fly across

1) – nou

2) a type of small winged insect.

3) a fish hook made to look like a fly so that a fish will take it in its mouth:

4) ( often in plural) a piece of material with buttons or a zip, especially at the front of trousers.

1) to (make something) go through the air on wings etc or in an aeroplane:

2) to run away (from):

3) (of time) to pass quickly:

fly (across, over, about, past); flutter, flit (about, around, to and fro)

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прехвръ̀квам,

гл. fly (across, over, about, past); flutter, flit (about, around, to and fro).

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flutter

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1. v/t civil aviation fly over

2. v/i fig : sorvolare su skim over, skip

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sorvolare v.tr. e intr.

1 to fly* over (sthg.), to overfly*: l'aeroplano sorvolò la valle, the plane flew over the valley; sorvolare (su) un territorio, to fly over a territory

2 ( passar sopra) to pass over (sthg.), to overlook (sthg.); (fam.) to skip (sthg.): sorvoliamo su questo punto, let's pass over this point; sorvolare sulle difficoltà, to pass over difficulties // sorvoliamo!, let's skip it!

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verbo transitivo [aereo, pilota] to fly* over, to fly* across, to overfly* [ luogo]

verbo intransitivo (aus. avere)

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sorvolare

/sorvo'lare/ [1]

I verbo transitivo

 [aereo, pilota] to fly* over, to fly* across, to overfly* [ luogo]

II verbo intransitivo

 (aus. avere) sorvolare su to pass o gloss over, to overlook [questione, errore]; sorvoliamo! let's skip it!

traverser [tʀavεʀse]

➭ TABLE 1 transitive verb

   a. [personne, véhicule] to cross ; [+ ville, forêt, tunnel] to go through

• traverser une rivière à la nage to swim across a river

• traverser une rivière en bac to take a ferry across a river

• il traversa le salon à grands pas he strode across the living room

   b. [tunnel] to cross under ; [pont, route] to cross

• le fleuve/cette route traverse tout le pays the river/this road runs right across the country

• ce tunnel traverse les Alpes this tunnel crosses under the Alps

   c. ( = percer) [projectile, infiltration] to go or come through

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► traverser se traduira par to come through ou par to go through suivant que le locuteur se trouve ou non à l'endroit en question.

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• la balle a traversé la paroi avant de m'atteindre the bullet came through the wall and hit me

• traverser qch de part en part to go right through sth

• une douleur lui traversa le poignet a pain shot through his wrist

• ça ne m'a jamais traversé l'esprit it never crossed my mind

   d. ( = passer à travers) traverser la foule to make one's way through the crowd

   e. (dans le temps) [+ période, crise] to go through

• sa gloire a traversé les siècles his glory travelled down the ages

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1) ( passer d'un côté à l'autre) to cross [route, pont, frontière]; to cross, to go across [ville, montagne, océan, pays, pièce]; ( passer à travers) to go through, to pass through [ville, pays, forêt, tunnel]; to make one's way through [groupe, foule]

2) ( franchir) [rivière] to run through, to flow through [région, plaine]; [route, tunnel] to go through [ville, région, montagne]; [pont, rivière] to cross [voie ferrée, ville]

3) ( transpercer) [humidité, pluie] to come through [vêtement, mur]

4) ( passer par une période) to go through [crise, difficulté]; to live through, to go through [guerre, occupation]

5) fig ( se présenter de manière fugitive) [douleur] to shoot through

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1) (= franchir) [rue, mer, pont] to cross

2) (= passer par) [ville, tunnel] to go through

3) (= percer) to go through

4) (= pénétrer) to go through

5) [ligne, trait] to run across

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traverser verb table: aimer vtr

1 ( passer d'un côté à l'autre) to cross [route, pont, frontière]; to cross, to go across [ville, montagne, océan, pays, pièce]; ( passer à travers) to go through, to pass through [ville, pays, forêt, tunnel]; to make one's way through [groupe, foule]; il traversa le salon pour aller dans la chambre he went ou passed through the living-room to get to the bedroom; l'avion traverse une zone de turbulences the aircraft is going through a spot of turbulence; il traversa le jardin en courant he ran across the garden GB ou yard US; traverser le lac en bateau to cross ou go across the lake in a boat; traverser le lac à la nage to swim across the lake; traverser (une rivière) à gué to ford a river; il a traversé sans regarder he crossed the road without looking; maintenant, on traverse now let's cross over;

