(a.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
(a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
(a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
(a.) To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
(v. i.) To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(2) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
(3) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(4) Six patients, two of whom developed sciatic neuropathy, demonstrated complete flattening of the SSEP.
(5) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(6) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(7) In an effort to decrease the treatment time for this technique, the flattening filter has been removed from an AECL Therac-6 linear accelerator and the characteristics of the resulting beam have been measured.
(8) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(9) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
(10) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(11) The EWRGP group showed a mean flattening in corneal curvature of 0.11 and 0.15 mm in the flattest and steepest corneal meridians, respectively.
(12) The lining epithelium was a single layer of flattened or cuboidal endocervical cells.
(13) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
(14) In older children, there were a low vertebral signal and disappearance of the disc-vertebra borders on T1-weighted images and a high vertebral signal with a decreased and flattened disc signal on T2-weighted images.
(15) Poorly-differentiated tissue produced a more haphazard out-growth of pleomorphic cells with few processes and flattened pseudopodia.
(16) In the past, ovarian cancer was more common in higher social classes, but sociocultural differences seem to have flattened off over recent decades.
(17) In the SEM three corresponding types were identified, a relatively smooth spherical type, a highly ruffled type and a fairly smooth flattened type.
(18) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
(19) By phase-contrast microscopy of living cells and in more detail by scanning electron microscopy, the megakaryocytes showed a nonreversible adherence, an extensive formation of filopodia around the periphery like the rays of the sun, and a tendency toward flattening.
(20) The nerve bundles, encircled by basal lamina, were enclosed by a thin connective tissue layer and by flattened fibroblast-like cells.
Uncock
Definition:
(v. t.) To let down the cock of, as a firearm.
(v. t.) To deprive of its cocked shape, as a hat, etc.
(v. t.) To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.