A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
A side fin of a ray.
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
A hinged leaf.
The labia, the vulva.
A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
To move loosely back and forth.
To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.
To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).