name
Meaning 1
Their Salishan language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
flathead
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈflætˌhɛd/
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CMU ARPABET: F L AE1 T HH EH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any fish in the family Platycephalidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Ellipsis of flathead catfish
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
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noun
Meaning 4
A type of screw or bolt designed to fit in a countersink so that it sits flush with a surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: only "flatheads" as plural
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noun
Meaning 5
Synonym of side valve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: only "flatheads" as plural
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Synonyms: side valve
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noun
Meaning 6
One of the Salish people of Washington state and British Columbia.
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noun
Meaning 7
pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
noun
Meaning 8
food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
History
Etymology
From flat + head, from the practice of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means. However, the Salish tribe never practised this custom, the confusion arising from the fact that the early traders felt compelled to adopt the local Indian classification, which considered the prevailing compressed skull of the neighbouring tribes as pointed and the naturally shaped Salish skull by contrast as flat.
From flat + head.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: lättäsimppu — fish
- Japanese: 鯒 (kochi) — fish
- Navajo: tsiiʼnteelí — fish
- Tagalog: lubalob — fish
- Tagalog: isdambuwaya — fish
- Finnish: uppokantaruuvi — type of screw
- Finnish: uppokantapultti — type of screw
- Finnish: sivuventtiilimoottori — type of engine