Flap

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flap \Flap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Flapping}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E.
     flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.]
     1. To beat with a flap; to strike.
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              Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. --Pope.
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     2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the
        wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
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     {To flap in the mouth}, to taunt. [Obs.] --W. Cartwright.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flap \Flap\, v. i.
     1. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to
        fly with wings beating the air.
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              The crows flapped over by twos and threes. --Lowell.
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     2. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or
        other broad thing. --Gay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flap \Flap\, n. [OE. flappe, flap, blow, bly-flap; cf. D. flap,
     and E. flap, v.]
     Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is
     attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap
     of a garment.
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           A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx.
                                                    --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
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     2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
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     3. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or
        sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
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     4. pl. (Far.) A disease in the lips of horses.
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     5. (Aeronautics) a movable part of an airplane wing, used to
        increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or
        landing. used often in the plural.
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     {Flap tile}, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner
        or catch a drip.
  
     {Flap valve} (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one
        hinged side; a clack valve.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flap
       n 1: any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge;
            hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of
            the envelope"
       2: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
          was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: {dither}, {pother},
           {fuss}, {tizzy}]
       3: the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: {flapping}, {flutter},
           {fluttering}]
       4: a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
       5: a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to
          increase lift or drag [syn: {flaps}]
       v 1: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;
            "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the
            beach" [syn: {roll}, {undulate}, {wave}]
       2: move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind"
       3: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings";
          "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
          [syn: {beat}]
       4: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were
          flapping" [syn: {beat}]
       5: make a fuss; be agitated [syn: {dither}, {pother}]
       6: pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
       [also: {flapping}, {flapped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  373 Moby Thesaurus words for "flap":
     Bedlam let loose, ado, agitation, applique, argument, bag, bang,
     baste, batter, beat, beating, bedlam, bicker, bilge, blain, blast,
     bleb, blister, blob, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, boss, bother,
     botheration, bow, box, brandish, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bubble,
     buffet, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, burst, bust, bustle,
     button, cacophony, cahot, cascade, chaos, charivari, chine, chirm,
     churn, clamor, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, clump, coat, coating,
     collop, commotion, condyle, confusion, conturbation, convex,
     covering, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, daggle, dance, dangle,
     deal, depend, din, discomposure, discord, disk, disorder, dispute,
     disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dither, donnybrook,
     dowel, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, drub, drunken brawl,
     dustup, ear, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, fall, fanaticism,
     feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, feuille, fever, feverishness,
     fidgetiness, fidgets, film, fit, flail, flange, flapping, flaunt,
     flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, float, flop, flourish, flow,
     flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteration,
     flutteriness, fly, foil, fold, foment, fomentation, foofaraw,
     fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret, fume, furor, furore, fury,
     fuss, fussiness, gall, gnarl, go pitapat, gutter, hammer, handle,
     hang, hang down, hell broke loose, hill, howl, hubbub, hue and cry,
     hullabaloo, hump, hunch, hurly-burly, imbrication, inquietude,
     jangle, jitters, jog, joggle, jumpiness, knob, knock, knot, knur,
     knurl, lambaste, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood,
     lap, lappet, larrup, lash, lather, leaf, lip, loop, lop,
     loud noise, lump, maelstrom, malaise, maul, membrane, moil, mole,
     mountain, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nevus, nod, noise,
     noise and shouting, nub, nubbin, nubble, oscillate, oscillation,
     outcry, overlap, overlapping, overlay, overlayer, palpitate,
     palpitation, pandemonium, pane, panel, panic, papilloma, passion,
     paste, patina, patter, peel, peg, pellicle, pelt, pend,
     perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, plait, plank, plate, plating,
     ply, plywood, pommel, pother, pound, pucker, pulse, pulverize,
     pummel, quarrel, quiver, racket, rage, rap, rasher, rattle, report,
     restlessness, rhubarb, rib, ridge, ring, roar, roil, rout, row,
     ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, safety glass, sag, scramble, scum,
     seethe, seething, shake, sheet, shindy, shivaree, shoulder, skin,
     slab, slam, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slice, smack, spank, spasm,
     spine, splat, splutter, spurt, sputter, state, stew, stir,
     storminess, stripe, stud, style, swag, swap, sweat, swing, swirl,
     swivet, tab, table, tablet, tail, tap, tempestuousness, thrash,
     thresh, throb, thump, thunder, thunderclap, thwack, tintamarre,
     tizzy, to-do, trail, trepidation, trepidity, tubercle, tubercule,
     tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence,
     turmoil, twitter, twitteration, undulate, unease, unquiet, unrest,
     uproar, upset, veneer, verruca, vesicle, vibrate, vortex, wafer,
     wag, waggle, wale, wallop, wart, wave, waver, weep, welt, whack,
     wham, whap, whip, whirl, whomp, whop, wield, wigwag, wildness,
     zeal, zealousness
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  flap vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap,
     flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was
     device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device
     0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 2.
     By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. See also {macrotape}. Modern
     cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained.
     (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a
     spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping
     sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many
     tape-eating failure modes.)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  FLAP
       
          A {symbolic mathematics} package for {IBM 360}.
       
          ["FLAP Programmer's Manual", A.H. Morris Jr., TR-2558 (1971)
          US Naval Weapons Lab].
       
          [Sammet 1969, p. 506].
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-10-17)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  flap
       
          1.  To unload a {DECtape} (so it goes flap,
          flap, flap).  Old-time {hackers} at {MIT} tell of the days
          when the disk was device 0 and {microtapes} were 1, 2,
          etc. and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a
          motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk.
       
          The term is used, by extension, for unloading any magnetic
          tape.  See also {macrotape}.  Modern {cartridge tapes} no
          longer actually flap, but the usage has remained.
       
          The term could well be re-applied to {DEC}'s {TK50} cartridge
          tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which
          makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type
          lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.
       
          2.  See {flapping router}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1997-06-17)