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# flit

«flit» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move or fly quickly and lightly from one place to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (flit, flits, flitted, flitting); noun (a flit — UK, Scotland)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To flit is to move or fly quickly and lightly from one place to another, like a butterfly or a bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#m1)

2) If a thought or expression flits across your mind or face, it is there for a very short moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#m2)

3) (Scotland, northern England) To flit, or do a flit, is to move house; a «moonlight flit» is leaving secretly at night, often to avoid paying debts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In nature writing and poems, butterflies, bats and birds flit about. In stories, a smile flits across a face. A person who flits from one hobby to another never stays with one. Phrases: «flit about», «flit from… to…», «moonlight flit».

### examples

- Butterflies flitted between the flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#x1)
- A bat flitted past the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#x2)
- A smile flitted across her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#x3)
- He flits from one hobby to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#x4)
- A strange thought flitted through my mind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#x5)
- The family did a moonlight flit and left no address. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#x6)
- Gay colors were to be seen here, and a butterfly, too, was flitting by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/#x7)

### note

Spelling: double t in flitted, flitting. Short, light, quick movement; compare «float» (slow) and «dart» (fast and sharp).

### In the corpora

- [On a summer evening in Britain, a tiny shape flits round and round a street lamp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.