Flight definition

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A group of things flying through the air together.

A flight of birds, arrows, etc.

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A trip by airplane or spacecraft.
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A flight arrow.
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Flight is defined as the act of flying or leaving.

An example of flight is a bird in the sky.

An example of a flight is traveling by airplane from New York to California.

An example of flight is running away from a burning building.

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A set of stairs, as between landings or floors.
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A curved plate or flange that winds in a spiral around the center shaft of an auger, designed to transport loose material upward or backward along the shaft as the auger rotates.
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The motion of an object in or through a medium, especially through the earth's atmosphere or through space.
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An instance of such motion.
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The distance covered in such motion.

The long flight from Seattle to Little Rock.

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The act or process of flying through the air by means of wings.
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The ability to fly.

Flight is characteristic of nearly all birds.

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To migrate or fly in flocks.
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The act or an instance of running away; an escape.
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The act, manner, or power of flying or moving through space.
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The distance covered or that can be covered at one time by an airplane, bird, projectile, etc.
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An outburst or soaring above the ordinary.

A flight of fancy.

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(sports) A division of contestants grouped according to ability.
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A military flight formation.
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The smallest tactical unit in an air force; specif., in the U.S. Air Force, a subdivision of a squadron.
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To fly in numbers.
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A fleeing from or as from danger.
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The act of flying.

Birds are capable of flight.

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An instance of flying.

The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.

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A collective term for doves or swallows.
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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.

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The act of fleeing. (Flight is the noun which corresponds to the verb flee.)

Take flight.

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A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
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A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.

How many flights is it up?

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A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
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A paper plane.
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(cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
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The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
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An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
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Act of fleeing of a refugee or a fugitive.
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An air force unit.
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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.
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(engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
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(obsolete) Fast, swift.
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(cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
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A swift passage or movement.

Barely noticed the flight of time.

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A scheduled airline run or trip into space.

The 7:00 flight to New York; the next flight of the space shuttle.

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A group, especially of birds or aircraft, flying together.
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A number of aircraft in the US Air Force forming a subdivision of a squadron.
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A round of competition, as in a sports tournament.
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An exuberant or transcendent effort or display.

A flight of the imagination; flights of oratory.

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A series of stairs rising from one landing to another.
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An airplane scheduled to fly a certain route at a certain time.
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take flight
  • to take wing, take off, etc.; become airborne and fly
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put to flight
  • to force to flee
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take (to) flight
  • to run away; flee
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
flight
Plural:
flights

Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

put to flight
take (to) flight

Origin of flight

  • Middle English from Old English flyht pleu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English flyht pleu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Old English flyht, from Proto-Germanic *fluhtiz. Cognate with Dutch vlucht and German Flucht.

    From Wiktionary

Flight Sentence Examples

  • A blowing snow storm delayed our flight north.

  • Owing to the rapidity of the French flight and the Russian pursuit and the consequent exhaustion of the horses, the chief means of approximately ascertaining the enemy's position--by cavalry scouting-- was not available.

  • They had a flight out yesterday afternoon.

  • Can you call Katie while I make flight arrangements?

  • He left the sparring level without saying a word to Ully and followed his instincts up a flight of stairs and down a narrow hall he recognized from his visit to their father.s catacombs with Kris.

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