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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flutter
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eyelids fluttered (=moved up and down quickly)
▪ The room spun. Her eyelids fluttered and she fainted.
flutter its wings (=move them quickly)
▪ I heard some birds fluttering their wings outside the window.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
breeze
▪ The curtains were long and gauzy, fluttering in a slight breeze.
▪ Troops have already cordoned off the surrounding area with white mine tape, which flutters in the slight breeze.
▪ Leave the bow tails long, so they flutter in the breeze when windows are open.
▪ I seemed to hear trumpets and see colourful flags and standards fluttering in the sea breeze.
eyelash
▪ I began to flutter my eyelashes in a rather exaggerated way.
eyelid
▪ Lady Merchiston's eyelids fluttered, but did not fully open.
▪ Her eyelids drooped, fluttered, and then drooped again.
▪ His eyelids were already fluttering into sleep.
flag
▪ In peace and war, the Union Flag has fluttered above the main entrance.
▪ At the border, swastika flags fluttered from passport control and police sauntered to the car to demand identification.
▪ I seemed to hear trumpets and see colourful flags and standards fluttering in the sea breeze.
heart
▪ Her heart was fluttering in her chest.
▪ My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch.
▪ The machines can only be effective if the heart is fluttering rather than completely still, she said.
▪ Yet her heart fluttered anxiously inside her as she said it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flutter your eyelashes
▪ I began to flutter my eyelashes in a rather exaggerated way.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Butterflies fluttered from flower to flower.
▪ Flags from a hundred nations fluttered in the breeze.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As he was studying it, something slid out from the pages and fluttered to the floor.
▪ At home as I emptied my backpack, a Slip of paper fluttered to the floor.
▪ Miriam had to shield the candle-flame with her hand as it fluttered wildly.
▪ The paper didn't flutter about from side to side; it just went straight down.
▪ The wind was blowing over the top of Jinny's head, fluttering the loose, short hairs round her forehead.
▪ When he tried to speak his eye fluttered shut and then sprang open again, that bright red persimmon clouding over.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A moment later we heard a splash and a squeal, more splashing, a flutter of duck, whoops of delight.
▪ During this the right wing broke up - probably due to aileron flutter - and Bayles was killed.
▪ I felt a flutter of fear at the base of my throat.
▪ The great naming curses flutter into the bland night.
▪ When next Fabia heard footsteps coming in her direction her heart again gave a nervous flutter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flutter

Flutter \Flut"ter\, v. t.

  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

  2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.

    Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
    --Shak.

Flutter

Flutter \Flut"ter\, n.

  1. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.

    The chirp and flutter of some single bird
    --Milnes. .

  2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
    --Pope.

    Flutter wheel, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flutter

Old English floterian "to flutter (of birds), to fly before, flicker, float to and fro, be tossed by waves," frequentative of flotian "to float" (see float (v.)). Meaning "throw (someone) into confusion" is from 1660s. Related: Fluttered; fluttering. As a noun, "quick, irregular motion," from 1640s; meaning "state of excitement" is 1740s. Flutterpate "flighty person" is from 1894.

Wiktionary
flutter

n. 1 The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion. 2 A state of agitation. 3 An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart. 4 (context British English) A small bet or risky investment. 5 (cx audio electronics English) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency. vb. 1 (lb en intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly. 2 (lb en intransitive, of a winged animal) to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings. 3 (lb en transitive) To cause something to flap. 4 (lb en transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.

WordNet
flutter
  1. n. the act of moving back and forth [syn: waver, flicker]

  2. abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block

  3. a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance, disruption, commotion, stir, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle]

  4. the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: flap, flapping, fluttering]

  5. v. move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart [syn: flit, fleet, dart]

  6. move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered" [syn: flicker, waver, flitter, quiver]

  7. beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated" [syn: palpitate]

  8. wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: bat]

Wikipedia
Flutter

Flutter may refer to:

Flutter (2011 film)

Flutter is a 2011 British independent dark comedy film about gambling, written by Stephen Leslie and directed by Giles Borg. The film stars Joe Anderson, Ricky Tomlinson, Laura Fraser, Billy Zane, Anna Anissimova and Mark Williams.

Flutter (2006 film)

Flutter is a 2006 Canadian anime-style animated short by Howie Shia, co-produced by PPF House and the National Film Board of Canada.

Flutter (company)

Flutter is a gesture recognition technology startup based in San Francisco, California, United States (US). Founded by Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala, the company received early-stage funding from Y Combinator and was acquired by Google in October 2013.

Flutter (electronics and communication)

In electronics and communication, flutter is the rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency. Examples of electronic flutter are:

  • Rapid variations in received signal levels, such as variations that may be caused by atmospheric disturbances, antenna movements in a high wind, or interaction with other signals.
  • In radio propagation, a phenomenon in which nearly all radio signals that are usually reflected by ionospheric layers in or above the E-region experience partial or complete absorption.
  • In radio transmission, rapidly changing signal levels, together with variable multipath time delays, caused by reflection and possible partial absorption of the signal by aircraft flying through the radio beam or common scatter volume.
  • The variation in the transmission characteristics of a loaded telephone line caused by the action of telegraph direct currents on the loading coils.
  • In recording and reproducing equipment, the deviation of frequency caused by irregular mechanical motion, e.g., that of capstan angular velocity in a tape transport mechanism, during operation.

Usage examples of "flutter".

He stood on the aftercastle, his eyes darting about as he watched the fluttering ribbons on the rigging which showed the direction of the wind relative to the ship, the set of the sail, the waves coming up behind the sternpost, and the dark, menacing line of the shore, which seemed to be creeping closer.

There was one figure among them who was lighter and airier than all the rest, and she darted in and out between the lines, and round and round them, like a butterfly fluttering around a bed of tossing flowers.

Small boys came running to roadsides to watch the lines of riders all ajingle on their tall chargers, the pennons fluttering at the sparkling steel tips of the long, polished lances of ashwood, sunbeams flashing from plumed helmets, cuirasses and hilts of sabers and dirks.

Gretel and Lena, the Alsatian sisters, all smiles and dimples, their ringlets flashing as they fluttered to and fro between the tables and the kitchen hatch.

With her heart still pounding, she moved toward the fish tank, alarmed by the stillness--Esmerelda, her angelfish drifted against the glass, her fins fluttering in the water like ghostly wings.

Nevertheless, she never forgot her youthful flutters around Antonio Thorndyke, the cool, handsome, dark-eyed Spaniard.

In a dazzling flutter of cobalt and emerald Archimedes landed, farted psittacinely, and promptly turned his head sideways, suspiciously eyeing Bill.

The Dowayne named a figure, and I could feel a flutter of excitement set my mother atremble beside me.

He looked up at the sky again, at the fluttering rags of cloud shrouding the net of stars, while the children of Aulos stepped into the alien beam.

The boxes containing worker attack bees tumbled out of HUEY helicopters and fluttered to the ground.

Beyond the spires, the city of Waterdeep stretched across the benchland like a magnificent diorama, complete with smoking chimneys and fluttering flags.

The others dropped to the mushy ground as a flock of screeching bloodbirds fluttered through the trees.

They moved and promenaded, paused with teardrops of glass holding bloodlike wine, fluttered their fans of peacocks and palm leaves.

A few minutes later, the first bluewing moth had fluttered up from the thistles.

He had watched intently as the first pale bluewings glistened and fluttered up.