flap
Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end…Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
» Birds flap their wings to fly.
Чтобы лететь, птицы машут крыльями.
Птахи машуть крилами, щоб літати.
Meaning
12 sensesAnything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
a flap of a garment
The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
Krempe, Hutkrempe, Patte
пола́polá, подо́лpodól
any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
A hinged leaf.
the flaps of a table
the flap of a shutter
Klappe
откидна́я доска́otkidnája doská
A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
Flügelschlag, Schlag, Bremsklappe
хло́паньеxlópanʹje, закры́локzakrýlok
a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
A side fin of a ray.
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
the flap of a sail
the flap of a wing
the motion made by flapping up and down
A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
Aufregung
возбужде́ниеvozbuždénije
A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
Lappen, Hautlappen, Hautfetzen
лоску́тloskút
a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
(in the plural, slang, vulgar)The labia, the vulva.
A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
(obsolete)A blow or slap (especially to the face).
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.
(obsolete)A young prostitute.
Examples
35 sentencesBirds flap their wings to fly.
Птахи машуть крилами, щоб літати.
ruЧтобы лететь, птицы машут крыльями.
The ducks started flapping their wings.
deDie Enten fingen an, mit den Flügeln zu schlagen.
The flag flapped in the wind.
ruФлаг развевался на ветру.
The doctor used forceps to lift the flap of skin.
The bird flapped its wings.
ruПтица хлопала крыльями.
deDer Vogel schlug mit seinen Flügeln.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 6
By meaning 6
Origin
From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or lFrom Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.
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