different between flight vs outskip

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)

1. The act of flying.

2. An instance of flying.

3. (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.

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 stairs between landings.
6. A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
7. A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.

8. The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
9. A paper plane.
10. (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
11. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
12. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
13. An air force unit.
14. 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.
15. (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.

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Adjective

flight (comparative more flight, superlative most flight)

1. (obsolete) Fast, swift, fleet.

Verb

flight (third-person singular simple present flights, present participle flighting, simple past and past participle flighted)

1. (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. flight (act of flying)

English

Etymology

From out- +? skip.

Verb

outskip (third-person singular simple present outskips, present participle outskipping, simple past and past participle outskipped)

1. (transitive) To avoid by flight or fleeing; escape.
   • 1816, Ben Jonson, William Gifford, The works of Ben Jonson:

     Thou lost thyself, child Drusus, when thou thoughtst Thou couldst outskip my vengeance; or outstand The power I had to crush thee into air.

   • 1866, Gerald Massey, Shakspeare's sonnets never before interpreted:

     The right novice of pregnant and aspiring conceit will not outskip any precious gem of invention, or any beautiful flower of elocution that may richly adorn or gallantly bedeck the trim garland of his budding style.

   • 1999, Henry James, Complete stories:

     He pretends to be surprised at nothing, and to possess in perfection—poor, pitiable old fop—the art nil admirari; but repeatedly, I know, I have clear outskipped his fancy.

2. (transitive) To surpass in skipping; surpass in skipping stones.
   • 2008, Brenda Cooper, The Silver Ship and the Sea:

     We had stopped throwing stones in view of anyone except ourselves years ago, after we saw the looks on the adults' faces when we outskipped them.

Anagrams

• skip out