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Type Words
Synonyms flying
Type of aviation, air, air travel
Has types terrain flight, stunting, stunt flying, low level flight, aerobatics, acrobatics, ballooning, blind flying, blind landing, fly-by, flyover, flypast, soaring, sailplaning, glide, gliding, sailing, pass, overflight, maiden flight, sortie, solo
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Synonyms flight of stairs, flight of steps
Type of stairway, staircase
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Synonyms fledge
Type of adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament
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Synonyms trajectory
Type of mechanical phenomenon
Has types ballistic trajectory, gravity-assist, ballistics
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Synonyms escape
Type of running away
Has types breakout, break, prison-breaking, prisonbreak, hegira, getaway, skedaddle, gaolbreak, exodus, evasion, lam, jailbreak, hejira
Derivation flee


his flight was an indication of his guilt.
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Type of flock
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Type of formation
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Type of air unit
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Type of trip
Has types direct flight, domestic flight, redeye flight, redeye, nonstop, international flight, connecting flight, nonstop flight


I took the noon flight to Chicago.
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Type of fly, wing


flighting wild geese.
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Type of creativeness, creative thinking, creativity


a flight of fancy.
flights of rhetoric.
flights of imagination.
Type Words
Type of shoot, pip

Examples of flight

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A charter flight carrying the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team landed around noon.
From the sacbee.com
The carrier also indicated that 45 out of 50 passengers made it onto the flight.
From the usatoday.com
Draudvila competed in the same flight with Krauchanka, so he saw the pole break.
From the kansas.com
The recent holidays brought flight cancellations for travelers in the Northeast.
From the kansas.com
On his flight to San Diego in September, he scrawled his feelings in a notebook.
From the washingtonpost.com
Do you think that commercial space flight will be profitable in the near future?
From the cnn.com
The tail number is used to connect aircraft to a flight plan filed by the pilot.
From the cnn.com
Visual Flight Rules, or VFR, mean a flight is conducted under visual conditions.
From the cnn.com
Delta Troop's flight command center is a container unit on the back of a Humvee.
From the upi.com
More examples
  • A formation of aircraft in flight
  • Shoot a bird in flight
  • An instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"
  • Fly in a flock; "flighting wild geese"
  • A stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
  • Fledge: decorate with feathers; "fledge an arrow"
  • Flight is the process by which an object moves either through the air, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere (as in the case of spaceflight), by generating lift, propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement.
  • Flight is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. It is written in the first-person, from the viewpoint of a Native American teenager who calls himself Zits, "a time traveling mass murderer. ...
  • Flight is the second full-length album by Christian rock band Building 429, which was released in 2002. Initial copies of the album were duplicated onto CD-R media with a thermal-printed label applied and distributed in a simple sleeve. ...