<B>flied, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> a past and past participle of <B>fly</B> (2) (v.i. def. 8). <BR> <I>Ex. The batter flied to center field.</I> </DL>
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<B>flier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that flies. <BR> <I>Ex. That eagle is a high flier.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the pilot of an airplane; aviator. <DD><B> 3. </B>a very fast train, ship, or bus. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) a reckless financial venture. <BR> <I>Ex. a flier in foreign bonds.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a small handbill. <DD><B> 6. </B>a mechanical part that moves or revolves quickly. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Architecture.) a single one of a straight flight of steps. <DD><B> 8. </B>a device to make the bait spin in fishing. Also, <B>flyer.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>fliers,</B> </I>stairs laid out in straight flights, as opposed to winding stairs. <BR> <I>Ex. Fliers and winders are ... steps without any landing place (Stephen Primatt).</I> </DL>
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<B>flies</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the plural of <B>fly</B> (1) and <B>fly</B> (2). <BR> <I>Ex. There are many flies on the window. Both batters hit flies to the outfield.</I> </DL>
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<B>flies</B> (2), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> third person singular, present tense of <B>fly</B> (2). <BR> <I>Ex. A bird flies. He flies an airplane.</I> </DL>
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<B>flies</B> (3), noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>fly</B> (2). </DL>
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<B>flight</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act or manner of flying. <BR> <I>Ex. the flight of a bird through the air.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the distance a bird, bullet, airplane, missile, or other projectile can fly. <BR> <I>Ex. Because the Heron soars upward in the sky Above the arrow's flight (Robert Southey).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a group of things flying through the air together. <BR> <I>Ex. a flight of pigeons, a flight of angels, a flight of arrows.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S.) a tactical unit of the Air Force consisting of two or more airplanes. <DD><B> 5. </B>a trip in an aircraft, especially a scheduled trip on an airline. <BR> <I>Ex. He took the three o'clock flight to Boston.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>travel beyond the earth or into outer space by means of a spacecraft. <BR> <I>Ex. a rocket flight, a lunar flight.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a swift movement. <BR> <I>Ex. a flight of the clouds.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Figurative.) the act or fact of soaring above or beyond what is ordinary. <BR> <I>Ex. a flight of fancy, a flight of imagination.</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>a set of stairs or steps from one landing or story of a building to the next. <DD><B> 10. </B>the passing of time, especially when it seems to pass very quickly. <BR> <I>Ex. I call the lone night good, Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight (Shelley).</I> <DD><B> 11a. </B><B>=flight arrow.</B> <DD><B> b. </B>a contest at shooting for distance. <DD><B> 12a. </B>a series of adjacent locks on a canal. <BR> <I>Ex. descending from the hill-tops by a flight of locks (Samuel Smiles).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>one of a series of conveyor belts in a conveyor system. <DD><B> 13. </B>a set of fishhooks appended to a spinner. <DD><B> 14. </B>(Cricket.) the course of a bowled ball. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(of birds) to fly or travel in flights. <BR> <I>Ex. The wild geese are flighting (Rudyard Kipling).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to migrate. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to shoot (wild fowl) in flight. <DD><B> 2. </B>to feather (an arrow). </DL>
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<B>flight</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of running away; escape. <BR> <I>Ex. The flight of the prisoners was discovered.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of absconding. <BR><I>expr. <B>put to flight,</B> </I>to force to run away. <BR> <I>Ex. Our soldiers put the enemy to flight.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>take to flight,</B> </I>to flee. <BR> <I>Ex. The remainder [of a herd of whales] took to flight when their companions were harpooned (F. D. Bennet).</I> </DL>
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<B>flight arrow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a light and well-feathered arrow, for long-distance shooting. <DD><B> 2. </B>any long-shafted, light arrow to be shot from a bow. </DL>
<A NAME="flightattendant">
<B>flight attendant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a steward or stewardess on an airplane. </DL>
<A NAME="flightbag">
<B>flight bag,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, lightweight bag, usually made of canvas or plastic and fastened with a zipper, originally used for air travel. </DL>
<A NAME="flightcontrol">
