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Kite can be a verb or a noun.
kite used as a verb:
- To fly a kite.
"I'm going kiting this weekend." - To glide in the manner of a kite.
"The wind kited us toward shore." - To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
"We spent the afternoon kiting around the bay." - To toss or cast.
- To write a check on an account with insufficient funds, expecting that funds will become available by the time the check clears.
"He was convicted of kiting checks and sentenced to two years in prison." - To cause an increase, especially in costs.
"Rising interest rates have kited the cost of housing." - To attack and destroy a monster or mob from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- To deflect sideways in the water.
- To send a short letter.
- To steal.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
kite used as a noun:
- A bird of prey in the family Accipitridae with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring.
"A pair of kites built a nest on the cliff." - A lightweight toy carried on the wind and controlled from the ground by a line.
"On windy spring days, we would fly kites." - A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- A quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair being consecutive.
"Four-sided figures without parallel sides include trapezoids and kites." - A fraudulent draft, such as a check one drawn on insufficient funds or with altered face value.
- A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- An aircraft, or aeroplane.
- A lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding-sail.
- A spinnaker.
- A short letter.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is kite?
- Verb usage: I'm going kiting this weekend.
- Verb usage: The wind kited us toward shore.
- Verb usage: We spent the afternoon kiting around the bay.
- Verb usage: He was convicted of kiting checks and sentenced to two years in prison.
- Verb usage: Rising interest rates have kited the cost of housing.
- Noun usage: A pair of kites built a nest on the cliff.
- Noun usage: On windy spring days, we would fly kites.
- Noun usage: Four-sided figures without parallel sides include trapezoids and kites.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of kite are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of kite, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
