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Flight   /flaɪt/   Listen
Flight

noun
1.
A formation of aircraft in flight.
2.
An instance of traveling by air.  Synonym: flying.
3.
A stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next.  Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps.
4.
The act of escaping physically.  Synonym: escape.  "The canary escaped from its cage" , "His flight was an indication of his guilt"
5.
An air force unit smaller than a squadron.
6.
Passing above and beyond ordinary bounds.  "Flights of rhetoric" , "Flights of imagination"
7.
The path followed by an object moving through space.  Synonym: trajectory.
8.
A flock of flying birds.
9.
A scheduled trip by plane between designated airports.
verb
1.
Shoot a bird in flight.
2.
Fly in a flock.
3.
Decorate with feathers.  Synonym: fledge.



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"Flight" Quotes from Famous Books



... fortnight this Nation will entertain the nations of the world in a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first successful airplane flight. The credit for this epoch-making achievement belongs to a citizen of our own ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... fell, and a people that had for the first time in memory found itself an indivisible and self-conscious state broke into sullen flight, and its merry, friendly army came heavy-footed down the road to another country. Grieved and embittered, they served under new leaders of another race. Those tired soldiers were like spirited children who had been playing an exciting game which they thought would ...
— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
... of their new-taught flight, Enamour'd sought to woo the sun's fair light, Whose rich brightness Moved their lightness To aspire so high That all scorch'd and consumed with fire now drown'd in ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... He thanked the count with few words, but with strong feeling. Joy and love returned in full tide upon our hero's soul; all the military ideas, which but an hour before filled his imagination, were put to flight: Spain ...
— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth
... They seemed to meet together and cross the chain of the Andes. Glenarvan returned to the CASUCHA more uneasy than ever, questioning within himself as to the connection between these sounds and the flight of the guanacos. He looked at his watch and found the time was about two in the morning. As he had no certainty, however, of any immediate danger, he did not wake his companions, who were sleeping soundly after their fatigue, and ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne


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