Flipper
noun
A broad flat limb without fingers, used for swimming by seals, dolphins, and other sea animals.
The dolphin moved rapidly in the water, using its flippers for navigation.
Often appears as...
- pair of flippers
- dolphin flipper
noun
A rubber shoe shaped like a flipper, used for swimming or diving.
He put on his flippers to go scuba diving.
Often appears as...
- pair of flippers
- swimming flippers
noun
The flat, broad, rectangular end of a kitchen spatula, used for turning food in a pan.
She used the flipper to turn the eggs in the frying pan.
Often appears as...
- kitchen flipper
- flipper spatula
noun
One of two devices on a pinball machine which the player operates to hit the ball to avoid losing a turn.
He quickly hit the flipper to send the pinball bouncing back into play.
noun
A broad flat limb without fingers, used for swimming by seals, dolphins, and other sea animals.
The dolphin moved rapidly in the water, using its flippers for navigation.
Often appears as...
- pair of flippers
- dolphin flipper
noun
A rubber shoe shaped like a flipper, used for swimming or diving.
He put on his flippers to go scuba diving.
Often appears as...
- pair of flippers
- swimming flippers
noun
The flat, broad, rectangular end of a kitchen spatula, used for turning food in a pan.
She used the flipper to turn the eggs in the frying pan.
Often appears as...
- kitchen flipper
- flipper spatula
noun
One of two devices on a pinball machine which the player operates to hit the ball to avoid losing a turn.
He quickly hit the flipper to send the pinball bouncing back into play.
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Sea Creatures
Used to describe the paddle-like limbs of aquatic animals, especially for swimming.
The seal's flippers left wet prints on the sand.
Pro Tip 2/3Movement in Water
Refers to how these sea creatures move swiftly in water with their flippers.
The walrus used its strong flippers to glide through the icy waters.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Hands or Feet
Flippers are not called 'hands' or 'feet,' even though they function similarly for swimming.
Whales don't have feet; they have tail flippers to propel them.
Pro Tip 1/3Sea Creatures
Used to describe the paddle-like limbs of aquatic animals, especially for swimming.
The seal's flippers left wet prints on the sand.
Pro Tip 2/3Movement in Water
Refers to how these sea creatures move swiftly in water with their flippers.
The walrus used its strong flippers to glide through the icy waters.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Hands or Feet
Flippers are not called 'hands' or 'feet,' even though they function similarly for swimming.
Whales don't have feet; they have tail flippers to propel them.
Pro Tip 1/3Sea Creatures
Used to describe the paddle-like limbs of aquatic animals, especially for swimming.
The seal's flippers left wet prints on the sand.
Pro Tip 2/3Movement in Water
Refers to how these sea creatures move swiftly in water with their flippers.
The walrus used its strong flippers to glide through the icy waters.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Hands or Feet
Flippers are not called 'hands' or 'feet,' even though they function similarly for swimming.
Whales don't have feet; they have tail flippers to propel them.
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Rescuing Adorable Grey...
everything so nose to flipper and at that point we sort of make a note of where its injuries are and then at least once a day usually twice depending on the severity of the wounds we will clean them and this is a really important process because it lets us know every day we're checking them and we're seeing if actually the treatment is working because a lot of the time they're
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Sleepy Harbour Seals and...
skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily
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A robot that eats...
and any organism will have those three components, so let's go through them one at a time. It has a body, and its body is made out of plastic, and it sits on top of the water. And it's got flippers on the side here -- paddles that help it move, just like the water boatman. It's got a plastic body,
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The Exhilarating Peace...
putting on your goggles, a pair of flippers, means you can go see another world, another universe, completely magical. You can see little fish, seaweed, the flora and fauna, you can watch it all discreetly, sliding underwater, looking around, and coming back to the surface, leaving no trace.
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A Close Encounter With a...
adrenaline and that trying to be the fly in the wall getting a glimpse into its world seeing what nobody else has seen the scientist in me the biologist in me is very curious to see the fanning behavior of the flippers and how they could use their vibration to locate them
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Sea Turtles Match...
a significant relationship between the duration of the turtles dives and the number of breaths they took at the surface afterward the latest study based their findings on data collected to determine how deep the leatherback stove and how long their flippers stroke
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Leopard Seals Play and...
nurturing caring animals that are very complex when you look at this tree historic serpentine appearance of a leopard suit they're designed for speed they've got these long pectoral flippers that when they're on a chase of a
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Plesiosaurs 101 PIPE...
Despite their differences, pliosaurs and plesiosaurs shared a few key features that were characteristic of the genus Plesiosauria. They used all four of their flippers to swim in a form of underwater flight,
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Seal Swims into City...
narrow this just puts in the flippers and claws and just strips it down strips it right off it's an unlikely relationship men considered to be tough as old nails raiding their stock for the
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Baby Penguin Annoys...
there's a world beyond the nest down behind the Boatshed this plucky little talent still a couple of months from learning the true purpose of flippers is
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Rescuing Adorable Grey...
everything so nose to flipper and at that point we sort of make a note of where its injuries are and then at least once a day usually twice depending on the severity of the wounds we will clean them and this is a really important process because it lets us know every day we're checking them and we're seeing if actually the treatment is working because a lot of the time they're
Video examples
Sleepy Harbour Seals and...
skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily
Video examples
A robot that eats...
and any organism will have those three components, so let's go through them one at a time. It has a body, and its body is made out of plastic, and it sits on top of the water. And it's got flippers on the side here -- paddles that help it move, just like the water boatman. It's got a plastic body,
Video examples
The Exhilarating Peace...
putting on your goggles, a pair of flippers, means you can go see another world, another universe, completely magical. You can see little fish, seaweed, the flora and fauna, you can watch it all discreetly, sliding underwater, looking around, and coming back to the surface, leaving no trace.
Video examples
A Close Encounter With a...
adrenaline and that trying to be the fly in the wall getting a glimpse into its world seeing what nobody else has seen the scientist in me the biologist in me is very curious to see the fanning behavior of the flippers and how they could use their vibration to locate them
Video examples
Sea Turtles Match...
a significant relationship between the duration of the turtles dives and the number of breaths they took at the surface afterward the latest study based their findings on data collected to determine how deep the leatherback stove and how long their flippers stroke
Video examples
Leopard Seals Play and...
nurturing caring animals that are very complex when you look at this tree historic serpentine appearance of a leopard suit they're designed for speed they've got these long pectoral flippers that when they're on a chase of a
Video examples
Plesiosaurs 101 PIPE...
Despite their differences, pliosaurs and plesiosaurs shared a few key features that were characteristic of the genus Plesiosauria. They used all four of their flippers to swim in a form of underwater flight,
Video examples
Seal Swims into City...
narrow this just puts in the flippers and claws and just strips it down strips it right off it's an unlikely relationship men considered to be tough as old nails raiding their stock for the
Video examples
Baby Penguin Annoys...
there's a world beyond the nest down behind the Boatshed this plucky little talent still a couple of months from learning the true purpose of flippers is
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Quote examples
Imran Tahir
Pakistani Athlete
Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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Colin Mochrie
Scottish Actor
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
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Snoop Dogg
American Rapper
If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
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Camille Grammer
American Celebrity
I'm no table flipper. I am more calm and collected in my fights.
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Imran Tahir
Pakistani Athlete
Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners.
Quote examples
Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
Quote examples
Colin Mochrie
Scottish Actor
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
Quote examples
Tom Waits
American Musician
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
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Snoop Dogg
American Rapper
If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
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Camille Grammer
American Celebrity
I'm no table flipper. I am more calm and collected in my fights.
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