Kite meaning5/6/2023 ![]() This is the British foreign secretary refering to just such a request or suggestion by the King of Sweden that he might be awarded a high British honour (Knight of the Garter). 65 Charles John flew a kite at us for the Garter the other day, but without success. If medical requests in your prison service used to be regularly turned down, then they might also have been associated with “kite-flying”?īy the way, I notice a citation in the OED entry has this:ġ831 Visct. I remember that, in the Royal Navy, “to fly a kite” also meant, by extension, “to make a request that you had little expectation of having accepted”. ![]() The OED suggests that it comes from the practice of putting up a kite to see which way the wind is blowing at altitude. Kites often have a bridle and tail to guide the face of the kite so the wind can lift it. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. ![]() This may come from a variation on the common English expression, “to fly a kite”, meaning “to make a suggestion in order to guage the response” before committing to a course of action. 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. This entry was posted in Inmate issues, Jail culture, Language and tagged correctional medicine, inmates, jail medicine, jails, Kite, language, prisons, slang by Jeffrey Keller MD. ![]() But is it true?Ĭan anyone out there shed some light on this subject? Where did the term “kite” originate? This explanation of the term makes sense to me, so I tend to believe it. Since the folded up note attached to a piece of string resembled a kite, it was called a “kite,” and the term “kite” then became a universal prison term for any written communication, including requests for medical care. He then swings the note attached to the string underneath his cell door and into the cell of his friend. The inmate folds up a note and ties it to a long piece of string. “Kite” probably came instead from the prison practice of communicating with another inmate in the next cell or even many cells away. I need to see the doctor.” Deputy: “Oh, go fly a kite.” Although many inmates believe this, I myself don’t think this is where the term comes from. Some inmates believe that the term “kite” implies that we don’t care about them, as in: Inmate: “I’m sick. So where did the term “kite” come from? I have heard two explanations. Even the dictionaries devoted to slang, like The Online Slang Dictionary or the Slang Dictionary don’t list the term “kite.” How can a slang term be so common in jails and prisons yet be unknown to linguists? The Astrology Podcast, Episode 266, Aspect Patterns in Astrology, Chris Brennan & Carole Taylor, August 5, 2020.Yet I cannot find this definition of “kite” listed in any dictionary. While natives with a Grand Trine can lack the motivation to live up to their potential, natives with a Kite aspect in their chart are often driven individuals with significant energy for realization of their gifts and vision. The sextile aspects create areas of potential resolution for the tension inherent in the opposition. This planet, sometimes known as the focal planet, often forms a point of emphasis for the native with this pattern-a place they can channel the talents inherent in the Grand Trine. Kite patterns share many of the characteristics of the Grand Trine, but the fourth planet, in opposition, adds an additional point of tension and challenge to the pattern. ![]() Sometimes a kite can be a rhombus (four congruent sides), a dart, or even a square (four congruent sides and four congruent interior. That means a kite is all of this: A plane figure. A Kite is a planetary aspect pattern that occurs when three planets in the chart form a Grand Trine and a fourth planet is opposite (180°) one of the Grant Trine planets, and thus forms a sextile aspect (60°) to the other two configured planets. A kite is a quadrilateral shape with two pairs of adjacent (touching), congruent (equal-length) sides. ![]()
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