Flight

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The motion of an object in or through a medium, especially through the earth's atmosphere or through space.
  • n. An instance of such motion.
  • n. The distance covered in such motion.
  • n. The act or process of flying through the air by means of wings.
  • n. The ability to fly.
  • n. A swift passage or movement.
  • n. A scheduled airline run or trip.
  • n. A group, especially of birds or aircraft, flying together. See Synonyms at flock1.
  • n. A number of aircraft in the U.S. Air Force forming a subdivision of a squadron.
  • n. A round of competition, as in a sports tournament.
  • n. An exuberant or transcendent effort or display: a flight of the imagination; flights of oratory.
  • n. A series of stairs rising from one landing to another.
  • verb-intransitive. To migrate or fly in flocks.
  • n. The act or an instance of running away; an escape.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of flying.
  • n. An instance of flying.
  • n. A collective term for doves or swallows.
  • n. A journey made by an aircraft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle, particularly one between two airports, which needs to be reserved in advance.
  • n. The act of fleeing. (Flight is the noun which corresponds to the verb flee.)
  • n. A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
  • n. A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
  • n. A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
  • n. A paper plane.
  • n. The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
  • n. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
  • n. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
  • n. Act of fleeing of a refugee or a fugitive.
  • n. An air force unit.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
  • adj. Fast, swift.
  • v. To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
  • n. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.
  • n. Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a soaring.
  • n. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season.
  • n. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
  • n. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
  • n. The husk or glume of oats.
  • n. a trip made by or in a flying vehicle, as an airplane, spacecraft, or aeronautical balloon.
  • n. A scheduled flight{8} on a commercial airline.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or power of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation.
  • n. Swift motion in general; rapid movement or passage caused by any propelling force: as, the flight of a missile; a meteor's flight; the flight of a fish toward its prey; the flight of a rapidly revolving wheel.
  • n. A number of beings or things flying or passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in the same season: applied specifically in the old language of English sport to doves and swallows, and in America to pigeons, and also to a swarm of bees.
  • n. Figuratively, an excursion or sally; a passing out of or beyond a fixed course; a mounting or soaring: as, a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition or of temper.
  • n. In archery: The sport of shooting arrows in the manner now called rovingā€”that is, with roving aim instead of at a butt. See rover.
  • n. Shooting with the longbow in general, as distinguished from the use of the crossbow. See flight-arrow.
  • n. A continuous series of steps or stairs; the part of a stairway extending directly from one floor or one landing to another.
  • n. The glume or husk of oats.
  • n. The thin membrane which is detached from the coffee-berry in the process of roasting.
  • n. In the clapper of a bell, the dependent piece or weight below the striking part; the tail.
  • n. In machinery: The inclination of the arm of a crane or of a cat-head.
  • n. A wing or fin; a fan.
  • n. Synonyms 3. See flock, n.
  • Swift in transit.
  • In sporting, belonging to a flight or flock.
  • n. The act of fleeing; the act of running away to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.
  • To put to flight; rout; frighten away.
  • n. An obsolete spelling of flite.
  • n. In archery: The course of an arrow through the air.
  • n. The distance traversed by an arrow.
  • n. In mach.: A wing or scraper, pushed or pulled through the trough of a conveyer by a chain, to drag the load through it.
  • n. A flat bucket or vane on the periphery of a wheel-pump or on the chain which it drives.
  • n. Same as flyboat.
  • n. In angling, the set of spinning-baits attached by the trace to the reel-line in a spinning-tackle.
  • n. A primary, flight-feather, or remex: a term commonly used by pigeon-fanciers.
  • n. The distance a bird may or does fly; the height at which it flies: in these senses, largely figurative.
  • n. A group of three or more locks situated in such close proximity along a canal that the level of water between any two adjacent locks of the series may economically be raised and lowered to produce a lift: in distinction from locks arranged in isolated pairs with considerable distance between the different pairs.
  • To take flight; fly: an English sporting use.
  • To shoot (wildfowl) in their flight to or from their feeding-grounds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
  • n. a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
  • v. fly in a flock
  • n. an instance of traveling by air
  • n. a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
  • v. shoot a bird in flight
  • v. decorate with feathers
  • n. a flock of flying birds
  • n. a formation of aircraft in flight
  • n. an air force unit smaller than a squadron
  • n. the path followed by an object moving through space
  • n. the act of escaping physically
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    flighted    flighting    flights   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    creativeness    creativity    creative thinking    stairway    staircase    wing    fly    shoot    pip    grace   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    shaft   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pair    set    volitation    mounting    soaring    departure    fleeing    sauve qui peut    stampede    rout   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bright    Dwight    Knight    Night    White    Wight    Wright    alight    allright    alright   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    journey    train    mission    attack    travel    ride    drive    motion    course    run