KITE


Meaning of KITE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

high as a kite (= strongly affected by drugs or alcohol )

Steve was as high as a kite .

kite boarding

kite surfing

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

Last reported early yesterday morning, high as a kite , heading for a train.

That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about!

■ NOUN

flying

Reading, writing, art, wildlife, chess, kite flying and swimming are the hobbies of Lauren Gerrard.

As hobbies go, kite flying is very weather dependant.

This really is a well-deserved modern development in kite flying !

From 1900 Cody became actively interested in kite flying , and patented a man-carrying kite system in 1901.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

fly a kite

And, let's go fly a kite.

In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.

Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.

This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites.

We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites, and swam in lakes.

go fly a kite

And, let's go fly a kite.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All the stuff off the kite blew right out of sight - and all that was left was the frame.

As soon as any kite touches the ground it is eliminated.

Between the curving cross-spars, the sail adopts a vee form not unlike that on a Malay or triangular kite .

Here we have a dangerous situation of a kite flailing on one line, possibly towards onlookers and certainly not under control.

How was that possible, a kite suspended in the air, without an anchor?

It's bad enough trying to fly with unequal line lengths; having an asymmetric kite can be most frustrating!

Of these, the best known is the Everglade kite , which escaped attention even longer than the crocodile.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

That summer I took Esmerelda kiting quite a lot.

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