Meaning of "flit" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLIT

From Old Norse flytja to carry.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLIT

flit  [flɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLIT

Flit is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flit in English.

WHAT DOES FLIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Flit

Flit is the brand name for an insecticide. The original product, invented by chemist Dr. Franklin C. Nelson and launched in 1923 and mainly intended for killing flies and mosquitoes, was mineral oil based and manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey before the company, now part of ExxonMobil, renamed itself first Esso and later Exxon. The Esso formulation contained 5% DDT in the late 1940s and early 1950s, before the negative environmental impact of DDT was widely understood. Later marketed as "FLIT MLO," it has since been discontinued. A hand-operated device called a Flit gun was commonly used to perform the spraying. The Flit brand name has been reused for another insecticide product, with the primary active ingredient of permethrin, marketed by Clarke Mosquito Control. The current product is most often used to control adult mosquitoes. Spraying it into the air kills adult mosquitoes that are present and then by settling onto surfaces it kills mosquitoes that may later land.

Definition of flit in the English dictionary

The first definition of flit in the dictionary is to move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart. Other definition of flit is to fly rapidly and lightly; flutter. Flit is also to pass quickly; fleet.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLIT

PRESENT

Present

I flit

you flit

he/she/it flits

we flit

you flit

they flit

Present continuous

I am flitting

you are flitting

he/she/it is flitting

we are flitting

you are flitting

they are flitting

Present perfect

I have flitted

you have flitted

he/she/it has flitted

we have flitted

you have flitted

they have flitted

Present perfect continuous

I have been flitting

you have been flitting

he/she/it has been flitting

we have been flitting

you have been flitting

they have been flitting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I flitted

you flitted

he/she/it flitted

we flitted

you flitted

they flitted

Past continuous

I was flitting

you were flitting

he/she/it was flitting

we were flitting

you were flitting

they were flitting

Past perfect

I had flitted

you had flitted

he/she/it had flitted

we had flitted

you had flitted

they had flitted

Past perfect continuous

I had been flitting

you had been flitting

he/she/it had been flitting

we had been flitting

you had been flitting

they had been flitting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will flit

you will flit

he/she/it will flit

we will flit

you will flit

they will flit

Future continuous

I will be flitting

you will be flitting

he/she/it will be flitting

we will be flitting

you will be flitting

they will be flitting

Future perfect

I will have flitted

you will have flitted

he/she/it will have flitted

we will have flitted

you will have flitted

they will have flitted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been flitting

you will have been flitting

he/she/it will have been flitting

we will have been flitting

you will have been flitting

they will have been flitting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would flit

you would flit

he/she/it would flit

we would flit

you would flit

they would flit

Conditional continuous

I would be flitting

you would be flitting

he/she/it would be flitting

we would be flitting

you would be flitting

they would be flitting

Conditional perfect

I would have flit

you would have flit

he/she/it would have flit

we would have flit

you would have flit

they would have flit

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been flitting

you would have been flitting

he/she/it would have been flitting

we would have been flitting

you would have been flitting

they would have been flitting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you flit
we let´s flit
you flit

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to flit

Past participle

flitted

Present Participle

flitting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «FLIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flit» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of flit

dart · dash · flash · fleet · flutter · fly · pass · skim · speed · whisk · wing

TRANSLATION OF FLIT

Find out the translation of flit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of flit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flit» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 不停地移动
• Translator English - Spanish: revolotear
• English: flit
• Translator English - Hindi: उड़ जाना
• Translator English - Arabic: يرفرف
• Translator English - Russian: порхают
• Translator English - Portuguese: esvoaçar
• Translator English - Bengali: অস্থির হত্তয়া
• Translator English - French: voltiger
• Translator English - Malay: Flit
• Translator English - German: flitzen
• Translator English - Japanese: あちこち渡り歩く
• Translator English - Korean: > 돌아다니다
• Translator English - Javanese: B
• Translator English - Vietnamese: dọn nhà
• Translator English - Tamil: flit
• Translator English - Marathi: झटका
• Translator English - Turkish: taşınma
• Translator English - Italian: andare in giro
• Translator English - Polish: przemknąć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: пурхають
• Translator English - Romanian: flutura
• Translator English - Greek: φτερουγίζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: vlieg
• Translator English - Swedish: flit
• Translator English - Norwegian: smette

QUOTES WITH «FLIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flit.

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Dmitri Mendeleev

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLIT»

Discover the use of flit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Flit, Flutter, Fly!: Poems About Bugs and Other Crawly Creatures

A collection of poems about bugs and other creatures that crawl by a variety of authors.

