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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"t'n), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Flattened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattening}.] [From {Flat}, adjective]
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.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flatten \Flat"ten\, verb (used without an object) To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flatten
verb
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}]
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