Definitions
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- adjective Being
slim from front to back, as opposed to earlierbulky models; like a flatpanel. - adjective dated being flat square, having the image display surface of a display screen being flat
- adjective dated being vertically flat, having a image display surface of a
CRT display screen that is vertically flat, but horizontally round - noun A screen or device of this kind
Etymologies
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Examples
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The billboard advert, which caused Harrods to have such a sense of humour failure back in 2009, said: "Get off at Knightsbridge, visit the discerning shopper's fave department store, ascend the exotic staircase and let Piers in the pinstripe suit demonstrate the magic of the latest high-definition flatscreen, then go to dixons.co.uk and buy it."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Over the past 30 years it has led the country in putting limits on vehicle emissions, and imposing higher efficiency standards for homes and appliances such as flatscreen TVs.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk Suzanne Goldenberg 2010
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Exec: "Well everyone and their gramma has a 'flatscreen' jumbotron at home, what do we do now?"
Slashdot 2010
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"Even sales of big-ticket items such as flatscreen television sets have skyrocketed over the past few months.
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"Even sales of big-ticket items such as flatscreen television sets have skyrocketed over the past few months.
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I'm fully across bargain flatscreen televisions and had my awareness of diabetes raised to levels that can only be described as constant vigilence, but I'm no clearer – after 17 viewings – what the point of the Liberal Governor ad is, other than to repeat those words.
Florida primary campaign: Romney up, Gingrich down - as it happened 2012
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I'm not immune to a shudder at the thought of people sitting on their fat arses in front of Jeremy Kyle on the flatscreen, sharing a KFC bucket with their pit-bull half-breed, thumping their step-children and drinking my tax money.
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Rooms have air conditioning, flatscreen TVs and free Wi-Fi.
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With 38% of the population of Hackney surviving on benefits, few homes are equipped with flatscreen TVs.
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In spite of its 20 million players in 185 countries, squash, by its very nature, will be always be hard-pressed to translate to telly's flatscreen blandness its unique snakepit ferocity, rat-a-tat machine‑gun speed and intimate competitive intensities.
World champion Nick Matthew presses the case for squash | Frank Keating 2011
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