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Plying vs Flying - What's the difference?

plying | flying |

As verbs the difference between plying and flying

is that plying is while flying is .

As an adjective flying is

that can fly.

As a noun flying is

an act of flight.

plying

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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"