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 |
Long-stop
(n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper. |
Stop
(v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing |
Stop
(v. t.) To obstruct |
Stop
(v. t.) To arrest the progress of |
Stop
(v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving |
Stop
(v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. |
Stop
(v. t.) To point, as a composition |
Stop
(v. t.) To make fast |
Stop
(v. i.) To cease to go on |
Stop
(v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action. |
Stop
(v. i.) To spend a short time |
Stop
(n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped |
Stop
(n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs |
Stop
(n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. |
Stop
(n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone |
Stop
(n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes |
Stop
(n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. |
Stop
(n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses |
Stop
(n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. |
Stop
(n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. |
Stop
(n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc. |
Stop-gap
(n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap |
Stop-over
(a.) Permitting one to stop over |
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 |
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 |
| whistle-stop tour | a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited, in Truman crossed the country several times on his whistle-stop tours |
| flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
stop stopover
layover | a brief stay in the course of a journey, they made a stopover to visit their friends |
| night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
| pit stop | a brief stop at a pit during an automobile race to take on fuel or service the car |
| pit stop | a stop during an automobile trip for rest and refreshment |
stop
stoppage | the act of stopping something, the third baseman made some remarkable stops, his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood |
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 |
blockage
block closure
occlusion
stop stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube, we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
| catch stop | a restraint that checks the motion of something, he used a book as a stop to hold the door open |
diapason
diapason stop | either of the two main stops on a pipe organ |
diaphragm
stop | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens, the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically |
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 |
| flue stop | an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe |
| organ stop | a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality |
pull-off
rest area
rest stop
layby
lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
| reed stop | an organ stop with the tone of a reed instrument |
| stop | (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes, the organist pulled out all the stops |
stop bath
short-stop
short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
stopwatch
stop watch | a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) |
| truck stop | a roadside service station (and restaurant) that caters to truck drivers |
whistle stop
flag stop
way station | a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal |
| flight | passing above and beyond ordinary bounds, a flight of fancy, flights of rhetoric, flights of imagination |
stop order
stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
| stop payment | a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check |
| stop press | late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute |
period
point
full stop
stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
stop consonant
stop
occlusive
plosive consonant
plosive speech sound
plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
| labial stop | a stop consonant that is produced with the lips |
glottal stop
glottal plosive
glottal catch | a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis, as in the sudden onset of a vowel |
suction stop
click | a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) |
stop
halt | the event of something ending, it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill |
| flight | an air force unit smaller than a squadron |
| flight | a formation of aircraft in flight |