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flight
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a flight of fancy/fantasy/imagination
an idea which shows a lot of imagination but which is not practical or useful in real situations. You were talking about cycling across the US, or was that just another flight of fancy?
See also: fancy, imagination

the top flight

the highest level in a job or a sport. The Sheffield Eagles move down to the second division after two seasons in the top flight.
See also: top

top-flight

the top flight - the highest level in a job or a sport. He was the absolute stereotype of a top-flight executive. (always before noun)

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The sensor can be mounted directly to the bottom of a "bubble up" auger on a combine, without cutting any flighting.
Before I knew it, he had made a turkey out of scraps, including some 4" pipe, 1/2" bolts, 8" auger flighting, chain links and some pieces of a gearbox from a corn head.
The compound is then forced from the screw into the barrel in the Transfermix section, where the opposite flighting of the screw and barrel create intensive shearing and hence heating and homogenization of the compound.
 
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