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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x1)
- The plane's flaps come down before it lands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x2)
- Lift the flaps to find the hidden animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x3)
- My jacket has flaps over the pockets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x4)
- The washing flaps on the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x5)
- A hummingbird flaps its wings very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x6)
- The pilot checked the flaps before take-off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x7)
- On the following morning at daybreak, peeped the people out of half-open door-flaps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/14/)
- [An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flaps» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flaps/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.