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fly
Verb
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To move through the air without touching the ground
The bird will fly away in the winter.
The airplane flies very high in the air.
He was the first person to fly a plane around the world.
fly
Noun
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A fly is a type of small insect with wings
I won't eat my soup because there's a fly in it.
There are many flies near the garbage.
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In baseball a ball that goes high in the air.
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The piece of cloth hiding the zipper, buttons at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, or underpants.
a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
flag
Noun
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A flag is a piece of cloth, usually marked with a colourful symbol or sign.
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A flag flown by a ship is to show the presence on board of the admiral (the leader of a group of ships); the admiral himself; or his flagship.
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The use of a flag, especially to show the start of a race or other event.
Be ready to start running immediately at the flag.
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On a computer, a flag is a variable or place in the computer's memory that keeps a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, usually either recording the fact that a certain event has happened or asking for a certain action to happen if it's an action that doesn't always happen.
flag
Verb
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If you mark with a flag, it shows the importance of something.
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(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a car that's driving past, etc.
Please flag a taxi down for me.
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When a person flags, the person becomes weak, tired or feeble.
His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
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To signal or mark something that happened.
The compiler flagged three errors.
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To set the value of a variable in a computer program to true.
Flag the debug option before running the program.