flight

«flight» in Mova's school dictionary: a trip in an aeroplane: «our flight to Dublin» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (flight, flights)

meaning for a pupil

1) A flight is a trip in an aeroplane: «our flight to Dublin». tree →

2) Flight is flying, the act of moving through the air: «birds in flight». tree →

3) A flight of stairs is a set of steps between two floors. tree →

4) Flight is running away from danger: «take flight». tree →

sense in the lessons

a trip by plane with a time, distance or ticket price; or a set of stairs with a number of steps; in science: birds, bats and insects fly with wings, planes need lift; in history: the first powered flight by the Wright brothers; in everyday life: check-in, boarding, flight times; phrases: «flight of stairs», «in flight», «take flight», «flight attendant»

examples

• The flight takes 3 hours. tree →
• A plane ticket for the flight costs 150 dollars. tree →
• Each flight of stairs has 12 steps. tree →
• She climbed 4 flights of stairs. tree →
• Our flight to Auckland was late. tree →
• The birds took flight when the dog barked. tree →
• The Wright brothers made the first powered flight. tree →
• Fasten your seat belt during the flight. tree →
• The fox took flight at the sound of the hunters. tree →

note

Two meanings: a plane trip (time, distance, price) or a set of stairs (steps per flight, a rate). Trap: «4 flights of 12 steps» is 4 × 12 steps, not 4 + 12. Trap: a flight across time zones: the clock time changes by more or less than the flight time.

In the corpora

• Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day.
• Think of a pilot in a flight simulator: the cockpit is a model, but the skill is real.
• Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.
• Bumblebees can fly on cold days because they shiver their flight muscles to warm up, and their furry coats keep the heat in.
• Pigeons often clap their wings together loudly as they take off, and males also clap in display flights.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.