Flutter vs Flail - What's the difference?
flutter | flail |
(lb) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered , then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
(lb) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
*1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
*:Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.
(lb) To cause something to flap.
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(lb) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Like an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
* Milnes
A state of agitation.
* (Henry James)
An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
(British) A small bet or risky investment.
* 1915 : , Ch. 93
* So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter ... -
The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end; * 1816 — *: Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail * 1842 — *: On him alone the curse of Cain
Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
And struck him to the earth! * 1879 — , ch V *: If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher... To beat using a flail or similar implement.
To wave or swing vigorously
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To thresh.
To move like a flail.
In intransitive terms the difference between flutter and flail
is that flutter is of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings while flail is to move like a flail.In transitive terms the difference between flutter and flail
is that flutter is to drive into disorder; to throw into confusion while flail is to thresh.flutter
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(en verb)Noun
(wikipedia flutter) (en noun)- the flutter of a fan
- the chirp and flutter of some single bird
- (Alexander Pope)
- Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
- "Oh, by the way, I heard of a rather good thing today, New Kleinfonteins; it's a gold mine in Rhodesia. If you'd like to have a flutter you might make a bit."
Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
Derived terms
* flutter in the dovecote * flutterbyflail
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Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1631 — *: When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end; * 1816 — *: Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail * 1842 — *: On him alone the curse of Cain
Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
And struck him to the earth! * 1879 — , ch V *: If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher...
Coordinate terms
*(weapon) nunchakuVerb
(en verb)- He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
- He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.