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kitt
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
kitt (plural kitts)
- (Britain, birdwatching) the kittiwake.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From German Kitt
Noun
kitt n (definite singular kittet, indefinite plural kitt, definite plural kitta or kittene)
- putty
References
- “kitt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “kitt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Kitt
Noun
kitt n (definite singular kittet, indefinite plural kitt, definite plural kitta)
- putty
References
- “kitt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Ter Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *kietë, from Proto-Uralic *käte.
Noun
kitt
- hand
- arm
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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kite
English
Etymology 1
The noun is from Middle English kyte, k?te, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English c?ta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-Germanic *k?tijô, diminutive of *k?ts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzel?n, kützl?n (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“barn owl; screech owl”)).
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: k?t, IPA(key): /ka?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Noun
kite (plural kites)
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- Synonym: glede
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- (figuratively) A rapacious person.
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- (banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- (finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
- (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- (geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- (military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.
- (sailing, dated) In a square-rigged ship: originally a sail positioned above a topsail; later a lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding sail or a jib topsail.
- This is the first attested use of the word in this sense.
- (sailing, slang) A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- (Britain, dialectal) The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- (US, prison slang) A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
Alternative forms
- (bird of prey): kight, kyte (obsolete)
Derived terms
- Species of birds
- Other terms
Translations
Verb
kite (third-person singular simple present kites, present participle kiting, simple past and past participle kited)
- (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- (transitive, video games) To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- Synonym: soar
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- (transitive, intransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
- (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
- (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the water.
- (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
Derived terms
- check kiting
- kiter
- kiting (noun)
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; possibly:
- from Middle English kit, kitte (“wooden bucket or tub; (figuratively) belly”), possibly from Middle Dutch kitte (“wooden vessel of hooped staves”) (modern Dutch kit (“metal can used mainly for coal”)), further etymology unknown; or
- from Middle English *kid (attested only in compounds such as kide-n??re (“kidney; region of the kidneys, loins”)), possibly from Old English *cyde, *cydde (“belly”), cwiþ (“belly; womb”), from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“belly, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?et-, *gut- (“rounding, swelling; entrails, stomach”), from *g?u-, *g?- (“to bend, bow, curve, distend, vault”). The English word is cognate with Icelandic kviði (“womb”), kviður (“stomach”), kýta (“stomach of a fish; roe”), Middle Low German k?t (“entrails”), West Flemish kijte, kiete (“fleshy part of the body”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: k?t, IPA(key): /ka?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Noun
kite (plural kites)
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
Alternative forms
- kyte (Scotland)
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Coptic ???? (kite), from Demotic qt, from Egyptian qdt.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?ki?t?/, /?ki?t?/
- Rhymes: -i?t?, -i?t?
- Hyphenation: ki?te
Noun
kite (plural kite)
- (Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to 1?10 deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
Alternative forms
- qite
Translations
References
Further reading
- kite (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- kite (geometry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- kite (sail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- kite (toy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- kite (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “KITE, sb.2” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902, ?OCLC, page 459, column 2.
Anagrams
- tike
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French quitter (“leave”)
Verb
kite
- let
- Haitian Creole Bible, Jòb 10.18:
- Bondye, poukisa ou te kite m' soti nan vant manman m'? Mwen ta mouri anvan pesonn ta wè m'.
- God, why did you let me leave my mother's belly? I would have died before anyone would have seen me.
- Bondye, poukisa ou te kite m' soti nan vant manman m'? Mwen ta mouri anvan pesonn ta wè m'.
- Haitian Creole Bible, Jòb 10.18:
Japanese
Romanization
kite
- R?maji transcription of ??
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kita.
Verb
kite (used in the form kite-a)
- to see
Middle English
Noun
kite
- Alternative form of kyte
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
kite (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- inflection of kita:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Yakan
Pronoun
kite
- we, us (dual)
Pronoun
kite
- one (impersonal)
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