Flatten

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  • intransitive verb. To make flat or flatter.
  • intransitive verb. To knock down; lay low.
  • intransitive verb. To become flat or flatter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Flat; foolish.
  • To make flat; reduce to an equal or even surface; level.
  • To lay flat; bring to the ground; prostrate.
  • To make vapid or insipid; render stale.
  • In music, same as flat, 4.
  • To deaden or deprive of luster, as a pigment; bring to a smooth surface or even tint, without relief or gradation.
  • In optics, to free from curvature or distortion, as the lines of an image projected by a lens.
  • To become flat; grow or become even on the surface.
  • To become stale, vapid, or tasteless.
  • In music, same as flat, 3.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
  • transitive verb. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
  • transitive verb. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
  • transitive verb. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
  • transitive verb. To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
  • transitive verb. to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel.
  • transitive verb. in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make something flat or flatter.
  • verb. To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
  • verb. To knock down or lay low.
  • verb. To become flat or flatter.
  • verb. To be knocked down or laid low.
  • verb. To lower by a semitone.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. lower the pitch of (musical notes)
  • verb. make flat or flatter
  • verb. become flat or flatter
  • Word Usage
    "Even in composing arrays, you need to first compose it the way you would in perl and then call the flatten method on that list in order to make it what you want."
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