flapping

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat that flaps or flap

   “flapping sails”

2. isim An instance where one, or something, flaps.

   “The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.”

3. isim A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
4. isim The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
5. isim The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.

   “Greyhound racing had its origins in whippet racing, which was derived in turn from hare coursing. By the early twentieth century, however, a form of dog racing held in 'flapping tracks' was a common pastime in the wastelands near working-class areas of industrial cities.”

6. fiil present participle and gerund of flap