Butterfly

Butterfly Meanings:

• A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera
• IPA(key): /ˈbʌtə(ɹ)flaɪ/ (US, Canada) IPA(key):
• A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
• (medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
• (swimming) The butterfly stroke.
• Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
• (in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach. I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
• (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
• (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
• (alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
• (sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
• (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
• (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
• (transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
• [slang] Insect typically having a slender body with antennae and broad colorful wings, called butterfly because of it's tendency to "flutter by".
• [slang] A knife you can open and close by turning around the two sides of the grasp. Usually used in ghettos or for little assaults in quicky market. For the clever ones you can learn some tricks that make you look very very dangerous with that knife.
• [slang] The butterfly in swimming is a great technique. Your body goes in a dolphin type of movement, almost like a rythem, and your hands goes with the rythem of your body. I love the stroke. Not everyone can do it though.
• [slang] easily the greatest swimming stroke of all time
• [slang] A girl who goes from guy to guy, often regardless of feeling, emotion, or any care whatsoever. She is also: a)known as flirt,heartbreaker,promiscuous, or sometimes hoe b)often beautiful with a magic way w/ words c)has more friends that are male than she does female d)often speaks to you as if she has no recollection of any pain in which she has caused
• [slang] A song from a Dance Dance Revolution game. Loved by weeaboo girls all over, though it's a catchy song with a good beat and is made by two Swedish girls.
• [slang] the best stroke in the world! you year-arounders out there know what im talking about :)
• [slang] --easily one of the greatest DDR songs of all time --one DDR classic that was never brought to the US