Flap vs Tape - 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.
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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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Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus
(trading , from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
(ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
To bind with adhesive tape.
To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
(informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
As nouns the difference between flap and tape
is that flap is anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved while tape is stone.As a verb flap
is to move (something broad and loose) back and forth.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 ----tape
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hand me some tape . I need to fix a tear in this paper.
- After the party there was tape all over the place.
- Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
- Did you get that on tape ?
- Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
- Don’t fight the tape .
- His pass was right on the tape .
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * adhesive tape * cassette tape * cut red tape * double-sided tape * duck tape * duck tape * duct tape * gaffer tape * gray tape * magnetic tape * masking tape * on tape * police tape * red tape * scotch tape * Sellotape * sex tape * tale of the tape * tapeworm * tape measure * tape recorder * ticker tape * sticky tape * video tapeVerb
- Can you tape that together, please?
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
- I've finally got this thing taped.