Bedeutung von flight im Englisch

flight

noun

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flight noun (JOURNEY)

A2 [ C ]

a journey in an aircraft:

I'll never forget my first flight.

How was your flight?

All flights to New York today are delayed because of bad weather.

My flight was cancelled.

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Passengers are requested to check in two hours before the flight.
If the flight is late, we'll miss our connection.
Welcome aboard flight BA345 to Tokyo.
I wonder if you could help me - I'd like some information about flights to New Zealand.
Have you had any luck with booking your flight?

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Journeys

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flight noun (AIRCRAFT)

[ C ]

an aircraft that is making a particular journey:

Flight 474 to Buenos Aires is now boarding at Gate 9.

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Welcome aboard flight BA345 to Tokyo.
All passengers for flight LH103 please proceed to gate 16.
"This is flight 595X. Do you read me? Over."
Flight BA498 has been delayed by 30 minutes.
British Airways regret to announce the cancellation of flight BA205 to Madrid.

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Air travel: aviation

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flight noun (MOVEMENT)

[ U ]

an occasion when something flies or moves through the air:

an eagle in flight

Suddenly the whole flock of geese took flight (= started flying).

Modern missiles are so accurate because their flight is controlled by computer.

[ C ] UK

a group of birds, aircraft, etc. flying together:

a flight of geese/swans

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Movement through the air

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flight noun (ESCAPE)

[ U ]

(an act or example of) escape, running away, or avoiding something:

They lost all their possessions during their flight from the invading army.

put someone to flight UK old-fashioned

to defeat someone and force them to run away

take flight

(of a bird or an aircraft) to leave the ground and begin to fly:

He was flapping his arms like a bird taking flight.

It was wonderful to see Broadway shows re-open, planes take flight and people resume work.

to run away or leave a place:

The burglars took flight when the alarm sounded.

Fed up with what he saw as the city's closed, conservative nature, he took flight to California.

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Many residents of the town took flight when they heard news of the approaching hurricane.
The book gives an account of his flight from political persecution in 1956.
He confronted the danger and never considered taking flight.
The villagers took flight from the advancing troops.
While others defended the town, he took flight to the mountains.

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Running away and escaping

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Pursuing

Evicting and forcing to leave

Departing

flight noun (SET)

C2 [ C ]

a set of steps or stairs, usually between two floors of a building:

We live up three flights of stairs.

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[ C ] food & drink specialized

a number of different types of wine, beer, etc. for tasting:

Wine bar patrons can sample flights of wine.

A wine flight is available to accompany the tasting menu at £ 35 per person.

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Parts of buildings: stairs & lifts

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Redewendungen

flight of fancy

the top flight

(Definition von flight aus dem Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

flight | Amerikanisches Wörterbuch

flight

noun

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flight noun (FLYING)

[ C/U ]

an aircraft trip, or the occasion of being a passenger in an aircraft:

[ C ] We’ll be arriving home on Tuesday on flight 147.

[ C ] All flights out of Midway have been canceled because of bad weather.

[ C ] We had a smooth flight all the way.

[ C/U ]

Flight is also the act or process of flying:

[ C ] We watched a flight of geese (= a group flying together).

[ U ] Some people think that too much money is spent on space flight.

flight noun (ESCAPE)

[ U ]

escape from a particular situation, or the act of leaving:

their flight from poverty

The flight of manufacturers to the South stripped Massachusetts of its factories.

flight noun (STAIRS)

[ C ]

a set of stairs connecting one floor and the next in a building or other structure:

We had to climb three flights of stairs.

(Definition von flight aus dem Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

flight | Business Englisch

flight

noun [ C ]

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TRANSPORT

a journey in an aircraft:

You should leave now or you'll miss your flight.

a flight to/from sth She is booked on the 8 a.m. flight to New York.

domestic/international flights The company operates eight domestic flights in Finland.

scheduled/charter flights The price includes accommodation and return scheduled flights.

long-haul/short-haul flights

ECONOMICS

a situation in which people or goods move quickly away from a place to escape a bad situation:

He added that he didn't think there was a risk of flight of city employees.

A return of financial calm to the country should reduce capital flight.

the top flight

people who are at the highest level in a job or business activity:

With this movie he joined the top flight of Hollywood directors.

FINANCE

companies whose shares are worth the most money:

Corporate news was dominated by firms outside the top flight.

(Definition von flight aus dem Cambridge Wörterbuch Business-Englisch © Cambridge University Press)

Beispiele von flight

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The bottom two flights are the widest ever built in this country at 2.1 metres.

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Their core specialism was in the manufacture of aviation components, telecommunications, shipping, charter flights, and construction.

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He treated television like a playground, with the clear, dynamic plot frolicking magically through ever-increasing flights of imagination.

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The castrato's vocal flights served a lofty function, bearing texts on soft, spiritual wings and depositing them, effortlessly, into the ears of listeners.

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I studied commercially available information videos on various aircraft types, showing pilots at work during scheduled flights and in sessions in full mock-up cockpit simulators.

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The flights that bring them home on weekends guarantee them a full array of constituent problems, complaints, and suggestions.

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The examples here are for various tasks and come from various flights and crews.

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Observations of flights of marked bees determined the direction from the bait station to the colony.

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Probably not - and yet for over two centuries these staircases were universally used for the principal flights in large houses.

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Also, in our airport domain "to enter" is used only to refer to flights entering sectors.

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I transcribed 12 flights in full, and the other six partially as required for targeted analysis.

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I had to walk five flights up to the top, and into this magnificent room.

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Here, again, short flights (fluctuating signals) were interspersed with longer periods of roosting (stationary signals).

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We did not record birds that were flying, unless it was obvious that the flights started or ended within the transects.

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Birds make no rational appraisals of the a-rational category matches underlying their urgent flights from big black cloths.

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airline flight

In airport terminals, a baggage claim area is an area where arriving passengers claim checked-in baggage after disembarking from an airline flight.

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charter flight

The cost of a seat on a charter flight is part of the overall cost of the package offered by the tour operator.

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Hansard archive

Bespiel aus dem Hansard-Archiv. Enthält Parlamentsinformationen lizenziert unter der Offenen Parlamentarischen Lizenz v3.0

chartered flight

From 1997, the civil scheduled flight services suspended due to low traffic, only chartered flight remained.

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