Flap definition
To cause to move or sway with a fluttering or waving motion.
The wind is flapping the tent fly.
verb
(informal) A state of excitement, controversy, or agitation.
noun
Flap is defined as to wave arms or wings up and down.
An example of flap is what birds do with their wings to fly.
verb
To move (wings or arms, for example) up and down.
verb
The definition of a flap is a thin and flat piece of something attached at one end, a waving motion or sound made by a swinging motion of something hanging loose.
An example of a flap is one of the pieces of wool that covers the ears on a cold weather hat.
An example of a flap is the motion a windsock makes while wind is blowing through it.
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(informal) A commotion or disturbance.
A flap in Congress over the defense budget.
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(archaic) A blow given with something flat; a slap.
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A projecting or hanging piece usually attached to something on one side and often intended to protect or cover.
The flap of an envelope.
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Either of the folded ends of a book jacket that fit inside the front and back covers.
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A variable control surface on the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, used primarily to increase lift or drag.
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(medicine) A piece of tissue that has been partially detached and used in surgical grafting to fill an adjacent defect or cover the cut end of a bone after amputation.
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The act of waving or fluttering.
The flap of the flag in the wind.
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The sound produced by this motion.
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To move or sway while fixed at one edge or corner; flutter.
Banners flapping in the breeze.
verb
To move wings or the arms up and down.
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To fly by beating the air with the wings.
The crow flapped away.
verb
Either of the two parts of a book's dust jacket that fold inside the book's covers, typically containing a summary of the book's contents and a brief biographical sketch of its author.
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(aeron.) A pilot-controlled airfoil; esp., a section hinged to the trailing edge of a wing between the aileron and the fuselage, usually used to increase lift or drag.
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(phonet.) A sound articulated with a single rapid touch of the tongue against the roof of the mouth.
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(surgery) A piece of tissue partly detached from the surrounding tissue, as for grafting.
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To strike with something flat and broad; slap.
verb
To move back and forth or up and down as in beating the air, usually with some noise.
A bird flapping its wings.
verb
To throw, fling, slam, etc. abruptly or noisily.
verb
To move back and forth or up and down, as in the wind; flutter.
verb
To fly or try to fly by flapping the wings.
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To hang down as a flap.
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(chiefly brit., slang) To become excited or confused.
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A piece of tissue that has been partially detached and used in surgical grafting to fill an adjacent defect or cover the cut end of a bone after amputation.
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The communications protocol used by AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). FLAP runs over TCP/IP and provides the header format for transmitting IM commands and data. It includes the SNAC data type, which is the primary data structure transmitted between clients and servers. See OSCAR.
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(surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
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To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.
The crow slowly flapped its wings.
verb
(intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
The flag flapped in the breeze.
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To cause to strike against something.
Flapped the paper on the table.
verb
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(linguistics) A sound articulated by a single, quick touch of the tongue against the teeth or alveolar ridge, as (t) in water.
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Anything flat and broad that is attached at one end and hangs loose or covers an opening.
The flap of a pocket.
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The motion or slapping sound of a swinging flap.
The flap of an awning in the breeze.
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(archaic) A blow with something broad and flat; slap.
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Origin of flap
- Middle English flappe slap
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English flappe (“slap”)
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