flight

(Englisch)

Noun

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

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. (broadly, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/flaɪt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: flight

Geerbt von Altenglisch: flyht

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: flecht

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: vlucht

Verwandt mit Deutsch: Flucht

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: -

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Proto-West Germanic *-þi
Proto-West Germanic *fluhti
Old English flyht
Middle English flight
English flight
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).

Konzepte

Flug

✈️

Flucht

Fliegen

Entkommen

Flugreise

✈️

Herde

Hochsprung

Höhenflug

Kreuzfahrt

Leck

Meute

Rotte

Rudel

Schafherde

Schule

🏫

Schwarm

Sprung

Treppe

Weltflucht

Zug

Durchbrennen

Entweichen

Fahrstrecke

Pack

📦

Verschwinden

Weglaufen

Fahren

Ausreißen

Entlaufen

Durchgehen

heimliches Abhauen

Desertion

Ausflucht

Treppenlauf

Fahnenflucht

Flugbahn

Flugstrecke

Hautevolee

Synonyme

escape

flying

retreat

running away

run

flock

fleeing

swarm

rout

shoal

lam

elopement

trajectory

trip

aviation

squadron

herd

school

🏫

runaway

getaway

fledge

pack

flight saturation

bevy

wing

🪽

train

🚋

string

🪢

circle

⭕

air

cloud

☁️

soaring

troop

departure

range

pod

line

going away

brood

flight of steps

flight of stairs

horde

absconding

colony

exaltation

evasion

exodus

band

clamour

bike

🚲

chowder

Sätze

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

Es war jedoch immer noch so heiß vom Flug durch die Luft.

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

Diesmal dauerte ihr Top -Flug jedoch nur eine Saison.

Love is the falcon's flight over your sands .

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

Es war das erste sowjetische Produktionsflugzeug, das im Level -Flug überschallte Geschwindigkeiten in der Lage war.

This was also the first commercial flight westward from Juneau .

Dies war auch der erste kommerzielle Flug nach Westen von Juneau.