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fly in

fly in verb: to use a flying switch to switch train cars.

Verb

fly in (third-person singular simple present flies in, present participle flying in, simple past flew in, past participle flown in)

  1. (intransitive) To use a flying switch to switch train cars.
  2. To land at an airfield.
    • Near by is the RAF museum at Duxford Airfield, open at weekends, which has a large display of aircraft. Trapped there is the prototype Concorde, which flew in but can never fly out, because the runway was shortened to make way for a motorway immediately after its arrival.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 233

Forms of fly in

third-person singular presentflies in
present participleflying in
pastflew in
past participleflown in

Questions about fly in

What does fly in mean?
Fly in means to use a flying switch to switch train cars.
What part of speech is fly in?
Fly in is a verb.
What is the past tense of fly in?
The past tense of fly in is flew in.

Words near fly in in the dictionary

  1. fly fungi
  2. fly fungus
  3. fly grazing
  4. fly half
  5. fly high
  6. fly in
  7. fly in the buttermilk
  8. fly in the face of
  9. fly in the ointment
  10. fly into
  11. fly into a rage

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