Lee Bennett Hopkins, 1992

On-chip Networks

The packet will consist of a head flit that contains the destination address, body flits and a tail flit that indicates the end of a packet. Flits can be further broken down into phits, which are physical units and correspond to the physical channel  ...

Natalie D. Enright Jerger, Li-Shiuan Peh, 2009

The War on Bugs

With his cartoons for Standard's bug killer, Dr. Seuss turned Flit and the Flit gun into household necessities. His success, which kept Flit in the leadership position in the marketplace, also made the incredibly prolific Geisel economically ...

Will Allen, 2008

Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks

Figure 21.5 While it is only necessary to retransmit the one faulty flit, this would reorder the flits on the channel and considerably complicate the router input logic . For ex- ample, a body flit might be received before the head flit of its packet.

William J. Dally, Brian Towles, 2004

PARLE '94 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe: 6th ...

One clock cycle is assumed to be the sum of the switching time and the transmission time. It is, also, the time needed to send a flit from a given node to one of its nighbours. A flit is the number of data bits that can be transmitted in parallel in one ...

Costas Halatsis, 1994

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Biennial Report of the Minnesota State Dairy and Food ...

10% Hg at flit. Carb. 10% 10% 10% 10% Carb. lers' Earth Cherry ...... .. ROS1 Sol. Sol. Sol. Cloudy More S01. So]. So]. Sol. Gray ppt. Sol. Little color (red) Juice _;_' lu'l_ll2 YUS2 ROSI W flit. milky YOTI YOS2 YOS2 YOS2 W flit. YOS1 ext.

Minnesota. Dairy and Food Dept, 1907

Network-on-Chip Architectures: A Holistic Design Exploration

In case of a flit error in the proposed scheme, two subsequently arriving flits must be dropped until the correct flit arrives from the previous node upon retransmission. Once the correct flit is received, all previously dropped flits must then be ...

Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chita R. Das, 2009

Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2012: 25th ...

In this work, we assume flits travel on their own and we do not guarantee inorder multi-flit packet delivery. A flit is routed in a productive direction through a productive port, if the distance between the flit position and its destination decreases.

Andreas Herkersdorf, Kay Römer, Uwe Brinkschulte, 2012

Euro-Par '96 - Parallel Processing: Second International ...

A success flit is returned along the reverse path using virtual channel vr to the source router, when the header reaches the destination successfully, which then starts the DD phase. A message whose priority is higher than the owner of a VC ...

Luc Bouge, Pierre Fraigniaud, Yves Robert, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flit is used in the context of the following news items.

Fresno-area used bookstores stay alive in the Age of Amazon …

... in the Tower District then, one next to Piemonte's Deli and another across from Chicken Pie Shop, with people able to flit from one to another. «Fresno Bee, Jul 15»

T in the Park: Catholic Action review | Herald Scotland

... them to Strathallan, but they crucially manage to capture the happy wanderers who flit from stage to stage until one of their favourites appears ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»

A Review of 'Punctuating Space: The Prints and Multiples of Richard …

He flirted with Pop Art, minimalism and conceptualism, but married no one genre, happier to flit among them. “Punctuating Space: The Prints ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

WEBB: Submitted for your approval an obsession with Rod Serling …

"And perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the ... «Evansville Courier & Press, Jul 15»

Turrell's hands make light work | The Sunday Times

At Waddesdon Manor, near Milton Keynes, you can flit from the big-haired rococo beauties painted by Gainsborough to spooky conceptual love ... «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»

Film: The glorious madness of the life of Brian - Independent.ie

And lurking in the wings are Mr Wilson's extraordinary songs, which flit in and out of the soundtrack in tantalising, unfinished flashes. Love & ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

Rare moth on Tiree sets experts aflutter | News | The National

“Over the summer, nine species of bumblebees buzz about the flowers, butterflies such as meadow browns and common blues flit about, and ... «The National, Jul 15»

'Coup de Foudre', by Ken Kalfus - FT.com

... dazzling ideas and well-crafted characters whose exploits and predicaments flit between comedy, tragedy and downright absurdity. «Financial Times, Jul 15»

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, film fest brings the excited and …

(In a single breath he manages to flit from praise of the Dalai Lama to an “old Jewish saying” that almost certainly isn't one.). «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»

Serena Williams on the Verge of History at Wimbledon Video - ABC …

... versus roger Federer and this crowd is flit. Andy Murray, hometown hero but Federer has everyone's heart going for his eighth wimbledon title ... «ABC News, Jul 15»