Bite vs. Kite — What's the Difference?

(of a person or animal) use the teeth to cut into something

A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors.

(of a tool, tyre, boot, etc.) grip or take hold on a surface

A light framework covered with cloth, plastic, or paper, designed to be flown in the wind at the end of a long string or multiple lines, especially for recreation.

An act of biting something in order to eat it

A parafoil flown in a similar manner for recreation.

A piece cut off by biting

A power kite.

A sharp or pungent flavour

A quadrilateral with two distinct pairs of congruent, adjacent sides. Also called deltoid.

To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth.

Any of the light sails of a ship that are used only in a light wind.

To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts.

Any of various graceful predatory birds of the family Accipitridae, having long pointed wings and often a forked tail.

To sting with a stinger.

An instance of check kiting.

To cut into with or as if with a sharp instrument

To fly like a kite; soar or glide.

To grip, grab, or seize

To get money or credit with a kite.

To eat into; corrode.

To use (a check) in furtherance of a check kiting scheme.

To cause to sting or be painful

A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

To grip, cut into, or injure something with or as if with the teeth.

Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).

To have a stinging effect.

A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.

To have a sharp taste.

Some species in the subfamily Perninae.

To take or swallow bait.

(figuratively) A rapacious person.

To be taken in by a ploy or deception

A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.

Vulgar Slang To be highly disagreeable or annoying.

A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.

The act of biting.

(astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.

A skin wound or puncture produced by an animal's teeth or mouthparts

A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.

A stinging or smarting sensation.

An favour]] and without compensation.

An incisive, penetrating quality

A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.

An amount removed by or as if by an act of biting

(geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.

An excerpt or fragment taken from something larger, such as a film.

An aeroplane or aircraft.

An amount of food taken into the mouth at one time; a mouthful.

In a square-rigged ship: originally a sail positioned above a topsail; later a lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding sail or a jib topsail.

(Informal) A light meal or snack.

A supplementary sail to a mainsail.

The act or an instance of taking bait

The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.

A secure grip or hold applied by a tool or machine upon a working surface.

A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.

The part of a tool or machine that presses against and maintains a firm hold on a working surface.

The stomach; the belly.

(Dentistry) The angle at which the upper and lower teeth meet; occlusion.

(Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to 10 deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).

The corrosive action of acid upon an etcher's metal plate.

(transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.

(Slang) An amount of money appropriated or withheld

To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.

(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a bird.

(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.

(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.

(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

To steal.

(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.

(intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.

To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

To move rapidly; to rush.

To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

To deflect sideways in the water.

To sting.

To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.

(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

Fig.: One who is rapacious.

(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.

(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.

A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.

(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.

To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.

To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

The brill.

To plagiarize, to imitate.

A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; - called also sentry.

(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

The belly.

The act of biting.

To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.

The wound left behind after having been bitten.

A bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

A bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

(slang) Something unpleasant.

Any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals

(slang) An act of plagiarism.

Increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently;

A small meal or snack.

Get credit or money by using a bad check;

(figuratively) aggression

Soar or fly like a kite;

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

Fly a kite;

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

A sharper; one who cheats.

(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.

(television) sound bite

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.

To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

To cheat; to trick; to take in.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?

To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.

The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

A sharper; one who cheats.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

A small amount of solid food; a mouthful;

A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

A light informal meal

(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait;

Wit having a sharp and caustic quality;

A strong odor or taste property;

The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

A portion removed from the whole;

To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws;

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;

Penetrate or cut, as with a knife;

Deliver a sting to;