What part of speech is flutters?

Flutters can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. flutters is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of flutter (infinitive).
  • 2. flutters is a noun, plural of flutter.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does flutters mean?

Definitions

Verb

flutter - flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements; "The seagulls fluttered overhead"
flutter - move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"
flutter - beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated"
flutter - move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered"
flutter - wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids"

Noun

flutter - abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block
flutter - the motion made by flapping up and down
flutter - the act of moving back and forth
flutter - a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"

Examples of flutters

#   Sentence  
1. noun Then, like wolves ravening in a black fog, whom mad malice of hunger hath driven blindly forth, and their cubs left behind await with throats unslaked; through the weapons of the enemy we march to certain death, and hold our way straight into the town. Night's sheltering shadow flutters dark around us.
2. noun The wind blows and the flags flutter.
3. noun The wind blows and the flags flutter.
4. verb The butterfly flutters.
5. verb When I see a rainbow in the sky, my heart flutters with joy.
6. verb Mary flutters across the stage like a butterfly.
7. verb He makes young girls' hearts flutter.
8. verb A tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
9. verb The cherry blossoms flutter down whenever the wind blows.
10. verb The white curtains flutter in the breeze in a heavy, lazy motion, like waves.
11. verb We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
12. verb Don't flutter about like a hen, when you can soar to the heights of an eagle.
13. verb "There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse."
14. verb "Who put the mosquito coil here?" "That was me." "It's senseless to put it behind the curtain. The curtain will flutter with the wind, and if it catches the heat then it'll cause a fire."
15. verb He makes young girls' hearts flutter.
16. verb A tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
17. verb The cherry blossoms flutter down whenever the wind blows.
18. verb The white curtains flutter in the breeze in a heavy, lazy motion, like waves.
Sentence  
noun
Then, like wolves ravening in a black fog, whom mad malice of hunger hath driven blindly forth, and their cubs left behind await with throats unslaked; through the weapons of the enemy we march to certain death, and hold our way straight into the town. Night's sheltering shadow flutters dark around us.
The wind blows and the flags flutter.
The wind blows and the flags flutter.
verb
The butterfly flutters.
When I see a rainbow in the sky, my heart flutters with joy.
Mary flutters across the stage like a butterfly.
He makes young girls' hearts flutter.
A tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
The cherry blossoms flutter down whenever the wind blows.
The white curtains flutter in the breeze in a heavy, lazy motion, like waves.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
Don't flutter about like a hen, when you can soar to the heights of an eagle.
"There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse."
"Who put the mosquito coil here?" "That was me." "It's senseless to put it behind the curtain. The curtain will flutter with the wind, and if it catches the heat then it'll cause a fire."
He makes young girls' hearts flutter.
A tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
The cherry blossoms flutter down whenever the wind blows.
The white curtains flutter in the breeze in a heavy, lazy motion, like waves.

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