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Flies vs Flying - What's the difference?

flies | flying |

As nouns the difference between flies and flying

is that flies is stream while flying is an act of flight.

As an adjective flying is

that can fly.

As a verb flying is

.

flies

English

Noun

(head)
  • (pluralonly) The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
  • The trouser zip

    • Derived terms

    * catch flies * drop like flies * no flies on

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fly)

    • Anagrams

    *

    flying

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That can fly.
    • (flying fox)
  • Brief or hurried.
    • (flying visit)
  • (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * flyingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of flight.
  • * 1993 , John C. Greene, ?Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
    • "Flyings'" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, ' flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds"