flight
Значение
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- The act of flying.
- An instance of flying.
- A collective term for doves or swallows.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A paper airplane.
- The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- An air force unit.
- A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
- 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.
- A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
- The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
Частота
Произносится как (IPA)
/flaɪt/
Этимология
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).
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