noun🔗ShareAleteoAn instance where one flaps."The tired bird gave one last, weak flapping of its wings before landing heavily on the branch. "El pájaro cansado dio un último y débil aleteo de sus alas antes de aterrizar pesadamente en la rama.actionanimalbirdChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareFlapping, proceso fonológico en el que /t/ y /d/ intervocálicas se pronuncian como la vibrante simple alveolar /ɾ/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."Linguistics students studied the flapping in the professor's pronunciation of "butter" and "budder." "Los estudiantes de lingüística estudiaron el flapping en la pronunciación de "butter" y "budder" del profesor.phoneticslinguisticslanguagewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareInestabilidad, aleteoThe situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession."The flapping of the school's internet connection made it impossible to finish the online test. "La inestabilidad de la conexión a Internet de la escuela hizo imposible terminar el examen en línea.technologycomputinginternetsignalcommunicationtechnicalsystemfrequencyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareAleteo, ondeanteThat flaps or flap"flapping sails"Velas ondeantesnatureactionsoundweatheranimalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
