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Definition: FLATTING |
FLATTINGNoun1. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls. 2. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. 3. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. 4. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Flat |
Date "FLATTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. York. Horizontal vein of spar or barytes in the lead mines. Also called flatting bed b. A process for truing-up handmade fireclay refractories while they are still only partially dry. Handmaking is now little used except for somespecial shapes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FLATTING |
| Specialty definitions using "FLATTING": CRYSTAL MACHINING COORDINATOR ♦ fumed silica ♦ machine operator technician ♦ pyrogene silica. (references) |
Expressions using "FLATTING": Flatting coat ♦ Flatting furnace ♦ Flatting mill. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flatting | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLATTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | валцуване (milling, stretch). (various references) | |
Czech | zploštìní (flattening). (various references) | |
Danish | slibning med sandpapir (sanding), planslibe. (various references) | |
Dutch | fletteren, vlakslijpen, schuren (abrade, polish). (various references) | |
Finnish | tasohionta (lapping, slice lapping). (various references) | |
French | flettage, ponçage. (various references) | |
German | Verkollern, Sandpapier-Schleifen (sanding), Planschleifen, erniedrigung (humiliation). (various references) | |
Greek | γιαλοχάρτισμα (rubbing, sanding), επεξεργασία χειλέων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lapítás. (various references) | |
Italian | spianatura (smoothing), carteggiatura (sanding). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | alisamento (sanding, sleeking, slicking, smoothness). (various references) | |
Romanian | turtire (squash), nivelare (levelling), laminare (lamination, rolling), întindere (area, compass, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, length, measure, pull up, reach, scope, space, spread, stretch, stretching, surface, sweep, width). (various references) | |
Russian | прокатка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | laskanje (blandishment, blarney, eyewash, flattery, lipsalve, soft soap). (various references) | |
Spanish | apomazado (sanding), aplanado (deflated, flat, platitudinous, unglossed). (various references) | |
Swedish | valsning, planslipning. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLATTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fellating, fiating, fiatting, flarting, Flatin, flating, fleating, flitin, fliting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-l-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: fatling, fatting. | |
-2 letters: fating, lattin. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, atilt, fagin, faint, final, fling, flint, giant, glint, liang, ligan, linga, taint, titan. | |
-4 letters: agin, alif, alit, anil, anti, fail, fain, fang, fiat, fila, flag, flan, flat, flit, gain, gait, gift, gilt, glia, gnat, lain, lang, lati, lift, ling, lint, naif, nail, tail, tain, tali, tang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-l-n-t-t" | |
+2 letters: filtrating, flattening, flattering. | |
+3 letters: flatfooting, fluctuating, leafletting, stagflation. | |
+4 letters: facilitating, felicitating, flatteringly, footfaulting, infiltrating, stagflations, unflattering. | |
+5 letters: frustratingly, lightfastness. | |
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