of your mouth before you can stop it, spell it out, and move on.
Forbes.com: News 85broads 2011
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The character described in the poem comes “alive awhile” through the attentiveness he pays the simplest of events – a bird flies from a branch.
April 2009 Maxine 2009
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From her "foreign policy experience" (because Putin flies over Alaska on his way to visit us) to now nuclear disarmament – good grief!
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Your long term best bet for flies is to tie your own but the start up cost for vise, tools and material can get expensive not even mentioning the rather long learning curve.
Flies are so expensive now! Do's any one now a cheep place to get them that is local to most areas? 2009
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The character described in the poem comes “alive awhile” through the attentiveness he pays the simplest of events – a bird flies from a branch.
Frank Wilson and the beauty of brevity Maxine 2009
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I hope Sarah Palin flies to San Diego however she can get here so we can cheer her on.
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The character described in the poem comes “alive awhile” through the attentiveness he pays the simplest of events – a bird flies from a branch.
Weblogs Maxine 2009
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So my blood became as fire, and my heart as light as the froth that flies from the surf to the cliff.
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The character described in the poem comes “alive awhile” through the attentiveness he pays the simplest of events – a bird flies from a branch.
Frank Wilson and the beauty of brevity Maxine 2009
myth commented on the word flies
Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana. - G.Marx
Listed under the clock in studio 60
May 25, 2009
seanahan commented on the word flies
Often used in linguistics to illustrate the difficulty of understanding languages.
May 26, 2009
rolig commented on the word flies
Or as I like to say: Time flies like an era.
May 26, 2009