flight

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.4.3 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: flīt, IPA: /flaɪt/, SAMPA: /flaIt/
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  Rhymes: -aɪt

[edit] Etymology

Old English flyht

[edit] Adjective

flight

1. (obscure or slang): Wayward, opposed.

   Note: Nowadays we refer to people being flighty instead.

[edit] Noun

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flight (countable and uncountable; plural flights)

1. The act of flying.

   Birds are capable of flight

2. An instance of flying.

   The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.

3. A collective term for doves or swallows.
4. A journey made by an air craft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle.

   The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight

5. The act of fleeing. (It is noun version of flee).

   take flight'

6. A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
7. A floor which are reached to by stairs or escalators.

   How many flights is it up?

8. A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
9. A paper plane.
10. (cricket): The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
11. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
12. A aerodynamic surfaces designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
13. Act of fleeing of a refugee or a fugitive.
14. An air force unit.
15. Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.

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direct flight flight attendant flight ceiling flight data recorder flightiness flightless flight level flight of fancy

flight path flight recorder flighty in-flight, inflight Lévy flight maiden flight midflight

overflight preflight spaceflight, space flight take flight time-of-flight time-of-flight mass spectrometry top-flight, topflight

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Appendix:Collective nouns