Difference between Velar and Flap

What is the difference between Velar and Flap?

Velar as a noun is a sound articulated at the soft palate while Flap as a noun is 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.

Velar

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a sound articulated at the soft palate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: articulated at the velum or soft palate referring to a veil

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

We hope you now know whether to use Velar or Flap in your sentence.

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