单词 | flapping |
释义 | flappingn.ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] beating?c1225 quassation?a1425 bunchingc1440 tunsionc1440 hammering1563 pealing1582 flapping1629 pulsation1656 dousing1721 pummelling1755 pommelling1788 dunching1789 walloping1837 whacking1862 shit-kicking1954 beat-down1989 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 335 He's made their flapping, flouting, spawling Sport. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xl. 331 The banging and flapping of him. 2. The action of moving (wings) up and down. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > flutter (of wings) flapping1398 beatingc1440 flap1774 wafture1795 flaff1827 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > flapping or beating up and down flapping1398 winnowing1844 flip-flopping1897 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xiii. 422 By contynual flappynge of wynges the gnatte makyth noyse in the ayre. 1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 226/1 The hum and flappings of that one solitary wasp. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xxxiv The heavy flapping of strong wing would point the course of a heron. 3. a. The action of swaying or working to and fro something broad and loose. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > flapping loosely flapping1631 1631 J. Taylor Sudden Turn Fortunes Wheel (1848) 13 They hold your blessinge in no more avayle Then is the flapping of a fox his taile! 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxv. 431 By vigorous flappings of this extensive organ, the animal [sc. the poulpe] actively impels itself through the water in a backward direction. b. Aeronautics. The angular up-and-down oscillation of the blade of a helicopter about its hinge. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > rotor > operation or condition of rotor autorotation1908 coning1931 flapping1937 windmill brake state1948 feathering1970 1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 41 820 Although the airscrew may be at an angle, I will call the first flapping ‘vertical flapping’ and the second ‘horizontal flapping’. 1940 H. E. Baughman Aviation Dict. 80/1 Flapping angle, the difference between the coning angle and the instantaneous angle of the span axis of a blade of a rotary wing system. 1949 Aircraft Engin. Feb. 33/1 Don Juan de la Cierva, father of rotating wing aircraft, introduced a very ingenious but simple invention, the flapping blade. 1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 44 Flapping angle, the angle between the tip-path plane and the plane normal to the hub axis. 1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 45 Flapping hinge, a pivot which allows the zenithal angle of the blade to be varied with respect to the rotor head. 1955 R. N. Liptrot & J. D. Woods Rotorcraft v. 43 In forward flight the advancing blade moves upwards about the hinge..the retreating side moves downward... It is this motion about the mean coning position, due to this dissymmetry of lift, which is known as ‘flapping’. 4. Horse Racing slang. A form of racing which is not subject to Jockey Club or National Hunt Committee regulations, or, in greyhound racing, to those of the National Greyhound Racing Club. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing steeple-hunting1772 quarter-racing1779 roading1787 pony racing1809 steeplechasing1816 steeple running1818 steeple racing1840 horse-trotting1857 plating1865 trotting1883 chasing1886 flat-racing1886 harness racing1901 flapping1911 flapper1928 point-to-pointing1952 pointing1976 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > greyhound racing > [noun] > type of single-hander1877 flapping1911 flapper1928 1911 Queen 8 Apr. 581/1 In racing parlance there are three sorts of racing, ‘the flat’, ‘over the sticks’, and ‘flapping’. The first is the spring, summer, and autumn sport, the second is the winter sport of steeplechasing, and the third either form of racing which takes place neither under Jockey Club nor National Hunt regulations. 1916 Daily Express 9 Sept. 3/5 There was trouble at the ‘flapping’ meeting at Blaydon..on Saturday. 1928 Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 11/5 ‘Flapping Meetings’..will not be exempted by the bill from the provisions of the Betting Act, 1853. 1947 F. Tomlinson in Police Jrnl. July–Sept. (title) The ‘Flapping Track’ [of a greyhound-racing stadium]. 1955 Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 7/3 The Inspr. said: ‘By injecting them [sc. greyhounds] with this stuff?’ and Selby said ‘Yes.’ Asked if he realised it was illegal, Selby replied: ‘Never. I only do it at flapping tracks.’ 1969 C. Drummond Odds on Death vi. 136 The old ‘flapping’ meetings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2020). flappingadj. That flaps. Applied spec. to the upward and downward movement of the wings of birds and, formerly, of flying machines. So flapping flight, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely flaffinga1522 flapping1592 swapping1642 flappish1665 flopping1679 flip-flap1841 slatting1883 aflap1887 flappy1905 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [adjective] > types of wing flappinga1857 cambered1909 swept-back1914 slotted1921 crustacean1928 cranked1939 unswept1946 variable sweep1954 Gothic1959 ogival1962 society > travel > air or space travel > [adjective] > type of flight unmanned1544 motorless1897 flapping1899 cross-country1909 fly-through1983 the world > animals > birds > flight > [adjective] > flapping or fluttering flutteringc1374 flickeringa1544 bating1587 verberating1675 flopping1679 flapping1954 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 144 The flapping brace strikes off his setled hood. 1706 London Gaz. No. 4236/4 A dark brown Mare..with flapping Ears. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 8 Beneath his flapping Hat, secures his Hair. a1857 G. Cayley Let. in C. H. Gibbs-Smith Cayley's Aeronaut. (1962) xlii. 135 You must mind, when you couple the flapping wings to the handle that works them, that the connecting rod takes [?] into the butt end of the wing rod at such a distance from the hinge of the wing as to allow the hand of the person working [it] to go through two feet, whilst the tip end of the wing just completes its full range. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. xlix. 210 Totty trotted off in her flapping bonnet. 1864 M. E. Braddon Henry Dunbar I. xvi. 285 She took the great flapping ears of the animal in her two hands. 1899 Aeronaut. Jrnl. July 59/1 (title) On Flapping Flight of Aeroplanes. 1899 Aeronaut. Jrnl. July 59/1 The older mathematical investigation by Navier of the problem of flapping flight, seems to be quite discredited. 1906 Sci. Amer. 18 Aug. 117 (caption) The Florencie Orthopter, or Flapping-Wing Machine. 1909 Flight 20 Feb. 99/2 The question is..what fundamental qualities of a flapping-flight machine assimilates its wings to those of the bird. 1921 Flight 15 Sept. 621/2 (title) Problem of Flapping Flight. 1954 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 133 The feathers are raised, the tail widely spread and raised and lowered at various angles..and the flapping flight indulged in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1398adj.1592 |
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