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KITE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

hawk (diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kite"):

black kite; Milvus migrans (dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion)

Elanoides forficatus; swallow-tailed hawk; swallow-tailed kite (graceful North American black-and-white kite)

Elanus leucurus; white-tailed kite (grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions)

Holonyms ("kite" is a member of...):

Accipitridae; family Accipitridae (hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

plaything; toy (an artifact designed to be played with)

Meronyms (parts of "kite"):

kite tail (a bob on a kite to provide balance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kite"):

box kite (a kite shaped like a box open at both ends)

sport kite; stunt kite (a maneuverable kite controlled by two lines and flown with both hands)

Derivation:

kite (fly a kite)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

bank check; check; cheque (a written order directing a bank to pay money)

Derivation:

kite (get credit or money by using a bad check)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

bank check; check; cheque (a written order directing a bank to pay money)

Derivation:

kite (increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fly a kite

Example:

They kited the Red Dragon model

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

fly (cause to fly or float)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

kite (plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Soar or fly like a kite

Example:

The pilot kited for a long time over the mountains

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)

Domain category:

air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Get credit or money by using a bad check

Example:

The businessman kited millions of dollars

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

kite (a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently

Example:

He kited many checks

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

increase (make bigger or more)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

kite (a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Boys go nutting, and I don't care to be bagged by them, returned Jo, pasting away at the kite which no wind that blows would ever carry up, for Daisy had tied herself on as a bob.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Dick and I soon became the best of friends, and very often, when his day's work was done, went out together to fly the great kite.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I parted from him, poor fellow, at the corner of the street, with his great kite at his back, a very monument of human misery.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If he likes to fly a kite sometimes, what of that!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“What do you think of that for a kite?” he said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Dick leaning thoughtfully on a great kite, such as we had often been out together to fly, with more luggage piled about him!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Among my boys, this summer holiday time, I see an old man making giant kites, and gazing at them in the air, with a delight for which there are no words.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was quite an affecting sight, I used to think, to see him with the kite when it was up a great height in the air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Franklin used to fly a kite.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was going away, when he directed my attention to the kite.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)