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blackfly: any of several black or dark-colored insects: as a small two-winged biting fly of Simulium and related genera whose larvae live in flowing usu. clear streams - called also buffalo gnat.
Category: Botany and zoology

blackfly: any of several black or dark-colored insects: as a small two-winged biting fly of Simulium and related general whose larvae live in flowing usu. clear streams - called also buffalo gnat.
Category: Botany and zoology

bob-fly: in angling, a second artificial fly that bobs on the water, to indicate the position of the end-fly
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

butterfly: a spread established by combining a bull spread/bear spread between the strikes X1 and X2 and a bear spread/bull spread between the strikes X2 and X3,with X1 < X2 < X3 and X3-X2= X2-X1,all options having an identical expiration date
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

butterfly: fluid-flow valve in form of pivoted plate, usually with jointing strip along either or both sides
Category: Mechanical engineering

butterfly: part of dan leno assembly.L-shaped or triangular steel plate shackled between dan leno spindle and legs
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

dry-fly: a hook covered with feathers, coloured silk,...to resemble an insect used as a lure in fishing and floating on the water
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

fly: Waste fibres that fly out into the atmosphere during carding,drawing,spinning,and other processes.
Category: Various industries and crafts

fly: to hang scenery...above the stage by means of lines...so that it may be raised into the flies...or lowered into view
Category: General

fly-by: the passage of an interplanetary vehicle(moving on a planetocentric hyperbola)by a planet without going into orbit,entering atmosphere,or landing on the surface.May or may not involve the application of thrust
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

fly-leaf: the page between the cover and the frontispiece of a book
Category: Printing and publishing

fly-tipping: dumping of rubbish anywhere(and not at official rubbish dumps)
Category: Environment

flyback: in television,the return of the electron beam from the end of a line or field to the commencement of the next
Category: News-systems and communications

flyer: single-sheet printed announcement or advertisement
Category: General

flyer: an inverted U-shaped device which sets on the spindle top and revolves with it.It has a solid arm and a hollow arm
Category: Various industries and crafts

FLYER: a supplementary catalog (as of a mail-order house)..also written flyer../WEBIN 66 1-../..--pages publicitaires insérées dans des journaux à l`occasion.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

flying-spot: in optical character recognition,a device employing a moving spot of light to scan a sample space,the intensity of the transmitted or reflected light being sensed by a photoelectric transducer
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

flying-spot: a cathode-ray tube used to produce a point light source that is moved to scan a physical object such as a transparency
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

flyover: a) an intersection of two roads at which one is carried over the other by a bridge; b) such a bridge
Category: Management in the public and private sector

flyrock: the rock fragments which are thrown and scattered during quarry or tunnel blasting
Category: Mining

flysch: 1)strictly, sandy and calcareous strata of late Cretaceous and early Tertiary age in the Swiss Alps, formed just before the main mountain upheaval; 2)hence, by extension, any immediately pre-orogenic formation, in contrast to the post-orogenic molasse
Category: The cosmos

flytower: the structure to accommodate the mechanism for raising and lowering the scenery ('flies'); fly loft)
Category: Building industry

flyunder: a subsurface structure carrying one guideway below another,the two lines being on opposite sides to each other at the two ends of the flyunder
Category: Transport

flywheel: a heavy wheel whose purpose is to store kinetic energy
Category: Mechanical engineering

flywheel: a heavy wheel attached to machinery to keep the speed even.
Category: Mechanical engineering

gadfly: D.one that stimulates or provoques to activity and esp. to the analysis and defense of ideas by persistent criticism esp. of an irritating pointed kind.
Category: Education

night-flying: chart eliminating all detail unseen at night but emphasizing lights,navaids and fields with night facilities
Category: Transport

sawfly: a member of the Hymenopterous super-family Tenthredinoidea,whose larvae feed on foliage,generally conifers and often gregariously
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

wet-fly: a method of fishing with fly immersed in the water
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

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