Meanings (ES + gloss)
astuto • listo • pillo • vivo
Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates…
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mosca • mosco
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic…
mosca
Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings…
mosca
A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.
Phrases
Bill Gates' flower flyBrues' soldier flyHessian flyMarch flyMediterranean fruit flyMydas flyNairobi flyPaul Allen's flower flySpanish flySt. Mark's flyVenus fly trapa closed mouth catches no fliesadder flyalderflyalkali flyand no fliesantiflyapple flyassassin flyawl-flybanana flybar flybat flybee flybeetflyblack flyblind-flyblister flyblow flyblue flybobflybot flybottleflybreak a fly on a wheelbreak a fly on the wheelbreak a fly upon a wheelbreak a fly upon the wheelbreezeflybrine flybull-fly
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vuelo
An act of flying.
There was a good wind, so I decided to give the kite a fly.
calesa
A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
A fly carried him rapidly to Lady Clavering’s house from the station […]
Can I get a fly, or a carriage of any kind? Is it too late? I dismissed the fly a mile distant from the park, and getting my directions from the driver, proceeded by myself to the…
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
circunvolar • volar
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane.
huir
To flee, to escape (from).
Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
to fly the favours of so good a king
hacer volar • volar
To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.
Why don’t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect.
ir volando
To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
He flew down the hill on his bicycle.
It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly?
colar • ser aceptado
To be accepted, come about or work out.
Let's see if that idea flies.
You know, I just don't think that's going to fly. Why don't you spend your time on something better?
Phrases
Japanese flying squidMalabar flying frogMalaysian flying lemurPhilippine flying lemurSiberian flying squirrelSunda flying lemuraflyas the crow fliesas the gull fliesas the raven fliesbackspot flying fishbeflybuild the plane while flying itcould eat the arse out of a low flying duckcould eat the crotch out of a low flying duckcould eat the crutch from a low flying duckdon't drive faster than your guardian angel can flyfill and flyflag-flyingfly a deskfly and flopfly apartfly atfly bakerfly blindfly bombfly byfly by the seat of one's pantsfly highfly infly in the face offly intofly lowfly offfly off the shelvesfly outfly out of the blocksfly out of the trapsfly the blue pigeonfly the coop