flip
抛出,抛物线,抛掷,抛物
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Definitions
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flipped, flip·ping.
- : to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
- : to move suddenly or jerkily.
- : to turn over, especially with a short rapid gesture: to flip pancakes with a spatula.
- : to cause to switch from one political party or candidate to another: Republicans flipped the Senate and increased their majority in the House.
- : Slang. to provide incriminating evidence about; inform on: I only work with people I know won’t flip me.to turn into an informer: The prosecutor will try to flip the defendant in exchange for a reduced sentence.
- : to buy and sell for a quick profit: The buyer flipped the house for double what he paid for it, just nine months after renovations were completed.
- : to change: Federal courts had ruled the practice unconstitutional, but an appeals judge flipped the decision.
- : Slang. to make insane, irrational, angry, or highly excited.
- : Finance. to resell, especially quickly, or to refinance, as a mortgage loan.
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Where does flip come from?
When it comes to studying the origins of words, it’s easy to overlook—and take for granted—everyday, unassuming words, like flip. But oftentimes, the story behind these most basic of words can provide great insights into how words work.Flip is first recorded around 1585–95. It appears to be related to, and may even be a contraction of, the word fillip. This word means “to strike with the nail of a finger snapped from the end of the thumb.” Compared to flip, fillip is less common but older, recorded around 1425–75.While the ultimate origin of fillip is unknown, etymologists think the word is what’s called expressive. While imitative words evoke the actual sound of a word being defined, the sound of expressive words can conjure up a particular emotion, sensation, shape, movement, and so on. So, a word like fillip evokes the movement involved in the action of fillipping.Try flipping—or filliping—your thumb and index finger. Can you hear how the words evoke such finger flicking? And use of the word flick is no accident here. Flick is very similar in sense and form, imitating the sound of flicking something.Dig deeperLike flick, the word flip also brings to mind flop, as in flip-flop and its variant, flip-flap. Flop itself originates as a variant of flap. Flip-flops, like the kind of sandals you might wear at the pool, are so named for the sound they make when you walk in them.Flip, flap, flop, flick—the initial cluster, fl-, in English is associated with flittering, fluttering, flitting motion. This relationship between the sound fl– and the meaning of unsteady movement is called sound symbolism.Sound symbolism is the “nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.”One commonly cited example of sound symbolism in English is how many words dealing with light begin with the cluster gl-: glance, glare, glimmer, glitter, and glimpse, to name a few. Can you think of other words to add to this list?One the most familiar forms of sound symbolism is onomatopoeia, the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
Examples
The seat is considered among the most likely to flip this year.
This stability is invaluable, as traveling rough side-hills is an easy way to flip your machine.
Recent research shows that the Arctic peatlands will flip from being carbon sinks to carbon sources as the region heats up further.
It went nowhere in a Republican-controlled Senate, but that could change if the majority flips.
These “good” drawings are only a few flips away from accepting the edge without breaking planarity.
In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”
Were you playing up or, on the flip side, shying away from portraying a romantic attraction?
The answer is that you flip state legislatures, since in most places, state legislatures draw the congressional district lines.
With the freedom of doing that, we were able to do a non-human, flip-y thing.
So whatever college campuses are doing, they need to flip that script.
Nor could they forget the Sunday mornings when his reverence took his dose of egg-flip before church, in order to clear his voice.
Caroline, unable decently to go away, gives her gown a sort of flip on one side, as if to produce a separation.