Flight

Noun



 * 1) The act of flying.
 * Birds are capable of flight
 * 1) An instance of flying.
 * The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
 * 1) A collective term for doves or swallows.
 * 2) 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.
 * 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.
 * 1) The act of fleeing. (Flight is the noun which corresponds to the verb flee.)
 * take flight
 * 1) A set of stairs or an escalator.  A series of stairs between landings.
 * 2) A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
 * How many flights is it up?
 * 1) A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
 * 2) A paper plane.
 * : The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
 * 1) The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
 * 2) An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
 * 3) Act of fleeing of a refugee or a fugitive.
 * 4) An air force unit.
 * 5) Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
 * 6)  The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.

Related terms

 * direct flight
 * flight attendant
 * flight ceiling
 * flight data recorder
 * flightiness
 * flightless
 * flight level
 * flight of fancy


 * flight path
 * flight recorder
 * flighty
 * in-flight, inflight
 * Lévy flight
 * maiden flight
 * midflight


 * overflight
 * preflight
 * spaceflight, space flight
 * take flight
 * time-of-flight
 * time-of-flight mass spectrometry
 * top-flight, topflight

Adjective

 * 1)  Fast, swift.

Adjectives for Flight
pattering; comely; droning; fagging; impetuous; wheeling;  gay;  labored-looking; ceaseless; joyous; temporary; cankerous; vehement; tireless; unreturning; bold; poetic; rhythmic; self-same; erratic; hysterical; epochal; prolonged; intertwined; nuptial; mocking; impeded; principal; common; angry; unjust; disguising; pretended; ignominious; airy; troublesome; perceptible; humanitarian; risky; mediocre; freshening; industrious; frolic; promiscuous; illuminated; tremendous;  precipitate;  untried; aery; lagging; filmy; fleeting; rapturous; fearful; perilous; howling; ambitious; imperial; interminable; ponderous; winding; higher; unwearied; intrepid; hurried; undulating; unbounded;  upward-hovering; never-ending; impudent; swift; rickety; tremulous; transitory; wide; worn; persistent;  cloistered;   cowardly;   voluptuous; orderly; annual; unsustained; measureless; distant.

Verbs for Flight
accomplish—; accustom to—; attempt—; depart in—; drop in—; hasten in—; impede —; lose in—; mount in—; move to—; observe—; plan—; pursue in—; record—; resume—; retreat in—; sally forth in—; scatter—; soar in—; witness—; —exhausts; —fails.

Thesaurus
AWOL, Brownian movement, French leave, a mass of, a world of, abandonment, abscond, absence without leave, absquatulation, acciaccatura, advance, aeronautics, aeroplane, air arm, air corps, air force, air service, air speed, aircraft, airlift, airline, airliner, alienation, altitude peak, angular motion, appoggiatura, arabesque, army, arrow, arrowhead, ascending, ascent, astronautics, autism, autistic thinking, automatic control, aviation, avoidance mechanism, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, ballooning, barb, beat a retreat, bevy, blame-shifting, blast-off, blind flying, bobtailed arrow, bolt, bolting, break, breakout, bunch, burn, burnout, cadence, cadenza, career, ceiling, celerity, charm, chested arrow, climbing, cloth yard shaft, cloud, cloud-seeding, clutter, coloratura, commercial aviation, compensation, contact flying, course, covey, cruising, current, dart, decamp, decampment, decompensation, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, depart, departure, dereism, dereistic thinking, descending, descent, desert, desertion, disappearance, disappearing act, dismiss, dispatch, disperse, displacement, dissociation, division, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, egress, elopement, embellishment, emergence, emigration, emotional insulation, end of burning, escadrille, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, evacuation, evasion, excursion, exit, exodus, expatriation, expedition, extrication, fantasizing, fantasy, fastness, feather, fioritura, flee, fleeing, flit, flock, flocks, flourish, flow, flurry, flux, flying, forward motion, freeing, fugitation, gaggle, general aviation, getaway, gliding, going, grace, grace note, ground speed, hail, haste, hasty retreat, hegira, hive, hop, host, hurry, ignition, immigration, impact, in-migration, incidental, incidental note, instantaneousness, intermigration, isolation, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jam, jump, knots, lam, large amount, launch, leak, leakage, leaving, legion, liberation, lift-off, light out, lightning speed, long mordent, lots, many, masses of, migration, miles per hour, mob, mordent, mounting, muchness, multitude, murmuration, negativism, nest, numbers, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, ornament, out-migration, outlet, overcompensation, pack, parting, passage, passing, pilotage, plague, plane, plunging, plurality, pralltriller, precipitation, prisonbreak, progress, projection, promptitude, promptness, psychotaxis, put to flight, quantities, quarrel, quick exit, quickness, quite a few, radial motion, random motion, rapidity, rationalization, reed, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, release, remigration, removal, rescue, resistance, retirement, retreat, retrogression, riddance, rising, rocket launching, roulade, round pace, rout, rpm, ruck, run, running away, rush, sailing, sailplaning, scape, scores, scramming, send away, send off, send packing, set, setting-free, shaft, shoal, shoot, shot, shove off, sideward motion, single mordent, sinking, skedaddle, skedaddling, skein, slip, snappiness, soaring, sociological adjustive reactions, solo, speed, speediness, split, spring, squadron, stampede, sternway, strategic air force, stream, sublimation, subsiding, substitution, swarm, swarming, swift rate, swiftness, tactical air force, take flight, test flight, throng, tidy sum, traject, trajectory, trajet, transmigration, trek, trend, trip, turn, upward motion, velocity, velocity peak, vent, volley, walkout, watch, wing, winging, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdraw, withdrawal, worlds of

Etymology
flyht:, from. Cognate with Dutch vlucht:.

Noun

 * Arabic: (Tayaraan) ,
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: flugo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: veve
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: volo
 * Italian:, fuga
 * Interlingua: volo
 * Italian:, fuga


 * Japanese: 飛 (とび tobi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:, volatus
 * Latvian: lidošana, lidojums
 * Lithuanian: skrydis, skridimas
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: (Brazil),  (Portugal)
 * Romanian:, zburare
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: (tîeow bin)
 * Tupinambá: bebé
 * Turkish: uçma
 * Tupinambá: bebé
 * Turkish: uçma


 * Armenian:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, fuga


 * Latin: volatus, fuga
 * Macedonian:, летање
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: zbor
 * Russian:, перелёт


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: turma, agmen


 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: טיסה
 * Italian:
 * Latin: volatus
 * Latvian:, lidojums


 * Lithuanian: skrydis
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, перелёт, рейс
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: فرار
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
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 * Latin: fuga
 * Macedonian: бегство
 * Polish: ucieczka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, бегство
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Russian: пролёт
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Italian:
 * Latin: planities


 * Russian: пролёт


 * : 便 (びん, bin)


 * : balus
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Etymology
From flyht:.

Noun

 * 1)  (act of flying)

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