Difference between Flapping and Flap

Flapping

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That flaps or flap.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action of the verb to flap. A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap /ɾ/ before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: A description of a network interface or device that changes rapidly and repeatedly between online and offline states (compare thrashing).

Flap

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to move something broad and loose back and forth, as flap its wingsto move loosely back and forth

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.An upset, stir, scandal or controversyThe motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or the flap of a wingA disease in the lips of horses.A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.Vagina