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Volant vs Flying - What's the difference?

volant | flying |

As adjectives the difference between volant and flying

is that volant is (heraldry) having extended wings as if flying while flying is that can fly.

As a verb flying is

.

As a noun flying is

an act of flight.

volant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (heraldry) Having extended wings as if flying.
  • Flying, or able to fly.
  • Moving quickly or lightly, as though flying; nimble.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 209:
    • he turned to catch through the trees a flitting glimpse of her light dress, her volant attitude, as she sped silently and secretly back to the waiting group on the porch.
    ----

    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"