FLIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flies mean? 

• FLIES (noun)
  The noun FLIES has 1 sense:

1. (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

  Familiarity information: FLIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("flies" is a kind of...):

space (an area reserved for some particular purpose)

Domain category:

dramatic art; dramatics; dramaturgy; theater; theatre (the art of writing and producing plays)

 Context examples 

Previous studies on flies showed that genetically engineering dopamine-releasing nerve cells to overproduce the LRRK2 mutant protein induced nerve cell damage and movement disorders.

(Too much protein may kill brain cells as Parkinson’s progresses, NINDS)

It is transmitted by ticks, flies and mosquitoes.

(Bartonella Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result, the flies, which had previously slowed down after receiving the bacterium or Xi, resumed their speedwalking behavior.

(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)

By making them happen; just as he used to send in the flies when the sun was shining.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this study, they suggested that altering Cdk5 resulted in the death of dopamine releasing neurons, especially in the brains of older flies.

(New study implicates hyperactive immune system in aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)

The flyby of 2004 BL86 will be the closest by any known space rock this large until asteroid 1999 AN10 flies past Earth in 2027.

(Asteroid to Fly By Earth on January 26, NASA)

It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned away, but came back again in ever-increasing companies.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Species ranging from fruit flies to trout can learn about food using social transmission.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)