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flatling

Meaning of "flatling" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF FLATLING

ˈflætlɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLATLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flatling can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES FLATLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of flatling in the English dictionary

The definition of flatling in the dictionary is in a flat or prostrate position. Other definition of flatling is with the flat side, as of a sword Also : flatlings.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLATLING

beetling · bratling · catling · eastling · fatling · fettling · footling · gnatling · mantling · mortling · nestling · priestling · ratling · rattling · scantling · softling · startling · subtitling · whitling · witling

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLATLING

flatfish · flatfoot · flatform · flathead · flatiron · flatland · flatlander · flatlet · flatline · flatliner · flatlings · flatlong · flatly · flatmate · flatness · flatpick · flats · flatscreen · flatstick · flatted

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLATLING

all-in wrestling · arm wrestling · bantling · bristling · bustling · calling · castling · dismantling · Graeco-Roman wrestling · Indian wrestling · mud wrestling · rustling · saber-rattling · sabre-rattling · sumo wrestling · throttling · troutling · unsettling · whistling · wine-bottling · wrestling

Synonyms and antonyms of flatling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «flatling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLATLING

Find out the translation of flatling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of flatling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flatling» in English.
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flatling
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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flatling
570 millions of speakers
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English

flatling
510 millions of speakers
hi

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flatling
380 millions of speakers
ar

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flatling
280 millions of speakers
ru

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flatling
278 millions of speakers
pt

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flatling
270 millions of speakers
bn

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flatling
260 millions of speakers
fr

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flatling
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Rata
190 millions of speakers
de

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flatling
180 millions of speakers
ja

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flatling
130 millions of speakers
ko

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flatling
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Flatling
85 millions of speakers
vi

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flatling
80 millions of speakers
ta

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flatling
75 millions of speakers
mr

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फ्लॅटिंग
75 millions of speakers
tr

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flatling
70 millions of speakers
it

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flatling
65 millions of speakers
pl

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flatling
50 millions of speakers
uk

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flatling
40 millions of speakers
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flatling
30 millions of speakers
el

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flatling
15 millions of speakers
af

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flatling
14 millions of speakers
sv

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flatling
10 millions of speakers
no

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flatling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flatling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLATLING»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of flatling
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flatling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLATLING»

Discover the use of flatling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flatling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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La morte d'Arthure: The history of King Arthur and of the ...
... this knight smote sir Mador groveling upon the ground, and the knight stept neere him for to have pulled sir Mador flatling 1 upon the ground. And therwithal sodeinly sir Mador arose, and in his arising hee smote that knight through the thigh, ...
Thomas Wright, 1889
2
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The tempest. 11th ed. ...
A few of these, without the dative suffix, exist under the form -ling or -long, as head-long, sideling, sidelong, darhling,flatling, and flatlong. -W. A. WRIGHT quotes Hollyband's Dictionarie .' ' Frapper du plat de l'espée, to strike with a sword ...
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Samuel Burdett Hemingway, 1892
3
A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
Windy, or rather causing wind say flatulent. Eat not too many of those apples, they be very flutive. Lingua, O. PI. v. 235. No other instance has been produced. Flatling. Flat; applying the broadest side to the object. Shakespeare has flatlong.
Robert Nares, 1822
4
An Historical Syntax of the English Language
1667 Milton, P. L. Ill, 39, The wakeful Bird Sings darkling. | 1712 Steele, Spect. no . 406, Darkling and tir'd we shall the Marshes tread. | 1859 Tennyson, Vivien 732, He . . . darkling felt the sculptured ornament. Flatling. C1450 Mirour Saluacioun ...
Fredericus Theodorus Visser, 1963
5
Transactions of the Philological Society: 1862/63
Bannatyne Club.) The more modern Scotch form is flatlim. Flatling is thus explained in Nares' Glossary :— “Flalling, to apply the broadest side to an object." "Rogers never foyn'd and seldom strake But flailing." (Harrington's Ariost, xxxvi, 56.) ...
Philological Society (London), 1862
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Shakespeare: Select Plays: The Tempest
So in Hollyband's Dictionarie, ' Frapper du plat de l'espee, to strike with a sword flatling.' And Spenser, Faery Queen, v. 5. 18, ' Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke.' See Morris, English Accidence, § 311, and Matzner, Englische ...
William Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, 1875
7
Pericles. Tempest
2. 337 : " the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' the sere ;" and see our ed. p. 206. 176. An it had not fallen fiat-long. On an, see Gr. 101. Flat -long, that is, as if struck with the side of the sword instead of its edge. Flatling is ...
William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe, 1884
8
Le Morte D'Arthur
But at the last this knight smote Sir Mador grovelling upon the earth, and the knight stepped near him to have pulled Sir Mador flatling upon the ground ; and therewith suddenly Sir Mador arose, and in his rising he smote that knight through the ...
Sir Thomas Malory, Sir John Rhys, 1912
9
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
But at the last this knight smote Sir Mador grovelling upon the earth, and the knight stepped near him to have pulled Sir Mador flatling upon the ground; and therewith suddenly Sir Mador arose, and in his rising he smote that knight through the ...
Sir Thomas Malory, 1979
10
The Faerie queene, book IV, cantos 2-12; book V
Tho 2 with her sword on him she flatling 3 strooke, In signe of true subiection to her powre, And as her vassall him to thraldome tooke: But Terpine, borne t' a more unhappy howre, As he on whom the lucklesse starres did lowre, She causd to ...
Edmund Spenser, 1842

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLATLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flatling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Euro Exchange Rate Forecast: EUR/GBP, EUR/USD, EUR/CAD …
... (QE) on Monday—an event that investors and economists alike have eagerly anticipated in the hope of defibrillating the flatling Eurozone. «Future Currency Forecast, Mar 15»
2
Chasing Life Recap 12/9/14: Season 1 Episode 11 "Locks of Love"
And as she was celebrating with a happily reunited family – Leo did get to have his surgery but he was flatling the last time we saw him! «Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Dec 14»
3
Fairfax Schools Superintendent warns of more cuts
You can't keep flatling the transfer into the school system," said Howarth, the physics teacher. While most if not all supervisor support teacher ... «W*USA 9, Feb 14»
4
Cameron: We must do more to help social mobility
... now advises the government on social mobility, warned that "deep-rooted inequality and flatling mobility have been decades in the making". «The Week UK, Nov 13»
5
Grey's Anatomy RECAP 9/26/13: Season 10 Premiere “Seal Our …
The two newest patients are brought into the E.R and yet not even the greatest doctors can keep one of their own from flatling. Richard was ... «Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Sep 13»
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Review: Medium, 5.2, "Things to Do in Phoenix When You're Dead"
Subsequent dreams show her that the blackmailer, Victoria, and Dr. Seward have been flatling Seward deliberately. While dead, he does a little ... «Firefox News, Feb 09»
REFERENCE
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