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Definitions in simple English

flap

A flap is something that is long and loose that moves, often covering something. A flap is when people get excited and talk about something that happened. The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers. Flap is the movement of anything long and loose, or the sound made from it. He opened the door with a flap. I can hear the flap of the flag, it must be windy. A flap is the part of the airplane wing that moves. The pilot put the flaps up so the plan would go up.

flap

If you flap something, you move something long back and forward. If you flap, you move loosely back and forward. The bird flapped its wings. The flag flapped in the wind.

flap

(= roll, undulate, wave) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion The curtains undulated the waves rolled towards the beach any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely he wrote on the flap of the envelope move noisily flags flapped in the strong wind (= beat) move with a thrashing motion The bird flapped its wings The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag (= flapping) the motion made by flapping up and down a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body move with a flapping motion The bird's wings were flapping (= dither) make a fuss; be agitated (= dither) an excited state of agitation he was in a dither there was a terrible flap about the theft

Synonyms flap synonyms

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Topics flap topics

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Conjugation flap conjugation

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flap · verb

Examples flap examples

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Simple sentences

Flap your wings or die.
Birds flap their wings to fly.

Movie subtitles

As soon as we get out of the car, I'll flap my wings for you.
Nora, Mr. Yardley wants to watch you flap.
I used to do a lot of tumbling. but it gets corny, and I'm stuck with the role of flip-flap.
Mammals drink it, fish swim in it, little boys wade in it. and the birds flap their wings and sing like sunrise.
I'll let you ride Flap Ears.
Flap Ears, when you unload this piker, you come on home to mother.
There's a flap on.
I told you there was a flap on.
The War Office have got a flap on.
Flip-flap, flip-flap.
Take this, will you? What's the flap, Dawson?
I'm sorry to dash off but there's been a flap at the office.
Flap your arms.
Tell her, flap-jaw.
Fly, my messenger, fly! Flap your white wings!
You expect thanks for causing a flap in my henhouse?
Let the old buzzard flap his wings right over me.
The way he opens that abdominal flap, just like a bureau drawer.
Stop filling him with ideas of making a fortune. Don't flap your sails.
It's your responsible to sign it flap.
What's the flap, Dawson?
But I'm truly sorry to have to dash off like this, but there's been a bit of a flap at the office.
Take the top flap and open it, creasing it to the left and right side so you can fold the top right corner to the bottom corner.
I'd Iike to burn some moxa at the threshold to cure Hisamatsu of the chronic disease that makes her flap her beautiful kimono sleeves and invite men in.
He'll take the heat and won't flap his lip.
Bit of a flap on.
One of these days I'm gonna have to flap me up some dust with it.
Well, Heslington, flap over.
This has to be taken care of. - Please, don't flap that at me.
Well, we have had a little flap about gold around here, but, everything is absolutely under control.
When I give the word, pull the cord on the right side flap.
More left rudder. Put down more flap.

News and current affairs

The National Assembly is negotiating a social security law that may turn out to be reasonable; a flap over the education law is giving way to agreements among warring parties.
Most of those who took the leaflets did not know that their eggs came from hens kept in cages so small that even one bird - the cages normally housed four - would be unable to fully stretch and flap her wings.

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