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flip-flop
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also flip flop, "plastic thong beach sandal," by 1970, imitative of the sound of walking in them. Flip-flap had been used in various senses, mostly echoic or imitative of a kind of loose flapping movement, since 1520s:\n\nFlip-flaps, a peculiar rollicking dance indulged in by costermongers, better described as the double shuffle; originally a kind of somersault.
[Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1864]
\nFlip-flop in the general sense of "complete reversal of direction" dates from 1900; it began to be used in electronics in the 1930s in reference to switching circuits that alternate between two states. As a verb by 1897. Flop (n.) in the sense "a turn-round, especially in politics" is from 1880.Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx US English) An instance of #Verb, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter. (from 19th c.) 2 (context computing electronics English) An electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory. (from 20th c.) 3 A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour. (from 20th c.) vb. To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.
WordNet
n. a decision to reverse an earlier decision [syn: reversal, change of mind, turnabout, turnaround]
a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
a backward somersault
v. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn: interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip]
[also: flip-flopping, flip-flopped]
Wikipedia
A "flip-flop" (used mostly in the United States), U-turn (used in the United Kingdom, Ireland), or backflip (used in Australia and New Zealand) is a sudden real or apparent change of policy or opinion by a public official, sometimes while trying to claim that both positions are consistent with each other. Often it will occur during the period prior to or following an election in order to maximize the candidate's popularity.
Flip-flops are a simple type of footwear in which there is a band between the big toe and the other toes.
Flip-flop may also refer to:
- Flip Flop (Modern Family), an episode of the television series Modern Family
- Flip-flop (electronics) – the bistable multivibrator, a circuit with two stable states
- Flip-flop (politics) – a sudden change of position on an issue, also called a U-turn
- Flip flop, per Top, bottom and versatile – a role reversal between two men during a single sexual encounter
- Flip-flop hub – a type of hub used in bicycle wheels
- Flip-Flop (Doctor Who audio) – a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
- Flip Flop (The Price Is Right) – a segment game on The Price Is Right
- Flip-Flop (album) – the fourth album by Guadalcanal Diary
- A back handspring (gymnastics)
- The translocation of a phospholipid in cell membranes carried out by flippase proteins
- Flip (algebraic geometry) and flop – operations in algebraic geometry
- Flip-flop kinetics – a phenomenon in pharmacokinetics when a drug is released at a sustained rate instead of immediate release
- The process by which lipids in a phospholipid bilayer membrane move from one side of the membrane to the other, facilitated by flippase and scramblase proteins
- An alternative nickname of the African Wood White butterfly ( Leptosia alcesta).
- A trick performed in the sport of freestyle kayaking ( Playboating).
Flip-Flop is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
This audio drama is presented on two CDs, one white and the other black. The discs can be listened to in either order due to the construction of the plot.
Flip-Flop is the fourth and final studio album by Marietta, Georgia band Guadalcanal Diary. It was released in 1989 on Elektra Records.
In electronics, a flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information. A flip-flop is a bistable multivibrator. The circuit can be made to change state by signals applied to one or more control inputs and will have one or two outputs. It is the basic storage element in sequential logic. Flip-flops and latches are fundamental building blocks of digital electronics systems used in computers, communications, and many other types of systems.
Flip-flops and latches are used as data storage elements. A flip-flop stores a single bit (binary digit) of data; one of its two states represents a "one" and the other represents a "zero". Such data storage can be used for storage of state, and such a circuit is described as sequential logic. When used in a finite-state machine, the output and next state depend not only on its current input, but also on its current state (and hence, previous inputs). It can also be used for counting of pulses, and for synchronizing variably-timed input signals to some reference timing signal.
Flip-flops can be either simple (transparent or opaque) or clocked (synchronous or edge-triggered). Although the term flip-flop has historically referred generically to both simple and clocked circuits, in modern usage it is common to reserve the term flip-flop exclusively for discussing clocked circuits; the simple ones are commonly called latches.
Using this terminology, a latch is level-sensitive, whereas a flip-flop is edge-sensitive. That is, when a latch is enabled it becomes transparent, while a flip flop's output only changes on a single type (positive going or negative going) of clock edge.
Usage examples of "flip-flop".
On West Auer Avenue, a man in a gray University of Michigan football T-shirt, gray cotton shorts, and flip-flops was washing a dark blue Toyota Camry in his short double-wheel-track driveway.
Her stomach flip-flopped at the mere thought of mentioning Cavin to them.
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There were Land Cruisers straight from the showroom and jundies with shiny boots and clean, western-type uniforms, and the crowd in their stinking dish-dashes and flip-flops or plain bare feet.
She saw immediately that most of the other girls were wearing flip-flops or running shoes, but she figured her white Keds fit in fine with the running shoes.
I can tell, opted to eschew the dress code by wearing shorts, flip-flops, and, in the case of Kurt, the keyboardist, no shirt.
After our shower, the studmuffin had swapped the luau shirt and shorts for cutoffs, tank, and flip-flops.
How Roi managed to have her emotions flip-flopping was a mystery to her.
He was standing there in running shorts, flip-flops, and a big baggy T-shirt, and his glasses were on wonky from all the rushing around.
On a drop-dead-perfect June morning, I traded my tie and briefcase for swimsuit and flip-flops and headed with Marley across the Intracoastal Waterway.
There were Land Cruisers straight from the showroom and jundies with shiny boots and clean, western-type uniforms, and the crowd in their stinking dish-dashes and flip-flops or plain bare feet.
Clover Lee, who retired only to a respectful distance, and there began practicing flip-flops and cartwheels to display her legs and under parts to best advantage.
Therefore they tiptoe backward and keep on backing until they have faded into the soft shadows at the far end of Arbor Street and swiftly whisked around the corner, at which point they turn around and, hampered by the frivolous flip-flops, the twins start running.
Flip-flops have their output values in each clock cycle determined by their input values in the previous cycle.
It was incredibly hot this particular night, and as soon as we got in, we took our clothes off and hung around in our skiddies and flip-flops.