Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FLAP

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Definitions of FLAP

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 side fin of a ray.
4. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
5. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
6. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
7. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
8. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
9. (slang, vulgar, chiefly, in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
10. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
11. (obsolete) A young prostitute.
12. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
13. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
14. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) 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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Examples of Using FLAP in a Sentence

• The simplest, and very ancient, valve is simply a freely hinged flap which swings down to obstruct fluid (gas or liquid) flow in one direction, but is pushed up by the flow itself when the flow is moving in the opposite direction.
• For example, link flap occurs when an interface on a router has a hardware failure that causes the router to announce it alternately as "up" and "down".
• In 1998, Hawker Pacific completed its initial public offering of common stock and used the proceeds to acquire the landing gear, flap track and flap carriage operation from British Airways.
• The labiodental flap occurs phonemically in over a dozen languages, but it is restricted geographically to central and southeastern Africa.
• Flap consonant, a sound produced by brief contact between one articulator (such as the tongue) and another (such as the roof of the mouth).
• A flip clock (also known as a "flap clock") is an electromechanical, digital time keeping device with the time indicated by numbers that are sequentially revealed by a split-flap display.
• Lina Beecher, creator of the Flip Flap Railway, attempted to demonstrate one of his looping roller coasters at the fair, but the organizers of the event considered the ride to be too dangerous and refused to allow it on the grounds.
• In 2011, a Delaney column in the Sunday Independent in which he argued that the gay rights movement is "overreaching" in seeking the "right to marry, to adopt children, and to intimidate opponents into silence," touched off a media flap.
• Traditionally trench coats are double-breasted with 10 front buttons, wide lapels, a storm flap, and pockets that button-close.
• TOC used FLAP to encapsulate its messages just as OSCAR does, however, FLAP has been hacked in such a way that it can be implemented on the same port as an HTTP server.
• Prior to 1914, the regiment's field service uniforms consisted of a dark blue jersey and puttees, khaki shorts and a khaki fez cover with integral foldable cloth peak and neck flap, the designs according to Sealed Patterns procured from India.
• The epiglottis (: epiglottises or epiglottides) is a leaf-shaped flap in the throat that prevents food and water from entering the trachea and the lungs.
• This STOL capability was accomplished via several features, including the adoption of a long, high lift wing, which was fitted with a unique single slot flap with a hinged flap tab at the trailing edge.
• Russian surgeon Nikolaj Bogoraz performed the first reconstruction of a total penis using rib cartilage in a reconstructed phallus made from a tubed abdominal flap in 1936.
• The ancient Romans had set rituals at public performances to express degrees of approval: snapping the finger and thumb, clapping with the flat or hollow palm, and waving the flap of the toga.
• Normally this would make the plane have "impossibly high" landing speeds, but this was offset by the use of a huge travelling flap and leading edge slats for high low-speed lift.
• The ailerons were linked to the flap system to permit partial operation as flaperons, meaning if the flaps were lowered the ailerons drooped down.
• Since April 2008, the latter is the case of the labiodental flap, symbolized by a right-hook v in the IPA:.
• Panavia Tornado – all versions (engine controls, high lift control unit, flap and slat actuation, nozzle control).
• On 16 December 1940, the XF4F-3 prototype, BuNo 0383, c/n 356, modified from XF4F-2, was lost under circumstances that suggested that the pilot may have been confused by the poor layout of fuel valves and flap controls and inadvertently turned the fuel valve to "off" immediately after takeoff rather than selecting flaps "up".
• The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a dental, alveolar, or postalveolar tap or flap is.
• Some languages that are described as having a lateral flap actually have a flap that is indeterminate with respect to centrality, and may surface as either central or lateral, either in free variation or allophonically depending on surrounding vowels and consonants.
• A microkeratome is a precision surgical instrument with an oscillating blade designed for creating the corneal flap in LASIK or ALK surgery.
• The Tu-126 had a crew of 12 and carried the Liana radar (NATO reporting name Flap Jack) in a rotodome mounted above the fuselage.
• While single-contact trills are similar to taps and flaps, a tap or flap differs from a trill in that it is made by a muscular contraction rather than airstream.

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