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When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.
Michael Dickinson

Meaning of "flitting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FLITTING

flitting  [ˈflɪtɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLITTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flitting is 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.

WHAT DOES FLITTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of flitting in the English dictionary

The definition of flitting in the dictionary is a move to another house.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLITTING


billeting
ˈbɪlɪtɪŋ
dating
ˈdeɪtɪŋ
decorating
ˈdɛkəˌreɪtɪŋ
editing
ˈedɪtɪŋ
exciting
ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ
fascinating
ˈfæsɪˌneɪtɪŋ
fee-splitting
ˈfiːˌsplɪtɪŋ
fighting
ˈfaɪtɪŋ
fitting
ˈfɪtɪŋ
hairsplitting
ˈhɛəˌsplɪtɪŋ
lighting
ˈlaɪtɪŋ
marketing
ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ
operating
ˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ
rating
ˈreɪtɪŋ
sitting
ˈsɪtɪŋ
songwriting
ˈsɒŋˌraɪtɪŋ
splitting
ˈsplɪtɪŋ
visiting
ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ
waiting
ˈweɪtɪŋ
writing
ˈraɪtɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLITTING

flirtatious
flirtatiously
flirtatiousness
flirter
flirtingly
flirtish
flirty
flisk
flisky
flit
flitch
flite
flitt
flitted
flitter
flittermice
flittermouse
flittern
flivver
flix

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLITTING

accounting
admitting
batting
betting
chatting
committing
cutting
emitting
formatting
letting
netting
permitting
plotting
putting
resetting
setting
spitting
spotting
submitting
transmitting
upsetting

Synonyms and antonyms of flitting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FLITTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flitting» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of flitting
dart · dash · flash · fleet · flutter · fly · pass · skim · speed · whisk · wing

Translation of «flitting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLITTING

Find out the translation of flitting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flitting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flitting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

飞来飞去
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

revoloteando
570 millions of speakers

English

flitting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

flitting
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرفرفه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

порхают
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esvoaçando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

flitting
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voletant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melayang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

huschen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

飛び回る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

flitting
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Flitting
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

flitting
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

flitting
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लटिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

flitting
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flitting
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fruwające
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пурхають
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fugare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

flitting
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

flitting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flitting
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flitting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flitting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLITTING»

The term «flitting» is regularly used and occupies the 95.322 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of flitting
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «flitting».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLITTING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «flitting» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «flitting» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flitting

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6 QUOTES WITH «FLITTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flitting.
1
Richard Blackmore
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
2
Michael Dickinson
When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.
3
Holliday Grainger
I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.
4
George Martin
Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.
5
Michael Redhill
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling.
6
Zhuangzi
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLITTING»

