noun. The act or an instance of running away; an escape.

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noun. The motion of an object in or through a medium, especially through the earth's atmosphere or through space.

noun. An instance of such motion.

noun. The distance covered in such motion.

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noun. The act or process of flying through the air by means of wings.

noun. The ability to fly.

noun. A swift passage or movement.

noun. A scheduled airline run or trip into space.

noun. A group, especially of birds or aircraft, flying together.

noun. A number of aircraft in the US Air Force forming a subdivision of a squadron.

noun. A round of competition, as in a sports tournament.

noun. An exuberant or transcendent effort or display.

noun. A series of stairs rising from one landing to another.

noun. A curved plate or flange that winds in a spiral around the center shaft of an auger, designed to transport loose material upward or backward along the shaft as the auger rotates.

intransitive verb. To migrate or fly in flocks.

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

To put to flight; rout; frighten away.

noun. An obsolete spelling of flite.

To take flight; fly: an English sporting use.

To shoot (wildfowl) in their flight to or from their feeding-grounds.

noun. The act or power of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation.

noun. Swift motion in general; rapid movement or passage caused by any propelling force: as, the flight of a missile; a meteor's flight; the flight of a fish toward its prey; the flight of a rapidly revolving wheel.

noun. A number of beings or things flying or passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in the same season: applied specifically in the old language of English sport to doves and swallows, and in America to pigeons, and also to a swarm of bees.

noun. Figuratively, an excursion or sally; a passing out of or beyond a fixed course; a mounting or soaring: as, a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition or of temper.

noun. In archery: The sport of shooting arrows in the manner now called roving—that is, with roving aim instead of at a butt. See rover.

noun. Shooting with the longbow in general, as distinguished from the use of the crossbow. See flight-arrow.

noun. A continuous series of steps or stairs; the part of a stairway extending directly from one floor or one landing to another.

noun. The glume or husk of oats.

noun. The thin membrane which is detached from the coffee-berry in the process of roasting.

noun. In the clapper of a bell, the dependent piece or weight below the striking part; the tail.

noun. In machinery: The inclination of the arm of a crane or of a cat-head.

noun. A wing or fin; a fan.

noun. Synonyms 3. See flock, n.

Swift in transit.

In sporting, belonging to a flight or flock.

noun. In archery: The course of an arrow through the air.

noun. The distance traversed by an arrow.

noun. In mach.: A wing or scraper, pushed or pulled through the trough of a conveyer by a chain, to drag the load through it.

noun. A flat bucket or vane on the periphery of a wheel-pump or on the chain which it drives.

noun. Same as flyboat.

noun. In angling, the set of spinning-baits attached by the trace to the reel-line in a spinning-tackle.

noun. A primary, flight-feather, or remex: a term commonly used by pigeon-fanciers.

noun. The distance a bird may or does fly; the height at which it flies: in these senses, largely figurative.

noun. A group of three or more locks situated in such close proximity along a canal that the level of water between any two adjacent locks of the series may economically be raised and lowered to produce a lift: in distinction from locks arranged in isolated pairs with considerable distance between the different pairs.

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

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

noun. Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a soaring.

noun. 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.

"(Note that in standard clause notation the program rule in the previous example would be written as flight (X, Y) ~flight (X, Z) ~flight (Z, Y).)"

arrow  flight of colors  flight of ideas  flock  nuptial flight  

to turn to flight  

direct flight  flight attendant  flight ceiling  flight data recorder  flight level  

adorn  air unit  beautify  creative thinking  creativeness  

Bright  Dwight  Knight  Night  White  

approach  attack  call  combat  communication  

AWOL  Brownian movement  French leave  Hejira  a mass of  

shaft  

flighted  flighting  flights