flatlinen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈflatlʌɪn/, U.S.

/ˈflætˌlaɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: flat adj., line n.²

Etymology: < flat adj. + line n.²Earlier examples such as the following do not represent a fixed collocation:1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. ii. 406 The transcendental mark, of a little flat Line on the top towards the right hand, doth denote Person.

Originally North American.

A. n.

a. A horizontal (part of a) line on a graph, esp. when indicating lack of change or variation. Hence: the fact or condition of remaining static; lack of growth.

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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > part of

peak1785

flatline1867

tail1895

upper bound1917

valley1935

trough1938

skirt1940

shoulder1956

spike1961

1867 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 8 292 On the diagrams, a straight horizontal line may often be remarked on the top of the wave... When this flat-line is extensive, it shews that breaking waves progress less quickly than a long swell.

1940 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 27 15s/1 A family of dosage-mortality curves is obtained..for which steepness of the slope increases from a flat line to a maximum, characteristic of the toxicant.

1974 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71 4477/2 A typical voltage-time oscillation is given in Fig. 2, and can be characterized by the peak height (in volts) and by the period, the gap, and the flat-line (all in milliseconds).

1992 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Feb. a6 A proposed $518 million budget is a responsible ‘flatline in service’.

2001 Kansas Farmer July 34/3 The generation-long flatline in public sector R&D (research and development) support should and must be reversed.

2008 G. McNamee Bonechiller xx. 165 I notice a change..near the end of the graph. The gaps between the spikes are bigger, with longer stretches of flatline.

b. Medicine. A horizontal line on an electrocardiogram or electroencephalogram indicating absence of the normal electrical activity of the heart or brain. Hence: the condition of registering such a reading; cardiac arrest or brain death. Also in extended use.

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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific record > configurations in electrocardiogram

spindle1935

polyspike1950

spindling1963

flatline1976

1976 JACEP 5 971 ICU nurses had less difficulty identifying and treating flat line than did emergency department nurses.

1996 USA Today (Nexis) 30 Aug. 2 b I had turned around seven corporations in my career, but I had never before started so close to flatline.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xi. 322 The flatline starts jumping, oh doctor, doctor, he's alive.

2003 M. Smith ACLS for EMT-basics vi. 64 Once an adult heart is in flatline, there is very little chance that the patient can be successfully resuscitated.

2009 Boston Herald (Nexis) 17 July e5 He signed to Def Jam in 2006, pronouncing rap's flatline with his incendiary single, ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’.

2. Angling. An (unweighted) line which trails behind a boat at a relatively shallow depth.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other types of line

ground-linea1450

ledger-line1653

gildert1681

kipping-linec1686

fly-line1706

night line1726

trout-line1789

train line1828

runner1835

salmon line1850

loop-line1859

stray-line1879

dandy-line1882

kelp line1884

cross-line1891

free line1913

flatline1950

multistrand1960

flatliner1984

1950 I. N. Gabrielson Fisherman's Encycl. 290/2 One of the old standbys for trolling on a flat line is the tin squid.

1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Apr. Spring salmon and trout are normally taken nearer the surface, often on flatlines.

1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 210/3 You can set hooks firmly even when trolling the bait or lure a long way behind the boat on a flat line or deep down with the aid of a paravane.

B. adj.

1. Of the nature of or relating to a flatline (sense A. 1a); static, not growing.

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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective]

truea1225

certain1297

standing1457

surec1475

stable1481

finite1493

resident1525

determinate1526

staid?1541

constantc1550

undiscomfitablea1555

inveterate1563

sound1565

unwanderinga1569

fixed1574

undisturbable1577

wishly1578

unremovable1579

inveterated1597

immoved1599

rigid1610

staple1621

consistent1648

irradicable1728

incoercible1756

hard and fast1822

unstrangulable1824

lockstep1831

statical1853

static1856

flatline1946

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > relating to states or trends of the economy

anti-inflation1870

anti-inflationist1874

robust1886

static1890

recessionary1897

deflationary1920

inflationary1920

maximized1920

mature1928

recessional1929

anti-inflationary1932

reflationary1932

reflationist1932

Kondratieff1935

anti-cyclical1938

flatline1946

maximizing1949

stagnationist1951

countercyclical1952

recessed1956

recessive1971

stagflationary1971

flatlined1986

1946 Railroad Workers Jrnl. July–Aug. 10/1 Methods were developed to operate Servel production on a flat-line curve, without reference to the ‘supply–demand’ monthly variations of the sales curve.

