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Flatten vs Flotten - What's the difference?

flatten | flotten |

As a noun flatten

is .

As an adjective flotten is

(obsolete|of milk) skimmed.

flatten

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make something flat or flatter.
  • As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.
    Mary would flatten the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
  • (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
  • * 1994 , , ch. 2:
  • With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hob-house Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
  • To knock down or lay low.
  • The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
  • To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
  • Prices have flattened out .
  • To be knocked down or laid low.
  • (music) To lower by a semitone.
  • To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
  • (computer graphics) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
  • flotten

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, of milk) skimmed
  • (Webster 1913)