Children inAfghanistan playing with toy kites(sense 3). The boy on the right is holding a traditionalfour-sided kite.
A kite shape(sense 9). There are twopairs ofedges ofequallength, AB and AD (which join at point A), and CB and CD (which join at point C).
H.M.S.Calypso under full sail.Studding sails above thetopgallants(the topgallant is the third sail from the bottom of themast, and the studding sail is one of the smaller sails attached to the sides of the larger sails), andjibtopsails(thetriangular sail at the front between thetopmast and thebowsprit) were sometimes termed kites(sense 11).
1575,George Gascoigne, “Councell toDuglasse Diue Written vpon This Occasion.[...]”, inThe Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire.[…], printed at London: For Richard Smith,[…],→OCLC; republished inWilliam Carew Hazlitt, compiler,The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne[…] In Two Volumes, volume I,[London]: Printed for the Roxburghe Library,1869,→OCLC,page370:
And yet the ſilliekight, well weyde in each degree, May ſerue ſometimes (as in his kinde) for mans commoditie. Thekight can weede the worme from corne and coſtly ſeedes, Thekight cã kill themowldiwarpe, in pleaſant meads yͭ breeds: Out of the ſtately ſtreetes thekight can clenſe the filth, As mẽ can clẽſe the worthleſſe weedes frõ fruteful fallow tilth;[…]
Monſieur de Sanſſac was appointed to attend vpon him [Francis I of France] with all ſorts of Haukes, wherein the ſaide Emperour ſemed to take great delight, eſpecially with flying at theKight, which the French callVoler le Milan,[…]
1631,Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century. [Experiments in Consort, Touching Perception in Bodies Insensible, Tending to Natural Diuination, or Subtill Trialls.]”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], 3rd edition, London:[…]William Rawley[…];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…],→OCLC, paragraph 824,page208:
Kites flying aloft, ſhewFaire andDrie Weather.[…] theKite affecteth not ſo much theGroſſneſſe of theAire, as theCold andFreſhneſſe thereof; For being aBird ofPrey, and thereforeHot, ſhee delighteth in theFresh Aire; And (many times) flyeth againſt theWind,[…]
The milvus, orkite, 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.
2019, Stephen Debus, “Small Kites, GenusElanus”, inBirds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide, 3rd edition, Clayton South, Vic.:CSIRO Publishing,→ISBN, part II (Handbook),page113:
The ‘white-tailed’kites in the genusElanus (‘kite’) are small, gull-like, grey-and-white hawks with black forewing patches and varying amounts of black on the underwings.
The swallow-tailedkite 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.
deteſtedkite, thou li[e]ſt[.] [M]y traine, and[sic – meaningare] men of choiſe and rareſt parts, that all particulars of dutie knowe, and in the moſt exact regard, ſupport the worſhip of their name, [...]
Detestedkite, you lie! My train [i.e., knights in attendance] are men specially chosen for their rare qualities, know all the particulars of their duty, and most conscientiously uphold their reputation,[…]
Housing a Dirigible[…] When the ship is kept head on to the wind, it is easy enough to guide her, but when a wind blows across the mouth of the shed, every man's heart is in its throat. The ship offers so much more surface sidewise than endwise that she becomes an enormouskite.
Frequently akite 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.
1871, James W. Gilbart, “Section XI. The Administration of Joint-stock Banks, with an Inquiry into the Causes of Their Failures.”, inThe Principles and Practice of Banking, new edition, London:Bell & Daldy,[…],→OCLC, part I (Of Practical Banking),pages324–325:
The advantages which are alleged to belong to the district system [of banking] are the following:—[…] as each bank will have an agent in London, the bills they draw will thus have two parties as securities, and the public will have a pledge that there is no excessive issue in the form ofkites or accommodation bills.
Four-sided figures without parallel sides include trapezoids andkites.
2011, W. Michael Kelley, “Quadrilaterals”, inThe Humongous Book of Geometry Problems: Translated for People Who Don’t Speak Math!!, New York, N.Y.:Alpha Books,→ISBN,page216:
Akite is a quadrilateral with exactly two pairs of adjacent congruent sides. Note that aparallelogram has opposite congruent sides, whereas the congruent sides ofkites are adjacent. Therefore, akite is also a parallelogram only when both pairs of adjacent congruent sides of thekite are congruent to each other, making thekite arhombus.
