Flatten

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flatten \Flat"ten\, v. i.
     To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid,
     spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"t'n), 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.
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     2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate;
        hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
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     3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less
        sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
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     {To flatten a sail} (Naut.), to set it more nearly
        fore-and-aft of the vessel.
  
     {Flattening oven}, in glass making, a heated chamber in which
        split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flatten
       v 1: make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your
            stomach with these exercises"
       2: become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened" [syn: {flatten
          out}]
       3: lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: {drop}] [ant: {sharpen}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "flatten":
     align, assimilate to, balance, beat down, bend, blow down, break,
     break down, bring down, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down,
     conquer, crush, cut down, dab, damp, demolish, disentangle, down,
     drag, dress, dub, equalize, equilibrize, even, extend, fell, floor,
     flush, grade, grease, ground, harmonize, harrow, homogenize,
     humble, knock, knock down, knock out, knock over, lay, lay down,
     lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, lubricate,
     make uniform, master, mow, mow down, normalize, oil, override,
     plane, planish, plaster, press out, prostrate, pull down, put down,
     put straight, quell, rase, raze, rectify, reduce, regularize,
     regulate, ride down, roll, roll flat, set straight, shave, sit up,
     smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smoothen, stabilize,
     stand up, standardize, steamroll, steamroller, stereotype,
     straighten, straighten out, straighten up, subdue, subjugate,
     suppress, symmetrize, take down, tear down, throw down,
     trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, unbend, uncurl,
     uniformize, unkink, unsnarl, vanquish
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  flatten 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."
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  flatten
       
          To remove structural information, especially 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."
       
          [{Jargon File}]