Word Meanings - FLATTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders

Additional info about word: FLATTEN

To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , 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. (more info) Etym: 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLATTEN)

• Level Plane
• smooth
• roll
• flatten
• equalize
• raze

Related words: (words related to FLATTEN)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• PLANETARIUM
  An orrery. See Orrery.
• PLANER TREE
  A small-leaved North American tree related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• DOORPLANE
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
• WATER LEVEL
  1. The level formed by the surface of still water. 2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.
• CAPPING PLANE
  A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.
• VOLPLANE
  To glide in a flying machine.