flam

noun · verbA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

flams

1.
(countable, uncountable)A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
2.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.
Đồng nghĩa: deception, delusion
3.
(drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

flams

V_ing/Gerund

flamming

V_ed/pp

flammed

1.
(obsolete)To deceive with a falsehood.
2.
(ambitransitive)(drumming, ambitransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.

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Đồng nghĩa

deceptiondelusion

Cùng gốc / liên quan

flam paradiddleflamadiddleflam paradiddle, flamadiddleflam-new

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Nguồn gốc từ

17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare flim.