What's the difference between flight and squadron?

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.

Squadron


Definition:

  • (n.) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.
  • (n.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.
  • (n.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (2) It’s unfortunate, but you have to destroy some areas to save the city Victor Coenen Ahok deployed squadrons of workers to clean the rivers of their choking surface carpets of rubbish and water hyacinths.
  • (3) The quarrels he had with most of his subordinates culminated as he was in command of the East Indies Squadron, applying sometimes exaggerated punishments.
  • (4) Immediately following this tour, I moved to Korea and took command of the 80th Fighter Squadron 'Juvats' it was and still is, the most rewarding tour I have ever had the privilege of serving."
  • (5) I don’t think that will strike the public as the best way to keep us safe.” In other announcements, the government said eight Type-26 frigates will be built on the Clyde, nine new surveillance planes will be based at Lossiemouth in Scotland to counter Russian air and submarine activity around UK airspace and water, and the number of Typhoon aircraft is to be extended for an extra 10 years to 2040, meaning there will be a total of seven frontline squadrons, with about 12 planes per squadron.
  • (6) Transmission of infection among squadron personnel appeared to have commenced in Key West and continued in a barracks in Puerto Rico and aboard two DC-9 aircraft that transported the squadron back to Key West on October 28.
  • (7) The authors were struck by the fact that for 200 years, no historian of the Fast Indies has ever taken into account the Squadron's distinctive features and the personality of Suffren.
  • (8) May told the Commons the meeting had agreed “the prompt withdrawal of the Mare Nostrum operation … and for all member states to comply fully with their obligations under EU migration and asylum [policies].” Admiral Filippo Maria Foffi, the commander in charge of the Italian naval squadron involved in Mare Nostrum, is expected to spell out on Tuesday the impact of its cancellation.
  • (9) Sahoul joined an impromptu squadron of beach staff forming a line to block the path of the gunman.
  • (10) We reviewed lipid physiology, National Institute of Health recommendations, current USAF policies, and the lipid profiles of four active duty flying squadrons.
  • (11) A perception exists that SERGRADS have more difficulties than newly designated pilots during subsequent training in the Fleet Replacement Squadrons (FRS).
  • (12) On social media each day, a squadron of unionist sentinels scans Twitter and Facebook for evidence of “divisiveness” before squawking and shaking their virtual heads in despair at how political discourse has become infected by the poison of “divisiveness”.
  • (13) I went back about 10 years ago to open a Christmas fete and I'd never seen a squadron of eight year olds – I was like, fuck, they're tiny!
  • (14) The MoD is just as open about its use of unmanned aircraft as it is of its many other air assets; indeed, I have been very pleased this week to be able to host a number of journalists at RAF Waddington to show them the work of the Reaper operators of the RAF's XIII squadron .
  • (15) Dozens of exciting new spaces for nature have been created: wetlands at Fingringhoe Wick, Essex ; the conversion of a fish farm near Driffield, Yorkshire, into Skerne Wetlands nature reserve ; RAF Woodhall Spa Airfield (former home of the Dambusters squadron) has become a new nature reserve .
  • (16) Russia’s air force, of particular concern to Britain, comprises 38 advanced fighter squadrons, including MiG29s, 15 Su-24 bomber squadrons and 14 assault squadrons, plus other assets.
  • (17) Gray was a gunner in No 2 Squadron of the RAF Regiment, protecting airfields and aircraft, and was stationed in Baghdad in 2004.
  • (18) This will mean a total of seven frontline squadrons, consisting of around 12 aircraft per squadron.
  • (19) Squadron Leader Duncan Mason, from RAF Coningsby, who led the flypast in a Spitfire, said: “For us, taking part today was an incredible honour.
  • (20) Given that the bugbot video is at least three years old, I'd be flabbergasted if there isn't a production line silently screwing the wings on to a miniature death squadron in some Nevadan hangar right now.

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