Meanings (ES + gloss)
barrilete • cachirulo • capuchino • chichigua • chiringa • cometa • guashuma • lechuza • pandero • pandorga • papagayo • papalota • papalote • papelote • petaca • piscucha • volador • volantín
A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
On windy spring days, we would fly kites.
What for do ye want to get baker's bread, aunt? This dough will rise as high as a kite in the south wind.
deltoide
A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
A kite is a quadrilateral with exactly two pairs of adjacent congruent sides. Note that a parallelogram has opposite congruent sides, whereas the congruent sides of kites are adjac…
Phrases
Brahminy kiteEddy kiteHargrave kiteMalay kiteMississippi kiteOther termsSpecies of birdsblack kiteblack-winged kitebow kitebox kitecellular kitedesert kiteelanid kitefly a kitefly the kitego fly a kitegyrokitehelikitehellkitehigh as a kitehigher than a kitehoney kitekite buggykite fightingkite fishingkite flyingkite glidingkite jumpkite jumperkite jumpingkite runnerkite surfingkite-leaved poisonkiteboardkiteboardingkitefinkiteflyingkitefunkiteless