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flat store en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (slang) A crooked gambling establishment, such as a casino running rigged or fixed (dishonest) games of chance.
   • 2001: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, p139 (The Rutgers University Press; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13)); quoting an unknown source “It sat on the top of a steep, unpaved hill and commanded an uninspiring view of clean, gray concrete that was six lanes wide and an assortment of boxy, flat store buildings and spacious super gas-stations” (117).
   • The PDC uses the AD but exposes the data as a flat store, as in Windows NT. 2000: Syngress Media, Inc, MCSE Windows 2000 Server Study Guide (exam 70–215), p75 (McGraw–Hill Professional; →ISBN (10) (13))
   • These systems are often cheaper to install than conventional horizontal ducting and have the advantage over above-floor ducts that they are unlikely to be damaged by tractors unloading the flat store. 2004, Peter Golob, Crop Post-Harvest: Science and Technology Durables, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 80, →ISBN:
   • He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars. 1962: Saul Bellow & Keith Botsford, The Noble Savage, p59 (World Pub. Co)
   • In shared-memory languages for parallel programming, the model is one of a global flat store equipped with various synchronization primitives. 1998, Michael Maher, Jean-Francois Puget, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming — CP98, Springer, →ISBN, page 1, →ISBN:
2. A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).
   • It is sometimes necessary to provide storage for grain beyond the normal capacity of an elevator facility or elsewhere. In such conditions a relatively inexpensive expedient is the flat store. This is little more than a cover for a pile of dry grain adopting its natural form as poured. 1994, Norman Leslie Kent, A. D. Evers, Technology of Cereals, →ISBN:
   • In some flat stores a small trough or day silo is located on the perimeter inside the flat store which is also accessed from the outside of the flat store. 1998, Bulk Solids Handling::
   • The space-saving arrangement of the stores and the controlled cooling down of coils in the flat store which led to reduced handling times and inventory volume had a very positive effect on the efficiency of the cold rolling mill and product availability for shipment. 1996, Aluminium - Volume 72, page 616:

Forms

Synonyms

flat joint (crooked gambling establishment)