Source: WordNet® 3.1
flatting (usually uncountable, plural flattings)
(Australia, New Zealand) The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
(countable) A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.
The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.
(countable) A flat part of something, a flattening.
The process of becoming flat.
The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.
(countable) An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.
A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers.
flatting
present participle of flat
Source: Wiktionary
Flat"ting, n.
1. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
2. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. Gwilt.
3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. Knolles.
4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls. Flatting coat, a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss.
– Flatting furnace. Same as Flattening oven, under Flatten.
– Flatting mill. (a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the ribbon from which the planchets are punched. (b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.
Flat, a. [Compar. Flatter; superl. Flattest.] Etym: [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. flötz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton.
2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. Milton.
3. (Fine Arts)
Definition: Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. Coleridge.
4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Shak.
6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. Marston.
8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
9. (Phonetics)
Definition: Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
– Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
– Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight.
– Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
– Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File.
– Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. Knight.
– Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.
– Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
– Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. Raymond.
– Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. Knight.
– Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
– Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- Flat tint (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
– To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. Lord Erskine.
Flat, adv.
1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly. Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. Herbert.
2. (Stock Exchange)
Definition: Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]
Flat, n.
1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.
2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. Shak.
3. Something broad and flat in form; as: (a) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. (b) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. (c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car. (d) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
5. (Arch.)
Definition: A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
6. (Mining)
Definition: A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. Raymond.
7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. Holmes.
8. (Mus.)
Definition: A character [] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
9. (Geom.)
Definition: A homaloid space or extension.
Flat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flatting.]
1. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. Barrow.
3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
Flat, v. i.
1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fal to an even surface. Sir W. Temple.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: To fall form the pitch. To flat out, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
