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7 definitions found 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 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flap n 1: any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope" 2: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: {dither}, {pother}, {fuss}, {tizzy}] 3: the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: {flapping}, {flopping}, {flutter}, {fluttering}] 4: a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body 5: a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag [syn: {flaps}] v 1: move in a wavy pattern, as of curtains [syn: {undulate}, {wave}] 2: move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind" 3: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" [syn: {beat}] 4: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" [syn: {beat}] 5: make a fuss; be agitated [syn: {dither}, {pother}] 6: pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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 (13 Mar 01) [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 (13 Mar 01) [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)
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