ALL meanings of flap
flap
F f - noun flap covering: one edge attached 1
- transitive verb flap move, beat: wings 1
- intransitive verb flap be blown to and fro 1
- noun flap on airplane 1
- noun flap folding or sliding piece 1
- noun flap agitation 1
- verbal expression flap talk a lot 1
- intransitive verb flap panic, get agitated 1
- transitive verb flap move up and down 1
- noun flap (of a bird) Move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly. 1
- verb without object flap to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window. 1
- verb without object flap to move up and down, as wings; flap the wings, or make similar movements. 1
- verb without object flap to strike a blow with something broad and flexible. 1
- verb without object flap Slang. to become excited or confused, especially under stress: a seasoned diplomat who doesn't flap easily. 1
- verb with object flap to move (wings, arms, etc.) up and down. 1
- verb with object flap to cause to swing or sway loosely, especially with noise. 1
- verb with object flap to strike with something broad and flat. 1
- verb with object flap to toss, fold, shut, etc., smartly, roughly, or noisily. 1
- verb with object flap Phonetics. to pronounce (a sound) with articulation resembling that of a flap: The British often flap their r's. 1
- noun flap something flat and broad that is attached at one side only and hangs loosely or covers an opening: the flap of an envelope; the flap of a pocket. 1
- noun flap either of the two segments of a book jacket folding under the book's front and back covers. 1
- noun flap one leaf of a folding door, shutter, or the like. 1
- noun flap a flapping motion. 1
- noun flap the noise produced by something that flaps. 1
- noun Technical meaning of flap A symbolic mathematics package for IBM 360. 1
- noun flap a blow given with something broad and flat. 1
- noun flap Slang. a state of nervous excitement, commotion, or disorganization. an emergency situation. scandal; trouble. 1
- noun flap Surgery. a portion of skin or flesh that is partially separated from the body and may subsequently be transposed by grafting. 1
- noun flap Aeronautics. a movable surface used for increasing the lift or drag of an airplane. 1
- noun flap Phonetics. a rapid flip of the tongue tip against the upper teeth or alveolar ridge, as in the r -sound in a common British pronunciation of very, or the t -sound in the common American pronunciation of water. a trill. a flipping out of the lower lip from a position of pressure against the upper teeth so as to produce an audible pop, as in emphatic utterances containing f -sounds or v -sounds. 1
- noun flap Building Trades. Also called backflap hinge, flap hinge. a hinge having a strap or plate for screwing to the face of a door, shutter, or the like. one leaf of a hinge. 1
- noun Definition of flap in Technology 1. (storage, jargon) To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and microtapes were 1, 2, etc. and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. The term is used, by extension, for unloading any magnetic tape. See also macrotape. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes. 2. (networking) See flapping router. 1
- verb transitive flap to strike with something flat and broad; slap 0
- verb transitive flap to move back and forth or up and down as in beating the air, usually with some noise 0
- verb transitive flap to throw, fling, slam, etc. abruptly or noisily 0
- intransitive verb flap to move back and forth or up and down, as in the wind; flutter 0
- intransitive verb flap to fly or try to fly by flapping the wings 0
- intransitive verb flap to hang down as a flap 0
- intransitive verb flap to become excited or confused 0
- verb flap If something such as a piece of cloth or paper flaps or if you flap it, it moves quickly up and down or from side to side. 0
- verb flap If a bird or insect flaps its wings or if its wings flap, the wings move quickly up and down. 0
- verb flap If you flap your arms, you move them quickly up and down as if they were the wings of a bird. 0
- countable noun flap A flap of cloth or skin, for example, is a flat piece of it that can move freely up and down or from side to side because it is held or attached by only one edge. 0
- countable noun flap A flap on the wing of an aircraft is an area along the edge of the wing that can be raised or lowered to control the movement of the aircraft. 0
- countable noun flap A flap is a sudden noise or movement made by a bird's wing or by a piece of paper or cloth when it flaps. 0
- singular noun flap Someone who is in a flap is in a state of great excitement, worry, or panic. 0
- verb flap to move (wings or arms) up and down, esp in or as if in flying, or (of wings or arms) to move in this way 0
- verb flap to move or cause to move noisily back and forth or up and down 0
- verb flap to become agitated or flustered; panic 0
- verb flap to deal (a person or thing) a blow with a broad flexible object 0