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How to pronounce “flap”
Hear “flap” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for flap
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of flap with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The math and magic of origami
My talk is "Flapping Birds and Space Telescopes."
- Definition summary
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce flap
The math and magic of origami
My talk is "Flapping Birds and Space Telescopes."
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “flap”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- A hinged leaf.
- (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- A side fin of a ray.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
- (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
- (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
- (obsolete) A young prostitute.
- (graph theory) A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
- (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
- (soccer, intransitive) For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
- (phonetics, intransitive) To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
- (computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
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