Abscond vs Flit - What's the difference?
abscond | flit |
(intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
* 1691-1735 , (John Ray), The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation [http://books.google.com/books?id=rRI5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA300&dq=intitle:works+of+creation+inauthor:ray&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mpnNUZHMJ4Pu0gGZo4GICw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=absconds&f=false]
(reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution.
* 1848 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), , Ch. 13
* 1911 , (Ambrose Bierce), (w, The Devil's Dictionary)
To withdraw from.
* 2006 , Richard Rojcewicz, The Gods And Technology: A Reading Of Heidegger , ISBN 0791482308.
* 2009 , Sonia Brill, Relationships Without Anger , ISBN 144902789X.
(obsolete) To conceal; to take away.
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(label) To evade, to hide or flee from.
* 2006 , Aldo E. Chircop, Olof Lindén, Places of Refuge for Ships , ISBN 900414952X.
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A fluttering or darting movement.
(physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
(slang) A homosexual.
To move about rapidly and nimbly.
* Tennyson
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To move quickly from one location to another.
* Hooker
(physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
* 1855 , , page 199 (ISBN 0679405518)
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
* Dryden
(poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
As verbs the difference between abscond and flit
is that abscond is (intransitive|reflexive|archaic) to hide, to be in hiding or concealment while flit is to move about rapidly and nimbly.As a noun flit is
a fluttering or darting movement.As an adjective flit is
(poetic|obsolete) fast, nimble.abscond
English
Verb
(en verb)- the Marmotto , live upon its own Fat.
- ... that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;
The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond .
- Modern technology accompanies the absconding of the original attitude.
- You cannot abscond from the responsibility both you and your partner owe to this event, and that includes dealing with anger issues and any other emotional issues that come with it.
- The captain absconded his responsibility
- If the distress situation is solved succesfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility.
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flit
English
Noun
(en noun)- My computer just had a flit .
Verb
- A shadow flits before me.
- There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.
- It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
- My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
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- (Jamieson)
- After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting , and change his residence.
- the free soul to flitting air resigned
Adjective
(en adjective)- And in his hand two darts exceeding flit , / And deadly sharpe he held [...].