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单词 flapping
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flappingn.

/ˈflapɪŋ/
Etymology: < flap v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of knocking or beating; also attributive. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 11/5Flapping 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.

Etymology: < flap v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflapping.
That flaps. Applied spec. to the upward and downward movement of the wings of birds and, formerly, of flying machines. So flapping flight, etc.
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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).
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