flutter
US: /ˈfɫətɝ/
UK: /flˈʌtɐ/
UK: /flˈʌtɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
flutter /flutter/
- danh từ
- sự vẫy, sự vỗ (cánh)
- the flutter of wings: sự vỗ cánh
- sự run rẫy vì bị kích động
- to be in a flutter: bối rối
- to make a flutter: gây sự xao xuyến
- sự rung
- (từ lóng) sự đầu cơ vặt
- sự vẫy, sự vỗ (cánh)
- nội động từ
- vỗ cánh, vẫy cánh
- rung rinh, đu đưa, dập dờn
- đập yếu và không đều (mạch)
- run rẩy vì kích động, bối rối, xao xuyến, xốn xang
- my heart flutters: lòng tôi xao xuyến
- ngoại động từ
- vỗ (cánh...), vẫy (cánh, cờ...)
- kích động; làm bối rối, làm xao xuyến, làm xốn xang
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb
1 to move lightly and quickly; to make sth move in this way: [V] Flags fluttered in the breeze. + Her eyelids fluttered but did not open. + [VN] He fluttered his hands around wildly. + She fluttered her eyelashes at him (= tried to attract him in order to persuade him to do sth).
2 [V, VN] when a bird or an insect flutters its wings, or its wings flutter, the wings move lightly and quickly up and down
3 [V +adv./prep.] (of a bird or an insect) to fly somewhere moving the wings quickly and lightly: The butterfly fluttered from flower to flower.
4 [V] (of your heart, etc.) to beat very quickly and not regularly: I could feel a fluttering pulse. + (figurative) The sound of his voice in the hall made her heart flutter. + (figurative) He felt his stomach flutter (= he felt nervous) when they called his name.
+ noun
1 [C, usually sing.] a quick, light movement: the flutter of wings + with a flutter of her long, dark eyelashes + (figurative) to feel a flutter of panic in your stomach
2 [C, usually sing.] ~ (on sth) (BrE, informal) a small bet: to have a flutter on the horses
3 [sing.] a state of nervous or confused excitement: Her sudden arrival caused quite a flutter. + to be in a flutter / to be all of a flutter
4 [C] a very fast, unsteady HEARTBEAT: Her heart gave a flutter when she saw him.
5 [U] (technical) the rapid changing of PITCH or volume of recorded sound
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 flap, flop, fluctuate, vacillate, wave, waver, oscillate:
The paper streamers fluttered in the breeze.
2 flit, flicker, flitter, hover, dance; fuss:
We shall never get done if you keep fluttering about.
3 tremble, shake, quiver, dither, jump, vibrate, twitch:
She is fluttering with anticipation waiting for the postman.
n.
4 fluttering, flapping, flopping, fluctuation, fluctuating, vacillation, vacillating, wave, waving, oscillation, oscillating, trembling, quiver, quivering:
The slightest flutter of her fan communicates volumes.
5 See fluster, 2.
fluxn.
instability, change, mutation, modification, fluctuation, unrest, swing, swinging, wavering, movement, motion, oscillation, indecision, indecisiveness:
The economic indicators are in a constant state of flux.
Collocation dictionary
1 quick, light movement
ADJ.
little
VERB + FLUTTER
give
His heart gave a little flutter as the ladder slipped a couple of inches.
2 state of nervous excitement
VERB + FLUTTER
be in, feel
She felt a flutter of excitement.
| get in | cause
PREP.
in a ~
They arrived in a flutter.
| ~ of
Concise English dictionary
flutters|fluttered|fluttering'flʌtə(r)
noun
+the act of moving back and forth
+abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block
+a disorderly outburst or tumult
+the motion made by flapping up and down
verb
+move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
+move back and forth very rapidly
+flag the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements
+beat rapidly
+wink briefly
