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Volitant vs Flying - What's the difference?

volitant | flying |

As adjectives the difference between volitant and flying

is that volitant is flying; capable of flight while flying is that can fly.

As a verb flying is

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As a noun flying is

an act of flight.

volitant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • flying; capable of flight.
    • volitant aquatic birds
  • *
    • And to test his idea he made no further effort, merely keeping his balance in the air each time his drop to earth lifted him again into those long and fantastic cruises; but the impetus weakened with every dwindling flight and the volitant boy came gradually to a standstill.
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    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"