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flatter
(encz) | flatter,lahodit v: luke |
flatter
(encz) | flatter,lichotit v: |
flatter
(encz) | flatter,lichotivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
flatter
(encz) | flatter,pochlebovat v: luke |
flatter
(encz) | flatter,zalichotit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Flatter
(gcide) | Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. Flatter (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r);
superl. Flattest (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr,
Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G.
fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without
inclination; plane.
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Though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton.
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2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground;
level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat
on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
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What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
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I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton.
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3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
points of prominence and striking interest.
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A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
--Coleridge.
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4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
flat to the taste.
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5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak.
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6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.
Syn: flat-out.
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Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
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A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
--Marston.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
flat.
(b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
-- said of a club.
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11. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a
noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb,
without the addition of a formative suffix, or an
infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in
run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the
loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives.
Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful,
true, are now archaic.
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12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain
fruits.
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Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of
ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of
rectangular section. See File.
Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.
Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
--Raymond.
Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
wide, flat band. --Knight.
Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
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Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
Erskine.
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Flatter
(gcide) | Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. i.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
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If it may stand him more in stead to lie,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure. --Milton.
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Flatter
(gcide) | Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
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2. (Metal Working)
(a) A flat-faced fulling hammer.
(b) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for
drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
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Flatter
(gcide) | Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
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flatter
(wn) | flatter
v 1: praise somewhat dishonestly [syn: flatter, blandish]
[ant: belittle, disparage, pick at] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
flattery
(mass) | flattery
- lichotka |
piece of flattery
(mass) | piece of flattery
- lichotka |
flattered
(encz) | flattered,lichotil v: Zdeněk Brožflattered,polichocený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
flatterer
(encz) | flatterer,lichotník n: Zdeněk Brožflatterer,pochlebovač n: luke |
flattering
(encz) | flattering,lichotivý adv: flattering,lichotný adj: |
flatteringly
(encz) | flatteringly,lichotivě adv: |
flattery
(encz) | flattery,lichocení n: Zdeněk Brožflattery,lichotka n: lukeflattery,lichotky n: Zdeněk Brožflattery,pochlebování n: Zdeněk Brož |
flattery will get you nowhere
(encz) | flattery will get you nowhere, |
piece of flattery
(encz) | piece of flattery,lichotka |
unflattering
(encz) | unflattering, |
Beflatter
(gcide) | Beflatter \Be*flat"ter\, v. t.
To flatter excessively.
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Flatter
(gcide) | Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. Flatter (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r);
superl. Flattest (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr,
Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G.
fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without
inclination; plane.
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Though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton.
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2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground;
level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat
on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
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What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
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I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton.
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3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
points of prominence and striking interest.
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A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
--Coleridge.
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4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
flat to the taste.
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5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak.
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6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.
Syn: flat-out.
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Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
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A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
--Marston.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
flat.
(b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
-- said of a club.
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11. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a
noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb,
without the addition of a formative suffix, or an
infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in
run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the
loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives.
Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful,
true, are now archaic.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain
fruits.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of
ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of
rectangular section. See File.
Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.
Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
--Raymond.
Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
wide, flat band. --Knight.
Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
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Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
Erskine.
[1913 Webster]Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. i.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
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If it may stand him more in stead to lie,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
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2. (Metal Working)
(a) A flat-faced fulling hammer.
(b) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for
drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
[1913 Webster]Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
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Flattered
(gcide) | Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
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Flatterer
(gcide) | Flatterer \Flat"ter*er\, n.
One who flatters.
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The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest
tyrants. --Addison.
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Flatteries
(gcide) | Flattery \Flat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Flatteries. [OE. flaterie, OF.
flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of
uncertain origin. See Flatter, v. t.]
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by
artful commendation or compliments; adulation; false,
insincere, or excessive praise.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
--Rambler.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
--Burke.
Syn: Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See Adulation.
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Flattering
(gcide) | Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
[1913 Webster]Flattering \Flat"ter*ing\, a.
That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a
flattering speech.
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Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care,
To draw men as they ought be, not as they are.
--Goldsmith.
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Flatteringly
(gcide) | Flatteringly \Flat"ter*ing*ly\, adv.
With flattery.
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Flattery
(gcide) | Flattery \Flat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Flatteries. [OE. flaterie, OF.
flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of
uncertain origin. See Flatter, v. t.]
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by
artful commendation or compliments; adulation; false,
insincere, or excessive praise.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
--Rambler.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
--Burke.
Syn: Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See Adulation.
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Outflatter
(gcide) | Outflatter \Out*flat"ter\, v. t.
To exceed in flattering.
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Unflatterd
(gcide) | Unflatterd \Unflatterd\
See flatterd. |
Unflattering
(gcide) | Unflattering \Unflattering\
See flattering. |
cape flattery
(wn) | Cape Flattery
n 1: a cape of northwestern Washington |
flatterer
(wn) | flatterer
n 1: a person who uses flattery [syn: flatterer, adulator] |
flattering
(wn) | flattering
adj 1: showing or representing to advantage; "a flattering
color" [ant: uncomplimentary, unflattering] |
flattery
(wn) | flattery
n 1: excessive or insincere praise |
unflattering
(wn) | unflattering
adj 1: showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering
portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress" [syn:
unflattering, uncomplimentary] [ant: flattering] |
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