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# flipper

«flipper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat, wide limb that seals, turtles, penguins and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a flipper, flippers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flipper is a flat, wide limb that seals, turtles, penguins and dolphins use for swimming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#m1)

2) Flippers are long rubber shoes like fins that people wear on their feet to swim faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on adaptation, flippers help sea animals swim; in everyday life children wear flippers when snorkelling. Phrases: «a pair of flippers», «flap its flippers».

### examples

- The seal waved its flipper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x1)
- Turtles use their front flippers to swim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x2)
- I wore flippers and a snorkel at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x3)
- A penguin's wings work like flippers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x4)
- Flippers help you swim faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x5)
- The dolphin slapped the water with its flipper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x6)
- Don't walk fast in flippers; you'll trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x7)
- And all that time he never set flipper on dry ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flipper/#x8)

### note

Countable, often «a pair of flippers». Also called «fins» for swimming. A flipper is an adapted arm or leg, not a fish fin.

### In the corpora

- [Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, because their streamlined swimming shells have no room inside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/11/)
- [The closest living land relatives of whales are hippos, and a whale's flipper has the same bones as your arm and hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/16/)
- [Penguins are birds: they have feathers and lay hard-shelled eggs, but use their wings as flippers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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