Meaning of "fling" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLING

Of Scandinavian origin; related to Old Norse flengja to flog, Swedish flänga, Danish flænge.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLING

fling  [flɪŋ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLING

Fling is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb fling in English.

WHAT DOES FLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fling

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Definition of fling in the English dictionary

The first definition of fling in the dictionary is to throw, esp with force or abandon; hurl or toss. Other definition of fling is to put or send without warning or preparation. Fling is also to move with abandon or speed.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLING

PRESENT

Present

I fling

you fling

he/she/it flings

we fling

you fling

they fling

Present continuous

I am flinging

you are flinging

he/she/it is flinging

we are flinging

you are flinging

they are flinging

Present perfect

I have flung

you have flung

he/she/it has flung

we have flung

you have flung

they have flung

Present perfect continuous

I have been flinging

you have been flinging

he/she/it has been flinging

we have been flinging

you have been flinging

they have been flinging

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I flung

you flung

he/she/it flung

we flung

you flung

they flung

Past continuous

I was flinging

you were flinging

he/she/it was flinging

we were flinging

you were flinging

they were flinging

Past perfect

I had flung

you had flung

he/she/it had flung

we had flung

you had flung

they had flung

Past perfect continuous

I had been flinging

you had been flinging

he/she/it had been flinging

we had been flinging

you had been flinging

they had been flinging

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will fling

you will fling

he/she/it will fling

we will fling

you will fling

they will fling

Future continuous

I will be flinging

you will be flinging

he/she/it will be flinging

we will be flinging

you will be flinging

they will be flinging

Future perfect

I will have flung

you will have flung

he/she/it will have flung

we will have flung

you will have flung

they will have flung

Future perfect continuous

I will have been flinging

you will have been flinging

he/she/it will have been flinging

we will have been flinging

you will have been flinging

they will have been flinging

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would fling

you would fling

he/she/it would fling

we would fling

you would fling

they would fling

Conditional continuous

I would be flinging

you would be flinging

he/she/it would be flinging

we would be flinging

you would be flinging

they would be flinging

Conditional perfect

I would have fling

you would have fling

he/she/it would have fling

we would have fling

you would have fling

they would have fling

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been flinging

you would have been flinging

he/she/it would have been flinging

we would have been flinging

you would have been flinging

they would have been flinging

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you fling
we let´s fling
you fling

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to fling

Past participle

flung

Present Participle

flinging

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «FLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fling» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of fling

affair · amour · attempt · bash · beano · binge · cast · catapult · chuck · crack · dalliance · flirtation · gamble · go · heave · hurl · indulgence · involvement · jerk · launch · let fly · liaison · lob · party · pitch · precipitate · propel · rave · rave-up · relationship · send · shot · shy · sling · spree · stab · throw · toss · trial · try · venture · whirl

TRANSLATION OF FLING

Find out the translation of fling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of fling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fling» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 猛冲
• Translator English - Spanish: lanzar
• English: fling
• Translator English - Hindi: मनोविनोद
• Translator English - Arabic: يَطْرَحُ
• Translator English - Russian: швырнуть
• Translator English - Portuguese: arremessar
• Translator English - Bengali: ছোড়া
• Translator English - French: jeter
• Translator English - Malay: Melemparkan
• Translator English - German: schleudern
• Translator English - Japanese: 投げ飛ばす
• Translator English - Korean: 던지다
• Translator English - Javanese: Fling
• Translator English - Vietnamese: quăng
• Translator English - Tamil: இன்பந்தோய்ப்பதையே
• Translator English - Marathi: हेलकावा
• Translator English - Turkish: fırlatmak
• Translator English - Italian: lanciare
• Translator English - Polish: rzucić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: жбурляти
• Translator English - Romanian: a arunca
• Translator English - Greek: εκσφενδονίζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: fling
• Translator English - Swedish: kasta
• Translator English - Norwegian: slynge

10 QUOTES WITH «FLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fling.

1

Pierce Brown

There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak.

2

Drew Busby

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.

3

George Crabbe

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

4

Matthew Green

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

5

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.

