KITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kite mean? 

• KITE (noun)
  The noun KITE has 4 senses:

1. a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

2. a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

3. plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

4. any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals

  Familiarity information: KITE used as a noun is uncommon.

• KITE (verb)
  The verb KITE has 4 senses:

1. increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently

2. get credit or money by using a bad check

3. soar or fly like a kite

4. fly a kite

  Familiarity information: KITE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

bank check; check; cheque (a written order directing a bank to pay money)

Derivation:

kite (increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

bank check; check; cheque (a written order directing a bank to pay money)

Derivation:

kite (get credit or money by using a bad check)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

plaything; toy (an artifact designed to be played with)

Meronyms (parts of "kite"):

kite tail (a bob on a kite to provide balance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kite"):

box kite (a kite shaped like a box open at both ends)

sport kite; stunt kite (a maneuverable kite controlled by two lines and flown with both hands)

Derivation:

kite (fly a kite)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("kite" is a kind of...):

hawk (diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kite"):

black kite; Milvus migrans (dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion)

Elanoides forficatus; swallow-tailed hawk; swallow-tailed kite (graceful North American black-and-white kite)

Elanus leucurus; white-tailed kite (grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions)

Holonyms ("kite" is a member of...):

Accipitridae; family Accipitridae (hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles)

• KITE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they kite    ... he / she / it kites   
Past simple: kited   
Past participle: kited   
-ing form: kiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

He kited many checks

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

increase (make bigger or more)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

kite (a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get credit or money by using a bad check

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The businessman kited millions of dollars

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

kite (a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Soar or fly like a kite

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The pilot kited for a long time over the mountains

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)

Domain category:

air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Fly a kite

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

They kited the Red Dragon model

Hypernyms (to "kite" is one way to...):

fly (cause to fly or float)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

kite (plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string)

 Context examples 

And a Quaker flying a kite is a much more ridiculous object than anybody else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I suppose the others are torn up to rig ships, bandage cut fingers, or make kite tails.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“By my hilt, yes!” muttered Aylward; “she is yellow as a kite's claw, and would carry as many men as there are pips in a pomegranate.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall never forget his flying Henry's kite for him that very windy day last Easter—and ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been convinced there could not be a more feeling heart nor a better man in existence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The kite has been glad to receive it, sir, and the sky has been brighter with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

, always 'perwisin' I could, said Jo, as she constructed a kite for Demi in the topsy-turvy nursery.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The peasant's gossip had been of the hunt, of the bracken, of the gray-headed kites that had nested in Wood Fidley, and of the great catch of herring brought back by the boats of Pitt's Deep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have sent his name up, on a scrap of paper, to the kite, along the string, when it has been in the sky, among the larks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)