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varietal
English
Etymology
variety +? -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v???a??t?l/
Adjective
varietal (not comparable)
- (biology) Pertaining to a distinct variety of organism.
- Made from a single specific variety (especially of grapes in wine).
- (linguistics) Of or relating to a variety of a language.
Noun
varietal (plural varietals)
- A wine made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of grape, which carries the name of that grape.
- The varietal Merlot has rich red color and a robust fruity taste. Cabernet Sauvignon is a varietal that descended from Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc.
- (by extension) A coffee made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of coffee bean.
Portuguese
Adjective
varietal m or f (plural varietais, comparable)
- varietal
Spanish
Noun
varietal m (plural varietales)
- varietal
Adjective
varietal (plural varietales)
- varietal
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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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
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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