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BNC: 5870 COCA: 9509

kite

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Related topics: Toys, Birds
ldoce_185_akite1 /kaɪt/ ●○○ noun [countableC]  
1. DHTa light frame covered in coloured paper or plastic that you let fly in the air on the end of one or two long strings 风筝 →5  See picture of KITE 风筝 →4  See picture of 见图 kite
2. HBBa type of hawk (=bird that eats small animals) 鸢
3. American EnglishAmE informalMONEY an illegal cheque 空头支票；非法支票
4. fly a kite SUGGESTto make a suggestion to see what people will think of it 试探反应，探口气
Examples from the Corpus
fly a kite• We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites, and swam in lakes.• And, let's go fly a kite.• This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites.• In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.• Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.
→ go fly a kite at fly1(24), → high as a kite at high1(16)
Examples from the Corpus
kite• Here we have a dangerous situation of a kite flailing on one line, possibly towards onlookers and certainly not under control.• How was that possible, a kite suspended in the air, without an anchor?• As soon as any kite touches the ground it is eliminated.• It's bad enough trying to fly with unequal line lengths; having an asymmetric kite can be most frustrating!• Of these, the best known is the Everglade kite, which escaped attention even longer than the crocodile.• All the stuff off the kite blew right out of sight - and all that was left was the frame.• Between the curving cross-spars, the sail adopts a vee form not unlike that on a Malay or triangular kite.
kite2 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] American EnglishAmE informal  
1  (also kite up)EXPENSIVE to raise the cost of something 增加(费用) SYN hike up
 Soaring medical costs keep kiting up insurance premiums.
骤升的医疗费用使保险费不断上涨。
2. STEALto obtain money using an illegal cheque 开(空头支票)；使用(假支票)骗钱
Examples from the Corpus
kite• That summer I took Esmerelda kiting quite a lot.
From Longman Business Dictionary
kitekite1 /kaɪt/ noun
fly a kite to make a suggestion, often an unusual one, to find out what people think of it
He used his speech to fly a policy kite.
kitekite2 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] informal
1FINANCE kite checks to write cheques for more than the amount in the related account
Members of the society had kited more than 8,000 checks in a single year.
2LAW kite checks to use stolen cheques
drug-related crimes, like kiting checks to buy drugs
Origin kite1
Old English cyta
kite1 nounkite2 verb
Chinese
Corpus
BNC: 5870 COCA: 9509
kite

noun

VERB + KITE | KITE + NOUN VERB + KITE➤fly放風箏KITE + NOUN➤flying放風箏◇the joys of kite flying放風箏的樂趣
BNC: 5870 COCA: 9509
BNC: 5870 COCA: 9509

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