Noun

• S: (n) flap (flap%1:11:01::), flapping (flapping%1:11:00::), flutter (flutter%1:11:01::), fluttering (fluttering%1:11:00::) (the motion made by flapping up and down)

Verb

• S: (v) roll (roll%2:38:10::), undulate (undulate%2:38:00::), flap (flap%2:38:01::), wave (wave%2:38:00::) (move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion) "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
• S: (v) flap (flap%2:38:00::) (move noisily) "flags flapped in the strong wind"
• S: (v) beat (beat%2:38:04::), flap (flap%2:38:03::) (move with a thrashing motion) "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
• S: (v) beat (beat%2:38:02::), flap (flap%2:38:02::) (move with a flapping motion) "The bird's wings were flapping"
• S: (v) dither (dither%2:37:00::), flap (flap%2:37:00::), pother (pother%2:37:00::) (make a fuss; be agitated)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) flap (flap%2:32:00::) (pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) pronounce (pronounce%2:32:01::), articulate (articulate%2:32:00::), enounce (enounce%2:32:00::), sound out (sound_out%2:32:01::), enunciate (enunciate%2:32:01::), say (say%2:32:02::) (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way) "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
• S: (v) twang (twang%2:32:00::) (pronounce with a nasal twang)
• S: (v) devoice (devoice%2:32:00::) (utter with tense vocal chords)
• S: (v) raise (raise%2:32:15::) (pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth) "raise your `o'"
• S: (v) lilt (lilt%2:32:00::) (articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way)
• S: (v) palatalize (palatalize%2:32:00::), palatalise (palatalise%2:32:00::) (pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate)
• S: (v) nasalize (nasalize%2:32:00::), nasalise (nasalise%2:32:00::) (pronounce with a lowered velum) "She nasalizes all her vowels"
• S: (v) nasalize (nasalize%2:32:01::), nasalise (nasalise%2:32:01::) (speak nasally or through the nose) "In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize"
• S: (v) mispronounce (mispronounce%2:32:00::), misspeak (misspeak%2:32:00::) (pronounce a word incorrectly) "She mispronounces many Latinate words"
• S: (v) aspirate (aspirate%2:32:00::) (pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds)
• S: (v) voice (voice%2:32:01::), sound (sound%2:32:00::), vocalize (vocalize%2:32:02::), vocalise (vocalise%2:32:02::) (utter with vibrating vocal chords)
• S: (v) retroflex (retroflex%2:32:00::) (articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate) "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"
• S: (v) subvocalize (subvocalize%2:32:00::), subvocalise (subvocalise%2:32:00::) (articulate without making audible sounds) "she was reading to herself and merely subvocalized"
• S: (v) syllabize (syllabize%2:32:00::), syllabise (syllabise%2:32:00::) (utter with distinct articulation of each syllable) "The poet syllabized the verses he read"
• S: (v) drawl (drawl%2:32:00::) (lengthen and slow down or draw out) "drawl one's vowels"
• S: (v) round (round%2:32:00::), labialize (labialize%2:32:00::), labialise (labialise%2:32:00::) (pronounce with rounded lips)
• S: (v) lisp (lisp%2:32:00::) (speak with a lisp)
• S: (v) stress (stress%2:32:01::), accent (accent%2:32:00::), accentuate (accentuate%2:32:01::) (put stress on; utter with an accent) "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
• S: (v) vocalize (vocalize%2:32:00::), vocalise (vocalise%2:32:00::), vowelize (vowelize%2:32:00::), vowelise (vowelise%2:32:00::) (pronounce as a vowel) "between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized"
• S: (v) click (click%2:32:01::) (produce a click) "Xhosa speakers click"
• S: (v) trill (trill%2:32:01::) (pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r') "Some speakers trill their r's"
• S: (v) sibilate (sibilate%2:32:03::) (pronounce with an initial sibilant)
• S: (v) flap (flap%2:32:00::) (pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds)
• S: (v) explode (explode%2:32:02::) (cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/)
• S: (v) roll (roll%2:32:00::) (pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/) "She rolls her r's"
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something