英和和英

発音

• IPA: /flɪt/
• 韻: -ɪt

名詞

flit (plural flits)

1. A fluttering or darting movement.
2. A sudden departure from a property.

   I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.

   let's do a moonlight flit, if the loanshark catches us here tomorrow without the money to pay our debts, he'll break our fingers.

3. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.

   My computer just had a flit.

4. (dated, slang) A homosexual.
   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 18, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:

     The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.

派生語

• do a flit
• do a moonlight flit
• moonlight flit

動詞

flit (third-person singular simple present flits, present participle flitting, simple past and past participle flitted)

1. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
   • 1855, Tennyson, Maud:

     A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]

   • 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Chapter 6”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:

     There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.

2. To move quickly from one location to another.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, chapter 5, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie‎:

     By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 116–117:

     The chevalier's manner was now completely altered; and Francesca wondered within herself that he could be so amusing, as he exerted himself to describe the various visitors who flitted to and fro.

3. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.

   My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.

4. (UK, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
   • 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, →ISBN, page 199:

     After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.

   • 1859, “The Cat on the Dovrefell”, in George Dasent, transl., Popular Tales from the Norse:

     […] we can't give any one house-room just now, for every Christmas Eve such a pack of Trolls come down upon us that we are forced to flit, and haven't so much as a house over our own heads, to say nothing of lending one to any one else.

5. To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.
6. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     the free soul to flitting air resign'd

参考

形容詞

flit (comparative more flit, superlative most flit)

1. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held [...].

   • 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:

     To that god-trodden western shore, as flit benighted birds.

派生語

語源 2

Short for fl(ow control un)it or fl(ow control dig)it.

名詞

flit (plural flits)

1. (networking) A flow control unit or flow control digit.

   header flit

アナグラム

• ILTF, lift

発音

• IPA: /flit/

名詞

flit n

1. argument, fight
2. arguing, fighting
3. contest, competition

使用する際の注意点

• By the written period, flit almost exclusively appears in compounds; otherwise the synonym ġeflit is used. See there for usage notes, and for evidence that the /i/ is short.

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

• flitcræft
• flitfull
• flitġeorn
• flitmǣlum
• ġeflit

関連する語

• flītan