Thesaurus: flight

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1. n. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
2. n. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
3. n. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
4. n. 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.
5. n. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
6. n. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
7. n. The husk or glume of oats.
8. n. a formation of aircraft in flight
9. n. an instance of traveling by air
10. n. a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
11. n. the act of escaping physically
12. n. an air force unit smaller than a squadron