| 单词 | flapping flight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflapping flight That flaps. Applied spec. to the upward and downward movement of the wings of birds and, formerly, of flying machines. So flapping flight, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely flaffinga1522 flapping1592 swapping1642 flappish1665 flopping1679 flip-flap1841 slatting1883 aflap1887 flappy1905 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [adjective] > types of wing flappinga1857 cambered1909 swept-back1914 slotted1921 crustacean1928 cranked1939 unswept1946 variable sweep1954 Gothic1959 ogival1962 society > travel > air or space travel > [adjective] > type of flight unmanned1544 motorless1897 flapping1899 cross-country1909 fly-through1983 the world > animals > birds > flight > [adjective] > flapping or fluttering flutteringc1374 flickeringa1544 bating1587 verberating1675 flopping1679 flapping1954 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 144 The flapping brace strikes off his setled hood. 1706 London Gaz. No. 4236/4 A dark brown Mare..with flapping Ears. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 8 Beneath his flapping Hat, secures his Hair. a1857 G. Cayley Let. in C. H. Gibbs-Smith Cayley's Aeronaut. (1962) xlii. 135 You must mind, when you couple the flapping wings to the handle that works them, that the connecting rod takes [?] into the butt end of the wing rod at such a distance from the hinge of the wing as to allow the hand of the person working [it] to go through two feet, whilst the tip end of the wing just completes its full range. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. xlix. 210 Totty trotted off in her flapping bonnet. 1864 M. E. Braddon Henry Dunbar I. xvi. 285 She took the great flapping ears of the animal in her two hands. 1899 Aeronaut. Jrnl. July 59/1 (title) On Flapping Flight of Aeroplanes. 1899 Aeronaut. Jrnl. July 59/1 The older mathematical investigation by Navier of the problem of flapping flight, seems to be quite discredited. 1906 Sci. Amer. 18 Aug. 117 (caption) The Florencie Orthopter, or Flapping-Wing Machine. 1909 Flight 20 Feb. 99/2 The question is..what fundamental qualities of a flapping-flight machine assimilates its wings to those of the bird. 1921 Flight 15 Sept. 621/2 (title) Problem of Flapping Flight. 1954 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 133 The feathers are raised, the tail widely spread and raised and lowered at various angles..and the flapping flight indulged in. < as lemmas |
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