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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#m1)

2) Flight is flying, the act of moving through the air: «birds in flight». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#m2)

3) A flight of stairs is a set of steps between two floors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#m3)

4) Flight is running away from danger: «take flight». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x1)
- A plane ticket for the flight costs 150 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x2)
- Each flight of stairs has 12 steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x3)
- She climbed 4 flights of stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x4)
- Our flight to Auckland was late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x5)
- The birds took flight when the dog barked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x6)
- The Wright brothers made the first powered flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x7)
- Fasten your seat belt during the flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x8)
- The fox took flight at the sound of the hunters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/14/)
- [Think of a pilot in a flight simulator: the cockpit is a model, but the skill is real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/5/)
- [Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/17/)
- [Bumblebees can fly on cold days because they shiver their flight muscles to warm up, and their furry coats keep the heat in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/7/)
- [Pigeons often clap their wings together loudly as they take off, and males also clap in display flights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.