flap
noun · verbA1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
a flap of a garment
The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
- 2.
A hinged leaf.
the flaps of a table
the flap of a shutter
- 3.
(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- 4.
A side fin of a ray.
Đồng nghĩa: wing
- 5.
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
the flap of a sail
the flap of a wing
- 6.
A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
Đồng nghĩa: ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bustle, bust-up, chaos, ferment, clamour, clatter, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flap, foofaraw, fracas, furor, fuss, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, pother, quarrel, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, stir, stooshie, three-ring circus, to-do, tomfoolery, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir
- 7.
(phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
Đồng nghĩa: tap
- 8.
(surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- 9.
(in plural, slang, vulgar)(slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
- 10.
(obsolete)A blow or slap (especially to the face).
1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
a1500 The Prose Merlinː The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
- 11.
(obsolete)A young prostitute.
- 12.
(graph theory) A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
The crow slowly flapped its wings.
Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
- 2.
(intransitive)To move loosely back and forth.
The flag flapped in the breeze.
- 3.
(intransitive)(soccer, intransitive) For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
- 4.
(transitive)(phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
- 5.
(intransitive)(phonetics, intransitive) To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
- 6.
(intransitive)(computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
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From Middle English flap, flappe, related to Flappert, flabbe (modern flap flap), flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.