Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
FLATTEN
flatten, drop
(verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes)
flatten, flatten out
(verb) become flat or flatter; “The landscape flattened”
flatten
(verb) make flat or flatter; “flatten a road”; “flatten your stomach with these exercises”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
flatten (third-person singular simple present flattens, present participle flattening, simple past and past participle flattened)
(transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
(reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
(transitive) To knock down or lay low.
(intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
(intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
(music) To lower by a semitone.
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
(programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2Ă—2 array into a list of four elements.
(computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
Source: Wiktionary
Flat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] Etym: [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.)
Definition: To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. 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.
Flat"ten, v. i.
Definition: To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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