flap

[US]/flæp/
[UK]/flæp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. & vi. move up and down or from side to side lightly and quickly
vi. be anxious, worried
n. a piece of hanging material that flutters, a quick movement of something back and forth, excitement, a state of confusion.

Phrases & Collocations

flap your wings

skin flap

pocket flap

valve flap

flap gate

flap valve

flap wheel

Example Sentences

the flap of an envelope.

the flap of the envelope

the flap of the flag in the wind.

flap a book down hastily

The flag flaps in the wind.

The origin of flaps was frontonasal flap in 58 cases, bilobed flap in 67 cases, reforming rhomboid flap in 152 cases, nasolabial flap in 118 cses, forehead falp in 33 cases.

a flap in Congress over the defense budget.

the sides of the tent had a tendency to flap about .

they flap away the flies with peacock tails.

flaps are normally moved by the hydraulics.

hear the coo of the dove, the flap of its wings.

Although I moistened it,the flap doesn’t stick to the envelope.

they're in a flap over who's going to take Hugh's lectures.

Julia’s getting into a real flap about her exams.

Most grass embryos have a flap-like structure known as the epiblast.

A new bilobed design for the sensate radial forearm flap to preserve tongue mobility following significant glossectomy.

internasal valve A fleshy flap extending between the nostrils and partly covering the mouth of rays.

Objective To observe the therapeutic effects of distal vascular flap with sural nerve for renovation of skin defect in malleoli.

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