| 单词 | flop |
| 释义 | flop (once / 1503 pages) 1vnadv 2vn 3n To flop is to drop or hang heavily and loosely. If you're exhausted at the end of the day, you might flop into a chair as soon as you walk into your house. Your long hair might flop into your eyes, and if you catch a fish, you'll have to watch it flop around in your boat before it stops breathing. A tired child might begin to sob and flop onto the floor in frustration. You can also call a disaster a flop: "We worked so hard on that play, but it turned out to be a total flop." The earliest meaning of flop was "to flap." WORD FAMILYflop: flopped, flopping, floppy, flops+/floppy: floppier, floppies, floppily USAGE EXAMPLESA flop of a first half and more meandering in the third quarter put Washington in a troubling spot. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Of course, there's a lot of crud too - the challenge is to distinguish the potential hits from the glitch-ridden flops. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) After the game, Beal hobbled slowly to his locker and wore cushioned flip flops as left the arena. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1v fall loosely He flopped into a chair Hyper break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way break down, literally or metaphorically 2v fall suddenly and abruptly Hyper come down, descend, fall, go down move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way 3n the act of throwing yourself down he landed on the bed with a great flop Syn|Hyper collapse descent the act of changing your location in a downward direction 4adv with a flopping sound he tumbled flop into the mud 5adv exactly 2he fell flop on his face Syn right 1v fail utterly; collapse Syn|Hyper fall flat, fall through, founder fail, go wrong, miscarry be unsuccessful 2n a complete failure the play was a dismal flop Syn|Hypo|Hyper bust, fizzle bomb, dud, turkey an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual failure an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose 3n someone who is unsuccessful 3Syn|Hyper dud, washout failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently n an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers this computer can perform a million flops per second Syn|Hyper floating-point operation computer operation, machine operation an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform |
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