Fluttered vs Flitted - What's the difference?
fluttered | flitted |
(flutter)
(lb) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered , then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
(lb) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
*1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
*:Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.
(lb) To cause something to flap.
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(lb) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Like an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
* Milnes
A state of agitation.
* (Henry James)
An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
(British) A small bet or risky investment.
* 1915 : , Ch. 93
* So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter ... -
The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
(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 fluttered and flitted
is that fluttered is past tense of flutter while flitted is past tense of flit.fluttered
English
Verb
(head)flutter
English
Verb
(en verb)Noun
(wikipedia flutter) (en noun)- the flutter of a fan
- the chirp and flutter of some single bird
- (Alexander Pope)
- Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
- "Oh, by the way, I heard of a rather good thing today, New Kleinfonteins; it's a gold mine in Rhodesia. If you'd like to have a flutter you might make a bit."
Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
Derived terms
* flutter in the dovecote * flutterbyflitted
English
Verb
(head)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 [...].
