Crossword clues for flap
flap
- Try to get airborne, in a way
- Tent "door"
- Swing loosely
- Pocket cover
- Part of an envelope
- Part of a cereal box
- Onesie's rear opening
- Move, as wings
- Move one's wings
- Exercise, as wings
- Envelope closure
- Dr. Dentons rear opening
- Do part of the chicken dance
- Book-jacket part
- Beat the air
- Wing movement
- What covers the opening of a doggy door
- What a bird does to its wings to fly
- Wave like wrens' wings
- Turn over by tossing
- Try to get off the ground?
- Tepee's door
- Tent feature
- Tent door
- Swing noisily, as a shutter
- Sound of sails in the wind
- Sound of a sail in a gale
- Shirt pocket feature
- Pop-up book feature
- Pocket closer
- Part of a book cover that's inside the book
- Pajamas' butt cover
- Opening on some pajamas
- Opening in the back of kids' pajamas, sometimes
- Opening in some pajamas, once
- One may be on the wing
- Mudguard, e.g
- Move, as one's wings
- Move, as a duck's wings would
- Move like an elephant's ear
- Move like a bird's wings
- Minor controversy
- Hunter's cap part
- Hopelessly try to get off the ground?
- Gummed part of an envelope
- Flexible part of a pet door
- Flag-in-the-wind sound
- Flag sound
- Feature on the back of some pajamas
- Entrance at a bivouac, perhaps
- Dust jacket part
- Dr. Dentons feature
- Door in the woods
- Dog door, often
- Concert uproar
- Concert to-do
- Concert ruckus
- Codpiece, essentially
- Closing for a tent
- Buttoned part of pajamas, sometimes
- Bubble-mailer feature
- Book jacket foldover
- Blurb location
- Beginning of flight
- "Door" for pets
- Hullabaloo
- Scandal
- Part of an envelope that gets licked
- Brouhaha
- Paper airplane part
- Envelope part that's licked
- To-do
- Ruckus
- Book jacket part
- What flags do in the wind
- Hoo-ha
- Letter opener?
- Uproar
- Noisy to-do
- Big to-do
- Pajamas' rear opening
- What bird wings do
- Try to get airborne, maybe
- Commotion
- Kerfuffle
- Epiglottis, for one
- A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing
- A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
- Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge
- Hangs loose or projects freely
- Used to increase lift or drag
- An excited state of agitation
- Rhubarb of a sort
- Tent part
- Controversy
- Hubbub
- Tab
- Ado
- Tizzy
- Beat, as wings
- Part of many a pocket
- Airplane-wing part
- Tongue of a shoe
- Flutter or sway loosely
- Jack makes this a pancake
- Fold of a tent
- Wing sound
- Jack preceder
- Set-to
- State of agitation
- Agitated state
- Plane part
- Wing it?
- Envelope feature
- Envelope closer
- Airplane wing part
- Plane-wing part
- Do a chicken dance move
- Start to take flight
- Wing feature
- Try to stay up?
- Tent entrance feature
- Part of a cardboard box
- Move (wings)
- Envelope back
- Back of an envelope
- What birds' wings do
- Wave in the wind
- Try to take off
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To beat with a flap; to strike.
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings.
--Pope. -
To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
To flap in the mouth, to taunt. [Obs.]
--W. Cartwright.
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.
A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx.
--Sir T.
Browne.
2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
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.
4. pl. (Far.) A disease in the lips of horses.
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.
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.
Flap \Flap\, v. i.
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To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
The crows flapped over by twos and threes.
--Lowell. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
--Gay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., flappe "a blow, slap, buffet," probably imitative of the sound of striking. Sense of "device for slapping or striking" is from early 15c. Meaning "something that hangs down" is first recorded 1520s, probably from flap (v.). Sense of "motion or noise like a bird's wing" is 1774; meaning "disturbance, noisy tumult" is 1916, British slang.
early 14c., "dash about, shake, beat (the wings);" later "strike, hit" (mid-14c.); probably ultimately imitative. Meaning "to swing about loosely" is from 1520s. Related: Flapped; flapping.
Wiktionary
n. 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, as of a table or shutter. 3 A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing. 4 An upset, stir, scandal or controversy 5 The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it. vb. (context transitive English) To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.
