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1. (v.t.) flatten
to make flat (sometimes fol. by out).
2. flatten
to knock down; fell.
3. (v.i.) flatten
to become flat (sometimes fol. by out).
4. flatten
flatten out, to fly (an aircraft) into a horizontal position, as after a dive.
Etymology: (1620–30)
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| Definition of 'flatten' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) flatten
make flat or flatter
"flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises"
2. (verb) flatten, flatten out
become flat or flatter
"The landscape flattened"
3. (verb) flatten, drop
lower the pitch of (musical notes)
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1. (verb) flatten
to make or become flat
Use your hands to flatten the pastry.
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| Definition of 'flatten' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) flatten
to reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane
2. (adj) flatten
to throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit
3. (adj) flatten
to make vapid or insipid; to render stale
4. (adj) flatten
to lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch
5. (verb) flatten
to become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch
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| Definitions of 'flatten' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. flatten
[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.”
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Sense: (often without) to make or become flat
The countryside flattened out as they came near the sea.
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 Afrikaans: plat word |
 Arabic: يسير أفقيا، َنْبَسِط |
 Bulgarian: изравнявам (се) |
 Brazilian: aplanar-se |
 Czech: narovnat se, zploštit se |
 German: flach werden |
 Danish: blive fladt |
 Greek: ισοπεδώνω, ισιώνω |
 Spanish: allanar, aplanar |
 Estonian: laiaks litsuma, tasanduma |
 Farsi: مسطح کردن |
 Finnish: tasoittua |
 French: (s')aplanir |
 Hebrew: לְשָטֵח |
 Hindi: समतल करना, होना |
 Croatian: postati ravan, ravnati (s |
 Hungarian: kisimít; lapossá válik |
 Indonesian: membuat datar, meratakan |
 Icelandic: fletja |
 Italian: appiattirsi |
 Japanese: 平らにする |
 Korean: 평평하게 하다 |
 Lithuanian: iš(si)lyginti, padaryti p |
 Latvian: izlīdzināties; saplakt |
 Malay: meratakan |
 Dutch: plat worden, afplatten |
 Norwegian: gjøre/trykke flat, jevne |
 Polish: spłaszczać (się) |
 Persian: مسطح کردن |
 Pashto: پلنول، پيتول، |
 Portuguese: aplanar-se |
 Romanian: a (se) nivela |
 Russian: выравнивать(ся) |
 Slovak: sploštiť sa |
 Slovenian: zravnati (se) |
 Serbian: izravnati |
 Swedish: bli (göra) platt, plana u |
 Thai: ทำให้แบน |
 Turkish: düzleş(tir)mek |
 Taiwanese: 變平 |
 Ukrainian: робити(ся) рівним |
 Urdu: سپاٹ بنانا یا ہونا |
 Vietnamese: dát mỏng; dát phẳng |
 Chinese: 变平 |
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