flight

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Meaning

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.

flight

escape

flying

retreat

running away

run

flock

fleeing

swarm

rout

elopement

lam

shoal

runaway

aviation

herd

pack

trip

squadron

fledge

trajectory

getaway

school

absconding

evasion

soaring

exodus

wing

going away

departure

flight of stairs

flight of steps

band

brood

flight saturation

line

range

string

train

air

bevy

circle

cloud

exaltation

horde

pod

colony

troop

blast

fligh of stair

stair flight

volley

leak

robbery

theft

aerial navigation

cruising

sail

desertion

service

leap

leaping

emigration

panic

rush

stampede

battle

contend

strive

start

takeoff

taking off

retiring

running

turning away the face

going

bunk

cop-out

withdrawal

hasty departure

leg-bail

passing

outflow

soar

filch

inning

rank

row

sequence

series

set

succession

suit

turn

Hegira

scuttle

distance of run

length of travel

march

stroke

aeronautics

lento

play

sortie

formation

break

hejira

balcony

clustering

gallery

loft

staircase

stairway

alley

course

lane

pathway

piste

racecourse

racetrack

raceway

rail line

railway

rink

track

deserting

fly

terror

platoon

abscondence

cruise

passage

voyage

army

ascension

barrel

barren

battery

bed

bike

boar

brace

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

cete

chowder

clamour

clowder

cluster

clutter

coalition

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

family

field

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

harras

hirsel

hive

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

leash

mob

murder

murmuration

mustering

nest

paddling

parliament

plump

pounce

pride

raft

rookery

shiver

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

sounder

span

stud

team

tiding

tittering

tribe

wedge

defection

panic flight

flights

air transportation

run away

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flaɪt/

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).