1974 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71 4477/2 Note that the gap time plus the flat-line time is equal to the period.

1992 Kentucky Manufacturer (Nexis) May 16 The industry as a whole has been flatline in terms of growth.

1995 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 Sept. a1 Staff have been asked to prepare a budget showing a flatline scenario, unlikely in view of Metro's shortfall and the anticipated provincial grant reductions.

2005 Australian 8 Dec. (Brisbane ed.) 4/1 (headline) Flatline exports call Costello to account.

a. Of the nature of or displaying a flatline (sense A. 1b); (of a person) suffering cardiac arrest or brain death. Also in extended use.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders

hardbound?a1425

bound1704

Wernicke1887

mind-blind1905

Alzheimer1911

Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome1934

brain-damaged1946

kernicteric1956

brain-dead1972

C-J1972

hypsarrhythmic1977

flatline1978

Creutzfeldt–Jakob1987

1978 S. Shem House of God 315 In confirmation, Ollie spewed forth a flat-line EKG.

1987 Crit. Care Med. 15 334 Patients who have a flat line rhythm..may warrant a trial of electrical countershock, high-dose atropine, or transthoracic pacing.

1994 USA Today (Nexis) 14 Nov. 5 c ‘We're not good enough to overcome games like that,’ Philadelphia defensive coordinator Bud Carson said about the flatline effort.

1998 T. McHale Casualty (BBC TV rehearsal script) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 2. 89 Max injects as Charlie recommences CPR. Charlie watches the monitor. It remains flatline.

2004 M. A. Arnzen 100 Jolts 71 I've shocked flatline patients with paddles.

b. to go flatline: (of an electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, etc.) to display a flatline; (of a person) to suffer cardiac arrest or brain death, to die. Also in extended use.

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1979 S. King Dead Zone i. vi. 94 Like anything else, coma was a matter of degree. Johnny Smith had never been a vegetable; his EEG had never gone flatline.

1990 Orlando Sentinel Tribune (Nexis) 23 Sept. k1 He has seen a man with a normal heartbeat complaining of chest pain ‘go flatline’ without warning.

1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 542 The yuppies had kneaded and kneaded it [sc. the script] until it became..a piece of shit. It went flatline at Warners.

2000 Airman June 38/3 I ran a code where a guy went into cardiac arrest and went flatline.

2006 A. Duquesne Soul Siren (2007) 54 The radio by law has to play a substantial portion of Canadian music in a desperate attempt to keep the national culture from going flatline.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flatlinev.

Brit.

/ˈflatlʌɪn/, U.S.

/ˈflætˌlaɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: flatline n.

Etymology: < flatline n.

Originally North American.

1. intransitive. Angling. To fish using a flatline. Also transitive: to troll (a lure or bait) on a flatline. Cf. flatline n. 2.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with line > with towed line

troll1606

whiff1886

flatline1975

1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Sept. s1/4 We got three fish, lost six, and we were flatlining, not using the down-rigger at all.

1987 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 May d7 Boaters..report mediocre catches by flatlining Rapalas (Size 11) or other stick-baits in 40 to 60 feet of water.

1996 Field & Stream (Electronic ed.) Feb. 76 If you're flatlining, you may be able to detect the influence of current by watching your lines and rod tips.

2004 ‘S. Rybaak’ Fishing Eastern N.Y. 151 [Lake trout] can be caught in spring by flatlining crankbaits and spoons, and in summer by taking these baits deep with Seth Green rigs.

