SkyfireDict

flaps   (TTS Sound)

The noun flaps has 1 sense

• flap, flaps -- (a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag)

The noun flap has 5 senses

• flap -- (any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope")


• dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap -- (an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft")


• flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering -- (the motion made by flapping up and down)


• flap -- (a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body)


• flap, flaps -- (a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag)

The verb flap has 6 senses

• roll, undulate, flap, wave -- (move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach")


• flap -- (move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind")


• beat, flap -- (move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky")


• beat, flap -- (move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping")


• dither, flap, pother -- (make a fuss; be agitated)


• flap -- (pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds)