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English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
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FromMiddle Englishflight,fromOld Englishflyht(“flight”),fromProto-West Germanic*fluhti(“flight”),derived from*fleuganą(“to fly”),fromProto-Indo-European*plewk-(“to fly”),enlargement of*plew-(“flow”).Analyzable asfly+-t(variant of-th).
Cognate withWest Frisianflecht(“flight”),Dutchvlucht(“flight”),GermanFlucht(“flight”)(etymology 2).
Noun
[edit]flight(countableanduncountable,pluralflights)
- The act offlying.
- Most birds are capable offlight.
- An instance of flying.
- The migrating birds'flighttook them to Africa.
- (collective)A collective term fordovesorswallows.
- aflightof swallows
- A trip made by anaircraft,particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- Theflightto Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.
- Where is the departure gate forflight747? / Go straight down and to the right.
- A series ofstairsbetweenlandings.
- 1967,Barbara Sleigh,Jessamy,Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published1993,→ISBN,page84:
- She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the nextflightuntil she reached the top.
- A group of canallockswith a short distance between them
- A floor which is reached bystairsorescalators.
- Howmanyflights is it up?
- Thefeatherson anarrowordartused to help it follow an even path.
- c.1596–1598(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i],page164:
- Baſſ.In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft / I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſameflight/ 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,[…]
- Apaper airplane.(Can we add anexamplefor this sense?)
- (cricket)Themovementof aspinningballthrough theair- concerns itsspeed,trajectoryanddrift.
- Theballistictrajectoryof anarrowor otherprojectile.
- Anaerodynamicsurface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- Anair forceunit.
- (US,naval)A numberedsubclassof a given class ofwarship,denoting incrementalmodernizationsto the originaldesign.
- Several sample glasses of a specific winevarietalor 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 ofbeersor other drinks.
- (engineering)The shaped material forming thethreadof ascrew.
- An episode ofimaginativethinking or dreaming.
- aflight of fancy;aflightof the imagination
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- beer flight
- black flight
- bus-stop flight
- co-flight
- controlled flight into terrain
- death flight
- fight-or-flight
- fight or flight
- first flight
- first flight cover
- flight attendant
- flight bubble
- flight capital
- flightcase
- flight ceiling
- flight code
- flight control
- flight controller
- flight crew
- flight deck
- flight director
- flight engineer
- flight envelope
- flight feather
- flightiness
- flight information region
- flight instrument
- flight interruption manifest
- flight jacket
- flightless
- flight lieutenant
- flight line
- flight mode
- flight number
- flight nurse
- flight of beer
- flight of beers
- flight of earls
- flight plan
- flight risk
- flight sequence
- flight-shot
- flight sock
- flight-specific
- flight square
- flight status
- flight suit
- flight ticket
- flight time
- flighty
- foreflight
- ghost flight
- inflight
- in flight
- in-flight
- life-flight
- midflight
- overflight
- Pindaric flight
- postflight
- preflight
- spaceflight
- time of flight
- time-of-flight
- topflight
- top-flight
- top flight
- white flight
- wine flight
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of flying
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instance of flying
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group of doves or swallows
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journey made by an aircraft
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set of stairs
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floor of building
paper plane
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air force unit
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sample glasses of a specific beverage
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Adjective
[edit]flight(comparativemoreflight,superlativemostflight)
Verb
[edit]flight(third-person singular simple presentflights,present participleflighting,simple past and past participleflighted)
- (cricket,of a spin bowler)Tothrowtheballin such a way that it has moreairtimeand morespinthan usual.
- (sports,by extension,transitive)Tothroworkicksomething so as to send itflyingwith moreloftorairtimethan usual.
- 2017March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, inthe Guardian[1]:
- Riyad Mahrezflightedthe 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.
See also
[edit]Appendix:English collective nouns
Etymology 2
[edit]FromMiddle English,fromOld Englishflyht,fromProto-West Germanic*fluhti,derived from*fleuhaną(“to flee”).Analyzable asflee+-t(variant of-th). Cognate withDutchvlucht,GermanFlucht(etymology 1).
Noun
[edit]flight(countableanduncountable,pluralflights)
- The act offleeing.
- takeflight
- theflightof a refugee
- 1859,Edward Fitzgerald,The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia,page 1:
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars toFlight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
- 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 toflight.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]act of fleeing
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Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromOld Englishflyht.
Noun
[edit]flight(pluralflights)
- flight(act of flying)
Descendants
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]BorrowedfromEnglishflight.Attested since 1967.
Noun
[edit]flightc
- aflight((regular) trip made by a passenger aircraft)
Declension
[edit]| Declension offlight | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | flight | flighten | flighter | flighterna |
| Genitive | flights | flightens | flighters | flighternas |
See also
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- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/aɪt
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *plewk-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
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