Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make flat or flatter.
- v. To knock down; lay low: The boxer was flattened with one punch.
- v. To become flat or flatter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make flat; reduce to an equal or even surface; level.
- To lay flat; bring to the ground; prostrate.
- To make vapid or insipid; render stale.
- In music, same as flat, 4.
- To deaden or deprive of luster, as a pigment; bring to a smooth surface or even tint, without relief or gradation.
- In optics, to free from curvature or distortion, as the lines of an image projected by a lens.
- To become flat; grow or become even on the surface.
- To become stale, vapid, or tasteless.
- In music, same as flat, 3.
- Flat; foolish.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To make something flat or flatter.
- v. reflexive To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
- v. transitive To knock down or lay low.
- v. intransitive To become flat or flatter.
- v. intransitive To be knocked down or laid low.
- v. music To lower by a semitone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
- v. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
- v. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
- v. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
- v. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
WordNet 3.0
- v. lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- v. make flat or flatter
- v. become flat or flatter
Examples
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“I mean, we have to kind of flatten out our icons, and for some reason we like our women tragic.”
“But I'm also interested in how it can potentially 'flatten' the very flavors that make each culture unique.”
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“Brown said that he is rethinking the structure of the Governor's Office, hoping to "flatten" it and make it more supple.”
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“I see that Alistair Darling has admitted "that the country is facing a" very difficult year "and predicts that house prices will" flatten ".”
“A caller reported that Masche said he was going to "flatten" his father-in-law and was disorderly, Bruno said.”
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“I am interested in using Deleuze to "flatten" Romanticism and deflate the humanist subject at its center.”
“I'm going to kind of flatten it out a little bit, because we're talking about the topography.”
“I fear that with this approach, one might tend to 'flatten' what you see before bringing it to paper.”
“Yes, I know it is good to collaborate within a school....and if you are doing that you are ahead of the majority of schools in the world already, however, to then extend or 'flatten' the walls of your classroom to include external classrooms makes this a richer experience.”
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Interesting words
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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MUSIC - jazz
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my dictionary
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sratsrat's Words
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to nounen and adjectiven
Verbs constructed with the -en suffix.
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