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21pancake — {{11}}pancake (n.) early 15c., from PAN (Cf. pan) (n.) + CAKE (Cf. cake) (n.); as symbol of flatness c.1600. {{12}}pancake (v.) to squeeze flat, 1879, from PANCAKE (Cf. pancake) (n.). Later, of aircraft, to fall flat (1911), with figurative… …
22pancake — noun 1》 a thin, flat cake of batter, fried and turned in a pan and typically rolled up with a sweet or savoury filling. 2》 theatrical make up consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder. verb 1》 (of an aircraft) make a pancake landing.… …
23pancake — [[t]pæ̱nkeɪk[/t]] pancakes N COUNT A pancake is a thin, flat, circular piece of cooked batter made from milk, flour, and eggs. Pancakes are often rolled up or folded and eaten hot with a sweet or savoury filling inside. In America, pancakes are… …
24Flat Earth — For other uses, see Flat Earth (disambiguation). The Flammarion engraving (1888) depicts a traveller who arrives at the edge of a flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament …
25flat — flat1 W2S2 [flæt] adj comparative flatter superlative flattest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(surface)¦ 2¦(money)¦ 3¦(tyre/ball)¦ 4¦(not deep)¦ 5¦(drink)¦ 6¦(not interesting)¦ 7¦(battery)¦ 8¦(business/trade)¦ …
26flat — I UK [flæt] / US noun Word forms flat : singular flat plural flats *** 1) [countable] British a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building. The usual American word is apartment They bought a flat in Chelsea. The family… …
27flat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. level, smooth, plane; even, flush; positive, exact; dull, stale, insipid; slang, penniless. See horizontal, certainty, poverty, insipidity. n. plain, shoal; apartment (see abode).Ant., curved,… …
28Pancake tortoise — Conservation status Vulnerable …
29Pancake (disambiguation) — Pancake is a batter cake fried in a pan.Pancake may also mean: *In volleyball, a pancake is a pass technique executed by sliding the hand palm down on the court during a dive, so that the ball bounces off of the back of the hand * Pancake makeup… …
30pancake — or pancake landing [pan′kāk΄] n. 1. a thin, flat cake of batter fried on a griddle or in a pan; griddlecake; flapjack 2. a landing in which the airplane levels off higher than for a normal landing, stalls, then drops almost vertically: in full… …
