flagging — 英語辞典

形容詞

1. Becoming tired or less dynamic; declining in strength; dwindling.

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   These cars without doubt were the salvation of the C.I.E. network, as they provided fast, economical services with a degree of comfort which did much to retrieve a flagging passenger traffic.

名詞

1. A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

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2. The process by which something flags or tires.

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   That secret intoxication of pleasure, with all those transient flushings of guilt and joy, which the poet represents in our first parents upon their eating the forbidden fruit, to those flaggings of spirit, damps of sorrow, and mutual accusations which succeed it […]

3. The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.

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   Because older TVs are not able to respond quickly enough to the horizontal time-base errors introduced from the VCR, a VCR connected to an older TV may cause severe bending or flagging at the top of the picture yet appear to operate normally on a newer TV set.

4. Use of a handkerchief code or analogous display to signal sexual interests.

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形容詞

1. weak from exhaustion

   同義語

   drooping

名詞

1. flagstones collectively

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   collectionaggregationaccumulationassemblage

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   there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place

2. a walk of flagstones

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   walkwalkwaypaseo

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   the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative