Synonyms of the word flapping


FLAPPINGFLAP - FLUTTER - FLUTTERING - UNDULATION - WAVE

flapping

  • adj. That flaps or flap.
  • n. An instance where one flaps.
  • n. (phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and…
  • n. (computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised…
  • v. present participle of flap.

flap

  • n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  • n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  • n. A hinged leaf.
  • n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
  • n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
  • n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  • n. A disease in the lips of horses.
  • n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
  • n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  • n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
  • v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
  • v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

flutter

  • v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
  • v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the…
  • v. (transitive) To cause something to flap.
  • v. (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
  • n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
  • n. A state of agitation.
  • n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
  • n. (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
  • n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

fluttering

  • n. Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
  • v. present participle of flutter.

undulation

  • n. an instance or act of undulating.
  • n. a wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
  • n. (music) a tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
  • n. a wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
  • n. a wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.

wave

  • v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
  • v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
  • v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
  • v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
  • n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
  • n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  • n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  • n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
  • v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

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