Flap vs Flip - What's the difference?
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Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
* Sir Thomas Browne
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A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
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(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
(surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
(slang) The female genitals.
To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.
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To move loosely back and forth.
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A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
To throw (as in to turn over).
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To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
(slang) To go berserk or crazy.
To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
(computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
(UK, mildly, vulgar) used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
* 1967 , Peter Shaffer, Black comedy, including White lies: two plays
* 2000 , Susan McKay, Northern Protestants
(British, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
sarcastic
A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog ).
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In transitive terms the difference between flap and flip
is that flap is to move (something broad and loose) back and forth while flip is to put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.As an interjection flip is
used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.As an adjective flip is
having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.flap
English
Noun
(en noun)- a cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Synonyms
* (upset)See also
* ("flap" on Wikipedia) * * lappetVerb
(flapp)- The crow slowly flapped its wings.
- The flag flapped in the breeze.
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Derived terms
* cat flap * flapper * unflappable ----flip
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of earlier fillip, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- We'll decide this on a flip of a coin.
- The diver did a couple of flips before landing in the pool.
Derived terms
* backflipVerb
- You need to flip the pancake onto the other side.
citation
- If you can't decide which option to go for, flip a coin.
- I'd flip if anyone broke my phone.
Derived terms
* backflip * flip phone * flipside * flipper * flip out * flip off * flip overSynonyms
* turn, turn over * (to put into a quick revolving motion) tossEtymology 2
Apparently a euphemism for (fuck).Interjection
(en interjection)- Impossible. He's dining out and coming on here after. He can't be reached. / Oh, flip !
- "Oh flip , don't come near this place," she said. It was dangerous. The Catholics had banners up on the Garvaghy Road saying, 'No Protestants here'.
Synonyms
* damnEtymology 3
From , by shortening.Adjective
(flipper)- I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.