make level or smooth; become level; make flat; beat flat; knock down; make insipid or dull
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Flatten Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
flatten
\flat"ten\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. flattened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. flattening.] [from flat, a.]
1. to reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
2. to throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
3. to make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
4. (mus.) to lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
similar words(1)
to flatten a sail
Lleddfu = v. to warp; to flatten
Llethu = v. to flatten; to overlay
Verb
1. make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises"
(hypernym) shape, form
(hyponym) steamroll, steamroller
2. become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened"
(synonym) flatten out
(hypernym) change shape, change form, deform
(hyponym) splat
3. lower the pitch of (musical notes)
(synonym) drop
(antonym) sharpen
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(classification) music
Flatten Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
vt. [common] To remove structural information, esp. to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat-ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."
Flatten Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Flatten or flattened may refer to:
- Regrading land
- Flat-ten engine
- Svein Flåtten, Norwegian politician
- Mount Flatten, fictional mountain from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show animated television series
- Flattened rice
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