Flatline

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. asystole; the absence of heart contractions
  • n. the disappearance of the rhythmic peaks displayed on a heart monitor
  • v. (of the heart) to stop beating
  • v. (by extension) to die
  • v. To stay at the same level, without development; or, to fall.
    • Word Usage
    "The beeping the pilot heard was "flatline" - the long continously beep meaning "you are about to die unless you deploy your canopy NOW" it's the same sound as in heart monitors), which apparently caused him to stop the fast dive, since canopy deployment was logged at 1500 feet :-)"
     
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