flap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flap	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for flap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flap n any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope" an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" Synonym(s): dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap the motion made by flapping up and down Synonym(s): flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag Synonym(s): flap, flaps v move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" Synonym(s): roll, undulate, flap, wave move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind" move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" Synonym(s): beat, flap move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" Synonym(s): beat, flap make a fuss; be agitated Synonym(s): dither, flap, pother pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
flap vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. See also {macrotape}. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
flap 1. To unload a {DECtape} (so it goes flap, flap, flap). Old-time {hackers} at {MIT} tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and {microtapes} were 1, 2, etc. and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. The term is used, by extension, for unloading any magnetic tape. See also {macrotape}. Modern {cartridge tapes} no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. The term could well be re-applied to {DEC}'s {TK50} cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes. 2. See {flapping router}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-06-17)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FLAP A {symbolic mathematics} package for {IBM 360}. ["FLAP Programmer's Manual", A.H. Morris Jr., TR-2558 (1971) US Naval Weapons Lab]. [Sammet 1969, p. 506]. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-17)