Kitename

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  A surname.

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  A minor city in Johnson County, Georgia, United States, named after Shaderick Kight, who chose the spelling.

kitenoun詞源 1/kaɪt/

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  A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

  • A pair of kites built a nest on the cliff.
  • And yet the ſillie kight, well weyde in each degree, May ſerue ſometimes (as in his kinde) for mans commoditie. The kight can weede the worme from corne and coſtly ſeedes, The kight cã kill the mowldiwarpe, in pleaſant meads yͭ breeds: Out of the ſtately ſtreetes the kight can clenſe the filth, As mẽ can clẽſe the worthleſſe weedes frõ fruteful fallow tilth; […]
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  A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

  • The milvus, or kite, is a native of Europe, Asia, and Africa. […] Its motion in the air distinguishes it from all other birds, being so smooth and even that it is scarcely perceptible.
  • In Hindu erotic literature, to consummate sexual supremacy, a prescription often in use requires a mixture of honey and cowach, the prickly hairs of a tropical pod, along with the remains of a dead kite, in pulverized form.
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  A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

  • The ‘white-tailed’ kites in the genus Elanus (‘kite’) are small, gull-like, grey-and-white hawks with black forewing patches and varying amounts of black on the underwings.
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  A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

  • The swallow-tailed kite of the New World (Elanoides forficatus) is a striking black and white bird of the subfamily Perninae. It is about 60 cm (24 inches) long, including its long forked tail. It is most common in tropical eastern South America but also occurs from Central America to the United States.
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  A rapacious person.

  • deteſted kite, thou li[e]ſt[.] [M]y traine, and^([sic – meaning are]) men of choiſe and rareſt parts, that all particulars of dutie knowe, and in the moſt exact regard, ſupport the worſhip of their name, [...]
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  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.

  • On windy spring days, we would fly kites.
  • What for do ye want to get baker's bread, aunt? This dough will rise as high as a kite in the south wind.
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  A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.

  • The purpose of the water kite is to float beneath or beside the ship at a depth sufficient to insure safety.
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  astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismA planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.

  • 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.

kiteverb詞源 1/kaɪt/

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  To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.

  • Rising interest rates have kited the cost of housing.
  • […] when he saw the fuse of the firecracker was lighted, he turned the torch on the powder under the barrel of dried apples, and in a second everything went kiting; the barrel of dried apples with the cat in it went up to the ceiling, the stove was blown over the counter, the cheese box and the old groceryman went with a crash to the back end of the store, the front windows blew out on the sidewalk, the old man rushed out the back door with his whiskers singed and yelled "Fire!"
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  slangTo 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.

  • A pharmacist "kited" and "shorted" a significant percentage of prescriptions. "Kiting" refers to the pharmacist's forging upward the number of pills originally prescribed by the physician, charging Medicaid for the increased amount but providing the patient with the originally prescribed quantity.
  • Pharmacists have kited Medicaid prescriptions by raising the number of pills called for on a prescription blank from, say, 100 to 200, and billing Medicaid for the larger amount.
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  video-gamesTo keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

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  video-gamesTo attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.

  • I hate it when my knight is kited away from the castle that I'm attacking!
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  video-gamesTo (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).

  • If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.
  • The wind kited us toward shore.
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  rareTo manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.

  • Want to go kite with me this weekend?
  • Finally, if you have no one to fly a kite with, you can kite alone.
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  slangbankingbusinessTo 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.

  • He was convicted of kiting checks and sentenced to two years in prison.
  • “An affair of honour!” said O’Flaherty, squaring himself. He smelt powder in everything. “More like an affair of dishonour,” said Toole, buttoning his coat. “He’s been ‘kiting’ all over the town. Nutter can distrain for his rent to-morrow, and Cluffe called him outside the bar to speak with him; put that and that together, sir.”
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  slangTo steal.

  • Andy also kept a box of that [steel wool] in his cell, although he didn't get it from me—I imagine he kited it from the prison laundry.
  • Little bastards were always trying to kite stuff, particularly the candy and the girly magazines.

kitenoun詞源 2/kaɪt/

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  dialectalThe stomach; the belly.

  • "You know my father's name?" "It would be strange if I didnae," he returned, "for he was my born brother; and little as ye seem to like either me or my house, or my good parritch, I'm your born uncle, Davie, my man, and you my born nephew. So give us the letter, and sit down and fill your kyte."
  • Don't live like vegetarians On food they give to parrots, Blow out your kite, from morn 'til night, On boiled beef and carrots.

kitenoun詞源 3/ˈkiːtɛ/

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  Egyptologyhistoryhuman-sciencesA measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).

  • […] in the great Harris papyrus, […] precise quantities are recorded by weight in terms of the deben (about 2½ oz.) and the qite (¼ oz.) of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, without any reference to their value. […] Five pots of honey were bought for five qite of silver and an ox for five qite of gold.
  • [I]t was found necessary to employ media of exchange, and emmer wheat and silver were both used for this purpose. The latter was particularly favoured, but it was normally treated by weight, being measured in kite (9.53 g) and deben (10 kite) in purely Egyptian contexts, though foreigners such as the Jewish mercenaries at Elephantine could use their own metrological systems.