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Meaning of "line of flight" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LINE OF FLIGHT

line of flight  [laɪn əv flaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LINE OF FLIGHT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Line of flight is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LINE OF FLIGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Line of flight

A line of flight (ligne de fuite) is a concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and used extensively in his work with Félix Guattari. Translator Brian Massumi notes that in French, "Fuite covers not only the act of fleeing or eluding but also flowing, leaking, and disappearing into the distance (the vanishing point in a painting is a point de fuite). It has no relation to flying." In the first chapter of the second volume of their Capitalism and Schizophrenia project, A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the concept is used to define a "rhizome": Multiplicities are defined by the outside: by the abstract line, the line of flight or deterritorialization according to which they change in nature and connect with other multiplicities. The plane of consistency (grid) is the outside of all multiplicities. The line of flight marks: the reality of a finite number of dimensions that the multiplicity effectively fills; the impossibility of a supplementary...

Definition of line of flight in the English dictionary

The definition of line of flight in the dictionary is the flight path of something travelling from one place to another. Other definition of line of flight is the trajectory of a bullet or ball.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LINE OF FLIGHT


daylight
ˈdeɪˌlaɪt
delight
dɪˈlaɪt
flashlight
ˈflæʃˌlaɪt
flight
flaɪt
flite
flaɪt
flyte
flaɪt
highlight
ˈhaɪˌlaɪt
light
laɪt
lite
laɪt
moonlight
ˈmuːnˌlaɪt
overflight
ˈəʊvəˌflaɪt
polite
pəˈlaɪt
postflight
ˌpəʊstˈflaɪt
preflight
ˈpriːˈflaɪt
satellite
ˈsætəˌlaɪt
slight
slaɪt
spotlight
ˈspɒtˌlaɪt
starlight
ˈstɑːˌlaɪt
sunlight
ˈsʌnlaɪt
twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LINE OF FLIGHT

line judge
line management
line manager
line of attack
line of battle
line of communication
line of credit
line of demarcation
line of descent
line of fire
line of force
line of latitude
line of least resistance
line of longitude
line of scrimmage
line of sight
line of vision
line one´s pockets
line printer
line segment

WORDS THAT END LIKE LINE OF FLIGHT

back-up light
backlight
bright
candlelight
come to light
green light
in-flight
in mid-flight
limelight
plight
put to flight
red light
searchlight
skylight
tail-light
the spotlight
torchlight
traffic light
ultralight
Very light
white light

Synonyms and antonyms of line of flight in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «line of flight» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LINE OF FLIGHT

Find out the translation of line of flight to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of line of flight from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «line of flight» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

飞行路线
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

línea de vuelo
570 millions of speakers

English

line of flight
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उड़ान की लाइन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خط الرحلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Линия полета
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

A linha de voo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফ্লাইট লাইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ligne de vol
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Garis penerbangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fluglinie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

飛行線
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비행 라인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Baris saka pesawat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đường bay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விமானம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लाइटची रेषा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Uçuş hattı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

linea di volo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

linia lotu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Лінія польоту
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

linie de zbor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γραμμή της πτήσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lyn van die vlug
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

linje av flyg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

linje flyging
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of line of flight

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LINE OF FLIGHT»

The term «line of flight» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.834 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LINE OF FLIGHT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about line of flight

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LINE OF FLIGHT»

