Adjective

1. (obscure or slang): Wayward, opposed.

   Note: Nowadays we refer to people being flighty instead.

Noun

1. The act of flying.

   Birds are capable of flight

2. An instance of flying.

   The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.

3. A collective term for doves or swallows.
4. A journey made by an air craft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle.

   The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight

5. The act of fleeing. (It is noun version of flee).

   take flight

6. A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
7. A floor which are reached to by stairs or escalators.

   How many flights is it up?

8. A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
9. A paper plane.
10. : The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
11. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
12. A aerodynamic surfaces designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
13. Act of fleeing of a refugee or a fugitive.
14. An air force unit.
15. Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.

Related terms

• direct flight
• flight attendant
• flight ceiling
• flight data recorder
• flightiness
• flightless
• flight level
• flight of fancy

• flight path
• flight recorder
• flighty
• in-flight, inflight
• Lévy flight
• maiden flight
• midflight

• overflight
• preflight
• spaceflight, space flight
• take flight
• time-of-flight
• time-of-flight mass spectrometry
• top-flight, topflight