2. transitive. To maintain at a constant level; to freeze or cap (a budget, spending, etc.). Also intransitive: to remain static, fail to grow. Cf. flatline n. 1b.

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1976 Big World, Small Format v. 206 O.E.C.A.'s production budget, which has been ‘flat-lined’ for a five-year period, at the $5 million level.

1994 Extel Examiner (Nexis) 23 Feb. Stock prices flatlined in thin trading as investors came up empty handed in their search for incentives to buy or sell.

2001 Guardian 1 May 18/4 Their share of the vote has flatlined at about 33-34% leaving Tony Blair heading straight for another 100-plus Commons majority.

2009 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 3 June a6/3 Council member Julie Thomas called for flatlining the 2010 budget.

3. intransitive. Originally Medicine slang. Of a person: to register a flatline on an electrocardiogram or electroencephalogram; to suffer cardiac arrest or brain death; to die. Also in extended use: to fail, cease to be viable. Cf. flatline n. 1b.

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1980 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Nov. 16/2 ‘To flatline’ is to expire, a verb taken from the lack of activity on the scope measuring vital signs.

1984 W. Gibson Neuromancer (1989) iii. 50 [He] flatlined on his EEG... ‘Boy, I was daid.’

1991 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 9 Aug. s1 The engine, choked with grime, flatlined years ago.

2007 Reykjavik Grapevine 15 June 5/2 Icelandic nature, literature and even the language itself seem to be flat-lining.

2009 N.Y. Mag. 15 June 90/1 Then his monitor went off—he flatlined.

Derivatives

ˈflatlining n. and adj.

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1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Sept. s1/4 Flatlining is Penfound's term for trolling normal spinning gear with the addition of a quarter-ounce keel sinker set three or four feet up the line from the lure.

1992 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. 110 Small spoons and wobblers are hot for flat-lining boaters.

