Other forms: kites
A kite is the light frame on a long string that you fly on windy days. Fly a kite, the kite went up, a kite tangled in a tree.
It needs steady wind rather than strong wind, and an open space with no trees and no power lines. Kite is also a bird of prey — the red kite, once nearly extinct in Britain and now common again — and the toy is named after the bird's hovering flight. In geometry a kite is a four-sided shape with two pairs of equal adjacent sides. Note go fly a kite, which is a dismissal.
1nounlightA light frame flown on a string in the wind.
“The children flew their kites on the beach on a windy afternoon.”
2nounkiteA bird of prey with long wings and a forked tail.
“There is a kite over that field most afternoons.”
kite is a flying object or bird.
Old English cyta named the bird. The toy was named after it in the seventeenth century for the way both hang in the air, which makes the bird the original and the toy the metaphor.
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA