flap的意思|flap的解释-里氏词典

Flap \Flap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flapping}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E.
flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.]
1. To beat with a flap; to strike.

Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. --Pope.

2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the
wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

{To flap in the mouth}, to taunt. [Obs.] --W. Cartwright.

Flap \Flap\, n. [OE. flappe, flap, blow, bly-flap; cf. D. flap,
and E. flap, v.]
Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is
attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap
of a garment.

A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx.
--Sir T.
Browne.

2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.

3. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or
sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

4. pl. (Far.) A disease in the lips of horses.

5. (Aeronautics) a movable part of an airplane wing, used to
increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or
landing. used often in the plural.
[WordNet 1.5]

{Flap tile}, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner
or catch a drip.

{Flap valve} (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one
hinged side; a clack valve.

Flap \Flap\, v. i.
1. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to
fly with wings beating the air.

The crows flapped over by twos and threes. --Lowell.

2. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or
other broad thing. --Gay.

After reports earlier this year linked the apple pesticide Alar to cancer risks in children, supermarkets had to act "to head off a flap," he says.
The flap is the latest of several since the opening Monday of early national labor contract negotiations between the No. 3 automaker and the UAW.
The flap with China also is forcing Hong Kong to finally take into account the new airports under construction in the Portuguese enclave of Macao and across the Chinese border in Shenzhen.
Arzt, quoted in Sunday's New York Times, denied the flap created by the attacks on Jackson was behind the mayor's decision "to rethink whether or not he would be a delegate."
Ex-Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant says his heavy metal band was wrongly accused of slipping Satanic messages in its albums long before the current Judas Priest flap.
The trip, and the flap, came as Congress completed action on a bill providing $1.8 million to pay the pensions, office and staff expenses of the four living former presidents.
The number of Eastern Airlines planes sidelined with safety violations grew to at least 10 Friday, as a federal crackdown found problems including a fuel leak, a missing maintenance log and a cracked wing flap, the Machinists union said.
The latest environmental flap to ensue from the government reservation is the pollution in Watts Bar Lake just downstream on the Clinch River.
The Hubbard flap has the look of a political hit.
It is in a flap this week about the constitutional implications of the decision by the Prince and Princess of Wales to lead separate lives.
Banners calling for peace and freedom flap from the church's scaffolded steeple.
The shearing forced up the flap, breaking off a section of it, the spokesman said.
The Janata Dal has been marked by almost continuous internal bickering since its founding in 1988, and the latest flap prompted a weekend flurry of consultations within the party.
The flap over the Berkeley agricultural economists' study is deplorable, and also ludicrous because it is mainstream work written in "economese."
A news story raising questions about clinical trials that led to widespread use of the anti-AIDS drugs AZT touched off a flap here Monday, with one activist calling for a federal probe.
And tomorrow there'll be a flap on something else, and the next day a flap on something else.
And tomorrow there'll be a flap on something else, and the next day a flap on something else.
Pillsbury is recalling packages with a production code of "FOK" followed by any number from 12 to 23. The codes are printed on the top flap of the mix box.
In a memo to his staff, Don Hewitt, "60 Minutes" executive producer, said he guessed the Rooney flap had "played a pretty big part" in the ratings results.
The ferret flap has simmered since June 3, when 5-year-old Austin Jacob Simpson of nearby Dale City was bitten by a ferret during a visit to a pet store.
McDonald's has decided the British spud is a dud when it comes to French fries, and its plan to switch to American potato varieties has created a flap among some patriots.
Northwest blamed the failure of the flap warning system and maintained there was evidence that the breaker had been "tarnished" so as not to give an alarm.
Meanwhile, White House officials are taking the flap in stride, even with a measure of humor.
Federal investigators have found additional evidence of a wrong flap setting on a Northwest Airlines jetliner that crashed Aug. 16 near Detroit.
" At the same time, production plans for at least one movie with a Christian theme are not being stalled by the flap: "Christ the Man," to be directed by Paul Verhoeven, is in the planning stages at Mel Brooks' production company.
In an attempt to patch up the current flap, First Boston's chief executive, Peter T. Buchanan, called Mr. Gutfreund on Monday and assured him that First Boston wouldn't participate in any hostile action against Salomon.
Some conservatives hope the flap will lead to Baker's departure.
Dukakis controls damage to his Iowa effort from the Biden tape flap, naming Susan Estrich, a Harvard law professor, to head his national campaign.
The debate flap prompted Twilegar to start airing TV ads stressing the congressman's position on abortion.
She laughed when she was asked about a flap that arose because the hotel brought in chickens from California to feed the princess during a dinner, raising the hackles of Florida chicken producers.

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