Flyer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Flyer	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flyer n an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" Synonym(s): circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway someone who travels by air Synonym(s): flier, flyer someone who operates an aircraft Synonym(s): aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flyer \Fly"er\, n. [See {Flier}.] 1. One that uses wings. 2. The fly of a flag: See {Fly}, n., 6. 3. Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc. 4. (Arch.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder. 5. The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See {Fly}, n., 11. 6. The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers. --Internat. Cyc. 7. (Stock Jobbing) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture. [Cant] --Bartlett.