FLYING vs FLIGHT: NOUN
- Plural Loose or floating waste of any kind.
- The act of moving through the air on wings; flight.
- The piloting or navigation of an aircraft or spacecraft.
- Flight in an aircraft or spacecraft.
- An instance of traveling by air
- A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season.
- Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a soaring.
- The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
- A group of three or more locks situated in such close proximity along a canal that the level of water between any two adjacent locks of the series may economically be raised and lowered to produce a lift: in distinction from locks arranged in isolated pairs with considerable distance between the different pairs.
- The distance a bird may or does fly; the height at which it flies: in these senses, largely figurative.
- A primary, flight-feather, or remex: a term commonly used by pigeon-fanciers.
- In angling, the set of spinning-baits attached by the trace to the reel-line in a spinning-tackle.
- Same as flyboat.
- A flat bucket or vane on the periphery of a wheel-pump or on the chain which it drives.
- In mach.: A wing or scraper, pushed or pulled through the trough of a conveyer by a chain, to drag the load through it.
- The distance traversed by an arrow.
- In archery: The course of an arrow through the air.
- Synonyms 3. See flock, n.
- A wing or fin; a fan.
- In machinery: The inclination of the arm of a crane or of a cat-head.
- In the clapper of a bell, the dependent piece or weight below the striking part; the tail.
- The thin membrane which is detached from the coffee-berry in the process of roasting.
- The glume or husk of oats.
- A continuous series of steps or stairs; the part of a stairway extending directly from one floor or one landing to another.
- Shooting with the longbow in general, as distinguished from the use of the crossbow. See flight-arrow.
- In archery: The sport of shooting arrows in the manner now called roving—that is, with roving aim instead of at a butt. See rover.
- Figuratively, an excursion or sally; a passing out of or beyond a fixed course; a mounting or soaring: as, a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition or of temper.
- A number of beings or things flying or passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in the same season: applied specifically in the old language of English sport to doves and swallows, and in America to pigeons, and also to a swarm of bees.
- Swift motion in general; rapid movement or passage caused by any propelling force: as, the flight of a missile; a meteor's flight; the flight of a fish toward its prey; the flight of a rapidly revolving wheel.
- The act or power of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation.
- An obsolete spelling of flite.
- The act of fleeing; the act of running away to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.
- A curved plate or flange that winds in a spiral around the center shaft of an auger, designed to transport loose material upward or backward along the shaft as the auger rotates.
- A series of stairs rising from one landing to another.
- An exuberant or transcendent effort or display.
- A round of competition, as in a sports tournament.
- A number of aircraft in the US Air Force forming a subdivision of a squadron.
- A group, especially of birds or aircraft, flying together.
- A scheduled airline run or trip into space.
- A swift passage or movement.
- The ability to fly.
- The act or process of flying through the air by means of wings.
- The distance covered in such motion.
- An instance of such motion.
- The motion of an object in or through a medium, especially through the earth's atmosphere or through space.
- The act or an instance of running away; an escape.
- The path followed by an object moving through space
- The act of escaping physically
- A flock of flying birds
- A formation of aircraft in flight
- An air force unit smaller than a squadron
- Passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
- A stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
- An instance of traveling by air
- A scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
FLYING vs FLIGHT: ADJECTIVE
- Brief or hurried.
- That which can fly.
- A start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while the vessels are under way.
- See Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary.
- An oceanic squid (Ommastrephes Bartramii syn. Sthenoteuthis Bartramii), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel.
- See Ballooning spider.
- A shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing.
- The rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with earth.
- The fly of a clock.
- One of several species of small marsuupials of the genera Petaurus and Belideus, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar squirrel (Belideus sciureus), and the ariel (Belideus ariel), are the best known; -- called also squirrel petaurus and flying squirrel. See Sugar squirrel.
- A body of soldiers detailed to hover about an enemy.
- The opossum mouse (Acrobates pygmæus), a marsupial of Australia. Called also feathertail glider.
- A torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at night.
- See Dragon, n. 6.
- A reconnoissance level over the course of a projected road, canal, etc.
- See Colugo.
- Light sails carried only in fine weather.
- An extension of the jib boom.
- A sail extended outside of the standing jib, on the flying-jib boom.
- A species of gurnard of the genus Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance.
- Either of two East Indian tree frogs of the genus Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and Rhacophorus pardalis), having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps.
- See Flying fox in the vocabulary.
- See Flying fish, in the Vocabulary.
- A spectral ship.
- A meteor. See under Dragon.
- A young female kangaroo.
- To be victorious; to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking.
- Flags unfurled and waving in the air.
- A contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch.
- See under Bridge, and Camp.
- Artillery trained to rapid evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to spring upon the guns and caissons when they change position.
- A body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm.
- Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
- Not secured by spars or stays. Used of a sail.
- Capable of swift deployment or response; extremely mobile.
- Brief; hurried.
- Done or performed swiftly in or as if in the air.
- Swiftly moving; fleet.
- Situated, extending, or functioning in the air.
- Of or relating to aviation.
- Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air
- Moving swiftly
- Capable of or engaged in flight
- Designed for swift movement or action
- Of or relating to passage through the air especially aviation
- Hurried and brief
- Done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in motion as they cross the starting line
- N/A
FLYING vs FLIGHT: VERB
- N/A
- Decorate with feathers
- Fly in a flock
- Shoot a bird in flight
FLYING vs FLIGHT: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To migrate or fly in flocks.
FLYING vs FLIGHT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Swift; equipped for swift motion: as, a flying party.
- (idiom) (with flying colors) With complete or outstanding success.
- In sporting, belonging to a flight or flock.
- Swift in transit.
- To shoot (wildfowl) in their flight to or from their feeding-grounds.
- To take flight; fly: an English sporting use.
- To put to flight; rout; frighten away.
FLYING vs FLIGHT: RELATED WORDS
- Traveling, Fast flying, Aflare, Mobile, Fast, Quick, Hurried, Flaring, Running, Air, Waving, Moving, Fluttering, Winged, Flight
- Fly, Planes, Airline, Airliner, Aircraft, Jet, Takeoff, Airplane, Plane, Flight of steps, Flight of stairs, Trajectory, Escape, Fledge, Flying
FLYING vs FLIGHT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Traveling, Fast flying, Aflare, Mobile, Fast, Quick, Hurried, Flaring, Running, Air, Waving, Moving, Fluttering, Winged, Flight
- Airlines, Voyage, Flew, Fly, Planes, Airline, Airliner, Aircraft, Jet, Takeoff, Airplane, Plane, Trajectory, Escape, Flying
FLYING vs FLIGHT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- Sometimes called the aircrew, the flight crew consists of everyone hired by the airlines on a flight, including pilots, pursers, and flight attendants.
- When I booked my flight, i was told that the flight would NOT be a full flight due to COVID.
- If you experience a flight cancellation or your flight is overbooked, the airline should offer you an alternative flight.
FLYING vs FLIGHT: QUESTIONS
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