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Noun flap has 5 senses
- flap - any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"
--1 is a kind of covering
--1 has particulars:
- dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap - an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
--2 is a kind of agitation
- flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering - the motion made by flapping up and down
--3 is a kind of wave, undulation
- flap - a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
--4 is a kind of animal tissue
--4 has particulars:
- flap, flaps - a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
--5 is a kind of airfoil, aerofoil, control surface, surface
--5 is a part of wing
--5 has particulars: landing flap
Verb flap has 6 senses
- roll, undulate, flap, wave - move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
--1 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- flap - move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind"
--2 is one way to beat, pound, thump
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- beat, flap - move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
--3 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- beat, flap - move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
--4 is one way to move
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- dither, flap, pother - make a fuss; be agitated
--5 is one way to fuss, niggle, fret
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- flap - pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
--6 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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