Flap vs. Flip — What's the Difference?

(of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly

To throw or toss with a light brisk motion

Be agitated or panicky

To toss in the air, imparting a spin

A thin, flat piece of cloth, paper, metal, etc. that is hinged or attached on one side only and covers an opening or hangs down from something

To cause to turn over or around, especially with a light quick motion

An act of flapping something, typically a wing or arm, up and down or from side to side

To turn through (papers, for example); leaf

A state of agitation; a panic

To strike quickly or lightly; flick

A large broad mushroom.

To move or act on with a quick motion

A type of consonant produced by allowing the tip of the tongue to strike the palate very briefly.

To change or reverse (one's position or attitude).

A projecting or hanging piece usually attached to something on one side and often intended to protect or cover

To buy and resell (a house, for example) in a short period of time for a profit.

Either of the folded ends of a book jacket that fit inside the front and back covers.

To turn over from one side to another or end over end

A variable control surface on the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, used primarily to increase lift or drag.

To turn a somersault, especially in the air.

(Medicine) A piece of tissue that has been partially detached and used in surgical grafting to fill an adjacent defect or cover the cut end of a bone after amputation.

To move up and down in twists and turns

The act of waving or fluttering

To move quickly and lightly; snap

The sound produced by this motion.

To leaf; browse

(Linguistics) A sound articulated by a single, quick touch of the tongue against the teeth or alveolar ridge, as (t) in water. Also called tap1.

To change one's mind, especially on a political position.

(Informal) A commotion or disturbance

To go crazy.

(Archaic) A blow given with something flat; a slap.

To react strongly and especially enthusiastically

To move (wings or arms, for example) up and down.

A flick or tap.

To cause to move or sway with a fluttering or waving motion

A short, quick movement

To cause to strike against something

A somersault.

To move wings or the arms up and down.

(Informal) A reversal; a flipflop.

To fly by beating the air with the wings

A mixed drink made with any of various alcoholic beverages and often including beaten eggs.

To move or sway while fixed at one edge or corner; flutter

Marked by casual disrespect; impertinent

Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.

A hinged leaf.

A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.

(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.

(archaic) A fillip or light blow.

A side fin of a ray.

(dated) A whit or jot; the tiniest amount.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

A slingshot.

A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.

A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out

(phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

(informal) The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.

(surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.

The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.

The labia, the vulva.

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").

(obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).

(transitive) To throw so as to turn over.

(obsolete) A young prostitute.

(transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.

(transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.

To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.

(intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.

To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.

Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.

Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.

To go berserk or crazy.

A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.

To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.

A disease in the lips of horses.

To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.

A movable part of an airplane wing, used to increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or landing. used often in the plural.

To hand over or pass along.

To beat with a flap; to strike.

To switch to another task, etc.

To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.

To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

Sarcastic.

To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

(informal) Disrespectful, flippant.

Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely;

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

An excited state of agitation;

To toss (an object) into the air so as make it turn over one or more times; to fillip; as, to flip up a cent.

The motion made by flapping up and down

To turn (a flat object) over with a quick motion; as, to flip a card over; to flip a pancake.

A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body

To cause (a person) to turn against former colleagues, such as to become a witness for the state, in a criminal prosecution in which the person is a defendant.

A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

To resell (an asset) rapidly to make a quick profit.

Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;

To become insane or irrational; - often used with out; as, seeing her mother killed made the girl flip out.

Move noisily;

An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return

Move with a thrashing motion;

Hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg

Move with a flapping motion;

The act of flipping a coin

Make a fuss; be agitated

A dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water

Pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds

(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team;

Lightly throw to see which side comes up;

Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation;

Look through a book or other written material;

Toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air

Cause to move with a flick;

Throw or toss with a light motion;

Move with a flick or light motion

Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse;

Go mad, go crazy;

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

Marked by casual disrespect;