| 单词 | flap |
| 释义 | flap (once / 623 pages) 1vn 2nv 3v You're probably familiar with the verb to "flap," which is what birds do with their wings. But as a noun, a flap is a fuss, an argument, or a gossipy feud. A big part of the pleasure of reality TV shows is watching how quickly a person can start a flap. A dumb remark, a furtive glance, a missed phone call: any of these things can start the characters bickering. And the flap can go on for an entire season! One way to remember the meaning of the verb to flap is to imagine the sound of many wings flapping. That's the sound a flap might make if you could hear it. The leak from the senator's press agent might have caused a firestorm. Instead it resulted in just a minor flap. WORD FAMILYflap: flapped, flapping, flaps, unflappable+/flapping: flappings/unflappable: unflappably USAGE EXAMPLESSeconds later, he re-emerged, holding on to a chaotic mess of flapping flippers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Tattered sheets and underwear were flapping on a clothesline a few feet from his patio tables. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) It suggests that the Tu-154 jet's wing flaps - panels which help lift an aircraft - were not moving together, causing the crew to lose control. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion Syn|Hypo|Hyper roll, undulate, wave luff flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 2v move with a thrashing motion The bird flapped its wings Syn|Hypo|Hyper beat beat move with a flapping motion flutter flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements bateflap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons clapcause to strike the air in flight displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 3v move with a flapping motion The bird's wings were flapping Syn|Hypo|Hyper beat beat move with a thrashing motion flail, thresh move like a flail; thresh about clapstrike the air in flight move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 4v move noisily flags flapped in the strong wind Hyper beat, pound, thump move rhythmically 5n the motion made by flapping up and down Syn|Hyper flapping, flutter, fluttering undulation, wave (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth 6n any broad, thin, and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely he wrote on the flap of the envelope Hypo|Hyper barndoor an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas coattailthe loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist codpiece(15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches earflap, earlapone of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm dag, jaga flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing lap, overlapa flap that lies over another part pocket flapa flap that covers the access to a pocket fly, fly sheet, rainfly, tent flap, tent-flyflap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent tonguethe flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot cuff, turnupthe lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg lapellap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar lappeta small lap on a garment or headdress covering an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) 7n a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body Hypo|Hyper uvula a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate soft palate, veluma muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking protective folda flap of tissue that protects what it covers cusp, leafleta thin triangular flap of a heart valve eyelid, lid, palpebraeither of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye nictitating membrane, third eyelida protective fold of skin in the eyes of reptiles and birds and some mammals animal tissue the tissue in the bodies of animals 8n a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper flaps landing flap a flap on the underside of the wing that is lowered to slow the plane for landing aerofoil, airfoil, control surface, surface a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight 1n an excited state of agitation there was a terrible flap about the theft Syn|Hyper dither, fuss, pother, tizzy agitation a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance 2v make a fuss; be agitated 3Syn|Hyper dither, pother fret, fuss, niggle worry unnecessarily or excessively v pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds Hyper articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way |
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