Flyer

Quick meaning: Flyer is a noun meaning That which flies, as a bird or insect.

Meaning

That which flies, as a bird or insect.

More Meanings

1. A machine that flies.
2. A person who travels by airplane.
3. A leaflet, often for advertising.
4. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
5. (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
6. (acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
7. (dated) An airplane pilot.

Example Sentences

The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute.

Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.

An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.

It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk.

Word Forms

• flyers
• flyering
• flyered

Synonyms for flyer

Depending on context, synonyms include aviator, aviatrix, circular, leaflet, bill, throwaway.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aeronaut, airman, aviator, broadside, circular, bill.

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