Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An open truck bed or trailer with no sides, used to carry large objects such as heavy machinery or materials.
- noun A railroad flatcar.
- noun A wide, flat surface onto which a sheet of paper or other material is placed for printing or scanning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
open commercial vehicle with nosides ; designed to carryheavy oroutsize loads - noun a
railway freight car with no sides; aflatcar - adjective computing (of a device, such as a
scanner orplotter ) having aflat bed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects
- noun freight car without permanent sides or roof
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Examples
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Leo Steinberg coined the phrase "flatbed picture plane" for the Rauschenbergs.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011
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They have come in flatbed trucks and rickety buses, leaving their villages at dawn.
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They have come in flatbed trucks and rickety buses, leaving their villages at dawn.
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The vehicle s flatbed is jammed with three essential ingredients: men in cowboy boots and sombreros, cases of cold beer and loudspeakers set at a deep bass.
Mother's Day In Mata 1999
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The vehicle s flatbed is jammed with three essential ingredients: men in cowboy boots and sombreros, cases of cold beer and loudspeakers set at a deep bass.
Mother's Day In Mata 1999
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The adjuster came within 20 minutes, called a flatbed tow truck, completed all the insurance paperwork, and assured us that the cuota would pay for everything because the road conditions were indeed deplorable.
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The adjuster came within 20 minutes, called a flatbed tow truck, completed all the insurance paperwork, and assured us that the cuota would pay for everything because the road conditions were indeed deplorable.
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The adjuster came within 20 minutes, called a flatbed tow truck, completed all the insurance paperwork, and assured us that the cuota would pay for everything because the road conditions were indeed deplorable.
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The adjuster came within 20 minutes, called a flatbed tow truck, completed all the insurance paperwork, and assured us that the cuota would pay for everything because the road conditions were indeed deplorable.
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The adjuster came within 20 minutes, called a flatbed tow truck, completed all the insurance paperwork, and assured us that the cuota would pay for everything because the road conditions were indeed deplorable.
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