WordNet
n. any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"
an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, pother, fuss, tizzy]
the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: flapping, flutter, fluttering]
a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag [syn: flaps]
v. 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]
move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind"
move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" [syn: beat]
move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" [syn: beat]
pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
Wikipedia
Flap may refer to:
Flaps are a type of high-lift device used to increase the lift of an aircraft wing at a given airspeed. Flaps are usually mounted on the wing trailing edges of a fixed-wing aircraft. Flaps are used to lower the minimum speed at which the aircraft can be safely flown, and to increase the angle of descent for landing. Flaps also cause an increase in drag, so they are retracted when not needed.
Extending the wing flaps increases the camber or curvature of the wing, raising the maximum lift coefficient or the upper limit to the lift a wing can generate. This allows the aircraft to generate the required lift at a lower speed, reducing the stalling speed of the aircraft, and therefore also the minimum speed at which the aircraft will safely maintain flight. The increase in camber also increases the wing drag, which can be beneficial during approach and landing, because it slows the aircraft. In some aircraft configurations, a useful side effect of flap deployment is a decrease in aircraft pitch angle, which lowers the nose thereby improving the pilot's view of the runway over the nose of the aircraft during landing. In other configurations, however, depending on the type of flap and the location of the wing, flaps can cause the nose to rise ( pitch-up), obscuring the pilot's view of the runway.
There are many different designs of flaps used, with the specific choice depending on the size, speed and complexity of the aircraft on which they are to be used, as well as the era in which the aircraft was designed. Plain flaps, slotted flaps, and Fowler flaps are the most common. Krueger flaps are positioned on the leading edge of the wings and are used on many jet airliners.
The Fowler, Fairey-Youngman and Gouge types of flap increase the wing area in addition to changing the camber. The larger lifting surface reduces wing loading, hence further reducing the stalling speed.
Some flaps are fitted elsewhere. Leading-edge flaps form the wing leading edge and when deployed they rotate down to increase the wing camber. The de Havilland DH.88 Comet racer had flaps running across beneath the fuselage and forward of the wing trailing edge. Many of the Waco Custom Cabin series biplanes have the flaps at mid-chord on the underside of the top wing.
Flap (distributed in Britain as The Last Warrior) is a 1970 American comedy western film directed by Carol Reed and starring Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins and Shelley Winters. Set in a modern Native American reservation, it is based on the novel Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian by Clair Huffaker.
Flap surgery is a technique in plastic and reconstructive surgery where any type of tissue is lifted from a donor site and moved to a recipient site with an intact blood supply. This is similar to but different from a graft, which does not have an intact blood supply and therefore relies on growth of new blood vessels. This is done to fill a defect such as a wound resulting from injury or surgery when the remaining tissue is unable to support a graft, or to rebuild more complex anatomic structures such as breast or jaw.
Usage examples of "flap".
The Pasha salaamed without a word, his Abyssinian slaves helped him on his great white donkey, and he trotted away towards the palace, the trousers flapping about his huge legs.
Leaning on the crumbling stone wall of a temple orchard, looking past the sloping tile roofs of Grange Head, Maia lifted her gaze to watch low clouds briefly occult a brightly speckled, placid sea, its green shoals aflicker with silver schools of fish and the flapping shadows of hovering swoop-birds.
Gaines belted it on, and accepted a helmet, into which he crammed his head, leaving the antinoise ear flaps up.
When I landed with my trade-goods, leaving my steering sweep apeak, Otoo left his stroke position and came into the stern-sheets, where a Winchester lay ready to hand under a flap of canvas.
The combatants retired into their respective corners and their seconds cooled them by flapping their wings, while Archimedes gave Merlyn a little massage by nibbling with his beak.
Now with the arthroscope we can see inside the knee and find the offending flap, cut it off and pull it out through tiny holes that will leave the knee virtually untouched.
The astrophysicist turned the envelope over once in his hands, grunted noncommittally, unsealed the flap, and unfolded the letter within.
Hresh would say, you might also be able to learn how to fly by flapping your arms, if you worked at it long enough.
Phil raced along the backstretch of corridor and up the second flight, Sacheverell flapping at his heels like a green bat.
If the latter had also been befrilled that appendage might have gone into a rising flap.
That mollified Belli somewhat but reproof, dramatised by his flapping candle flames, rested in the fine eyes.
Brennan brushed past a couple of bemedalled attaches, jacket flapping, unshaven, certain that only moments separated him from security intervention.
She threw back the flap and found Betta lying on her back just beyond the doorway.
Because if you flap your gums again without permission, your bloodsucking days will be over.
He retrieved his pants from a storage nook that opened with a flap of skin like the blowhole on a killer whale.