Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FLATTER

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Definitions of FLATTER

1. To enhance someone's vanity by praising them.
2. To portray someone to advantage.
3. To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
4. A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
5. A flat-faced fulling hammer.
6. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
7. To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
8. Someone who flattens, purposely or accidentally. Also flattener.
9. (British, NZ, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.

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Examples of Using FLATTER in a Sentence

• The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the west, and a flatter eastern section.
• For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings.
• The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon, St.
• The hilly nature around Ancona is a strong contrast to the flatter coastline in areas further north.
• Because of the territory's small land mass and flatter terrain, these methods make more sense on Anguilla than on many other Caribbean islands.
• In this case, he derived this surname from the name of Appius Claudius Pulcher, whom he intended to flatter.
• The county is located partially on the rugged Highland Rim and partially in the flatter Nashville Basin.
• Urbana suffered a setback when the Chicago branch of the Illinois Central Railroad, which had been expected to pass through town, was instead laid down two miles west, where the land was flatter.
• This growth persisted despite the railroad being rerouted from its original route over Haskell Pass, via Kalispell and Marion, Montana, to a more circuitous but flatter route via Whitefish and Eureka already in 1904.
• 47%, is water—most of which is the Fayette County half of the Monongahela River between the community and the flatter lands of West Brownsville on the opposite shore in Washington County.
• Due to its larger area and flatter, more fertile land, Lewis contains three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles, and the largest settlement, Stornoway.
• Some historians however suspect this account to be a genealogical fabrication to flatter Constantine I.
• This leads to steeper lines being made up of fewer pixels than flatter lines of the same length, which leads to the steeper line appearing brighter than the flat line.
• The undulating hill country of the Wairarapa around the Ruamahanga River, which becomes lower and flatter in the south and terminates in the wetlands around Lake Wairarapa and contains much rich farmland.
• APS also could reduce camera and lens size and weight by using a smaller image format; unlike the older amateur formats, image quality would be maintained by using newly-developed films, featuring emulsions with finer grain size and a flatter base material.
• The airport site is somewhat lower and flatter than the now decommissioned town site, attaining greater extremes in temperature.
• True foxes are distinguished from members of the genus Canis, such as domesticated dogs, wolves, jackals and coyotes, by their smaller size (5–11 kg), longer, bushier tail, and flatter skull.
• Comprising about two-thirds of the city's area, Pest is flatter and much more heavily urbanized than Buda.
• A glide bomb or stand-off bomb is a standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces.
• Thus, as the distance from a point source increases, the spherical wavefronts become flatter and closer to plane waves, which are perfectly collimated.

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