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Flaps   /flæps/   Listen
Flaps

noun
1.
A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag.  Synonym: flap.



Flap

noun
1.
Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely.
2.
An excited state of agitation.  Synonyms: dither, fuss, pother, tizzy.  "There was a terrible flap about the theft"
3.
The motion made by flapping up and down.  Synonyms: 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.  Synonym: flaps.
verb
(past & past part. flapped; pres. part. flapping)
1.
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.  Synonyms: roll, undulate, wave.  "The waves rolled towards the beach"
2.
Move noisily.
3.
Move with a thrashing motion.  Synonym: beat.  "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
4.
Move with a flapping motion.  Synonym: beat.
5.
Make a fuss; be agitated.  Synonyms: dither, pother.
6.
Pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds.



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"Flaps" Quotes from Famous Books



... action. He started to pursue the bit of paper, then stopped and laughed. It was a short, mirthless laugh, the kind of a laugh with which a strong man covers pain. He returned to the tent again and looked in. He flung back the tent flaps so that the light could enter and he could see into the box. A few hours before that box had hidden Scottie Deane, the murderer. And she was his wife ! He turned back to the fire, and he saw again the red bakneesh ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood

... the [t]ihu[|c]ubaji^{n} was raised to the windward and the other was lowered, pulling its skin close to the tent and leaving an opening for the escape of the smoke; but if the wind came directly against the entrance both the flaps were raised, closing the smokehole to prevent the wind from blowing down it. When the wind blew the people used nandi[|c]agaspe to keep the bottom of each tent skin in place. These consisted of twisted grass, sticks, stones, or ...
— Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements • James Owen Dorsey,

... water-color. The ocean is of a deep purple blue; above it, the pure, bright sky looks pale, though it bends with an infinite depth over the inland horizon. Here and there on the dark breezy water gleams the white cap of a wave, or flaps the white cloak of a fishing-boat. I have been sketching sedulously; I have discovered, within a couple of miles' walk, a large, lonely pond, set in quite a grand landscape of barren rocks and grassy slopes. At one extremity is a broad outlook on the open sea; at the other, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

... of Hencastle" is not mine. It is a free translation from the German of Victor Bluethgen, by Major Yeatman-Biggs, R.A., to whom I am indebted for permission to include it in my volume, as a necessary prelude to "Flaps." The story took my fancy greatly, but the ending seemed to me imperfect and unsatisfactory, especially in reference to so charming a character as the old watch dog, and I wrote ...
— Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

... swell; In vain the lost wretch calls on mercy to save; Unseen hands of spirits are ringing his knell, And the death-angel flaps his broad wings o'er ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester


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