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Definition of Kites
1. kite [v] - See also: kite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kites
Literary usage of Kites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Boys Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1890)
"The air fairly swarms with kites. They hover like a great flock of birds over
all that ... There are kites of all descriptions, from the big, majestic, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"The method proposed not only permits kites to be flown in calm weather, ...
The method consists in installing the kites and apparatus on board a steamship, ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"THE use of kites to obtain meteorological observations at Blue Hill Observatory has
... In the United States Weather Bureau equipped stations with kites, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Steel wire was used as a flying line, and the kites, four in number, ...
The combined kites had an area of 205 square feet and weighed twenty-six pounds, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Steel wire was used as a flying line, and the kites, four in number, ...
The combined kites had an area of 205 square feet and weighed twenty-six pounds, ..."
6. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"THE first use of kites for scientific purposes, so far as is known, was in 1749,
when Dr. Alexander Wilson and his pupil Thomas Melville of ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"kites were raised on seventy-one occasions, but, on thirty-one of them, the force
of the wind, even when assisted by the speed of the tug at seven knots, ..."
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