1. Mener hors du lieu où l'on est vers un autre lieu ; utilisé plutôt en parlant de personnes ou d'objets capables de se déplacer, comme par exemple des véhicules.
Quand cet employé a quitté cette maison de commerce, il a emmené tous les clients, une partie de la clientèle avec lui.
D'un seul coup, brutalement, le flotteur gauche s'engagea. Je fus emmené dans un « cheval de bois » à gauche, que je pus contrecarrer quelque peu en accélérant.
(Jean Mermoz, Mes Vols, Flammarion, 1937, page 62)
Après une minutieuse préparation, tant de la machine que du passager, à 4 heures du matin, je décolle dans les ténèbres, emmenant un solide gaillard Serbe, ex-chef célèbres de comitadjis.
(Jacques Mortane, Missions spéciales, 1933, page 223)
2. [noun] (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings, also called true flies.
3. [noun] (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
4. [noun] Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
5. [noun] (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
6. [noun] (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
7. [noun] (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
8. [noun] (obsolete) A parasite.
9. [verb] (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
10. [verb] (ambitransitive) (archaic) (poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
11. [verb] (transitive) (ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
12. [verb] (intransitive) (colloquial) (of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
13. [verb] (intransitive) To travel very fast.
14. [verb] To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
15. [verb] To hunt with a hawk.
16. [verb] (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
17. [noun] (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
18. [noun] An act of flying.
19. [noun] (baseball) A fly ball.
20. [noun] (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
21. [noun] A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
22. [noun] A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
23. [noun] The free edge of a flag.
24. [noun] The horizontal length of a flag.
25. [noun] Butterfly, a form of swimming.
26. [noun] (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
27. [noun] The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
28. [noun] (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
29. [noun] Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
30. [noun] A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See fly wheel.
31. [noun] In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
32. [noun] The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
33. [noun] (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
34. [noun] (printing) (historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
35. [noun] (printing) (historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
36. [noun] One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
37. [noun] (cotton manufacture) waste cotton
38. [verb] (intransitive) (baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
39. [adjective] (slang) (dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
40. [adjective] (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
41. [adjective] (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
42. [noun] Two-winged insects characterized by active flight.
43. [noun] Flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent.
44. [noun] An opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth.
45. [noun] (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air.
46. [noun] Fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect.
47. [verb] Travel through the air; be airborne; 'Man cannot fly'.
48. [verb] Move quickly or suddenly; 'He flew about the place'.
49. [verb] Operate an airplane; 'The pilot flew to Cuba'.
50. [verb] Transport by aeroplane; 'We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America'.
51. [verb] Cause to fly or float; 'fly a kite'.
52. [verb] Be dispersed or disseminated; 'Rumors and accusations are flying'.
53. [verb] Change quickly from one emotional state to another; 'fly into a rage'.
54. [verb] Pass away rapidly; 'Time flies like an arrow'; 'Time fleeing beneath him'.
55. [verb] Travel in an airplane; 'she is flying to Cincinnati tonight'; 'Are we driving or flying?'.
56. [verb] Display in the air or cause to float; 'fly a kite'; 'All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N.'.
57. [verb] Run away quickly; 'He threw down his gun and fled'.
58. [verb] Travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft; 'Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic'.
59. [verb] Hit a fly.
60. [verb] Decrease rapidly and disappear; 'the money vanished in las Vegas'; 'all my stock assets have vaporized'.
61. [adjective] (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked.