Discover the use of line of flight in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to line of flight and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Deleuze and Guattari: Deleuze and Guattari
... less real but more abstract than the other two. This is the line of flight, a line without segments which is more like the collapse of all segmen- tarity. It is the line along which a system breaks down, or becomes transformed into something else.
Gary Genosko, 2001
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The Deleuze Dictionary
LINES OF FLIGHT 145 not as substances, but as assemblages or multiplicities, focusing on things in terms of unfolding forces - bodies and their powers to affect and be affected - rather than static essences. A 'line of flight' is a path of mutation  ...
Adrian Parr, 2005
3
Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French ...
... in terms of an undecidable project of becoming, due to its attempts to account for the formative period 179 Becoming-Imperceptible as a Mode of Self- Presentation: A Feminist Model Drawn from a Deleuzian Line of Flight Tantsin Lorraine.
Dorothea Olkowski, 2000
4
Philosophy in Children's Literature
Similarly, the act of taking up of a line of flight is what counts in this third way of reading. Being driven by a text and allowing that text to take you in unexpected directions, to guide your imagination, but to guide it purposelessly (that is, without  ...
Peter R. Costello, 2012
5
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Suggests an open system of psychological exploration to cut through accepted norms of morality, language, and politics
Gilles Deleuze, 1987
6
Deleuze & Fascism: Security: War: Aesthetics
In other words, the creative force of disordering), the line of flight, is made to work productively for the reproduction of a particular regime of order such as the state. Deleuze and Guattari accordingly emphasise that the line of flight is primary in ...
Brad Evans, Julian Reid, 2013
7
A Violent Embrace: Art and Aesthetics after Representation
49 While a “line of flight” is critical for such creative mutations to occur, and whereas they are in fact everywhere—“lines of flight are immanent to the social field” (TP, 205)—a line of flight is only one of three kinds oflines that Deleuze and  ...
renŽe c. hoogland, 2014
8
Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History
49 While a “line of flight” is critical for such creative mutations to occur, and whereas they are in fact everywhere—“lines of flight are immanent to the social field” (TP, 205)—a line of flight is only one of three kinds oflines that Deleuze and  ...
Richard J. Evans, 2014
9
Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music
The line of flight is the privileged line for Deleuze and Guattari, since it is the line of change and metamorphosis. The line of flight doesn't organize in a segmentary fashion, but is a pure movement of change, which breaks out of one form of ...
Dr Sally Macarthur, 2013
10
On the line
The first presentation of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the "rhizome."
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LINE OF FLIGHT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term line of flight is used in the context of the following news items.
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Howard Hughes completes round-the-world flight in 1938
“And, I might add, everybody along the line of flight co-operated excellently with us. “The thing that has pleased me most is that I've proved to ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
2
Disastrous Fourth of July celebration in 1865
... and fired through the balloon and caused all the weak-nerved gentlemen who happened to be in its line of flight to suddenly duck their heads ... «Richmond, Jul 15»
3
Newsmax TV Probes the Unsolved Disappearance of Flight MH370
Forensically reconstructing the time-line of Flight 370, this incisive documentary raises uncomfortable questions for the Malaysian authorities. «Newsmax, Jul 15»
4
Under the spotlight: Southern Solar talks secure environment installs
We mitigated against it and made sure we weren't working in the line of flight as it were. Have you had any feedback from BAE since the install? «Solar Power Portal, Jul 15»
5
Thousands of Asian longhorned beetle traps placed across …
The idea is to place the trap in a beetle's line of flight, so roadsides and edges of fields are preferred locations. The lure is a non-toxic mix of ... «Worcester Telegram, Jun 15»
6
2 injured in California roller-coaster accident
'I saw the maintenance guy getting hit by the front of the first line of Flight Deck,' Gustavo Ceja told ABC 7 News Bay Area. 'He got dragged ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
7
Manage your away around the golf course
Alignment: Stand behind the ball and pick an intermediate target on your intended line of flight and use that to line up square (extremely ... «Pacific Daily News, Jun 15»
8
Warriors' Klay Thompson diagnosed with concussion, no timetable …
... draw contact from the off-balance defender; doing so brought the right side of his head directly into the line of flight of Ariza's rising right knee. «Yahoo Sports, May 15»
9
Local golf: Knowing the rules can help your score
The most notorious violations are “line of flight” or relying on where the ball lies in the hazard. Forget for a second that “line of flight” doesn't ... «Albuquerque Journal, May 15»
10
Updated: Incident leads to Champaign schools lockdown (w/video)
... officers on North State Street moving toward him, he began to run, pulled out a pistol and dropped it in his line of flight, according to Baltzell. «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, May 15»

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