Flap

Definition: Flap

Flap

Noun

1. Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope".

2. An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft".

3. The motion made by flapping up and down.

4. A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body.

5. A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag.

Verb

1. Move in a wavy pattern, as of curtains.

2. Move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind".

3. Move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky".

4. Move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping".

5. Make a fuss; be agitated.

6. Pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Computing

Engineering & Technology

Military & Defense

Mining

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Flap

Adjunct

Rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; (sequel); wing.

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Impulse

Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish).

Memory

Remind; suggest; (inform ); prompt; put in mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize.

Pendency

Verb: be pendent; Adjective: hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle.

Noun: pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging; Verb: pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail

Ship

Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.

Crosswords: Flap

Dutch (blow, tear), Manx (flap, fly, fly of trousers), Portuguese (canvas, duck, flap), Spanish (flap).

C'mon Dewey, just flap your arms and jump, its easy (Wolfen; writing credit: David Eyre; Whitley Strieber)

Winding signs flap (Astronomy domine; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Flap (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Maisy's Big Flap Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Flap Your Wings (reference)

• One Flap Down (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• FLAP STYLE MESSENGER W/ MULTI (reference)

• SUPERIOR COMMUNICATIONS 41102 Leather Pouch with Flap for StarTAC (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Dewalt DW8315 5" x 7/8" 36-grit Zirconia Flap Disc (10 PK) (reference)

• Mag Instrument AM2A056 Nylon Full Flap Holster for AA (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Humpback whales often flap their tails or fins on the water surface. Megaptera novaeangliae. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

A dusky tumult would flap its wings from one house to another

She held herself upright by a tent flap, and the hand holding onto the canvas was a skeleton covered with wrinkled skin

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A knife, called a microkeratome, is used to cut a flap in the cornea. (references)

The doctor will then lift the flap and fold it back on its hinge, and dry the exposed tissue. (references)

After the pulses of laser energy vaporize the corneal tissue, the flap is put back into position. (references)

Business

This center is equipped to repair and overhaul power flight control mechanisms, wing flap carriage fittings and assemblies, hydraulic servo actuators and valves, hydraulic pumps, pressure vessels, propellers, wheels and brakes and to conduct flexible hose pressure test and manufacture. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "flap": air flap ♦ air inlet flap ♦ backwater flap ♦ balancing flap ♦ be in a flap ♦ blown flap ♦ cooling flap ♦ cowl flap ♦ design flap speed ♦ dive braking flap ♦ dive flap ♦ don't get into a flap ♦ double slotted flap ♦ Flap & Zap ♦ flap angel ♦ flap away ♦ flap down ♦ flap eared ♦ flap extension ♦ flap hinge ♦ flap its wings ♦ flap off ♦ flap position indicator ♦ flap surgery ♦ Flap tile ♦ Flap valve ♦ flip flap ♦ Fly flap ♦ fowler flap ♦ get into a flap ♦ inboard flap ♦ inlet guide flap ♦ island flap ♦ jet flap ♦ krueger flap ♦ landing flap ♦ leading edge flap ♦ maximum flap extended speed ♦ mud flap ♦ outboard flap ♦ plain flap ♦ plastic surgery by a flap method ♦ pocket flap ♦ rectus flap reconstruction ♦ slot flap ♦ slotted flap ♦ split flap ♦ stern flap ♦ tent flap ♦ To flap in the mouth ♦ transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap ♦ valve flap of a check valve ♦ wing flap. Additional references.

Beginning with "flap": Flap-eared, flap-jack, flap-like, Flap-mouthed, flap-pockets, flap-shaped, flap-valve.

Ending with "flap": cat-flap.

Albanian

fluturoj (blow off, flit, fly, fly away, fly by, run, soar, spread, voyage, wing), rrahje (affray, beating, clap, fighting, hiding, lacing, leathering, licking, mix in, Pat, percussion, pulse, quiver, scramble, stroke, throb, toweling), rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop), qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), panik (alarm, funk, panic, scare), përplasje (bang, bump, clap, clash, collision, crash, encounter, fling, impact, slam), përplas (bash, clash, crash, fling, grind, knock, slam), llapë (lappet, tongue), kapak xhepi, kënd (angle, corner), goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clean and jerk, clip, dash, dint, drive, fib, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), alarmohem (be alarmed, boggle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كرب سميك, ‏مصراع المنضدة, ‏لسان ظرف الرسالة, ‏تحرك متلاطما, ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏صفق بجناحيه (flutter), ‏ذعر (alarm, be astonished, consternation, creep, frighten, panic, terror, terrorization, trepidation), ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏جنيح إضافى متحرك, ‏رفرف (flutter, hover, poise, wave), ‏باب أرضى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

предкрилка, плещя (gammon, talk nonsense, yap), плясвам (crack, plop, slap, spank, whack), пляскам с криле (flop, flutter, winnow), пляскане с криле (flutter), плясък (clap, crack, plash, splash, stroke), плющене (crack, flapping, flip, flip flap, flipping, pelting, smack), плющя (crack, flog, slash, smack, snap, swish, whip), паника (bugaboo, funk, panic, scare, tail spin, tizzy, whim-wham), паникьосвам се (funk, have the jitters, panic), дълго ухо, первам (flick, flip), развявам (wave), пърпоря, лапен, люлея (rock, shake, sway, swing), махам (clean off, get away, lash, motion, pick, pull off, remove, rip away, switch, take away, wag, waggle), махане (waft, wag), наушник (lug, tab), клапа (finger-hole, gate, key, pallet, register, shutter, stop, valve, vent, ventage, ventil), цапвам (dab), цапване, размахвам (brandish, flourish, shoot out, swing, switch, wave, whisk, wigwag), периферия (brim, circumference, circumscription, edge, periphery). (various references)

Chinese 

挡水板 (flaps), 拍�" . (various references)

Czech

záložka (blurb, bookmark, cuff, tuck in, turnup), tluèení, tlouct, třepetat (quiver, stir), rozruch (agitation, backwash, excitement, fermentation, flurry, fuss, hullabaloo, kick up, stir), plesknout (slap, smack), plácnutí (bump, smack, spank), patka (heel, quiff), nervozita (flutter, fuss, jitters, nerves, nervousness), mrskat (flog, lash, slash, swish, switch, whip), mávat (brandish, shake, sway, wave), mávání (sway), klopa (lapel). (various references)

Danish

flap, stilket lap (pedicle flap, tubed flap), slå hid og did, skærm (screen), sikkerhedsværn (adjustable shield, canopy, cover, hoe shield, open shield, rear flap, safety shield, shield), klap (adjustable shield, canopy, cover, door, heart valve, hoe shield, leaf, lift-up drawer front, open shield, rear flap, safety shield, shield), kaste hid og did, dæksel (adjustable shield, butter churn lid, canopy, cap, cover, dome nut, hoe shield, open shield, rear flap, safety shield, shield). (various references)

Dutch

freeskap (adjustable shield, canopy, cover, hoe shield, open shield, rear flap, safety shield, shield), flap (blow, tear), tweezijdig gesteelde huidlappen, slaan (beat, hit, knock, mark, sound, stamp, strike), luik (blind, Liège, porthole, shutter, skylight), klep (tube, valve), beschermingskap (adjustable shield, canopy, cover, hoe shield, open shield, protective cap, rear flap, safety shield, shield). (various references)

Finnish

lepattaa (flicker, flutter). (various references)

French

volet, rabat, battre (floor, wipe the floor with), abattant. (various references)

German

Klappe (back, can it, clack, clapperboard, key, leaf, lid, patch, shutter, Sidegate, strap, swat, tab, tailgate, trap, trapdoor, valve), schlagen (bang, bash, bat, batter about, beat, belt, best, biff, birch, blast, break, Bury, capture, chime, clang, clout, defeat, fell, flog, hack out, hit, kick, kill, knock, knock about, knock around, knock out, lap, lash, mint, outride, Pat, pound, pounding, pummel, punch, punching, rattle, rattling, sing, slap, slash, slat, smack, smite, spank, stricken, strike, swat, take, throb, thump, thwack, to bang, to bash, to batter, to blast, to knock (at), to rap, to slap, trim, wallop, wash, whip, whip up, whisk), landeklappe (wing flap, wing flaps). (various references)

Greek 

πτερύγιο (blade, fin, flipper, pinion, vane). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפרפר (flutter), ל�"ת� פ� ף (flutter, wave), ל�"כות (affict, beat, defeat, hit, hurt, kill, knock, plaque, smite, strike, stroke, swipe, wound), ל� פ� ף (flag, swing, wave), חבט�" (bang, beating, pound, striking, swat, thrashing, thwack), כ� ף (corner, limb, retiring, wing), �"ש (lapel), ב�"ל (a separate part, detached, end, piece, separated, stub, tip), סטיר�" (slap, smack). (various references)

Hungarian

nyakleves (clip, cuff, wallop), fül (bail, bow, ear, flappers, handle, lug, shank, tab), fékszárny (wing flap, wing-flap), csapkodás (beating, chop, flounce, spatter, thrash, thrashing). (various references)

Indonesian

tergelebar, menggelepar (flutter, hover, twitch, wallop), gelebar, bergelabar. (various references)

Italian

sbattere (bang, beat, clap, dash, fling, hurl, knock, slam, slap, throw out, whip, whisk), linguetta (Reed, spline, tab, tongue), falda (blade, brim, coat rack, flake, flapper, foot, lap, layer, leaf, sheet, slope, stratum, tail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

フラクション活動 (flag, flannel, flap pocket, flapper, flash, flashback, flashlight, flask, flat, flat collar, flat race, flush, fractal, fraction activity, fragment, fragmentation, frappe, fresco, frustration, hula dance, news flash), 折り�"し (chorus, cuffs, lapel, refrain, repetition). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おりかえし (chorus, cuffs, lapel, refrain, repetition), フラップ . (various references)

Korean 

�"�랩 (flaps). (various references)

Manx

poltey (clap, clapping, rap, thump), polt (bang, blast, blast explosion, clap, concussion, crack, crack sound, detonation, explosion, rap, report, shot, snap, stroke, thump), musthaa (bustle, carry on, display, excitement, fluster, fuss, hullabaloo, muster, pomposity, pompousness, row, rumpus, shindy, stir, strife, tumult), flibbag (earlobe), flap (fly, fly of trousers), bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop), bennalt (flutter, fly, waft, winnow). (various references)

Norwegian

klaff, blafring, blafre (flicker). (various references)

Pig Latin

apflay.(various references)

Portuguese

bater (bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, biff, bob, bop, brandish, chastise, churn, clap, club, curl, curry, deckle, dodder, fling, flog, forge, form, froth, hit, hunt, jab, knead, knock, lam, lap, lick, plash, pulsate, pulse, ram, scutch, slap, slog, sound, splash, stir, strike, swing, thrash, thresh, type, wave, whack, whip, whirl, whisk, worst), aba (basque, coast, edge, foot, lap, lappet, lip, rim, shoulder, tab, tail). (various references)

Romanian

flaps, fâlfâi (flicker, float, flutter, fly, stream, wave), fâlfâit (fluttering), bate din, bor (boron), clapã (clack, flapper, fly, key, stop, stopple, valve), da din aripi (flop), atârna (beetle, depend, flow, hang, loll, lop, suspend, weigh), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), tulburare (agitation, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfort, disorder, disturbance, excitement, feeling, flurry, fluster, interruption, invasion, perturbation, revolt, trouble, unrest, vexation), panicã (alarm, funk, panic, scare, stampede, terror), parte rãsfrântã, pocnet (bang, clap, click, crack, flip, phut, smack, snap), pocniturã (bang, clack, hit), se bãlãbãni (dangle, flop, paddle, stagger, swing), se legãna (dangle, nod, reel, rock, sway, swing), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong). (various references)

Russian 

створка (casement, cusp, leaf, valve), развеваться взмах, трепыхаться, шлепать (slapped, sloshes, smack, spank, spanked, swatted), шлепанье (flop), клапан (clack, flapper, valve, vent, ventage), взмахивать крыльями, вентиль (faucet, valve), откидной борт (tail-board), махнуть (beat, wag, wave), заслонка (cap, damper, door, register, shutter, sliding, valve), пола (paul's). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zalistak (piston, stopple, valve), zakrilce, pokretni poklopac (tab), list (blade, butt, flatfish, leaf, newspaper, plaice, rag, sheet, topknot), lepršati (bat, flitter, flutter, wave), lepršanje (flutter). (various references)

Spanish

solapa (lap, lapel, revers), flap. (various references)

Swedish

flik (edge, fringe, lobe, patch, tab, tag), smälla (clack, clap, crack, ping, pop, report, slam, slap, smash, swat), smäll (bang, clap, crack, flip, flop, knock, lash, ping, pop, report, slam, slap, smash, sock, spank, swat, whack, wham, whang), slå (bang, bash, beat, bolt, buffet, cap, capture, cast, catch, crossbar, dash, defeat, dial, drive, hit, hurt smb., hurtle, impinge, knock, lay, lick, mow, palpitate, pour, punch, ram, sit, slam, slap, slat, smash, smite, strike, stroke, tack, throw, trounce, warble, whang, whip), klaff (finger-hole, key, leaf), flaxa (flop, flutter). (various references)

Turkish

saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, drool, gab, gas, piffle, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), çırpma sesi, çarpma sesi (flip flap, flip-flop, slam, snap), ayakkabı dili, heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), kanat (aerofoil, fin, flank, flanking, leaf, limb, pinion, plane, ptero-, surface, Van, wing), kanat çırpmak (flutter), çırpma, kapak (bonnet, cap, capsule, clack, cover, covering letter, dome, hatch, hatchway, lid, shutter, top), zırvalamak (blah blah, gab, rot, talk nonsense, twaddle), sallamak (agitate, Bob, brandish, flirt, flourish, jog, joggle, jolt, nod, rock, roll, shake, swing, switch, wag, waggle, wave), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), savurmak (blow about, brandish, bung, chuck, chuck away, dash, fling, hurl, hurtle, rip out, scatter, swing, throw out, thunder), sinirlenme (discomposure, getting angry, vexation), sinirlenmek (be riled at, be steamed up, become angry, blow one's stack, bridle up, bristle up, cut up rough, flame up, flare, flare out, get angry, get hot, get the willies, go off at half-cock, grow hot, jitter, lose one's temper, worry), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), telaşlanmak (be alarmed, ferment, fluster, get flurried, take on), kanat sesi (whir, whirr). (various references)

Turkmen 

salgamak (wave). (various references)

Ukrainian

шльопати (flop, slap, smack, splash), коливати, відкидний борт, ляскання (clabber, clap, flip flap), легкий удар (dab, rap). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phong bì. (various references)

Welsh

llabed (lapel, lappet). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flap": flapdoodle, flapdoodles, flapjack, flapjacks, flapless, flappable, flapped, flapper, flappers, flappier, flappiest, flapping, flappy, flaps. (additional references)

Words ending with "flap": cowflap, earflap, mudflap. (additional references)

Words containing "flap": cowflaps, earflaps, mudflaps, unflappabilities, unflappability, unflappable, unflappably. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alap, facp, falp, faup, fla, flad, Flaf, flal, flape, flapt, flaq, flav, fleep, flep, flimp, Flipo, flirp, flup, fyap, glap, Ifapa, lfa, olap, tlap, wlap. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alp, lap, pal.

-2 letters: al, fa, la, pa.

+1 letter: flaps, pilaf.

+2 letters: capful, flappy, lapful, panful, pilaff, pilafs.

+3 letters: amplify, capfuls, cowflap, earflap, felspar, flapped, flapper, flareup, flatcap, flattop, fleapit, flypast, flytrap, lapfuls, mudflap, pailful, painful, palfrey, panfuls, peafowl, pilaffs, pitfall, plafond, playful, playoff.

+4 letters: cowflaps, earflaps, epifocal, feldspar, felspars, flagpole, flagship, flapjack, flapless, flappers, flappier, flapping, flareups, flatcaps, flattops, fleapits, flippant, flypaper, flypasts, flytraps, foolscap, foreplay, gigaflop, lapidify, leapfrog, mudflaps, pailfuls, pailsful, paleface, palfreys, pantofle, parflesh, parfocal, peaceful, peafowls, pedalfer, pitfalls, plafonds, planform, plateful, platform, playoffs, pratfall, prefixal, preflame, puffball, spadeful.