1999 N.Y. Times 10 Oct. iv. 15/5 Michael Dukakis had run a campaign that broke creative new ground in flatlining.

2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) l. 316 He remembered the man well, with his faltering monitors and flat-lining neurofeedback machines.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	flatline
释义	flatlinen.adj. Brit. /ˈflatlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈflætˌlaɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: flat adj., line n.² Etymology: < flat adj. + line n.²Earlier examples such as the following do not represent a fixed collocation:1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. ii. 406 The transcendental mark, of a little flat Line on the top towards the right hand, doth denote Person. Originally North American. A. n. 1. a. A horizontal (part of a) line on a graph, esp. when indicating lack of change or variation. Hence: the fact or condition of remaining static; lack of growth. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > part of peak1785 flatline1867 tail1895 upper bound1917 valley1935 trough1938 skirt1940 shoulder1956 spike1961 1867 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 8 292 On the diagrams, a straight horizontal line may often be remarked on the top of the wave... When this flat-line is extensive, it shews that breaking waves progress less quickly than a long swell. 1940 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 27 15s/1 A family of dosage-mortality curves is obtained..for which steepness of the slope increases from a flat line to a maximum, characteristic of the toxicant. 1974 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71 4477/2 A typical voltage-time oscillation is given in Fig. 2, and can be characterized by the peak height (in volts) and by the period, the gap, and the flat-line (all in milliseconds). 1992 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Feb. a6 A proposed $518 million budget is a responsible ‘flatline in service’. 2001 Kansas Farmer July 34/3 The generation-long flatline in public sector R&D (research and development) support should and must be reversed. 2008 G. McNamee Bonechiller xx. 165 I notice a change..near the end of the graph. The gaps between the spikes are bigger, with longer stretches of flatline. b. Medicine. A horizontal line on an electrocardiogram or electroencephalogram indicating absence of the normal electrical activity of the heart or brain. Hence: the condition of registering such a reading; cardiac arrest or brain death. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific record > configurations in electrocardiogram spindle1935 polyspike1950 spindling1963 flatline1976 1976 JACEP 5 971 ICU nurses had less difficulty identifying and treating flat line than did emergency department nurses. 1996 USA Today (Nexis) 30 Aug. 2 b I had turned around seven corporations in my career, but I had never before started so close to flatline. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xi. 322 The flatline starts jumping, oh doctor, doctor, he's alive. 2003 M. Smith ACLS for EMT-basics vi. 64 Once an adult heart is in flatline, there is very little chance that the patient can be successfully resuscitated. 2009 Boston Herald (Nexis) 17 July e5 He signed to Def Jam in 2006, pronouncing rap's flatline with his incendiary single, ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’. 2. Angling. An (unweighted) line which trails behind a boat at a relatively shallow depth. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other types of line ground-linea1450 ledger-line1653 gildert1681 kipping-linec1686 fly-line1706 night line1726 trout-line1789 train line1828 runner1835 salmon line1850 loop-line1859 stray-line1879 dandy-line1882 kelp line1884 cross-line1891 free line1913 flatline1950 multistrand1960 flatliner1984 1950 I. N. Gabrielson Fisherman's Encycl. 290/2 One of the old standbys for trolling on a flat line is the tin squid. 1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Apr. Spring salmon and trout are normally taken nearer the surface, often on flatlines. 1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 210/3 You can set hooks firmly even when trolling the bait or lure a long way behind the boat on a flat line or deep down with the aid of a paravane. B. adj. 1. Of the nature of or relating to a flatline (sense A. 1a); static, not growing. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] truea1225 certain1297 standing1457 surec1475 stable1481 finite1493 resident1525 determinate1526 staid?1541 constantc1550 undiscomfitablea1555 inveterate1563 sound1565 unwanderinga1569 fixed1574 undisturbable1577 wishly1578 unremovable1579 inveterated1597 immoved1599 rigid1610 staple1621 consistent1648 irradicable1728 incoercible1756 hard and fast1822 unstrangulable1824 lockstep1831 statical1853 static1856 flatline1946 society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > relating to states or trends of the economy anti-inflation1870 anti-inflationist1874 robust1886 static1890 recessionary1897 deflationary1920 inflationary1920 maximized1920 mature1928 recessional1929 anti-inflationary1932 reflationary1932 reflationist1932 Kondratieff1935 anti-cyclical1938 flatline1946 maximizing1949 stagnationist1951 countercyclical1952 recessed1956 recessive1971 stagflationary1971 flatlined1986 1946 Railroad Workers Jrnl. July–Aug. 10/1 Methods were developed to operate Servel production on a flat-line curve, without reference to the ‘supply–demand’ monthly variations of the sales curve. 1974 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71 4477/2 Note that the gap time plus the flat-line time is equal to the period. 1992 Kentucky Manufacturer (Nexis) May 16 The industry as a whole has been flatline in terms of growth. 