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1. Kite
   HMS Kite was a British modified Black Swan Class sloop of 1430 tons displacement launched and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Kite was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 20 knots and carried a complement of 192. She was armed with six 4 inch dual purpose guns and eight 2 pdr anti-aircraft guns.
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2. kite
   [n] - plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper 2. [n] - any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
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3. Kite
   a grand trine with an opposition from one of the planets to another, which forms two sextile aspects to the remaining planets.
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4. Kite
   Sometimes used to indicate spinnaker.
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5. Kite
   A quadrilateral which has two pairs of adjacent sides equal. See also: Quadrilateral.
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6. Kite
   The kite-shaped tread mostly used where stairs turn a comer.
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7. Kite
   The kite-shaped tread mostly used where stairs turn a comer.
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8. Kite
   An aerodyne not mechanically driven and normally moored to the ground, or towed by a line. Kites are the oldest form of aircraft and have been made and flown by the Chinese from ancient times. Their aerodynamic principle is analogous to that of an aeroplane. At the beginning of the 20th Century expe...
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9. kite
   a shearing device mounted on a false headline to lift true headline and/or to scare fish downward into the mouth of the net Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • Non-power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft without controls,anchored to,or towed from,the ...
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10. Kite
    Kite (kīt) noun [ Middle English kyte , Anglo-Saxon cȳta ; confer W. cud , cut .] 1. (Zoology) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ , of which many species are known. They have lon...
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11. Kite
    Kite intransitive verb To raise money by 'kites;' as, kiting transactions. See Kite , 6. [ Cant]
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12. Kite
    Kite noun The belly. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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13. Kite
    Kite noun (Nautical) A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also sentry .
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14. kite
    1. <ornithology> Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail. ... The European species are Milvus ictinus and Milvus govinda; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is Haliastur Indus; the Ame...
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15. kite
    noun any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
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16. kite
    noun plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
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17. kite
    verb fly a kite; `Kids were kiting in the park`; `They kited the Red Dragon model`
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18. kite
    verb get credit or money by using a bad check; `The businessman kited millions of dollars`
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19. Kite
    • (n.) A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string. • (n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious. • (n.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light. • (n.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of sym...
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20. kite
    (from the article `measurement system`) The Egyptian weight system appears to have been founded on a unit called the kite, with a decimal ratio, 10 kites equaling 1 deben and 10 debens ...
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21. kite
    any of numerous birds of prey belonging to one of three subfamilies (Milvinae, Elaninae, Perninae) of the family Accipitridae. Typically, a kite is ... [1 related articles]
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22. kite
    oldest known heavier-than-air craft designed to gain lift from the wind while being flown from the end of a flying line, or tether.[1 related articles]
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23. kite
    kite, in aviation, aircraft restrained by a towline and deriving its lift from the aerodynamic action of the wind flowing across it. Commonly the kite consists of a light framework upon which paper, silk, or other thin material is stretched. Kites having one plane surface require flexible tails for ...
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24. kite
    kite, in zoology, common name for a bird of the family Accipitridae, which also includes the hawk. Kites are found near water and marshes in warm parts of the world. They prey chiefly on reptiles, frogs, and insects. The swallow-tailed, white-tailed, and Mississippi kites are found in the Gulf state...
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25. Kite
    Kite is slang for a worthless cheque
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