flight
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flight
- (obscure or slang): Wayward, opposed.
- Note: Nowadays we refer to people being flighty instead.
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flight (countable and uncountable; plural flights)
A jet in flight
- The act of flying.
- Birds are capable of flight
- An instance of flying.
- The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
- A collective term for doves or swallows.
- A journey made by an air craft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle.
- The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight
- The act of fleeing. (It is noun version of flee).
- take flight'
- A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
- A floor which are reached to by stairs or escalators.
- How many flights is it up?
- A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A paper plane.
- (cricket): The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A aerodynamic surfaces designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- Act of fleeing of a refugee or a fugitive.
- An air force unit.
- 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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act of flying
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instance of flying
group of doves or swallows
journey made by an aircraft
act of fleeing
set of stairs
feather on an arrow
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