| action verb |
a verb that shows its subject performing some action. "Run," "eat," "fly," and "sing" are examples of action verbs. |
| aircraft |
any machine that can fly through the air, such as an airplane, helicopter, glider, or balloon. |
| airline |
a system of transportation that allows people to fly from one place to another, or a business that owns and operates the equipment to do this. |
| airliner |
a large airplane used to fly people from one place to another. |
| airplane |
a machine that can fly because of the force of air upon its wings; plane. An airplane is driven by propellers or a jet engine. |
| bat2 |
A bat is a small mammal that can fly. Bats have wings that are much longer than their bodies. They usually fly at night, and they eat many, many insects. |
| beach ball |
A beach ball is a kind of ball that children and adults can play with together. It is full of air and made of very light material, so it is easy to hit it and make it fly. The sides of the ball are made of plastic in different colors. People often play with a beach ball when they go to a beach for fun. |
| bird |
an animal with two wings, two feet, and a body covered with feathers. Most birds can fly. Birds are warm-blooded animals with skeletons inside their bodies. Birds lay eggs with hard shells. Robins, eagles, chickens, and ostriches are a few of the many kinds of birds. |
| bumblebee |
a large, furry bee, often with black and yellow stripes. Bumblebees make a loud humming or buzzing noise when they fly. |
| buzz |
to fly over very low in an aircraft. [1/4 definitions] |
| check in |
When you check in, you tell someone in an official way that you have arrived or that you are ready for something. When you arrive at a hotel, you have to check in. Before you fly somewhere, you have to check in. |
| control |
Controls are something on a machine that let you make it do what you want. A television has controls that let you turn it on and off and change how loud it is. A pilot uses controls to fly an airplane. [1/4 definitions] |
| dodo |
a large bird, now extinct, with wings so small that it could not fly. Dodos were once found on islands in the Indian Ocean. |
| emu |
a large bird with long legs that runs very fast but can not fly. Emus live in Australia. |
| flagpole |
a pole on which to hang or fly a flag. |
| flew |
a past tense of "fly1." |
| flied |
a past tense and past participle of "fly1" (used with verb sense 6). |
| flit |
to fly or move in a quick or light way. |
| flown |
a past participle of "fly1." |
| flutter |
to fly with quick, light wing movements. [1/5 definitions] |
| fly1 |
to hit a baseball or softball into the air. (This is the only meaning of "fly" for which "flied" is the correct past tense.) [2/9 definitions] |