<B>flight control,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the control of aircraft in flight, especially by radio or electronically from the ground. <DD><B> 2. </B>Usually, <B>flight controls.</B> the system of levers, cables, control surfaces, and navigational devices, used to control the attitude and movement of an aircraft. </DL>
<A NAME="flightdeck">
<B>flight deck,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the large, flat, upper deck of an aircraft carrier, from which aircraft take off and on which they land. </DL>
<A NAME="flightdirector">
<B>flight director,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a computer used on large aircraft to furnish information needed to fly through poor weather conditions. </DL>
<A NAME="flightengineer">
<B>flight engineer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the crew of certain aircraft responsible for the craft's mechanical performance in flight. <BR> <I>Ex. The pilot and copilot are assisted by a flight engineer (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="flightfeather">
<B>flight feather,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of the rigid feathers that compose a bird's wing and are essential to flight. </DL>
<A NAME="flightformation">
<B>flight formation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the arrangement, as in an echelon, of two or more airplanes flying together. </DL>
<A NAME="flightinstrument">
<B>flight instrument,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any instrument in an aircraft that indicates the altitude, attitude, air speed, climb, drift, or direction of an aircraft. </DL>
<A NAME="flightless">
<B>flightless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> unable to fly. Emus and kiwis are flightless birds. <BR> <I>Ex. An ostrich is flightless but it can run with great speed.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="flightlieutenant">
<B>flight lieutenant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a commissioned officer in the Australian Air Force, British Royal Air Force, or Royal Canadian Air Force, corresponding in rank to a captain in the United States Air Force. </DL>
<A NAME="flightline">
<B>flight line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the portion of an airfield which includes hangars and service buildings, but not runways or their approaches. <BR> <I>Ex. the thunder of her departure ricocheting off the buildings along the flight line (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the flight path of an airplane. </DL>
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<B>flight path,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Aeronautics.) the path (with reference to the earth) taken by the center of gravity of an aircraft or missile. <BR> <I>Ex. The guidance equipment failed to put the satellite on the planned flight path (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="flightpay">
<B>flight pay,</B> <B>=flying pay.</B></DL>
<A NAME="flightplan">
<B>flight plan,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a statement of the destination, route, altitude, and other details of a proposed flight which a pilot usually must submit to a controlling agency. </DL>
<A NAME="flightrecorder">
<B>flight recorder,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tightly sealed electronic device installed in an aircraft to keep a continuous graphic record of the craft's speed, course, and other data for purposes of analysis in the event of a crash. </DL>
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<B>flight shooting,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in archery) distance-shooting with flight arrows. <DD><B> 2. </B>the sport or practice of shooting wild fowl as they fly over. </DL>
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<B>flightshot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the distance to which a flight arrow is shot; bowshot. <DD><B> 2. </B>a shot taken at wild fowl in flight. </DL>
<A NAME="flightsimulator">
<B>flight simulator,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a device that simulates any or all of the conditions of actual flight, used especially for training purposes. </DL>
<A NAME="flightstatus">
<B>flight status,</B> <B>=flying status.</B></DL>
<A NAME="flightstrip">
<B>flight strip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an auxiliary landing strip running parallel to a highway. </DL>
<A NAME="flightsurgeon">
<B>flight surgeon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a doctor in the U.S. Air Force or Navy who specializes in aviation medicine. </DL>
<A NAME="flighttest">
<B>flight-test, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to test in or by actual flight. </DL>
<A NAME="flighttest">
<B>flight test,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a test in or by actual flight. </DL>
<A NAME="flightworthy">
<B>flightworthy, </B>adjective, <B>-thier,</B> <B>-thiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> capable of flight or of being used in flight. <BR> <I>Ex. Shepard underwent surgery, and examination by National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicians found his condition flightworthy (Science News).</I> noun <B>flightworthiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="flighty">
<B>flighty, </B>adjective, <B>flightier,</B> <B>flightiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>likely to have sudden fancies; full of whims; frivolous. (SYN) fickle, inconstant. <DD><B> 2. </B>slightly crazy; lightheaded. <DD><B> 3. </B>swift; quick; fleet. adv. <B>flightily.</B> noun <B>flightiness.</B> </DL>
