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flap$28650$ - translation to greek
CONSONANTS PRODUCED WITH A SINGLE MUSCLE CONTRACTION
Tap consonant; Tap or flap consonant; Tap or Flap consonant; Velar tap; Flap consonants; Tap consonants; Flap or tap; Fricative tap; Fricative flap; Nasal flap; Nasal tap; Nasalized flap; Nasalized tap; Nasalised flap; Nasalised tap; Tap or flap; Flap consonant; Voiced velar tap; Ɡ̆; Velar flap; Voiced velar flap; Tap/flap consonant
flap
v. φτερουγίζω, πτερυγίζω, ραπίζω
Definition
flap
(flaps, flapping, flapped)
1.
If something such as a piece of cloth or paper flaps or if you flap it, it moves quickly up and down or from side to side.
Grey sheets flapped on the clothes line...
They would flap bath towels from their balconies as they chatted.
= flutter
VERB: V, V n
2.
If a bird or insect flaps its wings or if its wings flap, the wings move quickly up and down.
The bird flapped its wings furiously...
A pigeon emerges, wings flapping noisily, from the tower.
VERB: V pl-n, V
3.
If you flap your arms, you move them quickly up and down as if they were the wings of a bird.
...a kid running and flapping her arms.
VERB: V n
4.
A flap of cloth or skin, for example, is a flat piece of it that can move freely up and down or from side to side because it is held or attached by only one edge.
He drew back the tent flap and strode out into the blizzard.
...a loose flap of skin.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
5.
A flap on the wing of an aircraft is an area along the edge of the wing that can be raised or lowered to control the movement of the aircraft.
...the sudden slowing as the flaps were lowered.
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Tap and flap consonants
In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.
