Flap vs Ridge - What's the difference?
flap | ridge |
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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(lb) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
:(Hudibras)
Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
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:(Stocqueler)
A chain of mountains.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:the frozen ridges of the Alps
A chain of hills.
A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
(lb) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.
To form into a ridge
To extend in ridges
As a noun flap
is anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.As a verb flap
is to move (something broad and loose) back and forth.As a proper noun ridge is
after a natural landscape feature.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 ----ridge
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(wikipedia ridge) (en noun)The Dust of Conflict, passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.}}