2 ( franchir) [rivière] to go through, to flow through [région, plaine]; [route, tunnel] to go through [ville, région, montagne]; [pont, rivière] to cross [voie ferrée, ville];

3 ( transpercer) [humidité, pluie] to come through [vêtement, mur]; la balle lui a traversé le bras the bullet went ou passed right through his arm;

4 ( passer par une période) [population, pays, entreprise] to go through [crise, difficulté]; [personne] to live through, to go through [guerre, occupation]; ( subsister) liter [manuscrit, nom] to live on through [siècles]; [pratique, tradition] to persist through [temps, générations]; ils ont traversé des moments difficiles they've gone through some difficult times;

5 fig ( se présenter de manière fugitive) [douleur] to shoot through [personne, membre]; traverser l'esprit de qn to cross sb's mind.

[travɛrse] verbe transitif

1. [parcourir - mer, pièce, route] to go across (inseparable), to cross, to traverse (soutenu) ; [ - pont] to go over ou across (inseparable) ; [ - tunnel] to go ou to pass through (inseparable)

2. [s'étirer d'un côté à l'autre de - suj: voie] to cross, to run ou to go across (inseparable) ; [ - suj: pont] to cross, to span ; [ - suj: tunnel] to cross, to run ou to go under (inseparable)

3. [vivre - époque] to live ou to go through (inseparable) ; [ - difficultés] to pass ou to go through (inseparable)

4. [transpercer - suj: épée] to run through (inseparable), to pierce ; [ - suj: balle] to go through (inseparable) ; [ - suj: pluie, froid] to come ou to go through (inseparable)

strada, confine cross

attraversare un momento difficile be going through a bad time

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attraversare v.tr.

1 to cross, to go* across; to pass through (a place): il ponte attraversa il fiume, the bridge crosses (o spans) the river; attraversare una strada, to cross (o to go across o to walk across) a road; quel pensiero mi attraversò la mente, that thought crossed my mind; attraversare a nuoto un fiume, to swim across a river; attraversare un bosco, to walk through a wood; attraversare una città, to go (o to pass) through a town; attraversare di corsa una strada, to run across a road; attraversare in aereo, to fly across; attraversare in bicicletta, in automobile, a cavallo un paese, to cycle, to drive, to ride through a country // attraversare un periodo difficile, to go through a difficult period; attraversare il cammino di qlcu., to get in s.o.'s way (o to cross o to thwart s.o.'s plans)

2 (mar.) attraversare l'ancora, to fish the anchor.

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verbo transitivo

1) (passare attraverso) to cross, to go* across [strada, fiume, ponte, confine]; to cross, to travel across [paese, città]

2) (percorrere da una parte all'altra) [ fiume] to cross, to flow* through; [ strada] to go* through, to run* through [città, regione]; [ tunnel] to go* under, to run* under [ città]; to run* through [ montagna]; (oltrepassare) [ ponte] to cross [strada, ferrovia, fiume]

3) (passare) to get* through

4) (trafiggere) [ lancia] to go* through, to pierce [ corpo]

5) fig.

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attraversare

/attraver'sare/ [1]

verbo transitivo

 1 (passare attraverso) to cross, to go* across [strada, fiume, ponte, confine]; to cross, to travel across [paese, città]; attraversare qcs. di corsa, a nuoto, a piedi to run, swim, walk across sth.

 2 (percorrere da una parte all'altra) [ fiume] to cross, to flow* through; [ strada] to go* through, to run* through [città, regione]; [ tunnel] to go* under, to run* under [ città]; to run* through [ montagna]; (oltrepassare) [ ponte] to cross [strada, ferrovia, fiume]; "vietato attraversare i binari" "do not cross the rails o tracks"

 3 (passare) to get* through; attraversare un periodo di crisi to go through a crisis; attraversare un brutto momento to have a hard o tough time (of it), to go through the hoops o through a critical patch

 4 (trafiggere) [ lancia] to go* through, to pierce [ corpo]

 5 fig. attraversare la mente di qcn. [ pensiero] to float through o cross sb.'s mind.

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trasvolare v.tr. to fly* across (sthg.): trasvolare l'oceano, to fly across the ocean

◆ v. intr. to pass over (sthg.) (anche fig.): trasvolare su un argomento, to pass over a subject.

