Flap

Definition

flap / flæp / n ၁။ [C] ဖတ္လတ္က်ေနေသာ အျပား၊ အခ်ပ္၊ အပ်ဥ္။ the flap of an envelope ❍ a tent flap ❍ the flap of a table (ie an extra section attached so that it can hang down when not in use). ၂။ [C] ေလယာဥ္ေတာင္ပံတြင္ ဦးကို ေမာ့ေစ၊ ငိုက္ေစေသာ အခ်ပ္အျပား။ ❍ AIRCRAFT ၃။ [C usu sing ] တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္လႈပ္ျခင္း၊ ခတ္ျခင္း။ He gave me a flap on my shoulder with his newspaper. ❍ With a flap of its wings, the bird was gone. ၄။ [sing] ( infml ) ပ်ာေလာင္ခတ္ျခင္း။ I got in a real flap when I thought I'd lost my keys. v ( -pp- ) တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ လႈပ္သည္။ (ေတာင္ပံ) ခတ္သည္။ The sails were flapping gently in the wind. ❍ The bird flapped its wings and flew away. ❍ She flapped her hand as if shooing something away. ၂။ ႐ိုက္သည္။ ခတ္သည္။ flap at a fly with a cloth/ flap a cloth at a fly. ၃။ (ေတာင္ပံ) ခတ္သည္။ The heron flapped slowly (off) across the lake. ၄။ ( infml ) ပ်ာယာခတ္သည္။ There's no need to flap!. The organizers of the event were flapping about in the hall.

Examples

1. A flap of leather/skin/plastic
2. He held back the flap of the tent.
3. Why has there been such a political flap over his appointment?
4. [in a flap] : They were in a real flap over the lost passport.