Flatbed Definition

flătbĕd
noun
A flatbed truck, trailer, etc.
Webster's New World
An open truck bed or trailer with no sides, used to carry large objects such as heavy machinery or materials.
American Heritage
A railroad flatcar.
American Heritage
A flatbed press.
Webster's New World
A wide, flat surface onto which a sheet of paper or other material is placed for printing or scanning.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating or of a truck, trailer, etc. having a bed or platform without sides or stakes.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a press having a plane or horizontal printing surface.
Webster's New World

(computing) (of a device, such as a scanner or plotter) Having a flat bed.

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Other Word Forms of Flatbed

Noun

Singular:
flatbed
Plural:
flatbeds

Flatbed Sentence Examples

  • Can I use my flatbed scanner to scan microfiche?

  • Some of these have flatbed, radiograph or slide scanners attached.

  • These used to be input using a flatbed scanner.

  • A relatively modern 1958 Ford flatbed truck with bunks cobbled from scrap steel hauled the necessarily short logs to the mill.

  • There are eighteen computers in the Computing and Teaching lab, two of which also have a flatbed scanner directly connected.

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