Drive and Flying

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Drive noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

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Flying and drive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Flying" instead a noun "Drive".

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Flying noun - Travel through the air by the use of wings.

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Drive and flying are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a noun "Flying".

Nearby Words: fly, flyer, flyover

A flying ship kept airborne by a wizard's spell would not count as an example of this trope (though a flying ship that uses magic to drive a hundred tiny propellers very well might).

Source: Those Magnificent Flying Machines
One Calvin and Hobbes strip has an Imagine Spot where Calvin's dad lets him drive, and instead the car starts flying.

Source: Readings Blew Up the Scale
While other flying car designs are more like "airplanes you can drive on the road", this I-TEC design is more like "a car that can also fly".

Source: Flying Car

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