flight

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/flaɪt/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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).

Câu

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

Lần này, tuy nhiên, chuyến bay hàng đầu của họ ở lại chỉ kéo dài một mùa.

This was also the first commercial flight westward from Juneau .

Đây cũng là chuyến bay thương mại đầu tiên về phía tây từ Juneau.