flights

Main Entry:: ¹flight
Pronunciation:: \ˈflīt\
Function:: noun
Usage:: often attributive
Etymology:: Middle English, from Old English flyht; akin to Middle Dutch vlucht flight, Old English flēogan to fly
Date:: before 12th century

1 a: an act or instance of passing through the air by the use of wings <the flight of a bee> b: the ability to fly <flight is natural to birds>2 a: a passing through the air or through space outside the earth's atmosphere <flight of an arrow> <flight of a rocket to the moon> b: the distance covered in such a flight c: swift movement3 a: a trip made by or in an airplane or spacecraft b: a scheduled airplane trip4: a group of similar beings or objects flying through the air together5: a brilliant, imaginative, or unrestrained exercise or display <a flight of fancy>6 a: a continuous series of stairs from one landing or floor to another b: a series (as of terraces or conveyors) resembling a flight of stairs7: a unit of the United States Air Force below a squadron

— flight·less

\-ləs\ adjective

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