Levitation vs Flying - What's the difference?
levitation | flying |
The raising of something, such as a body, without apparent physical cause, allegedly using the power of the mind
The suspension of something via technical means without any mechanical support, such as by magnetism
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That can fly.
Brief or hurried.
(nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.
An act of flight.
* 1993 , John C. Greene, ?Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
As nouns the difference between levitation and flying
is that levitation is levitation while flying is an act of flight.As an adjective flying is
that can fly.As a verb flying is
.levitation
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation , abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period.
See also
* buoyancyExternal links
* * (Levitation)Anagrams
*flying
English
Adjective
(-)- (flying fox)
- (flying visit)
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* flyinglyNoun
(en noun)- "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"