Discover the use of flitting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flitting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Wondrous Flitting
Mark Thomson. SAM: No picture. The screen's not really ok, the wall stuff. DAD: Ok let's keep calm. Put in 925 and we can listen to radio 5. SAM: What's radio 5? DAD: It's like the news but no pictures. SAM dues as instructed. As it plays, SAM ...
Mark Thomson, 2011
2
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Lin.I \Ve shan't flit while May Day. He has a brother as flittcd from agen liirton- Liudscy. Rut], Lei), th.' War. llouowav. w.\'llor.I Shr.: Thire gwnz somebody a flitting wie their goodles and furnitude. l-Irf.l Bdf. They've flittcd out of the yard l_l.\V.l5-).
Joseph Wright
3
Popular Hymns for the Work and Worship of the Church Sunday ...
^m? k • k • • 17 1-2. Flitting away .flitting away. 3-4. Brighter it shines.brightef it shines. Flitting awav, Brighter it shines, Kit 17 4.*&*±* W. C. BBYANT. 3 Yet doth the star of Bethl'em shed A luster pure and sweet ; And still it leads, as once it led,  ...
‎1883
4
Poems and Historical Papers: Written During an Active ...
EVER FLITTING. AND THE shadows ever flitting, To and fro, to and fro; Just beyond my window flitting, Where I'm sitting, sitting, sitting, Thinking of the crystal snow. Which the sunlight gloating o'er, Yesterday, is now no more. Wondering why ...
Samuel Oldham, Thomas R. Oldham, 1912
5
Moonlight Flitting
‘Maurice Procter’s Chief Inspector Martineau is one of fiction’s best policemen’ New York Times A millionaire’s sage-green Rolls Royce has been discovered, empty, beside a graveyard, and a little later the murdered body of the ...
Maurice Procter, 2013
6
The House of the Black Ring
... toward the house. " Say, Miss Hartswick, wait, — I want to tell you something. Wait, please." He followed her eagerly. At the door she stopped with a flirt and looked back. " Will you go to walk with me to-morrow at. The. Flitting. Dinner. 115.
Fred Lewis Pattee, 1905
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Hutchison's Clinical Methods: An Integrated Approach to ...
Flitting. or. migratory. joint. pains. This term is used to describe inflammation beginning in one joint and then involving others, usually one at a time for about 3 days each. Gonococcal arthritis should be considered; this is characterized by ...
Michael Glynn, William M Drake, 2012
8
Extending Thought in Young Children: A Parent - Teacher ...
FLITTING. The most important findings of the Froebel Project were linked with the uncovering of 'schemas' - patterns of behaviour and thinking in children that exist underneath the surface features of various contents, contexts and specific ...
Chris Athey, 2007
9
A Chinese Fantasy - Cave in a Casket
Jean Sheard. butterfly, but hundreds, flitting from lotus blossom to butterfly, but hundreds, flitting from lotus blossom to butterfly, but hundreds, flitting from lotus blossom to butterfly, but hundreds, flitting from lotus blossom to lotus blossom.
Jean Sheard, 2007
10
Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the ...
Flitting insect of white fire! Flitting insect of white fire! Light me with your bright white instrument of flame. Light me with your bright white instrument of flame.16 Hymes's concern with structure has been complemented by Dennis Tedlock's ...
Werner Sollors, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLITTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flitting is used in the context of the following news items.
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Get ready for another year of Immingham's i-Fest | Grimsby Telegraph
Also flitting around the festival will be Dino the Dinosaur, who is always up for a selfie or two. For the adventurous among you, Earthbound ... «Grimsby Telegraph, Jul 15»
2
BH Future Business Leaders of America attend leadership …
Naturally, with this number of lazy, high school kids flitting about the same hotel, there was a bit of a, shall we say, “drag” with the elevator ... «The Sheridan Press, Jul 15»
3
Film: The glorious madness of the life of Brian - Independent.ie
Bill Pohlad's biopic takes a refreshingly non-linear approach, flitting between the 1960s and 80s and using two very different actors to play ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
4
10 Things in Tokyo: July Round-Up | TABlog | Tokyo Art Beat
Between flitting from one country to the next she has found time to work with various Tokyo based galleries and art centers, with a keen interest ... «Tokyo Art Beat, Jul 15»
5
Mr. Lake County: goofy, embarassing — it all works - Record Bee
Surprisingly, flitting around on stage in a swimsuit isn't the aspect of the show that has contestants most on edge. “The one thing that sort of ... «Record Bee, Jul 15»
6
OnePlus has (overly?) ambitious plans to be a platform that 'follows us'
Android users tend to be less attached to one particular Android brand than say Apple fans (though that's not always the case), often flitting ... «Android Authority, Jul 15»
7
What Shah Rukh Khan, Aryana and Suhana Have Been Doing in …
Globe-trotting Shah Rukh Khan is flitting from continent to continent, packing in both work and personal agenda on his travels. He's currently in ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
8
Are Christians Being Mocked by Television Writers? New Programs …
In this way, 'Parenthood' is a perfect example of the way that the modern family is expected to present themselves: rapidly flitting about from ... «BREATHEcast, Jul 15»
9
Tiggers enjoy sponsored walk and Ofsted success
There were squeals of delight as one of the children spotted a butterfly flitting past! The walk aimed to raise much needed funds for the ... «Mid Sussex Times, Jul 15»
10
Juan López Chiado 1864 (ER Portugal 2014)
... flavors are still a great combination of salted peanuts and hay, with other notes of leather, coffee beans, earth and bread flitting in and out. «halfwheel.com, Jul 15»

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