flyer

flyer

See also: Flyer

English

Flyer (5) advertising a rave party

Flyers (architecture, sense 7)

Alternative forms

• flier (American), except in the sense of “leaflet”

Etymology

fly +‎ -er.With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Noun

flyer (plural flyers)

1. That which flies, as a bird or insect.
2. A machine that flies.
3. (dated) An airplane pilot.

   Synonyms: aviator, aviatrix

4. A person who travels by airplane.
5. A leaflet, often for advertising.

   Synonyms: circular, leaflet

   Coordinate terms: booklet, brochure, catalogue, pamphlet

6. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
7. (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
8. (acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.

   Coordinate term: base

9. (firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
10. A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
11. A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
12. A leap or jump.
13. A risky investment or other venture.
14. (informal) A fast-moving person or thing.
    • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

      The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute.

15. (sports) A false start

Derived terms

• blue flyer
• blue pigeon flyer
• frequent flyer
• high flyer
• high-flyer
• take a flyer

 

Translations

machine that flies

Italian: velivolo (it) Macedonian: ле́тало n (létalo) Portuguese: voador (pt) m Russian: лета́тельный аппара́т (ru) m (letátelʹnyj apparát)

someone who pilots or rides in an airplane

Arabic: طَيَّار‎ (ṭayyār) Bulgarian: летец (bg) m (letec) French: pilote (fr) German: Flieger (de) Irish: eitleoir m Italian: volatore Macedonian: ле́тач m (létač) Polish: awiator (pl) m (archaic), lotnik (pl) m Portuguese: piloto (pt) m Russian: лётчик (ru) m (ljótčik) Spanish: piloto (es) Tagalog: manlilipad

leaflet, often for advertising — See also translations at leaflet

Armenian: թռուցիկ (hy) (tʿṙucʿik), շրջաբերական (hy) (šrǰaberakan) Belarusian: лісто́ўка f (listóŭka), улётка f (uljótka) Bulgarian: листо́вка (bg) f (listóvka) Chinese: Mandarin: 傳單／传单 (zh) (chuándān) Czech: leták (cs) m Dutch: flyer (nl) m Estonian: lendleht, flaier Finnish: lentolehtinen (fi), lennäkki, mainoslehtinen, joukkokirje French: tract (fr), prospectus (fr), flyer (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Flugblatt (de) n, Flyer (de) m, Rundschreiben (de) n, Handzettel m Greek: εγκύκλιος (el) f (egkýklios) Hebrew: עלון‎ (he) m ('alón), פלייר / פלאייר‎ m (fláyer) Irish: bileoigín m Italian: annuncio (it), volantino (it), opuscolo Japanese: 散らし (ちらし, chirashi), チラシ (chirashi), フライヤー (furaiyā), 檄 (ja) (geki) Korean: 플라이어 (ko) (peullaieo), 전단(傳單) (ko) (jeondan) Macedonian: леток m (letok) Maori: mātārere, tawhera Norwegian: flyveblad, flygeblad, løpeseddel Polish: ulotka (pl) f Portuguese: folheto (pt) m, panfleto (pt) m, circular (pt) f Romanian: foaie volantă (ro) f Russian: листо́вка (ru) f (listóvka), фла́ер (ru) m (flájer) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: летак m Roman: letak (sh) m Spanish: volante (es) m, octavilla (es) f, circular (es) Swedish: cirkulär (sv) n Tagalog: palibot Thai: ใบปลิว (th) (bai-bpliu) Turkish: el ilanı, broşür (tr) Ukrainian: листі́вка f (lystívka) Vietnamese: tờ quảng cáo, tờ rơi, tờ bướm, truyền đơn (vi) (傳單) Walloon: afitchete-riclame (wa) f

part of a spinning machine

Dutch: vleugel (nl) m Finnish: lyhty (fi), siipi (fi) French: broche (fr) f, épinglier (fr) m German: Spinnflügel m Italian: aspo m Welsh: fflei m

architecture: connecting arch

Finnish: tukikaari (fi) German: Strebebogen m

person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons

Finnish: nousija (fi)

shooting: stray shot away from the group on a target

standard rectangular step of a staircase

Bulgarian: стъпало (bg) n (stǎpalo) Finnish: suora porras

female kangaroo

Finnish: naaraskenguru Swedish: känguru (sv) c, känguruhona c

leap or jump

Finnish: loikka (fi)

risky investment or other venture

Verb

flyer (third-person singular simple present flyers, present participle flyering, simple past and past participle flyered)

1. (intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).
   • 2012, Mark Fisher, quoting Neil McKinnon, The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 156:

     Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.

2. (transitive) To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).

Further reading

• flyer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• refly

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English flyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.jœʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

flyer m (plural flyers)

1. flyer (leaflet)

   Synonyms: affiche, affichette