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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /flæp/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-flap.ogg

Noun

Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
a stir, scandal or controversy
:The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or the flap of a wing
A disease in the lips of horses.
A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.

Translations

French: abattant , volet

Verb

to move something broad and loose back and forth, as flap its wings
to move loosely back and forth
:The flag flapped in the breeze.

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flap \Flap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flapping.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E.
flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.]
1. To beat with a flap; to strike.
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Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. --Pope.
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2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the
wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
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To flap in the mouth, to taunt. [Obs.] --W. Cartwright.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flap \Flap\, v. i.
1. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to
fly with wings beating the air.
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The crows flapped over by twos and threes. --Lowell.
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2. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or
other broad thing. --Gay.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flap \Flap\, n. [OE. flappe, flap, blow, bly-flap; cf. D. flap,
and E. flap, v.]
Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is
attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap
of a garment.
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A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
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3. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or
sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
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4. pl. (Far.) A disease in the lips of horses.
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5. (Aeronautics) a movable part of an airplane wing, used to
increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or
landing. used often in the plural.
[WordNet 1.5]

Flap tile, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner
or catch a drip.

Flap valve (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one
hinged side; a clack valve.
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WordNet flap
n 1: any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge;
hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of
the envelope"
2: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, pother,
fuss, tizzy]
3: the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: flapping, flutter,
fluttering]
4: a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
5: a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to
increase lift or drag [syn: flaps]
v 1: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;
"The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the
beach" [syn: roll, undulate, wave]
2: move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind"
3: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings";
"The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
[syn: beat]
4: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were
flapping" [syn: beat]
5: make a fuss; be agitated [syn: dither, pother]
6: pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
[also: flapping, flapped]

Moby Dictionary
Bedlam let loose , ado , agitation , applique , argument , bag , bang ,
baste , batter , beat , beating , bedlam , bicker , bilge , blain , blast ,
bleb , blister , blob , bluster , bobbery , boil , boiling , boss , bother ,
botheration , bow , box , brandish , brawl , broil , brouhaha , bubble ,
buffet , bulb , bulge , bulla , bump , bunch , burl , burst , bust , bustle ,
button , cacophony , cahot , cascade , chaos , charivari , chine , chirm ,
churn , clamor , clangor , clap , clash , clatter , clump , coat , coating ,
collop , commotion , condyle , confusion , conturbation , convex ,
covering , crack , crash , crump , cuff , cut , daggle , dance , dangle ,
deal , depend , din , discomposure , discord , disk , disorder , dispute ,
disquiet , disquietude , distress , disturbance , dither , donnybrook ,
dowel , drabble , drag , draggle , drape , droop , drub , drunken brawl ,
dustup , ear , ebullition , embroilment , excitement , fall , fanaticism ,
feery-fary , ferment , fermentation , feuille , fever , feverishness ,
fidgetiness , fidgets , film , fit , flail , flange , flapping , flaunt ,
flick , flicker , flip , flit , flitter , float , flop , flourish , flow ,
flurry , fluster , flusteration , flustration , flutter , flutteration ,
flutteriness , fly , foil , fold , foment , fomentation , foofaraw ,
fracas , free-for-all , frenzy , fret , fume , furor , furore , fury ,
fuss , fussiness , gall , gnarl , go pitapat , gutter , hammer , handle ,
hang , hang down , hell broke loose , hill , howl , hubbub , hue and cry ,
hullabaloo , hump , hunch , hurly-burly , imbrication , inquietude ,
jangle , jitters , jog , joggle , jumpiness , knob , knock , knot , knur ,
knurl , lambaste , lamella , lamina , laminated glass , laminated wood ,
lap , lappet , larrup , lash , lather , leaf , lip , loop , lop ,
loud noise , lump , maelstrom , malaise , maul , membrane , moil , mole ,
mountain , nerviness , nervosity , nervousness , nevus , nod , noise ,
noise and shouting , nub , nubbin , nubble , oscillate , oscillation ,
outcry , overlap , overlapping , overlay , overlayer , palpitate ,
palpitation , pandemonium , pane , panel , panic , papilloma , passion ,
paste , patina , patter , peel , peg , pellicle , pelt , pend ,
perturbation , pitapat , pitter-patter , plait , plank , plate , plating ,
ply , plywood , pommel , pother , pound , pucker , pulse , pulverize ,
pummel , quarrel , quiver , racket , rage , rap , rasher , rattle , report ,
restlessness , rhubarb , rib , ridge , ring , roar , roil , rout , row ,
ruckus , ruction , rumble , rumpus , safety glass , sag , scramble , scum ,
seethe , seething , shake , sheet , shindy , shivaree , shoulder , skin ,
slab , slam , slap , slat , sledgehammer , slice , smack , spank , spasm ,
spine , splat , splutter , spurt , sputter , state , stew , stir ,
storminess , stripe , stud , style , swag , swap , sweat , swing , swirl ,
swivet , tab , table , tablet , tail , tap , tempestuousness , thrash ,
thresh , throb , thump , thunder , thunderclap , thwack , tintamarre ,
tizzy , to-do , trail , trepidation , trepidity , tubercle , tubercule ,
tumult , tumultuation , tumultuousness , turbidity , turbulence ,
turmoil , twitter , twitteration , undulate , unease , unquiet , unrest ,
uproar , upset , veneer , verruca , vesicle , vibrate , vortex , wafer ,
wag , waggle , wale , wallop , wart , wave , waver , weep , welt , whack ,
wham , whap , whip , whirl , whomp , whop , wield , wigwag , wildness ,
zeal , zealousness

Jargon flap vt. 1. [obs.] 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 DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device
0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 2.
By extension, to unload 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.)

FOLDOC FLAP

A symbolic mathematics package for IBM 360.

["FLAP Programmer's Manual", A.H. Morris Jr., TR-2558 (1971)
US Naval Weapons Lab].

[Sammet 1969, p. 506].

[Jargon File]

(1994-10-17)

FOLDOC flap

1. 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. See flapping router.

[Jargon File]

(1997-06-17)