1) General subject: elapse, flee (the clouds fled before the wind - ветер рассеял облака), flit past, fly (to fly across the continent - лететь через (весь) континент), fly over, sail, scud, slip, slip away (о времени), steal by (о годах), race by (пролететь незаметно - о времени (НАПРИМЕР weeks raced by))

2) Slang: lose

несовер. - перелетать; совер. - перелететь

1) fly (across, over)

2) fly (куда-нибудь); flit

3) fly too far, overshoot (the mark)

praeter-vŏlo, āre, v. n. and a., to fly by or past (class.).

Lit.:

praetervolans aquila,

Suet. Claud. 7.—With acc.:

quem praetervolat Ales,

Cic. Arat. 412.—

Transf., to fly or sail over, fly across:

hasta medias praetervolat auras,

Sil. 10, 114:

puppe lacum praetervolat,

Claud. B. G. 321;

in tmesi: Etrusca praeter et volate litora,

Hor. Epod. 16, 40.—

Trop., to slip by, to escape:

sententiae saepe acutae non acutorum hominum sensus praetervolant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 223:

dum sententias animis attentis excipiunt, fugit eos et praetervolat numerus,

slips away, escapes, id. Or. 58, 197:

haec duo proposita non praetervolant, sed ita dilatant, ut, etc.,

i. e. do not pass over cursorily, id. Ac. 2, 13, 42.

1. to cross [in an aeroplane]

2. to fly above

3. to fly across

4. to fly over

5. to overfly

6. to scan

7. to skim

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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John Kay was the youngest of five sons of a yeoman farmer of Walmersley, near Bury, Lancashire, who died before his birth. John was apprenticed to a reedmaker, and just before he was 21 he married a daughter of John Hall of Bury and carried on his trade in that town until 1733. It is possible that his first patent, taken out in 1730, was connected with this business because it was for an engine that made mohair thread for tailors and twisted and dressed thread; such thread could have been used to bind up the reeds used in looms. He also improved the reeds by making them from metal instead of cane strips so they lasted much longer and could be made to be much finer. His next patent in 1733, was a double one. One part of it was for a batting machine to remove dust from wool by beating it with sticks, but the patent is better known for its description of the flying shuttle. Kay placed boxes to receive the shuttle at either end of the reed or sley. Across the open top of these boxes was a metal rod along which a picking peg could slide and drive the shuttle out across the loom. The pegs at each end were connected by strings to a stick that was held in the right hand of the weaver and which jerked the shuttle out of the box. The shuttle had wheels to make it "fly" across the warp more easily, and ran on a shuttle race to support and guide it. Not only was weaving speeded up, but the weaver could produce broader cloth without any aid from a second person. This invention was later adapted for the power loom. Kay moved to Colchester and entered into partnership with a baymaker named Solomon Smith and a year later was joined by William Carter of Ballingdon, Essex. His shuttle was received with considerable hostility in both Lancashire and Essex, but it was probably more his charge of 15 shillings a year for its use that roused the antagonism. From 1737 he was much involved with lawsuits to try and protect his patent, particularly the part that specified the method of winding the thread onto a fixed bobbin in the shuttle. In 1738 Kay patented a windmill for working pumps and an improved chain pump, but neither of these seems to have been successful. In 1745, with Joseph Stell of Keighley, he patented a narrow fabric loom that could be worked by power; this type may have been employed by Gartside in Manchester soon afterwards. It was probably through failure to protect his patent rights that Kay moved to France, where he arrived penniless in 1747. He went to the Dutch firm of Daniel Scalongne, woollen manufacturers, in Abbeville. The company helped him to apply for a French patent for his shuttle, but Kay wanted the exorbitant sum of £10,000. There was much discussion and eventually Kay set up a workshop in Paris, where he received a pension of 2,500 livres. However, he was to face the same problems as in England with weavers copying his shuttle without permission. In 1754 he produced two machines for making card clothing: one pierced holes in the leather, while the other cut and sharpened the wires. These were later improved by his son, Robert Kay. Kay returned to England briefly, but was back in France in 1758. He was involved with machines to card both cotton and wool and tried again to obtain support from the French Government. He was still involved with developing textile machines in 1779, when he was 75, but he must have died soon afterwards. As an inventor Kay was a genius of the first rank, but he was vain, obstinate and suspicious and was destitute of business qualities.

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to fly across.

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VT to fly over, cross in an aeroplane

1. to fly across

2. to fly over