fly-over
(ˈflaɪəʊvə(r))
[f. verbal phr. to fly over (see fly v.1 9 c).]
1. A railway or road bridge over another (e.g. a local over a main) line or road. Also fig. Similarly fly-under, a line or road under another. Both words also attrib.
| 1901 Daily News 5 Jan. 6/5 The junction for the Aldershot branch..is being..rearranged on the ‘fly-over’ system, that is, the down line..remains as it was, but a new one..is being brought over the top of the main line by means of a skew bridge... This ‘fly-over’..will abolish a fruitful source of delay. 1930 Engineering 7 Nov. 596/1 At Cogload Junction a fly-over bridge..will be built. 1937 Daily Express 7 Apr. 8/4 Whitehall's idea now is that great motoring highways be driven across the parks from one end to the other. They would meet at fly-overs, where one road would be built over the other. 1937 Archit. Rev. LXXXI. 158 (caption) Fly-over [road] crossing. 1938 Times 26 Jan. 14/4 The council also approved schemes for the construction of a fly-over junction on the Sutton by-pass road at its junction with the Merton–Belmont road. Ibid. 8 Nov. 11/6 The scheme has involved the construction of a ‘fly-under’ bridge under the present electric lines near North Acton. 1961 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 15/3 ‘Fly-under’ on old railway. Ibid., A stretch of abandoned railway line is to be converted into a ‘fly-under’ junction. 1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use viii. 183 This kind of symbolic language can use vocabulary that is apparently very simple..but conceals a tracery of fly-overs from literal to metaphorical terrain. 1963 [see elevated ppl. a. 1]. 1970 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 May 2/3 The fly-over freeway leading from Tokyo International Airport to the centre of the world's biggest city. |
2. = fly-past; the passage of an aircraft over (an area).
| 1931 Times 5 Sept. 10/7 The fly-over, though robbed of the excitement of a race, should nevertheless afford a fine spectacle. 1953 Time 30 Mar. 25/1 On his way to England, four other Britons had been killed during a 60-plane ‘flyover’ staged at Gibraltar. 1971 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 2/6 Concorde's approach and fly-over noise was less than that of the..Boeing 707. |