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Flight

//flaɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Fast, swift, fleet. obsolete

Noun

1
The act of flying. countable, uncountable
"Most birds are capable of flight."
2
The act of fleeing. countable, uncountable
"take flight"
3
the act of escaping physically wordnet
4
An instance of flying. countable, uncountable
"The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa."
5
a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports wordnet

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6
A collective term for doves or swallows. collective, countable, uncountable
"a flight of swallows"
7
an instance of traveling by air wordnet
8
A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance. countable, uncountable
"The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight."
9
a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next wordnet
10
A series of stairs between landings. countable, uncountable
"Limerick terminus has changed but little since its opening, and travellers still ascend the same flight of steps from the forecourt to enter the handsome two-storey stone building, which contains the offices and a recently-modernised refreshment room."
11
passing above and beyond ordinary bounds wordnet
12
A group of canal locks with a short distance between them countable, uncountable
13
an air force unit smaller than a squadron wordnet
14
A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators. countable, uncountable
"How many flights is it up?"
15
a formation of aircraft in flight wordnet
16
The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path. countable, uncountable
"Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft / I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight / The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch / To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, / I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]"
17
a flock of flying birds wordnet
18
A paper airplane. countable, uncountable
19
the path followed by an object moving through space wordnet
20
The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift. countable, uncountable
21
The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile. countable, uncountable
22
An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory. countable, uncountable
23
An air force unit. countable, uncountable
24
A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design. US, countable, uncountable
25
Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples. countable, uncountable
26
A comparable sample of beers or other drinks. broadly, countable, uncountable
27
The shaped material forming the thread of a screw. countable, uncountable
28
An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming. countable, uncountable
"a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination"
29
An advertising campaign of fixed length. countable, uncountable
"After the first eight-week flight of advertising, the tracking research showed that consumers' predisposition to use Citi as a financial services provider jumped 50 percent."

Verb

1
To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
2
decorate with feathers wordnet
3
To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual. broadly, transitive
"Riyad Mahrez flighted the free-kick that followed to the far post and Morgan, with not much finesse but plenty of desire, bundled the ball over the line. Cue pandemonium in the stands."
4
fly in a flock wordnet
5
shoot a bird in flight wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der. Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-West Germanic *-þi Proto-West Germanic *fluhti Old English flyht Middle English flight English flight From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th). Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

From Middle English, from Old English flyht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti, derived from *fleuhaną (“to flee”). Analyzable as flee + -t (variant of -th). Cognate with Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 1).

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