Meaning of flight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of fleeing.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of flying
3. The act of flying.
   countable, uncountable
4. An instance of flying
5. An instance of flying.
   countable, uncountable
6. A collective term for doves or swallows
7. A collective term for doves or swallows.
   collective, countable, uncountable
8. A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance
9. A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
   countable, uncountable
10. A series of stairs between landings
11. A series of stairs between landings.
    countable, uncountable
12. A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
    countable, uncountable
13. A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
    countable, uncountable
14. The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
    countable, uncountable
15. A paper airplane.
    countable, uncountable
16. The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
    countable, uncountable
17. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
    countable, uncountable
18. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
    countable, uncountable
19. An air force unit.
    countable, uncountable
20. A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
    US, countable, uncountable
21. 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.
    countable, uncountable
22. A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
23. The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
    countable, uncountable
24. An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
    countable, uncountable
25. An advertising campaign of fixed length.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Most birds are capable of flight.”

“The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.”

“a flight of swallows”

“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.”

“He is taking the 5 o' clock flight to London in the morning.”

“Limerick terminus has changed but little since its opening, and travellers still ascend the same flight of steps from the forecourt to enter the handsome two-storey stone building, which contains the offices and a recently-modernised refreshment room.”

“She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.”

“How many flights is it up?”

“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 flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination”

“After the first eight-week flight of advertising, the tracking research showed that consumers' predisposition to use Citi as a financial services provider jumped 50 percent.”

“take flight”

“the flight of a refugee”

“Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.”

“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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