flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flīt
ipa: /flaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: flights
Etymology: 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).
Senses: examples: text: Most birds are capable of flight.
glosses: The act of flying.
examples: text: The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
glosses: An instance of flying.
examples: text: a flight of swallows
glosses: A collective term for doves or swallows.
examples: text: The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.
text: Where is the departure gate for flight 747? / Go straight down and to the right.
text: He is taking the 5 o' clock flight to London in the morning.
glosses: A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
examples: text: She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: A series of stairs between landings.
glosses: A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
examples: text: How many flights is it up?
glosses: A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
examples: text: Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft / I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight / The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch / To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, / I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164:
glosses: The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
glosses: A paper airplane.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
glosses: The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
glosses: An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
glosses: An air force unit.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
glosses: 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.
glosses: A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
examples: a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination
glosses: An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
examples: text: After the first eight-week flight of advertising, the tracking research showed that consumers' predisposition to use Citi as a financial services provider jumped 50 percent.
ref: 2006, Pat Fallon, Fred Senn, Juicing the Orange, page 34:
topics: advertising
broadcasting
business
marketing
media
glosses: An advertising campaign of fixed length.
Hyponyms: controlled flight into terrain
dark flight
direct flight
maiden flight
red-eye flight
space flight
spaceflight
test flight
Derived terms: word: aflight
word: autoflight
word: beer flight
word: black flight
word: bus-stop flight
word: co-flight
word: controlled flight into terrain
word: death flight
word: electronic flight bag
word: fam flight
word: fight-or-flight
word: fight or flight
word: first flight
word: first flight cover
word: flight attendant
word: flight bubble
word: flight capital
word: flightcase
word: flight ceiling
word: flight code
word: flight control
word: flight controller
word: flightcraft
word: flight crew
english: FDR
translation: FDR
word: flight data recorder
word: flight deck
word: flight director
word: flight engineer
word: flight envelope
word: flight feather
word: flightful
word: flight hostess
word: flightiness
word: flight information region
word: flight instrument
word: flight interruption manifest
word: flight jacket
word: flightless
word: flight level
word: flight lieutenant
word: flight line
word: flightling
word: flightmare
word: flight mode
word: flight number
word: flight nurse
word: flight of beer
word: flight of beers
word: flight of earls
word: flight of fancy
word: flight of ideas
word: flight path
word: flight plan
word: flight recorder
word: flight risk
word: flightseeing
word: flight sequence
word: flight-shot
word: flight sock
word: flightsome
word: flight-specific
word: flight square
word: flight status
word: flight stewardess
word: flight suit
word: flight ticket
word: flight time
word: flightworthy
word: flighty
word: foreflight
word: ghost flight
word: hydroflight
word: in-flight
word: in flight
word: inflight
word: Lévy flight
word: life-flight
word: male flight
word: midflight
word: moonflight
word: multiflight
word: nonflight
word: outflight
word: overflight
word: paraflight
word: Pindaric flight
word: postflight
word: preflight
word: reflight
word: spaceflight
word: stairflight
word: take flight
word: time of flight
word: time-of-flight
word: time-of-flight mass spectrometry
word: top flight
word: top-flight
word: topflight
word: white flight
word: wine flight
Related terms: fly