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flight

1  [flahyt]
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–noun
1. the act, manner, or power of flying.
2. the distance covered or the course taken by a flying object: a 500-mile flight; the flight of the ball.
3. a trip by an airplane, glider, etc.
4. a scheduled trip on an airline: a 5 o'clock flight.
5. a number of beings or things flying or passing through the air together: a flight of geese.
6. the basic tactical unit of military air forces, consisting of two or more aircraft.
7. the act, principles, or technique of flying an airplane: flight training.
8. a journey into or through outer space: a rocket flight.
9. swift movement, transition, or progression: the flight of time.
10. a soaring above or transcending ordinary bounds: a flight of fancy.
11. a series of steps between one floor or landing of a building and the next.
12. Archery.
a. flight arrow.
b. the distance such an arrow travels when shot.
–verb (used without object)
13. (of wild fowls) to fly in coordinated flocks.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE flyht; c. D vlucht; akin to fly 1

Synonyms:
5. flock. 9. rush, dash, fleetingness.
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flight

2  [flahyt]
–noun
1. an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
—Idioms
2. put to flight, to force to flee or run away; rout: She succeeded in putting the intruder to flight.
3. take flight, to retreat; run away; flee: The wild animals took flight before the onrushing fire. Also, take to flight.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME; c. G Flucht; akin to flee
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flight 1   (flīt)   
n.  
    1. The motion of an object in or through a medium, especially through the earth's atmosphere or through space.
    2. An instance of such motion.
    3. The distance covered in such motion.
    4. The act or process of flying through the air by means of wings.
    5. The ability to fly.
    1. The act or process of flying through the air by means of wings.
    2. The ability to fly.
  3. A swift passage or movement.
  4. A scheduled airline run or trip.
  5. A group, especially of birds or aircraft, flying together. See Synonyms at flock1.
  6. A number of aircraft in the U.S. Air Force forming a subdivision of a squadron.
  7. A round of competition, as in a sports tournament.
  8. An exuberant or transcendent effort or display: a flight of the imagination; flights of oratory.
  9. A series of stairs rising from one landing to another.
intr.v.   flight·ed, flight·ing, flights
To migrate or fly in flocks.

[Middle English, from Old English flyht; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
flight 2   (flīt)   
n.  The act or an instance of running away; an escape.

[Middle English, from Old English *flyht; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Flight

Flight\ (fl[imac]t), n. [AS. fliht, flyht, a flying, fr. fle['o]gan to fly; cf. flyht a fleeing, fr. fle['o]n to flee, G. flucht a fleeing, Sw. flykt, G. flug a flying, Sw. flygt, D. vlugt a fleeing or flying, Dan. flugt. [root]84. See Flee, Fly.]

1. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

Like the night owl's lazy flight. --Shak.

2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.

Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. --Matt. xxiv. 20.

Fain by flight to save themselves. --Shak.

3. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa?ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.

Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy. --Byron.

His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. --Macaulay.

4. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows. --Swift.

Swift flights of angels ministrant. --Milton.

Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts. --Shak.

5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another. --Parker.

6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.]

Challenged Cupid at the flight. --Shak.

Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have. --Beau. & Fl.

7. The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

Flight feathers (Zo["o]l.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird.

To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.

Syn: Pair; set. See Pair.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : flight
Spanish: vuelo,
German: der Flug,
Japanese: 飛ぶこと
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flight  (1)
"flying," O.E. flyht "a flying, flight." from P.Gmc. *flukhtiz (cf. Low Ger. flugt, Ger. Flucht). Spelling altered from M.E. fliht c. 1385 (see fight), from root of *fleugan "to fly" (see fly (v.1)). Meaning "an instance of flight" is 1785, originally of ballooning. Meaning "series of stairs between landings" is from 1703. Flighty is 1552 in sense of "swift," later (1768) "fickle or frivolous," originally of skittish horses.

flight  (2)
"fleeing," from M.E. fluht (c.1200), not found in O.E., but presumed to have existed. Related to O.E. fleon "flee" (see flee).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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flight

In addition to the idioms beginning with flight, also see put to flight; take flight.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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