Need another word that means the same as “on the fly”? Find 30 related words for “on the fly” in this overview.
aeronaut | Someone who operates an aircraft. |
airman | A pilot or member of the crew of an aircraft, especially in an air force. |
aviator | A pair of aviator sunglasses. I wear aviators but it s purely because they are practical sunglasses as opposed to being fashion accessories. |
bee | An insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs including many solitary as well as social kinds. A sewing bee. |
bug | General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate. A thick green scum which crawls with bugs centipedes and worse. |
butterfly | Having a two lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly. A social butterfly. |
buzz | The sound of a buzzer or telephone. He buzzed the servant. |
chirp | A short, sharp, high-pitched sound. Outside the crickets chirped monotonously. |
cockroach | Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests. |
croon | Hum or sing in a soft, low voice, especially in a sentimental manner. She was crooning to the child. |
dragonfly | Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
flap | An act of flapping something typically a wing or arm up and down or from side to side. He wrote on the flap of the envelope. |
flea | Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap. |
fledged | (of a young bird) having wing feathers that are large enough for flight; able to fly. A recently fledged bird. |
grasshopper | A cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao. |
housefly | Common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases. |
hum | A humming noise. The refrigerator is humming. |
hustle | Obtain illicitly or by forceful action. The hustle and bustle of the big cities. |
levitate | Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity. The guru claimed that he could levitate. |
mosquito | Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals. |
moth | A clothes moth. I store my sweaters in plastic bags to protect them from moths. |
pilot | Be the pilot of an aircraft or ship. Many expected him to get the job as Desert Orchid s pilot. |
pterodactyl | Extinct flying reptile. |
pterosaur | A fossil flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with membranous wings supported by a greatly lengthened fourth finger. |
(of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds. What a great crowd Perry twittered. | |
volant | Relating to or characterized by flight. Her sails caught a volant wind. |
warble | A lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly. He warbled in an implausible soprano. |
wasp | A solitary winged insect with a narrow waist mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds. |
wing | The wing of a fowl. Some sportsmen make no scruple about firing into the thick of a wing of plover. |
winged | Having one or more lateral parts, appendages, or projections. On winged feet. |
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