▸ noun: The act of flying. ▸ noun: An instance of flying. ▸ noun: (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows. ▸ noun: A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance. ▸ noun: A series of stairs between landings. ▸ noun: A group of canal locks with a short distance between them ▸ noun: A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators. ▸ noun: The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path. ▸ noun: A paper airplane. ▸ noun: (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift. ▸ noun: The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile. ▸ noun: An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory. ▸ noun: An air force unit. ▸ noun: (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design. ▸ noun: Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples. ▸ noun: (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks. ▸ noun: (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw. ▸ noun: An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming. ▸ noun: (advertising, broadcasting) An advertising campaign of fixed length. ▸ adjective: (obsolete) Fast, swift, fleet. ▸ verb: (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual. ▸ verb: (sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual. ▸ noun: The act of fleeing.
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