flop : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flop	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for flop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flop adv with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud" exactly; "he fell flop on his face" Synonym(s): right, flop n an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" Synonym(s): floating-point operation, flop someone who is unsuccessful Synonym(s): flop, dud, washout a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" Synonym(s): flop, bust, fizzle the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" Synonym(s): flop, collapse v fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair" fall suddenly and abruptly fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" Synonym(s): fall through, fall flat, founder, flop
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flop \Flop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flopping}.] [A variant of flap.] 1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap. 2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] --Fielding.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flop \Flop\, v. i. 1. To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops. 2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flop \Flop\, n. Act of flopping. [Colloq.] --W. H. Russell.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FLOP 1. An early system on the {IBM 701}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1994-11-14) 2. Erroneous singular of {FLOPS}.