Flight
(n.) The act or flying |
Flight
(n.) The act of fleeing |
Flight
(n.) Lofty elevation and excursion |
Flight
(n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together |
Flight
(n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another. |
Flight
(n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow |
Flight
(n.) The husk or glume of oats. |
Flight-shot
(n.) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot |
Return
(v. i.) To turn back |
Return
(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular |
Return
(v. i.) To speak in answer |
Return
(v. i.) To revert |
Return
(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
Return
(v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back |
Return
(v. t.) To repay |
Return
(v. t.) To give in requital or recompense |
Return
(v. t.) To give back in reply |
Return
(v. t.) To retort |
Return
(v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. |
Return
(v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior |
Return
(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
Return
(v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done |
Return
(v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
Return
(v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
Return
(v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner |
Return
(n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition |
Return
(n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition |
Return
(n.) That which is returned. |
Return
(n.) A payment |
Return
(n.) An answer |
Return
(n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like |
Return
(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
Return
(n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold |
Return
(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
Return
(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
Return
(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
Return
(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
Return
(n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer |
Return
(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
reappearance
return | the act of someone appearing again, his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited |
| return homecoming | a coming to or returning home, on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party |
escape
flight | the act of escaping physically, he made his escape from the mental hospital, the canary escaped from its cage, his flight was an indication of his guilt |
restitution
return restoration regaining | getting something back again, upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing |
flight maneuver
airplane maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft |
| flight | a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports, I took the noon flight to Chicago |
| connecting flight | a flight with an intermediate stop and a change of aircraft (possibly a change of airlines) |
| direct flight | a flight with one or more intermediate stops but no change of aircraft |
| domestic flight | a flight that begins and ends in the same country |
| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
nonstop flight
nonstop | a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination, how many nonstops are there to Dallas? |
redeye
redeye flight | a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep, he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning |
flight
flying | an instance of traveling by air, flying was still an exciting adventure for him |
| maiden flight | the first flight of its kind, the Stealth bomber made its maiden flight in |
terrain flight
low level flight | flight at very low altitudes |
| return | the act of going back to a prior location, they set out on their return to the base camp |
| return | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble |
| return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player, he won the point on a crossourt return |
| flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
return paying back
getting even | a reciprocal group action, in return we gave them as good as we got |
flight feather
pinion quill quill feather | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
airstrip
flight strip
landing strip
strip | an airfield without normal airport facilities |
artificial horizon
gyro horizon
flight indicator | a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope, it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot |
flight
flight of stairs
flight of steps | a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next |
flight deck
landing deck | the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, used as a runway |
flight simulator
trainer | simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane |
return key
return | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed |
| flight | passing above and beyond ordinary bounds, a flight of fancy, flights of rhetoric, flights of imagination |
Rubicon
point of no return | a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment |
round-trip ticket
return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
| day return | a return ticket (at reduced fare) for traveling both ways in the same day |
tax return
income tax return
return | document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability, his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return |
| amended return | a tax return that corrects the information in an earlier return |
declaration of estimated tax
estimated tax return | return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year |
| false return | an incorrect income tax return |
| information return | a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability |
| joint return | a return filed by a husband and wife |
| return address | the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered |
rejoinder
retort
return riposte
replication comeback
counter | a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one), it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher |
recurrence
return | happening again (especially at regular intervals), the return of spring |
| return coming back | the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction |
| flight | an air force unit smaller than a squadron |
| flight | a formation of aircraft in flight |
| flight | a flock of flying birds |
air lane
flight path
airway
skyway | a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another |
| flight path | the path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the air |
| flight line | place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways) |
| line of flight | the path along which a freely moving object travels through the air |
| flight engineer | the flight crewman responsible for mechanical operation while in flight |
| flight surgeon | a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine |