Word Meanings - FLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw. flänga to romp, Dan. flenge to 1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond. 'T is Fate that flings the dice:

Additional info about word: FLING

furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw. flänga to romp, Dan. flenge to 1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond. 'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings. Dryden. He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. Dryden. I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire. Addison. 2. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter. The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope. 3. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole. To fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter. -- To fling away, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. Shak. --To fling down. To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. Tennyson. To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. -- To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLING)

• Cast
• Hurl
• send down
• throw
• fling
• pitch
• impel
• project
• construct
• mold
• frame
• Throw
• Fling
• cast
• hurl
• toss
• propel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLING)

• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to FLING)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• FLET
  Skimmed.
• FLEAMY
  Bloody; clotted. Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• DEFLUOUS
  Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.