Word Finder - flights

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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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The act of fleeing.

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take flight

A few airline flights went non-smoking.

I changed my flights and I'm leaving tomorrow.

Except for his army hitch and a few late night military flights, Dean had never been west of the Mississippi and he'd never seen scenery as spec­tacular as Colorado in late spring.

I heard they had the airport cleared for flights now that it's stopped snowing.

The streets of Valletta, paved with stone, run along and across the ridge, and end on each side towards the water in steep flights of steps.

The levels are connected by flights of steps, and are composed of a labyrinth of chambers and passages, whose length aggregates over 65 m.

The buildings themselves, with the usual halls, bath-rooms and magazines, together with a shrine of the Mother Goddess, occupy two sides of a rectangle, enclosing a court at a higher level approached by flights of stairs.

The archers fixed the pointed stakes, which they carried to ward off cavalry charges, and opened the engagement with flights of arrows.

The apparent scattering or diversity of the flights is merely an effect of perspective upon objects really traversing parallel lines.

On the 9th of September 1908 the former, at Fort Myer, Virginia, made three notable flights; in the first he remained in the air 571 minutes and in the second 1 hour 3 minutes, while in the third he took with him a passenger and covered nearly 4 m.

He strode through more corridors than she was able to count, down several flights of stairs and finally to a short, dead end hallway with a ceiling that towered ten stories above.

A remarkable feature of the Central-American ruins is the frequency of truncated pyramids built of hewn stone, with flights of steps up to the temple built on the platform at top. The resemblance of these structures to the old descriptions and pictures of the Mexican teocallis is so striking that this name is habitually given to them.

In the higher flights, to which he arose as his practice in the art grew perfected, he is always noble and often sublime.

This form of attack, and the flights of arrows discharged by the English (which flew with the wind), produced confusion in the crowded benches of the French vessels, which in most cases must have been little more than open boats.

To the east of this large flights of steps lead up to the temple proper.

The city is built on rocky limestone bluffs, which rise rather abruptly on each side of the river, and a number of the parallel streets, of different levels, are connected by flights of steps.

The streets of the higher and older part of the town are narrow and tortuous, and in places so steep that means of ascent is provided by flights of steps.

But al-Farabi was not always consistent in his views; a certain sobriety checked his speculative flights, and although holding that the true perfection of man is reached in this life by the elevation of the intellectual nature, he came towards the close to think the separate existence of intellect no better than a delusion.

When bees are wintered on thin, watery food not sealed over, and are unable for months to take cleansing flights, they become weak and involuntarily discharge their excrement over the combs and hive, a state of things never seen in a healthy colony under normal conditions.

To follow him in his flights is real mental exhilaration."

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I recently booked flights with a budget airline for a European City break.

Flights from Oslo can be arranged, either to London, or some regional airports - please enquire for details.

Prices for local area hot air balloon flights vary in each region.

Balloon Flights, Maspalomas A one-hour balloon flight drinking chilled bubbly, and a view of the island you'll never forget.

During the second reading earlier this month, a majority of Peers voted to overturn plans to remove the current cap on night flights.

Passengers without a valid passport will be refused carriage on international flights.

It should be noted that most scheduled air tickets and bought-in charter flights are non-transferable and name changes are not permitted.

The following are the ROC government¡¦s position on the 2005 Lunar New Year cross-strait charter flights.

Of connecting flights things Clinton rodham aboard from the in a deck.

A seven-night cruise of the islands costs from £ 1,721 per person including international and internal flights, full board accommodation and excursions.

Flights will operate from Southampton International, meaning Flybe now serves 10 French destinations from the airport.

Over the next few months the RAF detachment flew shuttle flights into Dilli, East Timor with a round trip taking 3½ hours.

The only slight downside to the flights is that the journey is slightly longer.

Ultrasound scans were used to assess thrombosis before and after the flights and a composite edema score was used to evaluate edema and swelling.

Ultrasound scans were used to assess thrombosis before and after the flights and a composite edema score was used to evaluate edema score was used to evaluate edema and swelling.

Mr Kharazi flew to Baghdad despite the United Nations air embargo on flights to Iraq.

Oversize, overweight and excess baggage will not be accepted for flights to the destinations covered by the bag embargo.

In January 1929 a number of new Squadrons were created by the simple expediency of raising the existing flights to Squadron status.

They can often chase the rest of the flights occupants, plucking feathers from them.

Worldwide, the number of scheduled flights is fairly stable, with a 1% growth recorded year on year.

Like all our long-haul flights, passengers will get personal inflight entertainment, food, a complimentary newspaper and a free bar service.

At present, these types of smaller aircraft are under less strict security than scheduled flights.

Classes of Service Offered flights operated by SWISS offer First Class, Business Class and Economy Class service on all transatlantic flights.

Most European countries have charter flights directly to Sharm El Sheikh Airport, for considerably fair prices.. .

There are even helicopter flights from Penzance to see the lights from the sky.

Long haul flights for London Luton SWE, the Swedish airline launched its thrice weekly flights to Lahore, Pakistan in June.

See Holyrood.com report PQs and Motions New Written Answers published today include health (eye operations) and torture / rendition flights.

Sea Wing is the leading airfreight forwarder to Nigeria with guaranteed space allocations on cargo flights to Lagos and Port Harcourt.

In the afternoon we plan helicopter flights over Devon Island, viewing the tidewater glaciers on the eastern coast and ideally making landings.