1995 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 Sept. a1 Staff have been asked to prepare a budget showing a flatline scenario, unlikely in view of Metro's shortfall and the anticipated provincial grant reductions. 2005 Australian 8 Dec. (Brisbane ed.) 4/1 (headline) Flatline exports call Costello to account. 2. a. Of the nature of or displaying a flatline (sense A. 1b); (of a person) suffering cardiac arrest or brain death. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders hardbound?a1425 bound1704 Wernicke1887 mind-blind1905 Alzheimer1911 Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome1934 brain-damaged1946 kernicteric1956 brain-dead1972 C-J1972 hypsarrhythmic1977 flatline1978 Creutzfeldt–Jakob1987 1978 S. Shem House of God 315 In confirmation, Ollie spewed forth a flat-line EKG. 1987 Crit. Care Med. 15 334 Patients who have a flat line rhythm..may warrant a trial of electrical countershock, high-dose atropine, or transthoracic pacing. 1994 USA Today (Nexis) 14 Nov. 5 c ‘We're not good enough to overcome games like that,’ Philadelphia defensive coordinator Bud Carson said about the flatline effort. 1998 T. McHale Casualty (BBC TV rehearsal script) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 2. 89 Max injects as Charlie recommences CPR. Charlie watches the monitor. It remains flatline. 2004 M. A. Arnzen 100 Jolts 71 I've shocked flatline patients with paddles. b. to go flatline: (of an electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, etc.) to display a flatline; (of a person) to suffer cardiac arrest or brain death, to die. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1979 S. King Dead Zone i. vi. 94 Like anything else, coma was a matter of degree. Johnny Smith had never been a vegetable; his EEG had never gone flatline. 1990 Orlando Sentinel Tribune (Nexis) 23 Sept. k1 He has seen a man with a normal heartbeat complaining of chest pain ‘go flatline’ without warning. 1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 542 The yuppies had kneaded and kneaded it [sc. the script] until it became..a piece of shit. It went flatline at Warners. 2000 Airman June 38/3 I ran a code where a guy went into cardiac arrest and went flatline. 2006 A. Duquesne Soul Siren (2007) 54 The radio by law has to play a substantial portion of Canadian music in a desperate attempt to keep the national culture from going flatline. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flatlinev. Brit. /ˈflatlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈflætˌlaɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: flatline n. Etymology: < flatline n. Originally North American. 1. intransitive. Angling. To fish using a flatline. Also transitive: to troll (a lure or bait) on a flatline. Cf. flatline n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with line > with towed line troll1606 whiff1886 flatline1975 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Sept. s1/4 We got three fish, lost six, and we were flatlining, not using the down-rigger at all. 1987 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 May d7 Boaters..report mediocre catches by flatlining Rapalas (Size 11) or other stick-baits in 40 to 60 feet of water. 1996 Field & Stream (Electronic ed.) Feb. 76 If you're flatlining, you may be able to detect the influence of current by watching your lines and rod tips. 2004 ‘S. Rybaak’ Fishing Eastern N.Y. 151 [Lake trout] can be caught in spring by flatlining crankbaits and spoons, and in summer by taking these baits deep with Seth Green rigs. 2. transitive. To maintain at a constant level; to freeze or cap (a budget, spending, etc.). Also intransitive: to remain static, fail to grow. Cf. flatline n. 1b. ΚΠ 1976 Big World, Small Format v. 206 O.E.C.A.'s production budget, which has been ‘flat-lined’ for a five-year period, at the $5 million level. 1994 Extel Examiner (Nexis) 23 Feb. Stock prices flatlined in thin trading as investors came up empty handed in their search for incentives to buy or sell. 2001 Guardian 1 May 18/4 Their share of the vote has flatlined at about 33-34% leaving Tony Blair heading straight for another 100-plus Commons majority. 2009 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 3 June a6/3 Council member Julie Thomas called for flatlining the 2010 budget. 3. intransitive. Originally Medicine slang. Of a person: to register a flatline on an electrocardiogram or electroencephalogram; to suffer cardiac arrest or brain death; to die. Also in extended use: to fail, cease to be viable. Cf. flatline n. 1b. ΚΠ 1980 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Nov. 16/2 ‘To flatline’ is to expire, a verb taken from the lack of activity on the scope measuring vital signs. 1984 W. Gibson Neuromancer (1989) iii. 50 [He] flatlined on his EEG... ‘Boy, I was daid.’ 1991 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 9 Aug. s1 The engine, choked with grime, flatlined years ago. 2007 Reykjavik Grapevine 15 June 5/2 Icelandic nature, literature and even the language itself seem to be flat-lining. 2009 N.Y. Mag. 15 June 90/1 Then his monitor went off—he flatlined. Derivatives ˈflatlining n. and adj. ΚΠ 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Sept. s1/4 Flatlining is Penfound's term for trolling normal spinning gear with the addition of a quarter-ounce keel sinker set three or four feet up the line from the lure. 1992 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. 110 Small spoons and wobblers are hot for flat-lining boaters. 1999 N.Y. Times 10 Oct. iv. 15/5 Michael Dukakis had run a campaign that broke creative new ground in flatlining. 2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) l. 316 He remembered the man well, with his faltering monitors and flat-lining neurofeedback machines. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1867v.1975
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