flight vs one

flight

noun
  • An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming. 

  • An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory. 

  • The shaped material forming the thread of a screw. 

  • The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path. 

  • A paper airplane. 

  • The act of fleeing. 

  • The act of flying. 

  • A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators. 

  • The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift. 

  • A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance. 

  • An air force unit. 

  • Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples. 

  • A series of stairs between landings. 

  • An instance of flying. 

  • The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile. 

  • A collective term for doves or swallows. 

  • A group of canal locks with a short distance between them 

verb
  • To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual. 

  • To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual. 

one

noun
  • A joke or amusing anecdote. 

  • One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. 

  • A particularly special or compatible person or thing. 

  • A one-dollar bill. 

  • Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". 

  • The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. 

  • One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. 

  • The digit or figure 1. 

pron
  • The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. 

  • Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. 

  • Any person (applying to people in general). 

  • One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. 

  • Any person, entity or thing. 

  • Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner. 

verb
  • To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. 

num
  • The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. 

  • The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. 

  • The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. 

  • The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. 

adj
  • Whole, entire. 

  • Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". 

  • The same. 

  • In agreement. 

  • Being a preeminent example. 

  • Sole, only. 

  • Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. 

  • Of a period of time, being particular. 

particle
  • Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent. 

  • Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. 

  • A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun. 

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