What does FLAP mean?

Definitions for FLAP
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. flapnoun

    any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely

    "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"

  2. dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flapnoun

    an excited state of agitation

    "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"

  3. flap, flapping, flutter, flutteringnoun

    the motion made by flapping up and down

  4. flapnoun

    a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body

  5. flap, flapsverb

    a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

  6. roll, undulate, flap, waveverb

    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

    "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"

  7. flapverb

    move noisily

    "flags flapped in the strong wind"

  8. beat, flapverb

    move with a thrashing motion

    "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

  9. beat, flapverb

    move with a flapping motion

    "The bird's wings were flapping"

  10. dither, flap, potherverb

    make a fuss; be agitated

  11. flapverb

    pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds

Wiktionary

  1. flapnoun

    Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

  2. flapnoun

    A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.

  3. flapnoun

    An upset, stir, scandal or controversy

    The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.

  4. flapnoun

    The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.

    the flap of a sail; the flap of a wing

  5. flapnoun

    A disease in the lips of horses.

  6. flapnoun

    A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.

  7. flapnoun

    A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.

  8. flapnoun

    Vagina.

  9. flapverb

    To move loosely back and forth.

    The flag flapped in the breeze.

  10. flapverb

    To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.

    The flag flapped in the breeze.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FLAPnoun

    Etymology: lœppe, Saxon.

    There is a peculiar provision for the windpipe, that is, a cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larinx, which hath an open cavity for the admission of the air. Thomas Browne, Vulg. Err.

    Some surgeons make a crucial incision, upon the supposition that the wound will more easily heal by turning down the flaps. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.

    When a horse is said to have the flaps, you may perceive his lips to be swelled on both sides of his mouth; and that which is in the blisters is like the white of an egg: you must, to cure it, cut some slashes with a knife, and rub it once with salt, and it will cure. Farrier’s Dict.

  2. To Flapverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    A hare, hard put to it by an eagle, took sanctuary in a ditch with a beetle: the eagle flapt off the former, and devoured the other. Roger L'Estrange.

    Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
    This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings. Alexander Pope.

    The dira flapping on the shield of Turnus, and fluttering about his head, disheartened him in the duel. John Dryden, Æn. Dedicat.

    With fruitless toil
    Flap filmy pinions oft, to extricate
    Their feet in liquid shackles bound. Phillips.

    Three times, all in the dead of night,
    A bell was heard to ring;
    And shrieking at her window thrice
    The raven flapp’d his wing. Thomas Tickell.

  3. To Flapverb

    ’Tis common for a duck to run flapping and fluttering away, as if maimed, to carry people from her young. Roger L'Estrange.

    When suffocating mists obscure the morn,
    Let thy worst wig, long us’d to storms, be worn;
    This knows the powder’d footman, and with care
    Beneath his flapping hat secures his hair. John Gay, Trivia.

ChatGPT

  1. flap

    A flap, in general terms, can refer to: 1. A flat piece of material attached only by one edge, typically used for covering or closing something. 2. A movement in which something swings or oscillates back and forth. 3. A state of agitation or worried activity. The specific definition can vary based on the context in which it is used. For instance, in phonetics, a flap refers to a specific type of consonant sound. In aviation, flaps are hinged surfaces on the wings of an airplane that help control lift.

Webster Dictionary

  1. 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

  2. Flap

    a hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter

  3. 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

  4. Flap

    a disease in the lips of horses

  5. Flapnoun

    to beat with a flap; to strike

  6. Flapnoun

    to move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat

  7. Flapverb

    to move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air

  8. Flapverb

    to fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing

  9. Etymology: [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E. flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.]

Wikidata

  1. Flap

    Flaps are hinged surfaces mounted on the trailing edges of the wings of a fixed-wing aircraft to reduce the speed at which an aircraft can be safely flown and to increase the angle of descent for landing. They shorten takeoff and landing distances. Flaps do this by lowering the stall speed and increasing the drag. Extending flaps increases the camber or curvature of the wing, raising the maximum lift coefficient—or the lift a wing can generate. This allows the aircraft to generate as much lift but at a lower speed, reducing the stalling speed of the aircraft, or the minimum speed at which the aircraft will maintain flight. Extending flaps increases drag which can be beneficial during approach and landing because it slows the aircraft. On some aircraft a useful side effect of flap deployment is a decrease in aircraft pitch angle which improves the pilot's view of the runway over the nose of the aircraft during landing, however the flaps may also cause pitchup, depending on the type of flap and the location of the wing. There are many different types of flaps used, with the specific choice depending on the size, speed and complexity of the aircraft on which they are to be used, as well as the era in which the aircraft was designed. Plain flaps, slotted flaps, and Fowler flaps are the most common. Krueger flaps are positioned on the leading edge of the wings and are used on many jet airliners.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Flap

    flap, n. the blow or motion of a broad loose object: anything broad and flexible hanging loose, as the tail of a coat: a portion of skin or flesh detached from the underlying part for covering and growing over the end of an amputated limb.—v.t. to beat or move with a flap.—v.i. to move, as wings: to hang like a flap:—pr.p. flap′ping; pa.p. flapped.—ns. Flap′doodle, the food of fools: transparent nonsense, gross flattery, &c.; Flap′-drag′on, a play in which small edibles, as raisins, are snatched from burning brandy, and swallowed.—v.t. (Shak.) to swallow or devour, as in flap-dragon.—adj. Flap′-eared (Shak.), having ears hanging like a flap.—n. Flap′-jack (Shak.), a kind of broad, flat pancake.—adj. Flap′-mouthed.—n. Flap′per. [Prob. imit.]

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.)

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. flap

    The cover of a cartridge-box or scupper.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FLAP in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FLAP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of FLAP in a Sentence

  1. Cynthia J. Cordell:

    Some day you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me help you to flap your wings.

  2. Cynthia Jurilla Cordell:

    Some day, you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me try to teach you how to flap your wings.

  3. J & A Foundation:

    You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

  4. David Soucie:

    On a forensic investigation, which is what's going on in France, you don't use the process of elimination and say, well, it must be a flap, you have to have forensic proof, which is the samples from the paint, from the metal, to tie it specifically to the aircraft. That's what they're waiting for, and that's what they mean by 100% conclusive.

  5. William Jennings Bryan:

    I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

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  • итәк, ҡағыуBashkir
  • задкрилка, размахвам, плясък, крило, плющя, елерон, пляскам, плющене, капак на джобBulgarian
  • Patte, Flügelschlag, flattern, Schlag, Bremsklappe, Aufregung, klappern, Hautfetzen, Lappen, Landeklappe, Hutkrempe, Krempe, Hautlappen, KlappeGerman
  • κρημνόςGreek
  • solapa, colgajo, flapSpanish
  • läpyttää, siivenisku, siiveke, läppä, liehua, räpyttää, laippa, räpytellä, häly, lepattaaFinnish
  • volet, abattantFrench
  • sventolare, battere, sbattereItalian
  • aroarowhaki, kopekopeMāori
  • bater, aba, tremularPortuguese
  • закрылок, подол, пола, лоскут, развеваться, помахать, хлопанье, возбуждение, длинное висячее ухо, махать, откидная доскаRussian

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