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発音

• (RA) IPA^(key): /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈflɪtɪŋ/, /-ɾɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪtɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: flit‧ting

名詞

flitting (複数形 flittings)

1. gerund of flit: the motion of something that flits.

   the flittings of birds

   • 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, OCLC 1008064829, stanza II, page 11:

     After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.

   • 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:

     The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.

2. (Northern England, Scotland) The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 87:

     Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting.

動詞

flitting

1. present participle of flit

形容詞

flitting (comparative more flitting, superlative most flitting)

1. Brief, likely to be of short duration.
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 2, page 102:

     Poor Margarita's flitting life appeared to concentrate all its powers for this long desired visit, and her eyes seemed to emit a supernatural light, when they were indeed assured that Glentworth stood before her;...