What's the difference between kite and kive?

Kite


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious.
  • (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.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
  • (n.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
  • (n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.
  • (n.) The brill.
  • (v. i.) To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.
  • (n.) The belly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
  • (2) The methods consist of arterial ligation in 6 cases, end-to-end anastomosis in 5 cases, prosthesis or autogenous vein grafts in 9 cases, "Flying Kite" technique by muscular embolism in 5 cases, vascular embolism by means of the spring-coil in 14 cases, direct operation combined with vascular embolism in 1 case, and breaking blood stream by the balloon catheter at first, then embolism by the spring-coil through retrograde catheterization and finally removal of false aneurysm in 1 case.
  • (3) Controversy seems to follow autism like the tail on a kite,” says an editorial in the journal by Bryan H King of the University of Washington and Seattle children’s hospital.
  • (4) The Float Beijing project gets people to build simple kites with air-quality testing equipment.
  • (5) To solve the quiz, viewers had to calculate every possible number within the kites - which were different colours - including numbers within other written numbers, and numbers within digital numbers (displayed as if on a calculator).
  • (6) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
  • (7) Golnaz Esfandiari, who has a blog on the Radio Free Europe website, Persian Letters, writes in a recent post : "There were also gatherings for paintball, kite flying, and blowing bubbles.
  • (8) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
  • (9) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
  • (10) Andy Thomas, who for the past 20 years has run Kites & Things, a toy and hobbies store a few hundred metres from the harbourside in the town's high street, said business had been difficult since 2008, when Northern Rock nearly went under.
  • (11) "Viewers then also had to work out the total of the numbers for the different coloured kites.
  • (12) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
  • (13) The most eye-catching of the kites that he flies – fixed-term parliaments, and a curbing of the power of the whips over the scrutiny of legislation – would make a big difference, but are wrapped in rather slippery language, so neither is a bankable pledge.
  • (14) The move comes after months of negotiations that have failed to persuade any major retailer to adopt the foundation's kite-mark standard.
  • (15) Case 1: A 12-year-old male suffered a severe headache followed by a generalized convulsion after he turned his head when he was flying a kite.
  • (16) The report calls for better conservation, especially following successful schemes to reintroduce or bolster populations such as the red kite and large blue butterfly.
  • (17) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
  • (18) Even by the standards of the hardline Taliban, famous for their tight control on everything, from kite flying to music, when they ruled Afghanistan , the uniformed squads are oppressive, said Michael Semple, a fellow at Harvard University, an expert on the Taliban.
  • (19) Direct cutaneous arteries provide blood supply to the kite flap when the only dorsal metacarpal vessel of the first web space is in a deep situation.
  • (20) Critically, this will lead to a system of kite marking practice authority and expertise which has been successfully applied to working with the most at-risk children and families.

Kive


Definition:

  • (n.) A mash vat. See Keeve.

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