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FLIES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("flies" is a kind of...):
space (an area reserved for some particular purpose)
Domain category:
dramatic art; dramatics; dramaturgy; theater; theatre (the art of writing and producing plays)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) / present simple (third person singular) of the verb fly
Context examples:
They also found that flies lacking the Arc gene form fewer connections between their motor neurons.
(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)
It is transmitted mechanically by biting flies, mosquitoes, and midges, and iatrogenically through unsterilized equipment.
(Equine Infectious Anemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
There's plenty of string, said Mr. Dick, and when it flies high, it takes the facts a long way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This is my house where the pennon flies before the door—a small residence to contain the Lord of Montchateau.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies.
(Leishmaniasis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
When they cling like flies to the wall, and top is no less near than bottom, our men shall fall upon them from above and either side, with spears, and arrows, and guns.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The model is effective in diverse range of laboratory species such as honeybees, worms, flies, rats, and canines.
(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)
She's so ambitious, but her heart is good and tender, and no matter how high she flies, she never will forget home.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Some pitched the flies, others cut firewood and pine boughs for the beds, and still others carried water or ice for the cooks.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A genus of small, American flies, Diptera.
(Drosophila, NCI Thesaurus)
