(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.
Stampede
Definition:
(v. t.) A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
(v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
(v. t.) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(2) They have taken a series of safety measures over the past decade aimed at preventing crowd crushes after tragedies such as the stampede in 2006, which resulted in 350 deaths, a building collapse in the same year which killed 76 and a stampede that killed more than 200 people in 2004.
(3) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(4) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(5) On day one, we were almost stampeded by elephants, and I had to suffocate a goat and then drink its blood directly from the jugular.
(6) Mr Olie said three people had been killed in a stampede at a store opening in Saudi Arabia last year, but that nothing like this had happened in Britain.
(7) This behaviour has led to stampedes that have killed calves and hampered walruses’ ability to find food.
(8) At the al-Moaysem medical centre, Egyptian Osama el-Gindy said he was looking for a relative who was a few metres ahead of him when the stampede began.
(9) A stampede in 1990 killed 1,426 people and another in February 2004 that killed 244.
(10) The real threat to the Labour party is that we will be stampeded into moving right on race, immigration and welfare in response to the alleged Ukip threat.
(11) In recent years, as media coverage of the event has grown and scenes of rioting and stampedes have become more common, Black Friday has drawn its share of criticism.
(12) Travelling from the Calgary rodeo and stampede in Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will begin their trip to southern California with an exclusive party at the house of Britain's consul general, Dame Barbara Hay.
(13) It wasn't so much the scrambling panic at Westminster, the stampede of cabinet ministers and MPs for seats on the next train north out of Euston.
(14) 1998 9 April: More than 118 people are killed and 180 injured in a stampede at Mina.
(15) In 1990, more than 1,400 died in a stampede inside a tunnel.
(16) White House spokesman Jay Carney made it clear on Tuesday that Obama would not be stampeded into approving the project.
(17) The surges that accompany half-time in major football matches as the nation stampedes to put its kettle on, for example, are the stuff of legend.
(18) The race begins when the NEC opens nominations: as candidates need signatures from 35 MPs they will stampede to collect the most – and MPs will hasten to pledge allegiance to a likely winner.
(19) But when it comes to the stadiums … having reduced our expectations and our needs, we'll have what is necessary," he cheered over the din of the stampede heading towards the canteen.
(20) They ventriloquise the fear of millions into a scream of fire in the crowded theatre of modernity where all the doors are locked, and then they watch the stampede.