English Dictionary

fly

IPA（発音記号）

/flaɪ/

名詞

廃用

(zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.

日本語の意味

ハエ：双翅目に属する昆虫。通常は2枚の翅を持つが、一部は翅が退化している場合もある。

A fly landed on the picnic blanket and ruined the dessert.

ピクニックの敷物にハエが止まり、デザートを台無しにした。

意味（1）

(zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.

Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.

意味（2）

(non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).

When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

意味（3）

Any similar, but unrelated insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.

意味（4）

(fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.

I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.

意味（5）

(weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)

意味（6）

(swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).

意味（7）

(obsolete) A witch's familiar.

a trifling fly, none of your great familiars

意味（8）

(obsolete) A parasite.

The fly that plays too near the flame burns in it.

意味（9）

(preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.

意味（10）

(finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).

flies （ plural ）