(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.
Refugee
Definition:
(n.) One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.
(n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(2) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(3) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
(4) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(5) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(6) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(7) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
(8) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(9) The biggest problem is to make generational relays as because of the violence many LGBTI activists are migrating and one of the fears I live up to is being a victim of the violence for the work I do.” Uganda The number of LGBT refugees a country produces is another indicator of how dangerous a country is for LGBT people.
(10) Juliette Touma, Unicef’s spokeswoman in Jordan, said: “The focus in the past week has been on the refugees in Europe, but it is important to make the link to Syria, where 70% to 80% [of them] have come from.” She said the UK has been one of its biggest donors, but the public can help by giving cash and becoming advocates, writing to their MPs and holding fundraising events.
(11) They arrived on the second coach to carry unaccompanied refugee children from Calais to Britain in two days .
(12) Australia has also previously granted refugee status to people who fled these countries.
(13) The community participation of refugees is likely to be as difficult as it is essential.
(14) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(15) Coastguard Mohamed al-Alay said the refugees, carrying official UN refugee agency (UNHCR) documents, were travelling from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked by an Apache helicopter near the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
(16) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(17) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
(18) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
(19) But when refugees are relocated to the US, it’s for good.
(20) Kurdish officials on Thursday demanded more help in catering for refugees.