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Definition: Flitter |
FlitterVerb1. Move back and forth very rapidly, as of a candle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flitter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Collier who moves a coal cutter to a new working place; to flit is toshift equipment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FlitterSynonyms: flicker (v), flutter (v), quiver (v), waver (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle. |
Changeableness | Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon. |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flitter |
| Non-English Usage: "Flitter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (bauble, frippery), Hungarian (paillette, sequin, Spangle, tinsel). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Plague. / N. Poussin pinxit. J. Flitter sculpsit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Flitter" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Flitter" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "flitter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Flitter | Last name | 300 | 26,597 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flitter": flitter-mouse. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flitter | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flitter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fluturoj lehtë-lehtë (flutter), valëvitet (flutter, wave), vërtitem (circle, dance, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mill, mooch, move, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn, turn round, wheel, whirl round), trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), rrah zemra (flutter), rrah krahët (flutter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хвърча (bound, flit, fly), летя насам-натам, пърпам (flicker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | röpköd (to flip around, to flit, to flutter). (various references) | |
Italian | frullio. (various references) | |
Manx | craitnag (bat, flitter-mouse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itterflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | farrapo (rag), trapo (rag), lantejoula (paillette), andrajo (old-clothes man, rag, scrap, tatter). (various references) | |
Romanian | zbura de colo-colo. (various references) | |
Russian | порхать (flit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lepršati (bat, flap, flutter, wave). (various references) | |
Spanish | rareza (rareness). (various references) | |
Swedish | flyga (fly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пурхання. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flitter": flittered, flittering, flitters. (additional references) | |
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"Flitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blitter, Feichter, flattern, flatteur, flister, flitey, flotte, Flotter, Flottweg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: filter, fitter, lifter, litter, tilter, titfer, trifle. | |
-2 letters: filer, filet, flier, flirt, flite, fritt, lifer, liter, litre, refit, relit, rifle, tiler, titer, title, titre, trite. | |
-3 letters: felt, file, fire, flit, fret, frit, left, lief, lier, life, lift, lire, lite, reft, reif, riel, rife, rift, rile, rite, tier, tile, tilt, tire, tirl, tref, tret. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: filtrate, flitters, fruitlet. | |
+2 letters: fertility, filtrated, filtrates, flirtiest, flittered, fruitlets. | |
+3 letters: filmsetter, flatteries, flattering, flittering, fluttering, infiltrate, rijsttafel, thriftless, toploftier, trifoliate. | |
+4 letters: butterflied, butterflies, felicitator, fertilities, fieldstript, filmsetters, infertility, infiltrated, infiltrates, rijsttafels. | |
+5 letters: butterflying, featherlight, felicitators, flatteringly, fluidextract, frontalities, fruitfullest, infiltrative, interfaculty, interfertile, reflectivity, sulfuretting, thriftlessly, trifoliolate, tristfulness, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, unflattering, weightlifter. | |
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