Synonyms:
kite
Meaning: any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
Synonyms:
kite
Meaning: plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
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kite
Meaning: a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
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kite
Meaning: a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
kite
Meaning: fly a kite; "Kids were kiting in the park"; "They kited the Red Dragon model"
Synonyms:
kite
Meaning: soar or fly like a kite; "The pilot kited for a long time over the mountains"
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kite
Meaning: get credit or money by using a bad check; "The businessman kited millions of dollars"
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kite
Meaning: increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently; "He kited many checks"
Usage examples
CHAPTER X--THE KITE
The moment the kite rose, the birds hid or sought shelter.
It was the tail of a kite, which Michael had made some days before.
Thus he might bring down the kite and the humming-bird with one stone.
The boy flying a kite has to keep his eye on the kite, and has to note the various pressures of the string on his hand.
"Michael's kite," Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.
The kite was shaped like a great hawk; and the moment it rose into the air the birds began to cower and seek protection--and then to disappear.
It was strange indeed what influence that weird kite seemed to exercise. Even human beings were affected by it, as if both it and they were realities.
He would gladly have destroyed the kite, or caused its flying to cease; but the instant it was pulled down, the birds rose up in even greater numbers; all those who depended in any way on agriculture sent pitiful protests to Castra Regis.
Scarecrows.--A string with feathers tied to it at intervals, like the tail of a boy's kite, will scare most animals of the deer tribe, by their fluttering; and, in want of a sufficient force of men, passes may be closed by this contrivance.