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    To flap means to move quickly up and down or side to side, especially wings, or something loose like a flag or a piece of paper in the wind - "the bird flapped its wings" or "the flag flapped in the wind." As a noun, "a flap" is a flat piece of something attached on one side that can move, like the flap of an envelope or a pocket flap. There is also an informal British use: "to be in a flap" means to be worried and confused, rushing around anxiously about something.

    拍動、飄動；（名）蓋子、翻蓋；（英式口語）慌亂

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

flapnoun詞源 1/flæp/

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    Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

    • a flap of a garment
    • The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
  • 2

    A hinged leaf.

    • the flaps of a table
    • the flap of a shutter
  • 3

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.

  • 4

    A side fin of a ray.

  • 5

    The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

    • the flap of a sail
    • the flap of a wing
  • 6

    A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.

    • The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
    • “[…] We saw him vanish right in front of the rest of us. He was there and then he wasn’t. We were to wait for a year for his return or for some message. We waited. Nothing.” / Calvin, his voice cracking: “Jeepers, sir. You must have been in sort of a flap.”
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    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsA consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

  • 8

    medicinesciencessurgeryA piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    vulgarslangThe labia, the vulva.

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    obsoleteA blow or slap (especially to the face).

    • 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
    • a1500 The Prose Merlinː The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
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    obsoleteA young prostitute.

    • Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes.
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    graph-theorymathematicssciencesA connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.

flapverb詞源 2/flæp/

  • 1

    To move (something broad and loose) up and down.

    • The crow slowly flapped its wings.
    • Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
  • 2

    To move loosely back and forth.

    • The flag flapped in the breeze.
  • 3

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesFor a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.

    • Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.
  • 4

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsTo pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.

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    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsTo be pronounced with a flap consonant.

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    communicationscomputingelectrical-engineeringTo be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

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    To talk, especially in a manner seen as excessive, nagging or annoying.

    • She stay flappin' at me.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。