flap
扇动,扑打,扑腾,扇形
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Definitions
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flapped, flap·ping.
- : to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
- : to move up and down, as wings; flap the wings, or make similar movements.
- : to strike a blow with something broad and flexible.
- : Slang. to become excited or confused, especially under stress: a seasoned diplomat who doesn't flap easily.
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flapped, flap·ping.
- : to move up and down.
- : to cause to swing or sway loosely, especially with noise.
- : to strike with something broad and flat.
- : to toss, fold, shut, etc., smartly, roughly, or noisily.
- : Phonetics. to pronounce with articulation resembling that of a flap:The British often flap their r's.
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Examples
You can wear them as mittens when it’s excruciatingly cold, and if you need to use your fingers, one tuck of a flap or pull of a zipper can turn them into fingerless gloves.
That’s right, we’re talking ear flaps also known as trapper hats.
“It sounds like a sharp thunderclap,” said Darden, who published more than 50 papers on high-lift wing design in supersonic flow, flap design and sonic boom prediction and minimization.
Beanies and hats with ear flaps always ride up, especially under my helmet.
We can see in the videos released by SpaceX that the flaps are under good control.
My editor called and said, “Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!”
Yet, after flipping through Not That Kind of Girl, I do begin to understand what “this Lena Dunham flap” is about.
If you flap your arms hard enough, a pair of vast feathered wings appears to grow out from your shoulders.
Take my former boss, Mitt Romney, and the flap over a Jeep plant in Ohio.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.
He shifted across to the mouth of the tent and raised the flap, fastening it against the pole so that he could see out.
"That's the wind rising," whispered the clergyman, and pulled the flap open as far as it would go.