Crossword clues for flatiron
flatiron
- Old-style clothes presser
- Old presser
- New York City skyscraper name
- Manhattan's ___ District
- Its business was pressing
- Iconic building with "point" offices
- Hair straightener of yore
- Early New York skyscraper
- Clothes presser of old
- Appliance once used for pressing clothes
- ___ Building (N.Y.C. landmark designed by Daniel H. Burnham)
- ___ Building (Manhattan landmark)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flatiron \Flat"i`ron\, n. An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.
Wiktionary
a. Having a flatiron shape alt. 1 A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove 2 (context especially referring to the shape of a building English) a quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side. 3 (cx geomorphology English) A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer stratum. n. 1 A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove 2 (context especially referring to the shape of a building English) a quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side. 3 (cx geomorphology English) A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer stratum.
WordNet
n. an iron that was heated by placing it on a stove
Wikipedia
Flatiron or flat iron may refer to:
- Clothes iron
- Hair iron
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Flatiron Building in New York City
- Flatiron District, New York City, named after the building
- List of buildings named Flatiron Building
- Flat Iron, Indiana, a small community in Vermillion County
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Flatiron (geomorphology), a steeply sloping wedge shaped landscape feature
- Flatirons, rock formations near Boulder, Colorado
- Flatiron (volcano), a volcano in Wells Gray Park, British Columbia, Canada
- Flatiron (ship), a type of British ship for passing under low bridges
- Flat-iron gunboat, a 19th-century iron gunboat typified by a single large gun fitted in the bow
- Flatirons Community Church, a large non-denominational church in Lafayette, Colorado
- Flat iron steak, a cut of beef
Traditionally in geomorphology, a flatiron is a steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata. Flatirons have wide bases that form the base of a steep, triangular facet that narrows upward into a point at its summit. The dissection of a hogback by regularly spaced streams often resulted in the formation of a series of flatirons along the strike of the rock layer that formed the hogback. As noted in some, but not all definitions, a number of flatirons are perched upon the slope of a larger mountain with the rock layer forming the flatiron inclined in the same direction as, but often at a steeper angle than the associated mountain slope. The name flatiron refers their resemblance to an upended, household flatiron.
The Flatirons near Boulder, Colorado, is both an example of these landforms and the source of their name. Other well-developed flatirons are found in the eastern Uinta Mountains in northwestern Colorado, the Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park, the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix, Arizona and on the flanks of the Marathon Uplift in west Texas.
The term "flatiron" is also used for very small-scale landforms that are known as pediment flatirons and talus flatirons. These landforms are small knolls with a triangular to trapezoidal-shaped sloping surface with the long side of this surface as their base and a point at their top. Both pediment flatirons and talus flatirons are associated with the scarps of a cuesta, mesa, or butte and with their tips directed towards the scarp. Both types of these flatirons are typically separated from the scarp by well-defined ravines and gullies. These flatirons consist of either talus, in the case of the talus flatirons, or pedisediment and colluvium that cover pediments, in the case of pediment flatirons. Their surfaces are protected by a thin layer of caprock. The caprock commonly consists of caliche, which is about thick and rarely as much as thick, that has developed in either talus, pedisediment, or colluvium. Talus flatirons lie within the scarp slope – and pediment flatirons occur within the transition zone between scarp and foreland. Pediment flatirons can merge downward into a fluvial terrace. Both talus and pediment flatirons are the relict remnants of formerly active slope systems that were once part of the scarp's history.
A flatiron is a type of coastal trading vessel designed to pass under bridges that have limited clearance. Her mast(s) are hinged or telescopic, her funnel may be hinged, and her wheelhouse may also fold flat.
Flatirons were developed in the UK in the latter part of the 19th century. Most were colliers built to bring coal from North East England and South Wales to gasworks and power stations on the River Thames that were upriver from the Pool of London.
Usage examples of "flatiron".
By the time Eve got to the Flatiron Building, Peabody had mowed her way through the hoagie and a good portion of chips.
I was at the Flatiron, corrupting his data units, when he did the hit on his brother and Kade.
He gave a command and a diagram of the Flatiron came on screen, revolved, then magnified a highlighted sector.
When she threatened to keep Timmy from you permanently, you picked up that flatiron and smashed her with it.
He remembered a custodian in the Flatiron Building who claimed to have been the first American to cross the bridge over the Rhine at Remagan, Germany, during World War Two.
From me she learned to sprinkle clothes with water to bleach them in the sun, to apply a mixture of salt and wine to grease stains to get them out, to scrub the flatiron with coarse salt so that it would not stick and scorch.
One of the best was a big old Art Deco Cadillac dealership, a glass-walled flatiron of a building set in the angle of two diverging avenues.
I awoke in camp that morning to find the highway to Boulder gone, the sky empty of contrails, and the aspen leaves a bright autumn gold despite what should have been a midsummer day, but after bouncing the Jeep across four miles of forest and rocky ridgeline to the back of the Flatirons, it was the sight of the Inland Sea that stopped me cold.
Where the stone-box towers of NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, had risen below the sandstone slabs of the Flatirons, now there were only shrub-stippled swamps and muddy inlets.
Using the twenty-power sight, I scanned the gulleys leading down between the Flatirons to the swamps and shoreline.
The slabs of Flatirons now rising above me would exist only as a layer of soft substrata.
Some large raptors circled over the Flatirons, but the city was dead still.
Occasionally I paused, looked back over the ramparts at the Flatirons gleaming in the Colorado sunshine, and listened for her footsteps above the lap of lazy waves.
I sat on my apartment terrace, watched the summer sun set behind the Flatirons, and thought.
Where the Flatirons should be, tidal flats and lagoons reflect the sky.