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What is the verb for flight?

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fly

(intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
(transitive) To flee, to escape (from).
(transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
(intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
(intransitive) To travel very fast.
To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
To hunt with a hawk.
(transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
Synonyms:

glide, soar, wing, flit, flutter, mount, hover, aviate, plane, wheel, hang, sail, stream, circle, circumnavigate, climb, coast, cross, dive, drift, seagull, skirt, flat-hat, take wing, whiz by, take to the air, travel through the air, wing its way, jet out, jet over, remain aloft, sky out, wing in, bend the throttle, take a hop, ascend, float, arc, volplane, pilot, swarm, airlift, jet, lift, send by plane, take by plane, transport by air, transport by plane, take in an aircraft, transport … more

Examples:

“Get a county road map, and spend as much time as you can driving the backroads, watching where ducks fly.”

“She commissioned the state helicopter to fly her home when she learned that her baby had a medical emergency.”

“Planes burn less fuel at higher altitudes, so pilots often fly at higher altitudes on long flights.”

flight

(cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
(sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
Synonyms:

deliver, deal, throw, give, administer, cast, launch, pitch, bowl, direct, hurl, send, strike, aim, discharge, land, lob, toss, fling, fire off … more

flyer

(intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).
(transitive) To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).

fly

(intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
Synonyms:

Examples:

“Get a county road map, and spend as much time as you can driving the backroads, watching where ducks fly.”

“She commissioned the state helicopter to fly her home when she learned that her baby had a medical emergency.”

“Planes burn less fuel at higher altitudes, so pilots often fly at higher altitudes on long flights.”

flyering

present participle of flyer

flier

Alternative form of flyer

flying

flew

simple past tense of fly
Synonyms:

flie

Obsolete spelling of fly

flied

(US, baseball) simple past tense and past participle of fly (hit a fly ball)
Examples:

“After a full three hours which flied like a dream, many spectators remained to thank the Video Games Live artists during the dedication meeting.”

“But pinch-hitter Carlos Beltran flied out to right field, and Padilla struck out Wright to end the game.”

“With a 1-1 count, he swung hard and missed a high fastball, and then he flied out softly to center field.”

flyers

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flyer

flies

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fly
Synonyms:

flieth

(archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fly

fliered

simple past tense and past participle of flier

flyered

simple past tense and past participle of flyer

flyest

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of fly

fliest

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of fly

flewest

(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of fly

flighting

present participle of flight
Synonyms:

delivering, dealing, throwing, giving, administering, casting, launching, pitching, bowling, directing, hurling, sending, striking, aiming, discharging, landing, lobbing, tossing, flinging, firing off … more

Examples:

“McNaughton stole the ball off his toe and drove forward before flighting a lovely ball on to the head of Mackie.”

“With the instep of his left foot, he barely looked up before flighting it first-time into the far corner.”

“She compensates for that by flighting the next delivery off line on the off side and that is driven well through the covers for four.”

fliering

present participle of flier

flown

past participle of fly
Synonyms:

Examples:

“In 1984, I participated in a war game featuring a Cessna rigged with a tiny nuke and flown by a suicide pilot.”

“Microlights can be flown anywhere outside controlled airspace and while most planes have one, a radio is not mandatory.”

“Around 1,000 guests were flown in on planes chartered from Air India and were booked into two swish hotels.”

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