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Flying vs Circumvolant - What's the difference?

flying | circumvolant |

As adjectives the difference between flying and circumvolant

is that flying is that can fly while circumvolant is flying around.

As a verb flying

is .

As a noun flying

is an act of flight.

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"

    circumvolant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • flying around
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