flight

flight
flight
W2S3 [flaıt] n
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1¦(travel)¦
2¦(flying)¦
3¦(movement through air)¦
4¦(stairs)¦
5¦(escape)¦
6 flight of fancy/imagination/fantasy
7¦(birds)¦
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[: Old English; Origin: flyht]
1.) ¦(TRAVEL)¦
a journey in a plane or space vehicle, or the plane or vehicle that is making the journey
▪ He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse.
▪ Bernstein caught the first flight out of Washington.
▪ We need to hurry or we'll miss our flight .
▪ All flights out of Chicago were cancelled .
▪ Many people have trouble sleeping after a long flight .
▪ a short flight in a hot air balloon
▪ Soon smoking will be banned on all domestic flights .
▪ The number of international flights fell last year.
▪ British Airways offers non-stop flights from London to Tehran.
▪ We only had 20 minutes to make our connecting flight .
2.) ¦(FLYING)¦[U]
when something flies through the air
in flight
▪ pelicans in flight
▪ In 1968, the first supersonic airliner took flight (=began flying) .
3.) ¦(MOVEMENT THROUGH AIR)¦[U]
an object's or bird's movement through the air
▪ During its flight, the weapon twists and turns.
4.) ¦(STAIRS)¦
a set of stairs between one floor and the next
▪ Bert lives two flights down from here.
a flight of stairs/steps
▪ She fell down a whole flight of stairs.
5.) ¦(ESCAPE)¦[U]
when you leave a place in order to try and escape from a person or a dangerous situation
flight from
▪ Donald Wood's hasty flight from South Africa early in 1978
take flight also take to flight BrE
▪ When the alarm sounded, the whole gang took flight.
put sb to flight
(=make someone run away especially by fighting or threatening them)
6.) flight of fancy/imagination/fantasy
thoughts, ideas etc that are full of imagination but that are not practical or sensible
7.) ¦(BIRDS)¦
a group of birds all flying together
flight of
▪ a flight of swallows
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
book a flight
catch a flight (=get on a plane to go somewhere)
miss a flight (=arrive too late to get on a plane)
cancel a flight
a long/short flight
a domestic flight (=to another place in the same country)
an international flight (=to another country)
a non-stop/direct flight
a connecting flight (=a flight to continue a journey, after a previous flight)
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Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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