Definition of Flight

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Flight

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.

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Flight Quotations

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Neil Armstrong

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Thomas Hardy

Flight Translations

flight in Danish is flugt
flight in Dutch is vlucht, vliegtocht
flight in French is fuite, vol, essor
flight in German is Flucht, Flug, Flug
flight in Italian is fuga, evasione, volante
flight in Latin is fuga
flight in Norwegian is flygning, flukt, flytur, svev
flight in Spanish is vuelo, escape
flight in Swedish is flygtur, flykt

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