flit

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fluttering or darting movement.
  2. A flow control unit or flow control digit.
    — header flit
  3. A sudden departure from a property.
    — I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.
  4. A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
    — My computer just had a flit.
  5. A homosexual. dated,slang
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
    — A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]
  2. To move quickly from one location to another.
    — 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.
  3. To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
    — My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
  4. To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts). UK,dialectal
    — After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.
  5. To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.
  6. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
    — the free soul to flitting air resign'd
形容词 adj.
  1. Fast, nimble. obsolete,poetic
    — And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held [...].

词形变化

flits plural flits present,singular,third-person flitting participle,present flitted participle,past flitted past more flit comparative most flit superlative flits plural

词汇关系

衍生词
do a flit do a moonlight flit moonlight flit
相关词
dart dash flick flicker flirt lunge

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”).
Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).
词源 2
Short for fl(ow control un)it or fl(ow control dig)it.
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