Flatten vs Latten - What's the difference?
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To make something flat or flatter.
(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.
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To knock down or lay low.
To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
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.
(archaic, or, historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.
As nouns the difference between flatten and latten
is that flatten is while latten is .flatten
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Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- 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.
- The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
- Prices have flattened out .
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(wikipedia latten)Alternative forms
* latonNoun
- gold latten
