n. 使物体平滑的方法, 使油漆无光泽的方法

Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flatted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flatting}.]
1. To make flat; to flatten; to level.

2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
--Barrow.

3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to
lower in pitch by half a tone.


Flatting \Flat"ting\, n.
1. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of
glass by opening it out.

2. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with
turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. --Gwilt.

3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching
with size. --Knolles.

4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it
between rolls.

{Flatting coat}, a coat of paint so put on as to have no
gloss.

{Flatting furnace}. Same as {flattening oven}, under
{Flatten}.

{Flatting mill}.
(a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints,
the mill producing the ribbon from which the planchets
are punched.
(b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel
rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes
of ornamentation.