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flip-flop

/flip-flop/US // ˈflɪpˌflɒp //

触发器,触发开关,拨动电话,触发式

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
    • : a backward somersault.
    • : Also called flip-flop circuit. Electronics. an electronic circuit having two stable conditions, each one corresponding to one of two alternative input signals.
    • : any of several similar devices having two alternative states, the change of state being caused by some input signal or by some change of input.
    • : the sound and motion of something flapping, as a windblown shutter; a banging to and fro.
    • : any backless, usually open-toed flat shoe or slipper.
    • : a flat, backless rubber sandal, usually secured on the foot by a thong between the first two toes, as for use at a beach, swimming pool, etc.Compare thong, zori.
    • : a display or presentation, usually on an easel, consisting of a series of pages hinged at the top and flipped over in sequence.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with repeated sounds and motions, as of something flapping.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    flip-flopped, flip-flop·ping.

    • : Informal. to make a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy: The opposition claimed that the president had flip-flopped on certain issues.
    • : to execute a backward somersault.
    • : to flap; bang to and fro: The door flip-flopped in the high wind.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”

  • Were you playing up or, on the flip side, shying away from portraying a romantic attraction?

  • The answer is that you flip state legislatures, since in most places, state legislatures draw the congressional district lines.

  • With the freedom of doing that, we were able to do a non-human, flip-y thing.

  • So whatever college campuses are doing, they need to flip that script.

  • Nor could they forget the Sunday mornings when his reverence took his dose of egg-flip before church, in order to clear his voice.

  • Bud turned his hotcakes with a vicious flop that spattered more batter on the stove.

  • Caroline, unable decently to go away, gives her gown a sort of flip on one side, as if to produce a separation.

  • With a deft twist and flip he tossed the open noose over his prisoner's upheld wrists and jerked it tight.

  • Never a flop of tail to indicate gratitude for blandishments, never the faintest symptom of canine appreciation.