flight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: advertising
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cricket
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games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
media
military
natural-sciences
naval
navy
physical-sciences
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Germanic *-þiz
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).
Base: fly
Affixes: -t
Inflected forms:
form: flights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of flying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most birds are capable of flight.
gloss: An instance of flying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
gloss: A collective term for doves or swallows.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
examples: a flight of swallows
gloss: A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.
Where is the departure gate for flight 747? / Go straight down and to the right.
He is taking the 5 o' clock flight to London in the morning.
gloss: A series of stairs between landings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Limerick terminus has changed but little since its opening, and travellers still ascend the same flight of steps from the forecourt to enter the handsome two-storey stone building, which contains the offices and a recently-modernised refreshment room.
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.
gloss: A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How many flights is it up?
gloss: The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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, […]
gloss: A paper airplane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An air force unit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination
gloss: An advertising campaign of fixed length.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
pos: verb
gloss: To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: Riyad Mahrez flighted the free-kick that followed to the far post and Morgan, with not much finesse but plenty of desire, bundled the ball over the line. Cue pandemonium in the stands.
Related words: fly
Derived words: aflight
autoflight
beer flight
bush flight
bus-stop flight
co-flight
controlled flight into terrain
death flight
electronic flight bag
fam flight
fight or flight
first flight
first flight cover
flight archery
flight attendant
flight bubble
flight capital
flightcase
flight ceiling
flight code
flight control
flight controller
flightcraft
flight crew
flight data recorder
flight deck
flight director
flight engineer
flight envelope
flight feather
flightful
flight hostess
flightiness
flight information region
flight instrument
flight interruption manifest
flight jacket
flightless
flight level
flight lieutenant
flight line
flightling
flightmare
flight mode
flight number
flight nurse
flight of beer
flight of beers
flight of earls
flight of fancy
flight of ideas
flight path
flight plan
flight recorder
flight risk
flightseeing
flight sequence
flight-shot
flight sickness
flight sock
flightsome
flight-specific
flight square
flight status
flight stewardess
flight suit
flight ticket
flight time
flightworthy
flighty
foreflight
ghost flight
hydroflight
in-flight
in flight
inflight
Lévy flight
life-flight
male flight
midflight
moonflight
multiflight
nonflight
outflight
overflight
paraflight
Pindaric flight
postflight
preflight
reflight
spaceflight
stairflight
take flight
time-of-flight
time of flight
time-of-flight mass spectrometry
topflight
top flight
top-flight
wine flight
black flight
fight-or-flight
white flight
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