2014, Tim Davison, “Symmetric Spinnakers”, inSkipper’s Cockpit Racing Guide: For Dinghies, Keelboats and Yachts, London:Adlard Coles Nautical,→ISBN,page24:
The key to a good gybe is to bring the spinnaker round to the old weather side before you begin, and then to steer to keep some wind in thekite.
2010, “Fish and Seafood”, in Helena Caldon, Fiona Corbridge, Mary Scott, Belinda Wilkinson, editors,The Cook’s Book of Ingredients, London:Dorling Kindersley,→ISBN,page69:
Brill (Scophthalmus rhombus) Also known askite or pearl. Brill reaches a maximum length of 75cm (29½in). It lives in the Eastern Atlantic, from Iceland to Morocco, throughout the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
2011, Gary L. Heyward,Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator inside Rikers Island, New York, N.Y.:Atria Paperback,→ISBN,pages69–70:
Officers must maintain control by making sure their inmate count is correct, by checking inmates' passes as they walk the hall[…] This helps prevent the occasional juggling of goods, gang communication, such askites (a written request from one inmate to another), and inmate assaults, such as face cuts or stabbings.
geometry: a polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite; a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end
[…] 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 wentkiting; 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!"
Lombard swung at the sweet pea he had dropped, caught it neatly with the toe of his shoe, andkited it upward with grim zest, as though doing that made him feel a lot better.
Today, the Bangs auction house would have been rubbing its hands with unconcealed glee andkiting the price of the manuscript into the stratosphere. In 1877, no bidding took place. Bangs merely announced that the letter had been sold for $13.
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.
1975, Spencer Klaw,The Great American Medicine Show: The Unhealthy State of U.S. Medical Care, and What can be Done about It, New York, N.Y.:Viking Press,→ISBN, page191:
Pharmacists havekited 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.
2009 July 9, Martin Sandy Doria, “Gao Shang Air Station”, inThe Fungido Journals, Bloomington, Ind.:AuthorHouse,→ISBN,page84:
Sir, I have a lead that the sergeants in charge at the down town airmen's club have beenkiting the winnings on the slot machines.[…] Some of them will give the kid his $10.00 winnings, have him sign for it in the ledger. After the kid walks away he/they add a zero to make it look like the kid won a $100 instead of the ten. Then they pocket the $90.00.
To attack (anenemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as tolead 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.
2010, Cathryn J. Prince, “The Misquote Heard Round the World”, inA Professor, A President, and A Meteor: The Birth of American Science, Amherst, N.Y.:Prometheus Books,→ISBN,page130:
It was mere happenstance that the Weston meteorkited across the sky on December 14, 1807, the same day President[Thomas] Jefferson's Non-Importation Act, which restricted trade with Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, went into effect.
2019, Amy J. Murphy, chapter13, in Pat Dobie, editor,Allies and Enemies: Legacy (Allies and Enemies; book 4),[s.l.]: Amy J. Murphy:
In the distance creatures on leathery wingskited across the sky, lofted by thermal winds.
Finally, if you have no one to fly a kite with, you cankite alone.
1997, Norman Schmidt, “Kites are Universal”, inThe Great Kite Book (A Sterling/Tamos Book), Winnipeg, Manitoba: TAMOS Books,→ISBN; republished asBest Ever Paper Kites, New York, N.Y.:Sterling Publishing Company; Winnipeg, Manitoba: TAMOS Books,2003,→ISBN,page 3:
Only during the brief time of experimentation with flight that preceded the invention of the airplane, when kites fired the western imagination with visions of human flight, didkiting become significant.
2005, Danielle Burgio, with Jennifer Worick, “Coordination”, inThe Stuntwoman’s Workout: Get Your Body Ready for Anything, Philadelphia, Pa.:Quirk Books,→ISBN,page144, column 2:
Then there was the motorized paraglider. I was actually lucky on this one—I had a full four days to practice on it. However, I was also dealing with a 10-pound (4.5 kg) motor on my back and a huge parachute that I had to learn tokite behind me.
“An affair of honour!” said O’Flaherty, squaring himself. He smelt powder in everything. “More like an affair ofdishonour,” 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.”
2010, Alastair Vere Nicoll, “An End and a Beginning”, inRiding the Ice Wind: By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica, London, New York, N.Y.:I.B. Tauris,→ISBN:
If wekited again, it would be very dangerous with the steep slope and the heavy weight crashing on behind us and, in any event, Pat and Dave's kites were ridiculously tangled.
