Kited vs Bited - What's the difference?
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(kite)
A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae belonging to one of the following groups:
# Any bird of subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring.
# A bird of genus Elanus , having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering. Also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
A lightweight toy or other device carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
* {{quote-news, 1906, September 12, , Water Kites, Fairbanks Evening News, page=2
, passage=The purpose of the water kite is to float beneath or beside the ship at a depth sufficient to insure safety.}}
(label) A quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair being consecutive.
(label) A fraudulent draft, such as a check one drawn on insufficient funds or with altered face value.
* {{quote-news, 1991, May 21, Alex Barnum, Suspect Named in Kiting Case, San Jose Mercury News
, passage= But she said, "if this was a kite , he didn't realize that you don't have the float time of the old days," which made check-kiting easier. }}
(label) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
* {{quote-book, 2002, Erin Sullivan, Retrograde Planets: Traversing the Inner Landscape, page=144-145
, passage=Frequently a kite formation is created by one of the planets in the trine by its opposition to another planet, which allows expulsion and redirection of the pent-up energy associated with a closed circuit.}}
(label) An aircraft, or aeroplane.
* {{quote-book, 2004, Harry Foxley, Marking Time: An Account Of Ordinary Soldiering, page=133
, passage=This time, the engine roared and the kite rocked against the brakes then sluggishly rolled down the strip.}}
A lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding-sail.
* {{quote-book, 1863, , 3=
, passage=Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.}}
A spinnaker.
A short letter.
(label) A rapacious person.
* Shakespeare
A fish, the brill.
To fly a kite.
To glide in the manner of a kite.
To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
To toss or cast.
* {{quote-book, 1942, , Phantom Lady, page=189
, passage=Lombard swung at the sweet pea he had dropped, caught it neatly with the toe of his shoe, and kited it upward with grim zest, as though doing that made him feel a lot better.}}
(label) To write a check on an account with insufficient funds, expecting that funds will become available by the time the check clears.
(label) To cause an increase, especially in costs.
(label) To keep ahead of (a pursuing monster or mob) in order to attack it repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
* {{quote-book, 2001, Juanita Jones, Everquest Player's Guide: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page=87
, passage=If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.}}
To deflect sideways in the water.
* {{quote-us-patent, 1973, Clarence K. Chatten, Weather Resistant Segmented Fairing for a Tow Cable, 3899991
, passage=This column action causes the tow line to kite either to the port or the starboard side,
To send a short letter.
* {{quote-book, 1966, Rose Giallombardo, Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison
, passage=I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you.}}
To steal.
* {{quote-book, 1994, , The Shawshank Redemption, page=36
, passage= Andy also kept a box of that in his cell, although he didn't get it from me — I imagine he kited it from the prison laundry.}}
(label) To hunt with a hawk.
(label) A weight-measure unit from Ancient Egypt, equivalent to 0.1 deben
(nonstandard) (bite)
To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
To attack with the teeth.
To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
To have significant effect, often negative.
(of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
(metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
* Shakespeare
To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 32
To take or keep a firm hold.
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
* Charles Dickens
(slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. (Used in invective).
(intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
The act of .
* Walton
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by ; a mouthful.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
A small meal or snack.
(figuratively) aggression
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=March 2
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Man City 3 - 0 Aston Villa
, work=BBC
The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
* Humorist
(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between kited and bited
is that kited is past tense of kite while bited is past tense of bite.kited
English
Verb
(head)kite
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
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English Traits, page=33
Derived terms
{{der3, black kite , box kite , go fly a kite , high as a kite , kiteboarding , kite buggy , kite fishing , kite surfing , powerkite , stunt kite , yellow-billed kite}}Verb
(kit)citation
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- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* check kiting * kiterSee also
* * *Etymology 2
Origin uncertain. Possibly from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Etymology 3
Probably from Ancient Egyptian.Noun
(kite)Anagrams
* ----bited
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----bite
English
Verb
- As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
- That dog is about to bite !
- If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite .
- I needed snow chains to make the tires bite .
- For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite .
- Are the fish biting today?
- I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite ?
- These mosquitoes are really biting today!
- It bites like pepper or mustard.
- Pepper bites the mouth.
- Frosts do bite the meads.
- At the last it [wine] biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- The anchor bites .
- The anchor bites the ground.
- The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, it turned and turned with nothing to bite .
- This music really bites .
- You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
- He always be biting my moves.
Derived terms
* bite back * bite in the ass * bite me * bite off * bite off more than one can chew * bite one's knuckle * bite one's tongue * biter * bite someone's head off * bite the big one * bite the bullet * bite the dust * bite the hand that feeds one * bitingNoun
(en noun)- I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite .
- That snake bite really hurts!
- After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites .
- There were only a few bites left on the plate.
- That's really a bite !
- That song is a bite of my song!
- I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
citation, page= , passage=City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third.}}
- The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite , by deceiving and overreaching.
- (Johnson)