What's the difference between flight and plight?

Flight


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (3) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (4) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
  • (5) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (6) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
  • (7) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
  • (8) When I commiserate about the overnight flight that brought them here, Linney gives a wry grimace.
  • (9) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
  • (10) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
  • (11) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
  • (12) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (13) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (14) The infected flight muscle fibres of both "resistant" Aedes aegypti and "susceptible" Aedes togoi are almost totally devoid of glycogen granules, but show no other ultrastructural change from the uninfected state.
  • (15) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
  • (16) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
  • (17) Pyridinoline was isolated from the cross-linked peptide by preparative amino acid analysis and reversed-phase HPLC and identified by its ultraviolet absorption spectra, its fluorescence excitation and emission spectra and, for the first time, its time-of-flight secondary ion-mass spectrum.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) The two flight attendants feature in February and March in the annual Ryanair charity calendar.
  • (20) Flight surgeon support of the Libyan Air Strike on April 14-15, 1986 is reviewed.

Plight


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
  • (v. t.) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
  • (n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
  • (n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
  • (n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
  • (n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
  • (n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (2) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
  • (3) A prominent gay rights activist, Nikolai Alexeev, said although Fry's letter "won't change anything" at the Olympics, it would help raise awareness of the plight of LGBT Russians.
  • (4) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
  • (5) Persistent media highlighting of the plight of patients suffering from severe fatigue of unknown cause (postviral fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis) has at last been matched by professional attention.
  • (6) "But if it keeps their plight and the plight of the Arctic in the press, I think she would be happy to do it."
  • (7) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
  • (8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
  • (9) Victims of the Great Depression were there in plain sight, the unemployed queuing up in breadlines, their plight unambiguous.
  • (10) Qatar had vowed to reform the industry after the Guardian exposed the desperate plight of many of its migrant workers last year.
  • (11) I keep going and going and going.” 17) Being ahead of the curve July 2008: Two years before the Qatar vote, addresses the plight of exploited workers denied liveable pay and conditions.
  • (12) The legitimate focus on the plight of refugees on Nauru has overshadowed the impact of Australian policies on that island nation, a closely integrated society of just 10,000 people.
  • (13) Last week the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), which represents expat campaigning groups in Australia and Canada, launched its new Pension Justice website , aimed at highlighting their plight.
  • (14) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
  • (15) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
  • (16) They seem to be unaware of the plight of this particular group of British savers.
  • (17) We have long been campaigning on the issue of income drawdown restrictions and so are pleased to see the government taking heed of the plight of these savers.
  • (18) But the strike proved a seminal moment in the British labour movement, drawing attention to the overlooked plight of female migrant workers – and generating admiration for Desai's tenacity.
  • (19) As for Aloisi's plight, Popovic declined to offer advice.
  • (20) Restrictions on local news agencies and newspapers seem to have eased recently with a few going as far as breaking the taboo on reporting the plight of political prisoners or the house arrests of opposition leaders.