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flight
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?t, IPA(key): /fla?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-Germanic *fluhtiz (“flight”), derived from *fleugan? (“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).
Noun
flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)
- The act of flying.
- An instance of flying.
- (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A paper plane.
- (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- An air force unit.
- 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.
- (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
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Translations
Adjective
flight (comparative more flight, superlative most flight)
- (obsolete) Fast, swift, fleet.
Verb
flight (third-person singular simple present flights, present participle flighting, simple past and past participle flighted)
- (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
- (sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
See also
Appendix:English collective nouns
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old English flyht, from Proto-Germanic *fluhtiz, derived from *fleuhan? (“to flee”). Analyzable as flee +? -t (variant of -th). Cognate with Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 1).
Noun
flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)
- The act of fleeing.
- take flight
- the flight of a refugee
Related terms
- flee
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English flyht.
Noun
flight (plural flights)
- flight (act of flying)
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murmuration
English
Etymology
1350-1400; Medieval Latin murmuratio (“murmuring, grumbling”). The "starling" sense is probably derived from the sound of the very large groups that starlings form at dusk.
Noun
murmuration (countable and uncountable, plural murmurations)
- An act or instance of murmuring.
- (ornithology, collective) A flock of starlings.
- An emergent order in a multi-agent social system.
Further reading
- Flocking (behavior) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Example of starling murmuration from YouTube.
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