sprite

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/spɹaɪt/

Definition of sprite

11 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
    “He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night.”
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noun

  1. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
    “He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night.”
  2. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
  3. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
  4. A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
  5. A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
  6. The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
  7. Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
  8. A spayed female ferret.
  9. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”).

verb

  1. (informal)To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.
    “sprited the new NPCs”

name

  1. A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit. (computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s. (meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.

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