different between preflight vs flight

English

Etymology

pre- +? flight

Adjective

preflight (not comparable)

1. Taking place before the start of a flight.
2. (computing) Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.

   a CORS preflight request

Noun

preflight (plural preflights)

1. An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.

Verb

preflight (third-person singular simple present preflights, present participle preflighting, simple past and past participle preflighted)

1. To perform an inspection of an aircraft before the start of a 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)

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.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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)