noun

• (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
  "a flight of swallows"
• (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
• (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
• (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.

adj

• (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.
  "Riyad Mahrez flighted the free-kick that followed to the far post and Morgan, with not much finesse but plenty of desire, bundled the ball over the line. Cue pandemonium in the stands."