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Substantiivit

  1. A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae belonging to one of the following groups:
  2. (rare) A weight-measure unit from Ancient Egypt, equivalent to 0.1 deben
  3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The stomach; belly.
  4. Any bird of subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring.
  5. A bird of genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering. Also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
  6. A lightweight toy or other device carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
  7. A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
  8. (geometry) A quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair being consecutive.
  9. (banking) A fraudulent draft, such as a check one drawn on insufficient funds or with altered face value.
  10. (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
  11. (slang) An aircraft, or aeroplane.
  12. (sailing, dated) A lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding-sail.
  13. (sailing, slang) A spinnaker.
  14. (US, slang, prison) A short letter.
  15. (figurative) A rapacious person.
  16. (UK, dialect) A fish, the brill.

Verbit

  1. (rare, usually with "go") To fly a kite.
  2. To glide in the manner of a kite.
  3. To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
  4. To toss or cast.
  5. (banking) To write a check on an account with insufficient funds, expecting that funds will become available by the time the check clears.
  6. (US) To cause an increase, especially in costs.
  7. (video games) To keep ahead of (a pursuing monster or mob) in order to attack it repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
  8. (nautical, engineering) To deflect sideways in the water.
  9. (US, slang, prison) To send a short letter.
  10. (US, slang) To steal.
  11. (obsolete) To hunt with a hawk.

Esimerkit

  • I'm going kiting this weekend.
  • Andy also kept a box of that in his cell, although he didn't get it from me — I imagine he kited it from the prison laundry.
  • I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you.
  • This column action causes the tow line to kite either to the port or the starboard side, [...]
  • If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.
  • He was convicted of kiting checks and sentenced to two years in prison.
  • Rising interest rates have kited the cost of housing.
  • Lombard swung at the sweet pea he had dropped, caught it neatly with the toe of his shoe, and kited it upward with grim zest, as though doing that made him feel a lot better.
  • We spent the afternoon kiting around the bay.
  • The wind kited us toward shore.
  • A pair of kites built a nest on the cliff.
  • Detested kite, thou liest.
  • Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.
  • This time, the engine roared and the kite rocked against the brakes then sluggishly rolled down the strip.
  • Frequently a kite formation is created by one of the planets in the trine by its opposition to another planet, which allows expulsion and redirection of the pent-up energy associated with a closed circuit.
  • But she said, "if this was a kite, he didn't realize that you don't have the float time of the old days," which made check-kiting easier.
  • Four-sided figures without parallel sides include trapezoids and kites.
  • The purpose of the water kite is to float beneath or beside the ship at a depth sufficient to insure safety.
  • On windy spring days, we would fly kites.

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