English Dictionary

flatten

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈflætən/

動詞

他動詞 再帰形 自動詞

(transitive) 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.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）何かを平らにする、またはより平らにする。 / （再帰動詞）壁や床などに身を密着させて、見つからないように、または危害を避けるようにする。

Please flatten the cardboard boxes before recycling them so they take up less space.

リサイクルする前に段ボール箱を平らにしておいてください。そうすれば場所を取らなくなります。

意味（1）

(transitive) To make something flat or flatter.

As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.

意味（2）

(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.

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.

意味（3）

(transitive) To knock down or lay low.

The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.

Prices have flattened out.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.

意味（6）

(music) To lower by a semitone.

意味（7）

To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.

意味（8）

(programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.

意味（9）

(computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

flattens （ present singular third-person ）

flattening （ participle present ）

flattened （ participle past ）

flattened （ past ）