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Flying vs Levitating - What's the difference?

flying | levitating |

As verbs the difference between flying and levitating

is that flying is while levitating is .

As an adjective flying

is that can fly.

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"

    levitating

    English

    Verb

    (head)