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   Kite
   The kite is a bird of prey of the falcon family.
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   Kite
   Kite is a town in Johnson County Georgia, USA
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   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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   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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   Kite
   Sometimes used to indicate spinnaker.
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   Kite
   A quadrilateral which has two pairs of adjacent sides equal. See also: Quadrilateral.
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   Kite
   The kite-shaped tread mostly used where stairs turn a comer.
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   Kite
   The kite-shaped tread mostly used where stairs turn a comer.
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   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 experiments were made with man-lifting kites for milit...
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    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 ground. Category: Transport • in naval mine warfare,a device which when towed,submerges ...
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    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 long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail. » The European species are Milvus ictinus and M. migrans ; the pariah k ...
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    Kite
    Kite intransitive verb To raise money by 'kites;' as, kiting transactions. See Kite , 6. [ Cant]
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    Kite
    Kite noun The belly. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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    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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    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 American fork-tailed kite is the Nauclerus furcatus.
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    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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    noun plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
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    kite
    verb fly a kite; `Kids were kiting in the park`; `They kited the Red Dragon model`
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    kite
    verb get credit or money by using a bad check; `The businessman kited millions of dollars`
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    Kite
    A `kite` is a flying tethered man-made object. The necessary lift that makes the kite fly is generated when airflow over and under the kite creates low pressure above the kite and high pressure below it. In addition to the lift, this deflection generates horizontal drag along the direction of the wind. This drag is opposed with the tension of the one or more lines held by the operator of the kite. In addition to kites that are flown for recreati...
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    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 symmetry. • (n.) The brill. • (n.) The bell...
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    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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    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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    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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    kite
    The diagonals of a kite intersect at right angles A quadrilateral, with two pairs of congruent adjacent sides, that is named after one of the traditional forms of toy kite. The toy itself probably draws its name from the bird commonly called a kite, or kyte, in England. The old English form of t...
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