flatting

Meanings

Noun

  • The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
  • A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.
  • The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.
  • A flat part of something, a flattening.
  • The process of becoming flat.
  • The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.
  • An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.
  • A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
  • The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers.

Verb

  • Present participle of flat

Origin

Modern English dictionary

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