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Flight can be an adjective or a noun.
flight used as an adjective:
- (obscure or slang): Wayward, opposed.
"Note: Nowadays we refer to people being flighty instead."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
flight used as a noun:
- The act of flying.
"Birds are capable of flight" - An instance of flying.
"The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa." - A collective term for doves or swallows.
- A journey made by an air craft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle.
"The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight" - The act of fleeing. (It is noun version of flee).
"take flight" - A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
- A floor which are reached to by stairs or escalators.
"How many flights is it up?" - A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A paper plane.
- The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A aerodynamic surfaces designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- Act of fleeing of a refugee or a fugitive.
- An air force unit.
- Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is flight?
- Adjective usage: Note: Nowadays we refer to people being flighty instead.
- Noun usage: Birds are capable of flight
- Noun usage: The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
- Noun usage: The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight
- Noun usage: take flight
- Noun usage: How many flights is it up?
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of flight are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of flight, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
