1. flight - Noun
2. flight - Adjective
3. flight - Verb
The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
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; as, a flight of arrows.
A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
The husk or glume of oats.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein
How blessings brighten as they take their flight. Edward Young
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. Jean Cocteau
Blessings brighten as they take their flight. Italian Proverb
I give thee flight without wings. Bedouin Proverb
He is a fool who loses the flight for the leap. Italian Proverb