From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[Flight (disambiguation)]
*** Pronunciation
- [flīt] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], derived from [gem-pro], from [en],
enlargement of [ine-pro]. Analyzable as [en] (variant of [en]).
Cognate with [fy], [nl], [de] (etymology 2).
**** Noun
[~]
1. The act of fly ing.
2. An instance of flying.
3. [en] [A collective term for dove s or swallow s.]
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 stair s between landing s.
6. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1967 |author=w:Barbara Sleigh |title=w:Jessamy |year_published=1993
|location=Sevenoaks, Kent |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=0 340 19547 9 |page=84
|url= |passage = 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. }}
1. A group of canal lock s with a short distance between them
2. A floor which is reached by stair s or escalator s.
3. The feather s on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
4. * [I]
5. A paper airplane . [en]
6. [en] The movement of a spinning ball through the air , with its speed , trajectory and drift .
7. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile .
8. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
9. An air force unit.
10. [en] A numbered subclass of a given class of warship , denoting incremental modernization s to the original design .
11. 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.
12. [en] A comparable sample of beer s or other drinks.
13. [en] The shaped material forming the thread of a screw .
14. An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
15. [en] An advertising campaign of fixed length.
16. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=Pat Fallon; Fred Senn | title=Juicing the Orange | page=34
|passage=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.}}
***** Hyponyms
{{col4|en|controlled flight into terrain |dark flight |direct flight |maiden
flight|red-eye flight |spaceflight |space flight |test flight }}
***** Derived terms
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|autoflight |beer flight |black flight |bus-stop flight |co-flight |controlled
flight into terrain |death flight |fight or flight |fight-or-flight |first
flight |first flight cover |flight attendant |flight bubble |flight capital
|flightcase |flight ceiling |flight code |flight control |flight controller
|flightcraft |flight crew |flight data recorder (FDR) |flight deck |flight
director |flight engineer |flight envelope |flight feather |flightful
|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 path |flight plan |flight recorder |flight risk |flightseeing
|flight sequence |flight-shot |flight sock |flightsome |flight-specific
|flight square |flight status |flight suit |flight ticket |flight time
|flightworthy |flighty |foreflight |ghost flight |hydroflight |inflight |in
flight |in-flight |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
|top-flight |top flight |topflight |white flight |wine flight }}
***** Related terms
{{col4|en |fly }}
***** Translations
[act of flying]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Persian: [fa]
- Piedmontese: [pms] , [pms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi] , [tpi]
- Tupinambá: [tpn]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[instance of flying]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi] , [tpi]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[group of doves or swallows]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] [of birds] , [sl] [of insects]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[journey made by an aircraft]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] [scheduled flight]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] [scheduled flight]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [scheduled flight]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] [scheduled flight]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[set of stairs]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[floor of building]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[feather on an arrow]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
[paper plane]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
[cricket: movement of a spinning ball through the air]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[ballistic trajectory]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
[aerodynamic surface]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[air force unit]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
[trans-bottom]
[sample glasses of a specific beverage]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[episode of imaginative thinking]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. [en] Fast , swift , fleet .
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
2. [en] To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
3. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=March 14, 2017 |author=Stuart James |title=Leicester stun Sevilla to
reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save |work=the Guardian
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/14/leicester-city-sevilla-champions-league-match-report
|page= |passage=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.}}
**** See also
Appendix:English collective nouns
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], from [en], derived from [gem-pro]. Analyzable as [en]
(variant of [en]). Cognate with [nl], [de] (etymology 1).
**** Noun
[~]
1. The act of fleeing .
2. * [1=en]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1902 | author=John Buchan | title=The Outgoing of the Tide
|passage=But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said
they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would
so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart,
while his feet would impel him to FLIGHT.}}
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Related terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[act of fleeing]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
[enm]
*** Noun
[enm-noun]
1. [en] (act of flying)
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
[sv]. Attested since 1967.
*** Noun
[c]
1. a [en] ((regular) trip made by a passenger aircraft)
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
**** See also
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]