Word Finder - flight

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The act of flying.

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Most birds are capable of flight.

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An instance of flying.

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The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.

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The act of fleeing.

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(collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.

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a flight of swallows

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

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The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.

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A series of stairs between landings.

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A group of canal locks with a short distance between them

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A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.

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How many flights is it up?

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

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A paper plane.

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

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The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.

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

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An air force unit.

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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.

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The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.

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

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(by extension) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.

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Fast, swift, fleet.

A blowing snow storm delayed our flight north.

They had a flight out yesterday afternoon.

Owing to the rapidity of the French flight and the Russian pursuit and the consequent exhaustion of the horses, the chief means of approximately ascertaining the enemy's position--by cavalry scouting-- was not available.

Can you call Katie while I make flight arrangements?

He left the sparring level without saying a word to Ully and followed his instincts up a flight of stairs and down a narrow hall he recognized from his visit to their father.s catacombs with Kris.

It was too late to get a non-stop flight so I have you going out of Allentown and changing planes in Baltimore.

It should be a slam-dunk and quick flight home.

It was the most ethereal flight I had ever witnessed.

She smiled, "Have a nice flight," and walked away.

On the flight down to Washington a strange and perhaps unfair thought hit me.

A snow storm cancelled our return flight Sunday.

Cynthia had received a phone call from the Boston sisters telling her their flight was delayed and they weren't now expected until late afternoon.

It was the roughest flight Dean had ever taken.

His flight was delayed and the power went off at the house.

He's offered to pay for everything; even your flight down.

The flight attendant approached and asked, "Can I get you anything?"

I've got a flight into Dallas tomorrow — well, actually it would be today — late evening.

This campaign consisted in a flight of the French during which they did all they could to destroy themselves.

She checked the clock on the nightstand then the notepad listing the time of the flight she'd booked the afternoon before after exploring the mansion.

His flight, however, only precipitated events.

While Lincoln was at Worcester Shays planned to capture the arsenal at Springfield, but on the 25th of January Shepard's men fired upon Shays's followers, killing four and putting the rest to flight.

Thisbe was the first to arrive, but, terrified by the roar of a lion, took to flight.

In February 964, the emperor having withdrawn from the city, Leo found it necessary to seek safety in flight, whereupon he was deposed by a synod held under the presidency of John XII.

The necessity for sights follows directly on investigation of the forces acting on a projectile during flight.

It passes over equal spaces in equal times, but falls with an accelerating velocity according to the formula h = zgt 2, where h is the height fallen through, g the force of gravity, and t the time of flight.

He was active in organizing relief for the wounded at the commencement of the war, remained bravely at his post during the siege, and refused to seek safety by flight during the brief triumph of the Commune.

Certain it is that not long after his flight from Pomposa Guido was living at Arezzo, and it was here that, about 1030, he received an invitation to Rome from Pope John XIV.

About a mile and a quarter from the Bab Bu Saadun, the north-west gate of the city, is the ancient palace called the Bardo, remarkable for the "lion court," a terrace to which access is gained by a flight of steps guarded by marble lions, and for some apartments in the Moorish style.

Two of the Horatii were soon slain; the third brother feigned flight, and when the Curiatii, who were all wounded, pursued him without concert he slew them one by one.

Frequenting parts of the open country so very divergent in character, and as remarkable for the peculiarity of its flight as for that of its cry, the lapwing is far more often observed in nearly all parts of the British Islands than any other of the group Limicolae.

During their stay there they had inflicted a severe defeat on the Zulus under Dingaan (December 1838), an event which, following on the flight of Mosilikatze, greatly strengthened the position of Moshesh, whose power became a menace to that of the emigrant farmers.

Pepe saved himself by flight.

When the flight of the French army along the Smolensk road became well defined, what Konovnitsyn had foreseen on the night of the eleventh of October began to occur.

Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind.

Kutuzov merely shrugged his shoulders when one after another they presented projects of maneuvers to be made with those soldiers-- ill-shod, insufficiently clad, and half starved--who within a month and without fighting a battle had dwindled to half their number, and who at the best if the flight continued would have to go a greater distance than they had already traversed, before they reached the frontier.

The wings are well developed for flight, and there is a tendency in the group, especially among the males, towards an excessive development of the mandibles or the presence of enormous, horn-like processes on the head or pronotum.

Seen in front, its white face, striped with black, and broad black gorget attract attention as it sits, often motionless, on the rocks; while in flight the white of the lower part of the back and white band across the wings are no less conspicuous even at a distance.

In 1550 he succeeded his father in the office of secretary of state; in this capacity he attended Charles in the war with Maurice, elector of Saxony, accompanied him in the flight from Innsbruck, and afterwards drew up the treaty of Passau (August 1552).

Failing in an attempt to arrange terms, and also in obtaining the help which he solicited from France, O'Neill was utterly routed by the O'Donnells at Letterkenny; and seeking safety in flight, he threw himself on the mercy of his enemies, the MacDonnells.

A fine paved corridor running east from this gives access to a line of the later magazines, and through a columnar hall to the central court beyond, while to the left of this a broad and stately flight of steps leads up to a kind of entrance hall on an upper terrace.

The loss of the English did not exceed 700 killed and too() wounded; while the Irish, in their disastrous flight, lost about 7000 men, besides the whole material of the army.

There are two small towns, Capri (450 ft.) and Anacapri (980 ft.), which until the construction of a carriage road in 1874 were connected only by a flight of 784 steps (the substructures of which at least are ancient).

David's hurried flight, attended only by his bodyguard, indicates that his position was not a very strong one, and it is difficult to connect this with the fact that he had already waged the wars mentioned in 2 Sam.

King and queen fly, carrying the child with them, and while the wife is tending her husband, who dies of a broken heart on his flight, the infant is carried off by a friendly water-fairy, the Lady of the Lake, who brings the boy up in her mysterious kingdom.

He attended the queen in her flight to France in 1646, but disapproved of the prince's journey thither, and retired to Jersey, subsequently aiding in the king's escape to the Isle of Wight.

At the outset of the Revolution she foresaw the gravity of events, and refused to leave the king, whom she accompanied in his flight on the 10th of June 1792, and with whom she was arrested at Varennes.

Accused of assisting the king's flight, of supplying emigres with funds, and of encouraging the resistance of the royal troops on the 10th of August 1792, she was condemned to death, and executed on the 10th of May 1794.

Alexander was defeated by Ptolemy at the battle of the Oenoparas near Antioch and murdered during his flight.

Large pits are dug across the line of advance of these great insect armies to stop them when in the larval or wingless stage, and even huge bonfires are lighted to check their flight when adult.

The first repulse soon passed into a rout, and from a rout into a headlong flight, in which the English king himself barely escaped.