| 释义 |
Verb: flap (flapped,flapping) flap- Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- roll, undulate, wave - Move noisily
"flags flapped in the strong wind" - Move with a thrashing motion
"The bird flapped its wings"
- beat - Move with a flapping motion
"The bird's wings were flapping"
- beat - Make a fuss; be agitated
- dither, pother - Pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
Noun: flap flap- Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
"he wrote on the flap of the envelope" - An excited state of agitation
"there was a terrible flap about the theft"
- dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, tizz - The motion made by flapping up and down
- flapping, flutter, fluttering - A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
- A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
- flaps
Derived forms: flaps, flapping, flapped Type of: aerofoil [Brit], agitation, airfoil [N. Amer], animal tissue, articulate, beat, control surface, covering, displace, enounce, enunciate, fret, fuss, move, niggle, pound, pronounce, say, sound out, surface, thump, undulation, wave Part of: wing Encyclopedia: Flap |