Flatten vs. Pancake

Flattenverb

(transitive) To make something flat or flatter.

Flattenverb

(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.

Flattenverb

(transitive) To knock down or lay low.

Flattenverb

(intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.

Flattenverb

(intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.

Flattenverb

(music) To lower by a semitone.

Flattenverb

To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.

Flattenverb

To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.

Flattenverb

To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

Flattenverb

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

Flattenverb

To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

Flattenverb

To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.

Flattenverb

To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.

Flattenverb

To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

Flattenverb

make flat or flatter;

Flattenverb

become flat or flatter;

Flattenverb

lower the pitch of (musical notes)

Pancakenoun

A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.

Pancakenoun

(theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.

Pancakenoun

(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.

Pancakeverb

(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.

Pancakeverb

To collapse one floor after another.

Pancakeverb

(transitive) To flatten violently.

Pancakenoun

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

Pancakenoun

a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Pancakenoun

a thin, flat cake of batter, fried on both sides in a pan and typically rolled up with a sweet or savoury filling

Pancakenoun

make-up consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, used especially in the theatre.

Pancakeverb

(with reference to an aircraft) make or cause to make a pancake landing

Pancakeverb

flatten or become flattened

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.