The difference between Flatten and Grass
When used as verbs, flatten means to make something flat or flatter, whereas grass means to lay out on the grass.
Grass is also noun with the meaning: any plant of the family poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
check bellow for the other definitions of Flatten and Grass
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Flatten as a verb (transitive):
To make something flat or flatter.
Examples:
"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."
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Flatten as a verb (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.
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Flatten as a verb (transitive):
To knock down or lay low.
Examples:
"The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger."
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Flatten as a verb (intransitive):
To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
Examples:
"Prices have flattened out''."
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Flatten as a verb (intransitive):
To be knocked down or laid low.
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Flatten as a verb (music):
To lower by a semitone.
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Flatten as a verb:
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
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Flatten as a verb (programming, transitive):
To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
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Flatten as a verb (computer graphics, transitive):
To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
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Grass as a noun (countable, uncountable):
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
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Grass as a noun (countable):
Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable):
A lawn.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Marijuana.
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Grass as a noun (countable, Britain, slang):
An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable, physics):
Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
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Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
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Grass as a noun:
The season of fresh grass; spring.
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Grass as a noun (obsolete, figurative):
That which is transitory.
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Grass as a noun (countable, folk etymology):
Asparagus.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
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Grass as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, slang):
To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To cover with grass or with turf.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
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Grass as a verb (transitive):
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
Examples:
"to grass a fish"