| VERB | motion | flop | fall loosely |
|---|---|---|---|
| motion | flop | fall suddenly and abruptly | |
| social | flop, fall through, fall flat, founder | fail utterly | |
| NOUN | process | flop, floating-point operation | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers |
| person | flop, dud, washout | someone who is unsuccessful | |
| event | flop, bust, fizzle | a complete failure | |
| act | flop, collapse | the act of throwing yourself down | |
| ADVERB | all | flop | with a flopping sound |
| all | flop, right | exactly |
| Sounds | flaa'p | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Aesop ... workshop: 48 rhymes with aap... | |
| Meaning | An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "this computer can perform a million flops per second" | |
| Synonym | floating-point operation | |
| Broader | computer operation, machine operation | An elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform |
| Spanish | flop | |
| Meaning | someone who is unsuccessful. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | dud, washout | |
| Broader | failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person | A person with a record of failing |
| Usage of | colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
| Spanish | desastre, inútil | |
| Catalan | desastre, inútil | |
| Meaning | A complete failure. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the play was a dismal flop" | |
| Synonyms | bust, fizzle | |
| Narrower | turkey, bomb, dud | An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual |
| Broader | failure | An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose |
| Spanish | descalabro, fiasco | |
| Catalan | fracàs | |
| Verbs | flop | fail utterly |
| Meaning | The act of throwing yourself down. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he landed on the bed with a great flop" | |
| Synonym | collapse | |
| Broader | descent | The act of changing your location in a downward direction |
| Adjectives | floppy | hanging limply |
| Verbs | flop | fall loosely |
| Meaning | With a flopping sound. | |
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| Example | "he tumbled flop into the mud" | |
| Meaning | exactly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he fell flop on his face" | |
| Synonym | right | |
| Usage of | colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
| Spanish | correcto, de lleno, exactamente | |
| Meaning | fall loosely. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | The children flop in the rocking chair; There flop some children in the rocking chair | |
| Example | "He flopped into a chair" | |
| Broader | collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder | break down, literally or metaphorically |
| Spanish | dejarse caer | |
| Catalan | deixar caure, deixar-se caure | |
| Nouns | flop | the act of throwing yourself down |
| Meaning | fall suddenly and abruptly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Broader | descend, fall, go down, come down | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
| Spanish | dejar caer, dejarse caer | |
| Catalan | deixar caure, deixar-se caure | |
| Meaning | fail utterly; collapse. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Model | The business is going to flop | |
| Synonyms | fall through, fall flat, founder | |
| Broader | fail, go wrong, miscarry | Be unsuccessful |
| See also | fall | Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind |
| Spanish | caer de plano, derrumbarse, fracasar, hundirse, irse a pique, malograrse, zozobrar | |
| Nouns | flop | a complete failure |
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