flip-flop
触发器,触发开关,拨动电话,触发式
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Definitions
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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.
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- : with repeated sounds and motions, as of something flapping.
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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.
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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.