Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - flight

~ n 1 »TRAVEL« a journey in a plane or space vehicle  (It's an hour's flight to Paris from here.) 2 »PLANE« a plane making a particular journey  (TWA Flight 284 | call a flight (=tell people the plane is ready to leave))  (I've got to run - my flight's been called.)  (- see also charter flight) 3 »FLYING« the act of flying through the air  (in flight)  (pelicans in flight) 4 »STAIRS« a set of stairs between one floor and the next  (Bert lives two flights down from here. | flight of stairs)  (She tripped and fell down a whole flight of stairs.) 5 »ESCAPE« the act of escaping from a dangerous situation or a difficult problem + from  (Donald Wood's hasty flight from South Africa early in 1978) 6 take (to) flight to run away in order to try and escape from someone  (The rest of the gang took flight.) 7 put sb to flight old-fashioned make someone run away in order to try and escape 8 flight of imagination/fancy/fantasy thoughts, ideas etc that are full of imagination but that are not practical or sensible 9 »BIRDS« a group of birds all flying together  (a flight of swallows)  (- see also in­flight, top­flight)