flipper vs limb

flipper

noun
  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

limb

noun
  • A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing). 

  • The apparent visual edge of a celestial body. 

  • An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock. 

  • A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else. 

  • The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade. 

  • The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip. 

  • A branch of a tree. 

  • The graduated edge of a circle or arc. 

verb
  • To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree). 

  • To supply with limbs. 

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