Cruise vs Flight - What's the difference?
cruise | flight |
A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
(lb) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
(lb) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
To win easily and convincingly.
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The act of flying.
An instance of flying.
A collective term for doves or swallows.
A journey made by an aircraft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle, particularly one between two airports, which needs to be reserved in advance.
The act of fleeing. (Flight'' is the noun which corresponds to the verb ''flee .)
A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
A paper plane.
(cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns 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.
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.
(engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
(cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
The act of fleeing.
As nouns the difference between cruise and flight
is that cruise is a sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure while flight is the act of flying.As verbs the difference between cruise and flight
is that cruise is to sail about, especially for pleasure while flight is to throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.As a proper noun Cruise
is {{surname|from=Anglo-Norman|}.As an adjective flight is
fast, swift.cruise
English
Alternative forms
* cruizeNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cruise control * cruise missile * cruise ship * cruiser * cruisey/cruisy * cruisewear * pleasure cruiseVerb
(cruis)Derived terms
*Anagrams
* ----flight
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) flyht, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 2).Noun
- Birds are capable of flight
- The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
- The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight
- Where is the departure gate for flight 747? / Go straight down and to the right.
- take flight
- the flight of a refugee
- How many flights is it up?