flip-flop

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.

   “the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents”

2. isim A change of places; an inversion or swap.

   “On the break for strong left, everything remains the same, except for the flip-flop of positions.”

3. isim An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
4. isim A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.

   “Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]”

5. isim The sound of a regular footfall.
6. isim A somersault.
7. isim A return trip.

   “We'll catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. We gone, 'bye, 'bye.”

8. isim A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
9. fiil To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.