Flitter vs Flitted - What's the difference?
flitter | flitted |
to move about rapidly and nimbly
to move quickly from one condition or location to another
to flutter or quiver
A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
(science fiction) A small aircraft or spacecraft.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1941
, date = July
, first = Edward Elmer
, last = Smith
, authorlink = E. E. Smith
, magazine = Comet Stories
, title = The Vortex Blaster
, volume = 1
, issue = 5
, page = 10
, passage = Then all three went out to the flitter . A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1944
, date = March
, first = George Oliver
, last = Smith
, authorlink = George O. Smith
, magazine =
, title = Circle of Confusion
, volume = 33
, issue = 1
, page = 54
, passage = Small flitters were powered and made ready, and everything that carried manual controls was inspected and cleared for action.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1955
, first = Alice Mary
, last = Norton (as Andrew North)
, authorlink = Andre Norton
, title =
, page = 53
, passage = The small flitters carried by the Queen for exploration work held with comfort a two-man crew—with crowding, three.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1994
, first = Stephen
, last = Baxter
, authorlink = Stephen Baxter
, title =
, isbn = 9780002240260
, page = 43
, passage = The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.
}}
(flit)
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 flitter and flitted
is that flitter is to move about rapidly and nimbly while flitted is past tense of flit.As a noun flitter
is a rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.flitter
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Derived terms
* flittermouse * flitteryNoun
(en noun)References
* (aircraft) * (aircraft) (Webster 1913)flitted
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Verb
(head)flit
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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 [...].