| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To terminate, finish, finalize or conclude.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To lapse. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To wear or carry. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To elapse.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Present participle conjugation of the verb flit.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (flitly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective flit.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flit) | 1. Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches".[Wordnet]. 2. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.[Websters]. 3. To flutter; to rove on the wing.[Websters]. 4. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.[Websters]. 5. To remove from one place or habitation to another.[Websters]. 6. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: flitting, flitted, flits, flitter, flitters, flittingly and flittedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being flickering.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being fleeting, ephemeral or transient. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being momentary. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being soaring.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun | 1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.[Websters]
2. A removal from one habitation to another.[Websters]. | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLITTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FLITTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Flying rapidly; fluttering; moving swiftly.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of flit. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Specialty Expressions: FLITTING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Flitting flies | Medicine | Small floating spots, flitting flies, entoptically observed on viewing a bright uniform field, such as the sky, and seen to flit away with attempted fixation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Flitting wagon | Mining | A low truck or trolley used in pillar methods of working to transport face machines from one heading or bord to another. (references) | |
| Moonlight Flitting | Literature | (A). A clandestine removal of one's furniture during the night, to avoid paying one's rent or having the furniture seized in payment thereof. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Abbreviations & Acronyms: flit
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FLIT | English | Fault location by interpretive testing | Computing | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: flit | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Flit gun | 4 | Flit | 3 | |
| Flit | 3 | Flit gun | 4 | |
| River Flit | 2 | River Flit | 2 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
