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11flight — I. 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 < …
12flight — noun 1) the history of flight Syn: aviation, flying, air transport, aerial navigation, aeronautics 2) a flight to Rome Syn: airplane/plane trip, air trip, trip/journey by air 3) the flight of a baseball …
13flight*/*/*/ — [flaɪt] noun 1) [C] a journey in a plane My flight has been delayed.[/ex] The flight from New York to Heathrow took about 5 hours.[/ex] 2) [U] the process of moving through the air, or the ability to move through the air a flock of geese in… …
14stairs — n. pl. Staircase, stairway, flight of steps, flight of stairs, pair of stairs, set of steps …
15flight — [OE] English has two distinct, etymologically unrelated words flight. One, ‘flying’, comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *flukhtiz, a derivative of the same base as produced fly (the sense ‘series of stairs’, which developed in the 18th… …
16flight — [OE] English has two distinct, etymologically unrelated words flight. One, ‘flying’, comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *flukhtiz, a derivative of the same base as produced fly (the sense ‘series of stairs’, which developed in the 18th… …
17flight of steps — noun a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next • Syn: ↑flight, ↑flight of stairs • Hypernyms: ↑stairway, ↑staircase …
18stairs — n. flight of stairs; set of steps ster /steÉ™ n. step …
19flight of steps — n. stairway, set of steps, flight of stairs …
20Flight — (fl[imac]t), n. [AS. fliht, flyht, a flying, fr. fle[ o]gan to fly; cf. flyht a fleeing, fr. fle[ o]n to flee, G. flucht a fleeing, Sw. flykt, G. flug a flying, Sw. flygt, D. vlugt a fleeing or flying, Dan. flugt. [root]84. See {Flee}, {Fly}.] 1 …
