flight
Pronunciation Etymology 1
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Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti, derived from *fleuganą ("to fly"), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, enlargement of *plew- ("flow").
Cognate with Western Frisian flecht, Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 2).
Nounflight
- The act of flying.
- Most birds are capable of flight.
- An instance of flying.
- The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
- (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
- a flight of swallows
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.
- Where is the departure gate for flight 747? / Go straight down and to the right.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- How many flights is it up?
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i], page 164 ↗:
- 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, […]
- A paper airplane.
- (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.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- An air force unit.
- (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
- 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.
- (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
- (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination
- French: volée
- German: Treppenlauf
- Italian: rampa, scalinata
- Portuguese: lance
- Russian: пролёт
- Spanish: tramo
- French: escadrille
- French: dégustation
flight
Verbflight (flights, present participle flighting; simple past and past participle flighted)
- (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
- (sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
From Middle English, from Old English flyht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti, derived from *fleuhaną ("to flee").
Nounflight
- The act of fleeing.
- take flight
- the flight of a refugee
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.
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