flyover

«flyover» in Mova's school dictionary: a bridge that carries one road over another road or railway — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a flyover, flyovers)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia) A flyover is a bridge that carries one road over another road or railway. tree →

2) (US) A flyover, also flypast (UK), is a planned flight of aircraft low over a place for a show or ceremony. tree →

3) (US informal) «Flyover country» is a joking name for the middle states of the USA that people fly over between the coasts. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday travel and geography (roads and junctions); ceremonies (the Red Arrows flypast). Phrases: go over the flyover, under the flyover, military flyover.

examples

• The bus went over the flyover into town. tree →
• The skateboarders met under the flyover. tree →
• (US) Jets did a flyover at the football game. tree →
• The new flyover stops traffic jams at the junction. tree →
• In the UK, the Red Arrows do a flypast, which Americans call a flyover. tree →
• We could see the river from the top of the flyover. tree →

note

US English often says overpass for the road bridge. Countable. One word.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flyover» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.