flight

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈflaɪ̯t/|[ˈflaɪ̯t]    美 /ˈflaɪ̯t/|[ˈflaɪ̯t]|/ˈflɑɪ̯t/|[ˈflɑ̟ɪ̯t]|/ˈflɒɪ̯t/|[ˈflɒ̈ɪ̯t]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of flying. countable,uncountable
    — Most birds are capable of flight.
  2. The act of fleeing. countable,uncountable
    — take flight
  3. An instance of flying. countable,uncountable
    — The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
  4. A collective term for doves or swallows. collective,countable,uncountable
    — a flight of swallows
  5. A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance. countable,uncountable
    — The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.
  6. A series of stairs between landings. countable,uncountable
    — Limerick terminus has changed but little since its opening, and travellers still ascend the same flight of steps from the forecourt to enter the handsome two-storey stone building, which contains the offices and a recently-modernised refreshment room.
  7. A group of canal locks with a short distance between them countable,uncountable
  8. A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators. countable,uncountable
    — How many flights is it up?
  9. The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path. countable,uncountable
    — Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft / I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight / The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch / To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, / I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]
  10. A paper airplane. countable,uncountable
  11. The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift. countable,uncountable
  12. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile. countable,uncountable
  13. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory. countable,uncountable
  14. An air force unit. countable,uncountable
  15. A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design. US,countable,uncountable
  16. 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. countable,uncountable
  17. A comparable sample of beers or other drinks. broadly,countable,uncountable
  18. The shaped material forming the thread of a screw. countable,uncountable
  19. An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming. countable,uncountable
    — a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination
  20. An advertising campaign of fixed length. countable,uncountable
    — After the first eight-week flight of advertising, the tracking research showed that consumers' predisposition to use Citi as a financial services provider jumped 50 percent.
动词 v.
  1. To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
  2. To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual. broadly,transitive
    — Riyad Mahrez flighted the free-kick that followed to the far post and Morgan, with not much finesse but plenty of desire, bundled the ball over the line. Cue pandemonium in the stands.
形容词 adj.
  1. Fast, swift, fleet. obsolete

词形变化

flights plural more flight comparative most flight superlative flights present,singular,third-person flighting participle,present flighted participle,past flighted past flights plural

词汇关系

下位词
controlled flight into terrain dark flight direct flight maiden flight red-eye flight space flight spaceflight test flight
衍生词
aflight autoflight beer flight bush flight bus-stop flight co-flight controlled flight into terrain death flight electronic flight bag fam flight fight or flight first flight first flight cover flight archery flight attendant flight bubble flight capital flightcase flight ceiling flight code flight control flight controller flightcraft flight crew flight data recorder flight deck flight director flight engineer flight envelope flight feather flightful flight hostess flightiness flight information region flight instrument flight interruption manifest flight jacket flightless flight level flight lieutenant flight line flightling flightmare flight mode flight number flight nurse flight of beer flight of beers flight of earls flight of fancy flight of ideas flight path flight plan flight recorder flight risk flightseeing flight sequence flight-shot flight sickness flight sock flightsome flight-specific flight square flight status flight stewardess flight suit flight ticket flight time flightworthy flighty foreflight ghost flight hydroflight in-flight in flight inflight Lévy flight life-flight male flight midflight moonflight multiflight nonflight outflight overflight paraflight Pindaric flight postflight preflight reflight spaceflight stairflight take flight time-of-flight time of flight time-of-flight mass spectrometry topflight top flight top-flight wine flight black flight fight-or-flight white flight
相关词
fly

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Germanic *-þiz
Proto-West Germanic *-þi
Proto-West Germanic *fluhti
Old English flyht
Middle English flight
English flight
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).
词源 2
From Middle English, from Old English flyht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti, derived from *fleuhaną (“to flee”). Analyzable as flee + -t (variant of -th). Cognate with Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 1).
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