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1. Flight
   [Steinbeck story] "Flight" is a short story by American writer John Steinbeck, first published in his collection The Long Valley. It appears in the ledger notebook under the title "Man Hunt". The story outlines a young man, Pépé, who is sent into town by his mother. She says he is not yet ...
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2. Flight
   [anthology] The Crawford expedition, also known as the Sandusky expedition and Crawford`s Defeat, was a 1782 campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War, and one of the final operations of the conflict. Led by Colonel William Crawford, the campaign`s goal was to destroy e...
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3. Flight
   [opera] Flight is an English opera in three acts, with music by Jonathan Dove and libretto by April De Angelis. The work was commissioned by Glyndebourne Opera and premiered on 24 September 1998 by Glyndebourne Touring Opera. After its large success, the work had its professional world premi...
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4. Flight
   [Building 429 album] Flight is the second full-length album by Christian rock band Building 429, which was released in 2002. Initial copies of the album were duplicated onto CD-R media with a thermal-printed label applied and distributed in a simple sleeve. In 2003, the album was renamed Bui...
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5. Flight
   [horse] Flight (1940–1953) was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia. Her courageous efforts made her a crowd favourite during the post World War II era and she had victories over some of the great horses of the time including Shannon, ...
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6. flight
   [n] - a flock of flying birds 2. [n] - a formation of aircraft in flight 3. [n] - an air force unit smaller than a squadron 4. [n] - passing above and beyond ordinary bounds 5. [n] - a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next 6. [n] - an instance o...
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7. flight
   (Learning Modules / Mathematics / Gravity) Motion through the air generating sufficient lift force to counteract the weight of the flying object - used also to refer to motion through space.
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8. Flight
   (a) The act of flying.
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9. flight
   the movement of an object through the atmosphere or through space, sustained by aerodynamic, aerostatics, or reaction forces, or by orbital speed; especially, the movement of a man-operated or man-controlled device, such as a rocket, a space probe, a space vehicle, or an aircraft Category: Physic...
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10. Flight
    Flight (flīt) noun [ Anglo-Saxon fliht , flyht , a flying, from fleógan to fly; confer flyht a fleeing, from fleón to flee, German flucht a fleeing, Swedish flykt , German flug a flying...
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11. flight
    1. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. 'Like the night owl's lazy flight.' (Shak) ... 2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure. 'Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.' (Mat...
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12. flight
    flying noun an instance of traveling by air; `flying was still an exciting adventure for him`
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13. flight
    flight of stairs noun a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
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14. flight
    noun passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; `a flight of fancy`; `flights of rhetoric`; `flights of imagination`
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15. flight
    noun an air force unit smaller than a squadron
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16. flight
    verb fly in a flock; `flighting wild geese`
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17. flight
    verb shoot a bird in flight
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18. Flight
    • (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. • (n.) The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. • (n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a fl...
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19. flight
    in animals, locomotion of either of two basic types—powered, or true, flight and gliding. Winged (true) flight is found only in insects (most ... [2 related articles]
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20. Flight
    [play] Flight is a play by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. It is set during the end of the Russian Civil War, when the remnants of the White Army are desperately resisting the Red Army on the Crimean isthmus. The lives of the abandoned Serafima Korzukhina, the university professor Sergei Go...
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21. Flight
    [comics] ==Publication history== Volume One was published in July 2004 and contains 23 stories, totalling approximately 160 (unnumbered) pages. Volume Two, published in March 2005, is over 400 pages long and contains 33 stories with a greater average length. The increase in size is almost ce...
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22. Flight
    [disambiguation] Flight is the process by which an object moves through an atmosphere. Flight may also refer to: ==Other== ==Arts== ...
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23. Flight
    [military unit] A flight is a military unit in an air force, naval air service, or army air corps. It usually comprises three to six aircraft, with their aircrews and ground staff; or, in the case of a non-flying ground flight, no aircraft and a roughly equivalent number of support personnel...
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24. Flight
    Flight is the process by which an object moves, through an atmosphere (especially the air) or beyond it (as in the case of spaceflight), by generating aerodynamic lift, propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement, without any direct solid mechanical support from the g...
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25. Flight
    The metal strap or crossbar attached to the drag chain-and-flight conveyor.
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