Flying vs Soaring - What's the difference?
flying | soaring |
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)
Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.
The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.
assurgent, ascending
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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
(-)- (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"