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Flying vs Soaring - What's the difference?

flying | soaring |

As adjectives the difference between flying and soaring

is that flying is that can fly while soaring is assurgent, ascending.

As verbs the difference between flying and soaring

is that flying is while soaring is mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.

As nouns the difference between flying and soaring

is that flying is an act of flight while soaring is the act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual 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"

    soaring

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • assurgent, ascending
  • * Soaring fuel prices make U.S. energy policy one of the hottest issues of the presidential campaign [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_574218.html].