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Definition of 'FLAP'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) flap
to swing or sway back and forth loosely, esp. with noise.

2.  flap
to move up and down, as wings or arms.

3.  flap
to strike a blow with something broad and flexible.

4.  flap
Slang. to talk in a foolish manner; babble.

5. (v.t.) flap
to move (wings, arms, etc.) up and down.

6.  flap
to cause to swing or sway loosely, esp. with noise.

7.  flap
to strike with something broad and flat.

8.  flap
to toss, fold, shut, etc., smartly, roughly, or noisily.

9.  flap
to pronounce (a sound) with a rapid flip of the tongue tip against the upper teeth or alveolar ridge.

10. (n.) flap
something flat and broad that is attached at one side only and hangs loosely or covers an opening.

11.  flap
either of the two segments of a book jacket folding under the book's front and back covers.

12.  flap
one leaf of a folding door, shutter, or the like.

13.  flap
a flapping motion.

14.  flap
the noise produced by something that flaps.

15.  flap
Informal.

16.  flap
a state of nervous excitement.

17.  flap
an emergency situation.

18.  flap
scandal; trouble.

19.  flap
a movable surface used for increasing the lift or drag of an airplane.

20.  flap
a rapid flip of the tongue tip against the upper teeth or alveolar ridge, as in the r-sound in a common British pronunciation of very or the t-sound in a common American pronunciation of
water.

21.  flap
Also called flap hinge. a hinge having a strap or plate for screwing to the face of a door, shutter, or the like.

22.  flap
one leaf of a hinge.

Etymology: (1275–1325; ME flappe a blow)

Definition of 'FLAP'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) flap
any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
"he wrote on the flap of the envelope"

2. (noun) dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap
an excited state of agitation
"he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"

3. (noun) flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering
the motion made by flapping up and down

4. (noun) flap
a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body

5. (verb) flap, flaps
a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

6. (verb) roll, undulate, flap, wave
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
"The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"

7. (verb) flap
move noisily
"flags flapped in the strong wind"

8. (verb) beat, flap
move with a thrashing motion
"The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

9. (verb) beat, flap
move with a flapping motion
"The bird's wings were flapping"

10. (verb) dither, flap, pother
make a fuss; be agitated

11. (verb) flap
pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds

Definition of 'FLAP'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) flap
a flat piece that covers sth and is joined to it on one side
Lift the flap to look inside.

2. flap
in a flap
in a confused and worried state
in a flap about getting to the airport on time

3. (verb) flap
to move wings up and down
The bird flapped its wings.

4. flap
to move around in the wind
The flag was flapping around in the wind.

Definition of 'FLAP'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) FLAP
to beat with a flap; to strike

2. (noun) FLAP
to move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat

3.  FLAP
anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment

4.  FLAP
a hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter

5.  FLAP
the motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing

6.  FLAP
a disease in the lips of horses

7. (verb) FLAP
to move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air

8. (verb) FLAP
to fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing

Definitions of 'FLAP'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. FLAP
1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk.

2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.)

Translation of 'FLAP'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: anything broad or wide that hangs loosely a flap of canvas.
Afrikaans: klap	Arabic: ثَنْيَه، حاشِيَه	Bulgarian: висулка
Brazilian: aba	Czech: cíp, šos	German: der Lappen
Danish: klap; lap	Greek: πτερύγιο, φύλλο	Spanish: solapa; faldón
Estonian: lapakas, siil	Farsi: هر چیز مسطح و شل که به شک	Finnish: läppä
French: pan	Hebrew: דַש	Hindi: फ्लैप
Croatian: preklop	Hungarian: fül (sapkáé, könyvborítóé	Indonesian: kelepak
Icelandic: (laust) horn	Italian: lembo	Japanese: たれ下ったもの
Korean: 느슨하게 매달린 폭이 넓은 물건	Lithuanian: kas nukaręs/kabantis	Latvian: atloks; pārloks; stērbele
Malay: kelepak	Dutch: flap	Norwegian: klaff,–lapp
Polish: klap(k)a, brzeg	Persian: هر چیز مسطح و شل که به شک	Pashto: ځوړنده ټوټه (لكه دميز پوښ
Portuguese: aba	Romanian: lucru care atârnă	Russian: что-л. свешивающееся
Slovak: cíp	Slovenian: krpa; bavtara; naušniki;	Serbian: lepršanje
Swedish: flik	Thai: ชายผ้า	Turkish: flap, kanatlı kapak
Taiwanese: 下垂物	Ukrainian: пола	Urdu: بڑا اور چوڑا کپڑے ، لکڑی
Vietnamese: nắp	Chinese: 下垂物
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