The difference between Fly and Wing

When used as nouns, fly means any insect of the order diptera, whereas wing means an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

When used as verbs, fly means to travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface, whereas wing means to injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

Fly is also adjective with the meaning: quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fly and Wing

  1. Fly as a noun (zoology):

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

  2. Fly as a noun (non-technical):

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

  3. Fly as a noun:

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

  4. Fly as a noun (fishing):

    A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.

  5. Fly as a noun (weightlifting):

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

  6. Fly as a noun (obsolete):

    A witch's familiar.

  7. Fly as a noun (obsolete):

    A parasite.

  8. Fly as a noun (swimming):

    The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)

  9. Fly as a noun:

    A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.

  1. Fly as a verb (intransitive):

    To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

    Examples:

    "Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter. The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane. It takes about eleven hours to fly from Frankfurt to Hongkong. The little fairy flew home on the back of her friend, the giant eagle."

  2. Fly as a verb (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic):

    To flee, to escape (from).

    Examples:

    "'Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!"

  3. Fly as a verb (transitive, ergative):

    To cause to fly : to transport via air or the like.

    Examples:

    "Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean. Why don’t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect. Birds fly their prey to their nest to feed it to their young. Each day the post flies thousands of letters around the globe."

  4. Fly as a verb (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea):

    To be accepted, come about or work out.

    Examples:

    "Let's see if that idea flies. You know, I just don't think that's going to fly. Why don't you spend your time on something better?"

  5. Fly as a verb (intransitive):

    To travel very fast, hasten.

  6. Fly as a verb:

    To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.

    Examples:

    "a door flies open; a bomb flies apart"

  7. Fly as a verb:

    To hunt with a hawk.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Francis Bacon"

  8. Fly as a verb (transitive):

    To display a flag on a flagpole.

  1. Fly as a noun (obsolete):

    The action of flying; flight.

  2. Fly as a noun:

    An act of flying.

    Examples:

    "We had a quick half-hour fly back into the city."

    "There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly."

  3. Fly as a noun (baseball):

    A fly ball.

  4. Fly as a noun (now, historical):

    A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised ).

  5. Fly as a noun:

    A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.

  6. Fly as a noun (often plural):

    A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.

    Examples:

    "Ha-ha! Your flies are undone!"

  7. Fly as a noun:

    The free edge of a flag.

  8. Fly as a noun:

    The horizontal length of a flag.

  9. Fly as a noun (weightlifting):

    An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.

  10. Fly as a noun:

    The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.

  11. Fly as a noun (nautical):

    That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Totten"

  12. Fly as a noun:

    Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.

  13. Fly as a noun:

    A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See flywheel.

  14. Fly as a noun (historical):

    A light horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation.

  15. Fly as a noun:

    In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  16. Fly as a noun:

    The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

  17. Fly as a noun (weaving):

    A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  18. Fly as a noun (printing, historical):

    The person who took the printed sheets from the press.

  19. Fly as a noun (printing, historical):

    A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.

  20. Fly as a noun:

    One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.

  21. Fly as a noun (cotton manufacture):

    waste cotton

  1. Fly as a verb (intransitive, baseball):

    To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).

    Examples:

    "Jones flied to right in his last at-bat."

  1. Fly as an adjective (slang, dated):

    Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.

  2. Fly as an adjective (slang):

    Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.

    Examples:

    "He's pretty fly."

  3. Fly as an adjective (slang):

    Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

  4. Fly as an adjective (slang, chiefly, Doric):

    Sneaky

  1. Fly as a noun (rural, Scotland, Northern England):

    A wing.

    Examples:

    "The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly."

  1. Wing as a noun:

    An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish

  2. Wing as a noun (slang):

    Human arm.

  3. Wing as a noun (aviation):

    Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.

  4. Wing as a noun:

    One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

  5. Wing as a noun:

    One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

  6. Wing as a noun (botany):

    Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

  7. Wing as a noun (botany):

    Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

  8. Wing as a noun:

    A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

  9. Wing as a noun:

    Passage by flying; flight.

    Examples:

    "to take wing"

  10. Wing as a noun:

    Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

  11. Wing as a noun:

    A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

    Examples:

    "the west wing of the hospital"

    "the wings of a corkscrew"

  12. Wing as a noun:

    Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

  13. Wing as a noun:

    An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

  14. Wing as a noun:

    A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.

  15. Wing as a noun:

    A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

  16. Wing as a noun (British):

    An organizational grouping in a military aviation service: A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station. A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.

  17. Wing as a noun (British):

    A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

  18. Wing as a noun (nautical):

    A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

  19. Wing as a noun (nautical):

    That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Totten"

  20. Wing as a noun (sports):

    A position in several field games on either side of the field.

  21. Wing as a noun (sports):

    A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

  22. Wing as a noun (typography, informal, rare):

    A .

  23. Wing as a noun (theater):

    One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.

  24. Wing as a noun (in the plural):

    The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.

  25. Wing as a noun:

    A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.

  26. Wing as a noun:

    On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype

    Examples:

    "Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing."

  1. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

  2. Wing as a verb (intransitive):

    To fly.

  3. Wing as a verb (transitive, of a building):

    To add a wing (extra part) to.

  4. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

  5. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To throw.

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