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Definition of Kitelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a kite (toy carried on the wind) or some aspect of one. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a kite (bird of prey) or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kitelike
1. resembling a kite (a light, covered frame flown in the wind) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kitelike
Literary usage of Kitelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The first sought to achieve soaring flight by means of kitelike apparatus, which
enabled them to soar in the air against winds, their machines being lifted ..."
2. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"The second sought to develop power flight, that is, to send their kitelike machines
through the air at high speed, being tracted ..."
3. Aircraft: Its Development in War and Peace and Its Commercial Future by Evan John David (1919)
"The first sought to achieve soaring flights by means of large kitelike apparatus,
which enabled them to fly in the air against winds, their machines being ..."
4. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"... see Appendix B:VI.i) believed that fleshiness around the nose was not only
kitelike in appearance but also that it was a sign of dishonesty. ..."
5. The Story of the Birds by James Newton Baskett (1897)
"It comes into play in alighting (as a brake) or in rising (as a kitelike surface),
and is used dexterously by the soaring birds in balancing themselves ..."
6. Harper's Aircraft Book: Why Aeroplanes Fly, how to Make Models, and All by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"... the Curtiss uses ailerons between the tips of the wings, and in place of the
clumsy box-tail a graceful "pigeon-tail" or kitelike tail is used (Fig. 3). ..."
7. Dictionary of Aviation by Robert Morris Pierce (1911)
"[also spelt kitelike] like a kite in form or appearance; resembling a kite.
kite-line 'kait,lain n. the line by ..."
8. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1840)
"... monster lived, kitelike, on other birds, he would speedily have depopulated
a space equal to a whole parish, ay, a whole county of its feathered tribes. ..."
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