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How to pronounce “flight”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of flight with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Falling to EarthHer name was Valentina Tereshkova and her qualification for making that space flight
Definition summary: The act of flying.

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How to pronounce flight

Falling to Earth

Her name was Valentina Tereshkova and her qualification for making that space flight

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Meaning

[Noun]
The act of flying.
An instance of flying.
(collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
A series of stairs between landings.
A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
A paper airplane. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
(cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
An air force unit.
(US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
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.
(by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
(engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
(advertising, broadcasting) An advertising campaign of fixed length.
[Adjective]
(obsolete) Fast, swift, fleet.
[Verb]
(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.

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How to pronounce “flight”

Pronunciation guide for flight

How to pronounce flight

Example Sentences

Her name was Valentina Tereshkova and her qualification for making that space flight

flight of John Glenn that put America back

flight and helped rescue the ex prise

for flight training.

So for that particular flight, the system

achieve the first ever round the world flight powered by

We used to call it manned space flight,

ADA AU: So long-haul flight, or short-haul flight?

A Deep Dive Into “flight”

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