▪ I. flatted, ppl. a.
(ˈflætɪd)
[f. flat v.3 + -ed1.]
1. Laid flat; levelled with the ground or surface. Of the sea: Made smooth or calm.
| 1681 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 611 Flatted or made flat, æquatus. 1700 Dryden Fables, Ceyx & Alcyone 131 Then frothy white appear the flatted seas. 1715–20 Pope Iliad v. 121 The yellow harvests..And flatted vineyards, one sad waste appear. 1730 Thomson Autumn 337 The fields around Lie sunk, and flatted in the sordid wave. |
2. Beaten or pressed out flat; flattened; deprived of convexity or rotundity; made broad and thin.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man. i. 28 The inferiour part of Radius..is not onely at the end flatted, but also ample, large. 1650 T. B[ayley] Worcester's Apoph. 47 Turning the flatted bullet round with his finger. 1797 W. Johnston tr. Beckmann's Invent. II. 232 Flatted metal wire began to be spun round linen or silk thread. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 68 Coffee..is convex on one side, and flatted on the other, with a deep furrow, which runs along the flatted side. 1879 W. Collins Rogue's Life ix. 104 He turns out a tolerably neat article, from the simple flatted plates. |
† 3. Made of flat bars. Obs.
| 1805 R. W. Dickson (1807) II. 161 The hurdles..are generally of two kinds, either flatted or rodded. |
† 4. Rendered vapid or insipid. Obs.
| 1626 Bacon Sylva §377 An Orenge, Limon and Apple..fresh in their Colour, But their Iuyce somewhat flatted. |
5. Of pigments and painted surfaces: Dead, dull, without gloss.
| 1851 Ord. & Regul. R. Engineers xix. 89 Two rooms flatted or French grey. 1859 Gullick & Timbs Paint. 243 A ‘flatted’, dull, or unshining surface. |
6. Mus. Of a note: lowered by one semitone. U.S.
| 1938 Oxf. Compan. Mus. 322 Flat... There is a slight difference of usage in the language of Britain and the United States—in the former ‘to flatten’ and ‘flattened’; in the latter ‘to flat’ and ‘flatted’. 1949 L. Feather Inside Be-Bop ii. 50 The ‘blue’ (flatted) seventh was used incidentally. 1956 ― Encycl. Jazz 27 In California in 1940 Oscar Moore, guitarist with the King Cole trio, ended the group's first Decca record, Sweet Lorraine, on a ninth chord with a flatted fifth. 1958 A. Jacobs New Dict. Mus. 127 Flattened seventh (U.S., flatted seventh), the lowering of the seventh degree of the scale by a semitone. |
▪ II. flatted, a.2
(ˈflætɪd)
[f. flat n.2 + -ed2.]
Divided into, constructed as, or consisting partly of, flats.
| 1913 Chamber's Etym. Dict. Suppl., Concierge,..a door-keeper, esp. in a flatted house. 1921 Glasgow Herald 28 Jan. 10 English visitors..are sometimes astonished at our flatted houses. 1941 When we build Again (Bournville Village Trust) 107 Many of these numerous small factories are grouped in districts. From the planner's point of view this..makes possible a consideration of the job in terms of units. The solution suggested here for this state of affairs is the ‘flatted’ factory. 1957 Times 22 Aug. 8/7 Some form of ‘flatted factories’ to cater for the smaller businesses which need more room. 1962 D. Tench Law for Consumers vii. 106 The purchase and sale of flatted property has for a long time been a feature of Scottish life. 1970 D. Craig Young Men may Die xiv. 93 Opposite is another old flatted mansion. |