flap

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

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. (in-plural, slang, vulgar) The labia, the vulva.
10. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
11. (obsolete) A young prostitute.
12. A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.

Verb

1. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
2. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
3. (intransitive) For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
4. (transitive) To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
5. (intransitive) To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
6. (intransitive) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

Concetti

sventolare

👋

ipersostentatore

deflettore

sbattere

agitare

battere

falda

battere le ali

fileggiare

lembo

linguetta

patta

risvolto

flap

vogata

sventolata

alata

sbraccio

sbatacchiare

staffa

tesa

colpo

bracciata

bavero

frullio

fluttuare

sinonimi

flutter

wave

👋

beat

wag

flapping

flop

slap

lap

swing

dither

fly

✈️

pother

clap

👏

fuss

fan

strike

valve

bang

tizzy

shake

🫨

lash

puff up

swell up

flicker

stroke

fluttering

undulate

blink

vibrate

tab

sweep

flitter

flit

agitation

waver

skirt

flick

flaps

panel

baffle

roll

smack

hang down

apron

excitement

agitate

brandish

bat

🦇

blow

movement

Traduzioni

aba

Klappe

agitar

volet

battre

solapa

agitar

φτερουγίζω

pan

rabat

klep

bater

Schlag

Landeklappe

claquer

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/flæp/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: flap

Affine saterfriesisch: Flappert

Affine olandese medio: flabbe

Affine olandese: flap

Affine Middle Low German: flabbe

Ereditato da inglese medio: flappen

Affine olandese: flappen

Affine tedesco: flappen

Affine olandese: flabberen

In summary

From 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.