Flit vs Fleeting - What's the difference?
flit | fleeting |
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:
Passing quickly.
* 1931 , Martha Kinross, "The Screen — From This Side", The Fortnightly , Volume 130,
* 2003 , Gabrielle Walker, Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It , Three Rivers Press (2003), ISBN 1400051258,
* 2008 , Barbara L. Bellman & Susan Goldstein, Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-Up Women on How to Find Love Again , iUniverse (2008), ISBN 9780595428281,
* 2010 , Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace , Harvest House Publishers (2010), ISBN 9780736922906,
As verbs the difference between flit and fleeting
is that flit is to move about rapidly and nimbly while fleeting is present participle of lang=en.As adjectives the difference between flit and fleeting
is that flit is fast, nimble while fleeting is passing quickly.As a noun flit
is a fluttering or darting movement.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.
- (Wright)
- (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 [...].
Anagrams
* ----fleeting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 511:
- Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.
pages 34-35:
- During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.
page 12:
- For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.
page 5:
- And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.
