flight

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

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

Adj

Fast, swift, fleet.

Verb

1. To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
2. To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.

Sinònims

escape

flying

retreat

running away

run

flock

swarm

fleeing

rout

elopement

shoal

lam

herd

runaway

getaway

fledge

pack

trajectory

trip

school

🏫

squadron

aviation

flight saturation

bevy

range

absconding

line

cloud

☁️

string

🪢

evasion

going away

exaltation

exodus

train

🚋

band

troop

departure

wing

🪽

horde

brood

flight of stairs

flight of steps

air

pod

circle

⭕

soaring

colony

filch

fligh of stair

flights

flush

fly

✈️

formation

gaggle

gallery

going

grist

gulp

harem

Hegira

hive

inning

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

lane

leak

leap

leaping

leash

lento

loft

march

mob

murder

mustering

nest

outflow

paddling

panic

parliament

passage

passing

pathway

piste

platoon

play

plump

pounce

pride

racecourse

racetrack

raceway

raft

railway

rank

retiring

rink

robbery

rookery

row

run away

running

🏃

rush

sail

scuttle

sequence

series

service

set

shiver

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

soar

sortie

sounder

span

staircase

stair flight

stairway

stampede

start

strive

stud

succession

suit

takeoff

taking off

team

terror

theft

tiding

tittering

track

tribe

turn

volley

voyage

wedge

withdrawal

harras

aerial navigation

clowder

rail line

abscondence

hejira

stroke

leg-bail

murmuration

turning away the face

air transportation

hasty departure

hirsel

cete

length of travel

distance of run

panic flight

aeronautics

alley

army

ascension

balcony

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

battle

bed

🛏️

bike

🚲

blast

boar

🐗

brace

break

building

bunch

bunk

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chowder

clamour

cluster

clustering

clutter

coalition

comfort

company

contend

cop-out

corps

course

covey

cruise

cruising

defection

deserting

desertion

drift

drove

emigration

erst

family

👪

field

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/flaɪt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: flight

Heretat de anglès antic: flyht

Cognat amb frisó occidental: flecht

Cognat amb neerlandès: vlucht

Cognat amb alemany: Flucht

Heretat de anglès mitjà: -

In summary

From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).

Frases

It was , however , still so hot from its flight through the air .

This time , however , their top flight stay lasted only one season .

It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight .

This was also the first commercial flight westward from Juneau .