6

Caity Lotz

We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

7

Rory McCann

In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.

8

Carey Mulligan

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

9

Camille Paglia

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

10

Dan Stevens

A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLING»

Discover the use of fling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Fling

Three months before her wedding to her post-college sweetheart, reality show producer Annie Collins finally acknowledges her dormant desires.

Rebekah Weatherspoon, 2012

Spring Fling

A brand-new comic holiday romance from the author of Secret Santa and Be Mine!

Sabrina James, 2010

Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and ...

With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You'll also explore the more advanced capabilities of the mobile web, including markup, advanced styling techniques, and mobile Ajax.

Brian Fling, 2009

Highland Fling

After a fight with her boyfriend, a business trip to Scotland is the perfect diversion for Jenny Porter, who works as a virtual assistant for a financial executive.

Katie Fforde, 2003

Millie's Fling

He's also the worst. He's Millie's Fling. From one of the premiere contemporary authors in the UK, here is a fun and romantic tale that proves the road to matchmaking hilarity is paved with good intentions.

Jill Mansell, 2009

Marionettes: How to Make and Work Them

This is the complete book of marionette craft, covering every step from conception and construction to performance.

Helen Fling, 2012

With This Fling...

Smoking-hot Grey is definitely fling material, but Charlotte knows that's all it can ever be…. Isn't it?

Kelly Hunter, 2011

Her Singapore Fling

In desperate need of protection, Jianne Xang-Bennett reluctantly turns to her estranged husband, martial arts expert Jacob Bennett, for help.

Kelly Hunter, 2011

The Wedding Fling

Celebrity Scandal!

Meg Maguire, 2013

The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff Janeway Novel

The estate can't be distributed until the books are valued, so there's pressure on Janeway to do the job quickly. But one look at the books tells Janeway something's wrong. Valuable titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints.

John Dunning, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fling is used in the context of the following news items.

Fancy a fling at British Open terms? Take in with a twist | More …

We call it the British Open. Silly colonials; had we remained under the auspices of Great Britain our golf language would have much different. «SportingNews.com, Jul 15»

Looking for love or a brief fling? New map shows where to find the …

Dating site EliteSingles have worked out which cities have people with the highest libidos, and which are not so up for sex... Share; Share ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

Amazon Fling is the Fire TV's answer to Chromecast - TechHive

Fling aims to turn existing iOS and Android apps into remote controls for Amazon's streaming stick and set-top box. As long as the Fire TV is on ... «TechHive, Jul 15»

Amazon Fling is the Fire TV's answer to Chromecast

Fire TV users could soon have similar functionality to Google's Chromecast dongle with a new feature called Amazon Fling. Fling aims to turn ... «PCWorld, Jul 15»

Amazon tool aims to help you 'fling' shows onto Fire TV

Taking on competitors like Chromecast and Apple TV, Amazon releases "Fling," a toolkit that lets developers build into their apps the ability to ... «CNET, Jul 15»

One Direction: Niall Horan & Louise Thompson's fling confirmed …

There have been plenty of rumours and a LOT of speculation over the years but today we have final confirmation that One Direction star Niall ... «Unreality TV, Jul 15»

Amazon Fling will make Amazon Fire TV even better

Amazon's latest project in the media streaming space, Amazon Fling, will make sending online videos and other media from a device to ... «wTVPC, Jul 15»

REVIEW: Dirty Dancing brings the perfect summer fling for film's fans …

"NOBODY leaves Baby in the corner". If those words mean anything to you, chances are you'll be at Bradford's Alhambra theatre sometime over ... «Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Jul 15»

Proof That Hank Baskett's Fibbing Over Transsexual Fling - The …

A year after The National ENQUIRER exposed his cheating with a transsexual, KENDRA WILKINSON'S wayward husband HANK BASKETT ... «The National Enquirer, Jul 15»

Left-Wing Scottish Muslim Minister Wants Britain To Fling Open Its …

The Islamist-linked radical at the heart of Scotland's devolved government has castigated David Cameron for not signing up to the European ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»