flatten

6 definitions found

flatten - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flatten \Flat"ten\, v. i.
     To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid,
     spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
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  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.
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     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.
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flatten - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, flatten out]
      3: lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: flatten, drop]
         [ant: sharpen]

flatten - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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]
  

flatten - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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."
  

flatten - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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