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flight

noun
/ˈflaɪ̯t/US/ˈflɐɪ̯t/

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).

  1. derived from *plewk-✻
  2. inherited from *fluhti✻
  3. inherited from flyht
  4. inherited from flight

Definitions

  1. The act of flying.

    • Most birds are capable of flight.

  2. An instance of flying.

    • The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.

  3. A collective term for doves or swallows.

    • a flight of swallows
  4. ›+ 20 more definitions

    1. A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is…

      A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.

      • 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.

    2. A series of stairs between landings.

      • 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.

    3. A group of canal locks with a short distance between them

    4. A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.

      • How many flights is it up?

    5. The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.

    6. A paper airplane.

    7. The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.

    8. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.

    9. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.

    10. An air force unit.

    11. A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to…

      A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.

    12. Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are…

      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.

    13. A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.

    14. The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.

    15. An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.

      • a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination

    16. An advertising campaign of fixed length.

      • 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.

    17. Fast, swift, fleet.

    18. To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.

    19. To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.

      • 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.

    20. The act of fleeing.

      • take flight
      • the flight of a refugee
      • Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at flight. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at flight. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at flight

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA