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Definition: Flapping |
FlappingNoun1. The motion made by flapping up and down. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flapping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | Of a rotor blade:to move to and fro in the direction of the wind while rotating. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Striking through the slag-covered surface of molten copper with a rabble blade just before the bath is poled to hasten oxidation b. Striking the surface of molten copper with an iron scraper or rabble toincrease the surface exposed to the air. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FlappingSynonyms: flap (n), flutter (n), fluttering (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Adjective: nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated; uncombined; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flapping |
| English words defined with "flapping": aflare, African elephant ♦ beat, birr, butterfly effect ♦ eagle ray ♦ flap, flaring, flutter, fluttering, flying ♦ Loxodonta africana ♦ ornithopter, orthopter ♦ purr ♦ raddled ♦ Slatting, synchronised, synchronized ♦ waving, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz, worn-out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flapping": flapping router ♦ route flapping ♦ semi-rigid rotor. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flapping": Lave-eared. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Like a broken winged bird, Morancy came limping and flapping back to his own people. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | With his dressing gown flapping on each side of him, he looked like some huge bat. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Pigeon flapping its wings. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There was the squawk of an outraged hen, a burst of red feathers, and the hen ran off, flapping stubby wings for speed |
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Health | Symptoms of Angelman syndrome include unstable jerky gait, hand flapping, unusually happy demeanor, developmental delay, lack of or diminished speech, and microcephaly (small head). (references) | |
Some of the other behaviors associated with Fragile X are similar to those of autism, including hand flapping, hand biting, poor eye contact, and tactile defensiveness (responding negatively to being touched). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Flapping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.05% of the time. "Flapping" is used about 214 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.05% | 182 | 22,870 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.41% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.07% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 214 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flapping": flapping router ♦ flapping tremor ♦ route flapping. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flapping": flapping-open. | |
Ending with "flapping": slow-flapping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flapping | 16 |
flapping hand | 13 |
flapping flyer | 5 |
flapping flyer plan | 4 |
flapping flight | 3 |
bird flapping origami | 3 |
flapping wings | 2 |
flapping head | 2 |
arm flapping | 2 |
bird flapping | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flapping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, 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). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | плющене (crack, flap, flip, flip flap, flipping, pelting, smack). (various references) | |
Chinese | 拍动 (Flapped). (various references) | |
Danish | flapping. (various references) | |
Dutch | klappen (click, hit, knock, rattle, strike). (various references) | |
Finnish | lepatus, lepattaminen. (various references) | |
French | battement (flicker, flutter, threshing floor). (various references) | |
German | schlenkerig (swinging), schlagend (bashing, batting, dollying), Schlagen (hit, beat, bang, birch, fell, flap, knock, slap, strike), Schlagbewegung, geflatter (fluttering). (various references) | |
Greek | κώπηση. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gelepur (fluttering). (various references) | |
Italian | flappeggio, sbattimento (concussion). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バズーカ砲 (bachelor, battered child, bazooka, butter, butter sauce, buttercream, butterfly, buzz session, clattering noise, rattling, thud, Vatican). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バタバタ (clattering noise, rattling). (various references) | |
Korean | 펄럭임. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | appingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | batimento (backlash, bouncing, hammering, knock, pit-a-pat, pulsation, pulse, shock, thump). (various references) | |
Scottish | flapraich (nf. flapping). (various references) | |
Spanish | batimiento (beat, beating). (various references) | |
Swedish | fladdrig (volatile), vingslag (flap), slag (stroke, battle, blow, shock, thump, whang). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Flapping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falping, Fappani, flipin, fliping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flapping" (pronounced fla"ping) |
| 5 | -l a" p i ng | clapping, lapping, slapping. |
| 4 | -a" p i ng | capping, mapping, napping, rapping, recapping, sapping, scrapping, snapping, strapping, tapping, trapping, unwrapping, wrapping, zapping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, moping, mopping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, reaping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, tripping, trooping, typing, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-l-n-p-p" | |
-1 letter: lapping. | |
-2 letters: paling. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, aping, fagin, final, fling, lapin, liang, ligan, linga, palpi, pilaf, pipal, plain. | |
-4 letters: agin, alif, anil, fail, fain, fang, fila, flag, flan, flap, flip, gain, glia, lain, lang, ling, lipa, naif, nail, nipa, pail, pain, palp, pang, pial, pian, pina, ping, plan. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, alp, ani, fag, fan. | |
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