flaps

«flaps» in Mova's school dictionary: the form of «flap» used with he, she or it: «The bird… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (flaps, from flap); noun plural (flaps, of flap)

meaning for a pupil

1) Flaps is the form of «flap» used with he, she or it: «The bird flaps its wings.» tree →

2) Flaps is the plural of the noun «flap»: flat pieces fixed on one side that cover openings, or movable parts on an aeroplane wing. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, a bird flaps its wings; an aeroplane lowers its flaps to slow down and land. In books, lift-the-flap pages hide pictures. Phrases: «flaps its wings», «the wing flaps», «pocket flaps».

examples

• The duck flaps its wings in the water. tree →
• The plane's flaps come down before it lands. tree →
• Lift the flaps to find the hidden animals. tree →
• My jacket has flaps over the pockets. tree →
• The washing flaps on the line. tree →
• A hummingbird flaps its wings very fast. tree →
• The pilot checked the flaps before take-off. tree →
• On the following morning at daybreak, peeped the people out of half-open door-flaps. tree →

note

See «flap» for the meanings. Third person: he/she/it flaps; plural noun: one flap, two flaps.

In the corpora

• Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.
• An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flaps» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.