flight

Noun

• a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
  • I took the noon flight to Chicago
    

• a flock of flying birds

• the path followed by an object moving through space

• passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
  • a flight of fancy
    
  • flights of rhetoric
    
  • flights of imagination
    

• an air force unit smaller than a squadron

• the act of escaping physically
  • he made his escape from the mental hospital
    
  • the canary escaped from its cage
    
  • his flight was an indication of his guilt
    

• a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

• an instance of traveling by air
  • flying was still an exciting adventure for him
    

• a formation of aircraft in flight

Verb

• decorate with feathers
  • fledge an arrow
    

• fly in a flock
  • flighting wild geese
    

• shoot a bird in flight

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  trajectory , escape , flight of stairs , flight of steps , flying , fledge