Flapping can be categorized as a verb.
Adjective |
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| flapping - That flaps or flap. | ||
Verb |
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| flap - move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind" | ||
| flap - pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds | ||
| flap - move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" | ||
| flap - move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" | ||
| flap - move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" | ||
| flap - make a fuss; be agitated | ||
Noun |
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| flapping - the motion made by flapping up and down |
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| 1. | verb | The birds fly by flapping their wings. | |
| 2. | verb | About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer. | |
| 3. | verb | If the wind happened to catch her long silvery veil and any one saw it, they only thought it was a swan flapping its wings. | |
| 4. | verb | The giraffe was flapping its ears. | |
| 5. | verb | The elephant was flapping its ears. | |
| 6. | verb | The ducks started flapping their wings. | |
| 7. | verb | Flap your wings or die. | |
| 8. | verb | Flap your wings or die. | |
| 9. | noun | He wrote on the flap of the envelope. | |
| 10. | noun | There was a terrible flap about the theft. |
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| verb | |
| The birds fly by flapping their wings. | |
| About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer. | |
| If the wind happened to catch her long silvery veil and any one saw it, they only thought it was a swan flapping its wings. | |
| The giraffe was flapping its ears. | |
| The elephant was flapping its ears. | |
| The ducks started flapping their wings. | |
| Flap your wings or die. | |
| Flap your wings or die. | |
| noun | |
| He wrote on the flap of the envelope. |
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| There was a terrible flap about the theft. |
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