Meaning

4 senses
  1. A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove.

    an iron that was heated by placing it on a stove

  2. A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.

  3. (especially)A quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side.

  4. A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Layla straightened her hair with a flatiron.

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  2. She knocked, and the door was opened by a little middle-aged woman who held a hot flatiron in one hand.

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  3. Layla burned Salima on the scalp with a flatiron.

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Origin

From flat + iron.

From flat + iron.

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Forms

plural: flatirons

Synonyms

1 synonyms
tool for hair:straightener

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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