Difference between flat and thwack
Definitions
adjective
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- commercially inactive
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
adverb
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
noun
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- a level tract of land
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- a deflated pneumatic tire
Examples
deflate a balloon
Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.
You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
Definitions
verb
- deliver a hard blow to
noun
- a hard blow with a flat object
Examples
Before I knew it, I was trying my hand on the local real-life links and thwacking a white ball with a metal stick right down a fairway.
She thwacked a lonesome pebble into the until now deathly still waters of the picturesque campus lake with a black platform trainer which could have had a brick wedged between sole and tread but at least made her an inch taller.
So she took a stick and started thwacking my thighs like she was threshing wheat.
