kite

A light object that flies in the wind while you hold it by a long string.

• Let’s fly a kite on the beach.
• Her kite got caught in a tree.
• The children made colorful kites from paper.

Common phrases: fly a kite, paper kite, kite string, kite tail

A bird with long wings that hunts small animals or eats dead ones.

• A red kite flew over the field.
• The kite circled above a dead animal.
• We saw several kites hunting near the river.

Common phrases: red kite, black kite

A shape with four sides, arranged in two pairs of equal sides that meet at a corner.

• Draw a kite with four sides.
• A square is a kite under some mathematical definitions.
• The students measured the diagonals of their kites.

Common phrases: draw a kite, kite shape

To move over water, snow, or land while pulled by a large object flying in the wind.

• We kited across the bay.
• She learned to kite on snow last winter.
• They were kiting along the coast when the wind dropped.

How to use it: kite across/along something (They kited across the lake in a strong wind.)

Similar words: kitesurf

Common phrases: kite across something, kite around something

To make something rise or increase very quickly.

• Higher fuel charges kited delivery costs.
• A sudden gust kited the loose sheet upward.
• The shortage has kited prices across the region.

Similar words: raise, drive up

Opposites: lower

Common phrases: kite prices, kite something upward