flight

flight has 19 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
• n.. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
• n.. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
• 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.
• n.. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
• n.. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
• n.. The husk or glume of oats.
• n.. 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"
• n.. a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports; "I took the noon flight to Chicago"
• n.. an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"
• n.. a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
• n.. passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"