kite
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- noun
- /kaɪt/
- On windy days, we love to take our kite to the park and watch it dance in the air.
- fly a kite
- make a kite
- a field for kites
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Watch on YouTubeThey didn't have that wind in the sail, the kites flying limp.
- They didn't have that wind in the sail, the kites flying limp.
- So Thomas says that blue is the color of the sky when kites are flying and the sun is beating hot on his head.
- And the problem with the kite is they like to use fishing line so they wouldn't lose their kite, right?
- So don't tell me that Iran deliberately sent a few kites up in order to somehow send a message to Israel.
- Oh, if you put your ear up to a damn kite, you'll hear that thing get erect 'cause this is wind country.
Examples
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My father and I whooped when the kite shot straight up in the air.
Fiction book (1998) -
The kite is aloft.
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Look at the size of this kite flying in the rain right now.
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I will tie some string around it and fly my moon kite in the park.
Fiction book (1998) -
Then one day, I suggested we take the kids to fly kites on the beach.
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Look at the kids with the kites.
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Jamal would enter his kite collection in the contest at the school tomorrow afternoon.
Fiction book (1998) -
Up, up soared the yellow kite, like a butterfly dancing in the wind.
Fiction book (1998) -
Marco Polo introduced kites to the West in 1295 (History of the Kite).
Academic text (2012) -
The Wright brothers experimented with kites in the development of the wing (Bellis).
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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A kite with a box shape open at both ends
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A kite controlled by two lines that does tricks in the air
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A soft kite without a frame that fills with air to pull you
A kite you fly with two lines and both hands to make quick turns
Idioms
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A state of great excitement and happiness, sometimes from drinking alcohol or taking drugs
Compounds
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A grey and white bird that hunts small animals in warm parts of the Americas
How Complex
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Kite for the toy was named after the bird called a kite, because both 'soar' on the wind; so a kite is something you fly high in the sky.