A rare north wind and conditions of good visibility allowed me to try my luck atkiting again. Without stopping for chocolate and taking quick gulps of energy orange from my Thermos, Ikited 117 miles in one day.
They commenced whipping their horses at the base, and, as one of the prisoners expressed it, "they wentkiting up the hill, and for nearly a mile after the summit had been gained."
1876 June 13, George S. Thompson (witness), “Testimony Taken by the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice in Reference to the Use of the Secret Service Fund”, inIndex to Reports of Committees of theHouse of Representatives for the First Session of the Forty-fourthCongress, 1875–’76, Washington, D.C.:Government Printing Office,→OCLC,page297:
Q. The supervisor of a particular district would go around in his carriage.[…] They wentkiting around for a couple of weeks? A. Yes, sir; for four weeks prior to election. Q. Were the carriages necessary? A. I didn't see any necessity for them.
[…] the big boy stuck his foot out so she fell. Nursie saw and started for her, but she scrambled up and wentkiting for the bench, and climbed on it,[…]
1973 December 17, Clarence K. Chatten, Saul A. Eller, Reece Folb, Arthur P. Brisbane,Weather Resistant Segmented Fairing for a Tow Cable, US Patent3,899,991(PDF version),column 1:
This column action causes the tow line tokite either to the port or the starboard side,[…]
1961,Erving Goffman, “The Underlife of a Public Institution: A Study of Ways of Making Out in a Mental Hospital”, inAsylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Anchor;A277), Garden City, N.Y.:Anchor Books,→OCLC; republished New Brunswick, N.J., London:Aldine Transaction,2007 (2009 printing),→ISBN, footnote 166,page301:
Prison Hall in Central Hospital was claimed by some patients to be "organized" in the more extensive manner of prisons for the sane. Here, it was claimed, an attendant could be bribed to "kite" a letter or bring in contraband,[…]
1966, Rose Giallombardo,Society of Women: A Study of a Women’s Prison, New York, N.Y.:John Wiley & Sons,→OCLC, page236:
I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time tokite you.
fromMiddle Englishkit,kitte(“wooden bucket or tub; (figuratively) belly”),[5] possibly fromMiddle Dutchkitte(“wooden vessel of hooped staves”) (modernDutchkit(“metal can used mainly for coal”)), further etymology unknown;[6] or
"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 yourkyte."
1909, Charles Collins, Fred Murray, “Boiled Beef and Carrots”, performed byHarry Champion; republished in John Mullen, “The Songs and Their Content”, inThe Show Must Go On!: Popular Song in Britain during the First World War, Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.:Ashgate Publishing,2015,→ISBN,page102:
Don't live like vegetarians On food they give to parrots, Blow out yourkite, from morn 'til night, On boiled beef and carrots.
[…] in the great Harris papyrus,[…] precise quantities are recorded by weight in terms of thedeben (about 2½ oz.) and theqite (¼ oz.) of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, without any reference to their value.[…] Five pots of honey were bought for fiveqite of silver and an ox for fiveqite 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 inkite (9.53 g) and deben (10kite) in purely Egyptian contexts, though foreigners such as the Jewish mercenaries at Elephantine could use their own metrological systems.
2003, Pascal Vernus, “The Plunder of Western Thebes”, in David Lorton, transl.,Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt: Translated from the French, Ithaca, N.Y., London:Cornell University Press,→ISBN,page25:
The scribe of the temple Sedy set out with the pure priest and goldsmith Tuty for the frames; they removed onedeben and three and a halfqite of gold, which they took for the chief of the gang Pameniu.
In the Saite and Persian Periods, Abnormal Hieratic and Demotic texts usually measure value as weights of silver.[…] The weights of silver are almost always either the deben of 91 grams, or thekite of 9.1 grams. In the Persian Period, Demotic texts sometimes also refer to staters equated to twokite, or five to the deben.
2017 May, Ralph Ellis, “King David”, inSolomon, Pharaoh of Egypt, 4th edition, Cheshire: Edfu Books,→ISBN,page57:
Theshekel was an Israelite unit of weight that appears to have weighed about 10g, and so it is the rough equivalent of the Egyptiankite, which also weighed about 10g.
^James P[eter] Allen (2010) “Lesson 9. Numbers.”, inMiddle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page105: “qdt "qite" ("KEY-teh")”.
^Tregear, Edward (1891)Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page183
^Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016)The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University,→ISBN, page492
“kite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
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