What is "flatting"

Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flatting.]

1. To make flat; to flatten; to level.

2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

   Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
   --Barrow.

3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

Flatting \Flat"ting\, n.

1. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.

2. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.
   --Gwilt.

3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
   --Knolles.

4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls. Flatting coat, a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss. Flatting furnace. Same as flattening oven, under Flatten. Flatting mill.

   1. A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the mill producing the ribbon from which the planchets are punched.

   2. A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.

n. 1 (context Australia New Zealand English) The practice of living, with others, in a flat. 2 (context countable English) A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint. 3 The process of applying a coating of '''flatting''' paint. 4 (context countable English) A flat part of something, a flattening. 5 The process of becoming flat. 6 The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something. 7 (context countable English) An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended. 8 A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. 9 The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers. vb. (present participle of flat English)

1. adj. having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: level, plane]

2. having no depth or thickness

3. not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, unconditional]

4. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: prostrate]

5. lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty]

6. lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp]

7. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed]

8. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]

9. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland]

10. having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"

11. not increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: fixed]

12. not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" [syn: unraised]

13. parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"

14. without pleats [syn: unpleated]

15. lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: two-dimensional]

16. (of a tire) completely or partially deflated

17. not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: mat, matt, matte, matted]

18. lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"

19. [also: flatting, flatted, flattest, flatter]

1. adv. at full length; "he fell flat on his face"

2. with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"

3. below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"

4. against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"

5. in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: directly, straight] [ant: indirectly]

6. wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"

7. [also: flatting, flatted, flattest, flatter]

1. n. a level tract of land

2. a shallow box in which seedlings are started

3. a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

4. freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar, flatbed]

5. a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat tire]

6. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

7. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: apartment]

8. [also: flatting, flatted, flattest, flatter]

See flat