Meaning of flap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
2. A hinged leaf.
3. 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.
5. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
6. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
7. A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
8. A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
9. The labia, the vulva.
   in-plural, slang, vulgar
10. A blow or slap (especially to the face).
    obsolete
11. A young prostitute.
    obsolete
12. A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.

Equivalents

Examples

“a flap of a garment”

“The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.”

“Again, Beside these parts destin'd to divers offices, there is a peculiar provision for the wind-pipe, that is, a cartilagineous flap upon the opening of the Larynx or Throttle, which hath an open cavity for the admiffion of the air”

“The hairs guide the pollinating insect to the base of the petal, where there is a purplish nectary covered by a flap of tissue.”

“the flaps of a table”

“the flap of a shutter”

“the flap of a sail”

“the flap of a wing”

“Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.”

“The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.”

““[…] We saw him vanish right in front of the rest of us. He was there and then he wasn’t. We were to wait for a year for his return or for some message. We waited. Nothing.” / Calvin, his voice cracking: “Jeepers, sir. You must have been in sort of a flap.””

“The current Middlesex grand jury […] is once again on the case, partly as the result of the public flap created by Brill's death and, of course, by the series of articles written by Corsetti in the month after Brill's demise.”

“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.”

“Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes.”

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