Flatten vs. Pancake — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flatten and Pancake
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Flatten
To make flat or flatter.
Pancake
A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack, not to be confused with oat bar flapjacks) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan, often frying with oil or butter. Archaeological evidence suggests that pancakes were probably the earliest and most widespread cereal food eaten in prehistoric societies.The pancake's shape and structure varies worldwide.
Flatten
To knock down; lay low
The boxer was flattened with one punch.
Pancake
A thin, flat cake of batter, fried on both sides in a pan and typically rolled up with a sweet or savoury filling
Crispy pancakes filled with cheese
Pancake batter
Flatten
To become flat or flatter.
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Pancake
Make-up consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, used especially in the theatre.
Flatten
(transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.
Mary would flatten the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
Pancake
(with reference to an aircraft) make or cause to make a pancake landing
The plane landed, pancaking down on the runway
Flatten
(reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
Pancake
Flatten or become flattened
Hurley's car was pancaked
Flatten
(transitive) To knock down or lay low.
The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
Pancake
A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.
Flatten
(intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
Prices have flattened out.
Pancake
To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
Flatten
(intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
Pancake
To make a pancake landing.
Flatten
(music) To lower by a semitone.
Pancake
To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.
Flatten
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
Pancake
A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
Flatten
To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
Pancake
In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
Flatten
To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
Pancake
In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
Flatten
To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
Pancake
(theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
Flatten
To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
Pancake
(juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
Flatten
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
Pancake
Anything very thin and flat.
Pancake lens
Flatten
To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
Pancake
Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
Flatten
To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Pancake
A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
Flatten
Make flat or flatter;
Flatten a road
Flatten your stomach with these exercises
Pancake
(volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
Flatten
Become flat or flatter;
The landscape flattened
Pancake
(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
Flatten
Lower the pitch of (musical notes)
Pancake
To collapse one floor after another.
Pancake
(transitive) To flatten violently.
Pancake
A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
Pancake
A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
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