flapping's Usage Examples:

and pteron "wing") is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.

Designers seek to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects.

Flapping or tapping, also known as alveolar flapping, intervocalic flapping, or t-voicing, is a phonological process found in many varieties of English.

fast-flapping birds, which rely on quick flapping of their wings to stay aloft.

At the same time, their wing anatomy also suggests a lack of flapping ability.

the hand when the wrist is extended, sometimes said to resemble a bird flapping its wings.

taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier.

oars, as in the Yale hydrofoil sculling project; and flapping wings, as detailed below.

Some common examples of stimming (sometimes called stims) include hand flapping, clapping, rocking, excessive or hard blinking, pacing, head banging, repeating.

In extreme cases it may cause carpopedal spasms, a flapping and contraction of the hands and feet.

Will Never Die", by flapping its wings non-stop (even during halftime) throughout every basketball game.

The Hawk, who has been flapping his wings since 1956.

autonomous control of flight altitude of an 8-gram, 20-centimeter wide, flapping-wing MAV.

more or less identical to terrestrial theropods, with few adaptations to flapping, but very advanced aerodynamic asymmetrical feathers.

In flight, many of these butterflies have the habit of flapping their wings, so the (usually) bright upperside and the cryptic underside.

body, the National Greyhound Racing Club) and the venue was known as a "flapping" track which was the nickname given to independent tracks.

drawings within the same codex suggest that it was created in similarity with flapping flight.

In 2008 the track was featured in a BBC documentary called 'The flapping track'.

fair of face, and unfamiliar with homosexuality ("So many chickens were flapping around that I thought we were touring Colonel Sanders' plantation”) 2.

penguin's case, its wings are too small for its body, so flight would require flapping its wings too fast to be practical.

Synonyms:

flutter; flap; wave; fluttering; undulation;

Antonyms:

order; fall; stand still; let go of; straight line;