flap
suomi-englanti sanakirjaflap englannista suomeksi
laskusiiveke
ääntää yksitäryisenä
läppä
räpytellä, räpyttää
lepatus
lepattaa
kiihtymys
olla kiihtynyt
läiskähdellä
Substantiivi
flap englanniksi
Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
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A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
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The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
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(senseid) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard English pronunciation of ''body''.
A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
1450, ''Palladius on Husbondrie''ː
- Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
a1500 ''The Prose Merlin''ː
- The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
A young prostitute.
1631, (w), ''Celestina'' IX. 110
- Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. (..) Come hither, you foule flappes.
To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
''The crow slowly flapped its wings.''
To move loosely back and forth.
''The flag flapped in the breeze.''
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Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
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