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What's The Definition Of Flat?
[n] a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
[n] scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting [n] a deflated pneumatic tire [n] a shallow box in which seedlings are started [n] freight car without permanent sides or roof [n] a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named [n] a level tract of land [adv] wholly or completely; "He is flat broke" [adv] in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [adj] stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [adv] at full length; "he fell flat on his face" [adv] against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back" [adv] below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night" [adv] with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" [adj] lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting" [adj] not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [adj] (of a tire) completely or partially deflated [adj] having no depth or thickness [adj] lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting" [adj] having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface" [adj] (photography) lacking contrast or shading between tones [adj] without pleats [adj] parallel to the ground; "a flat roof" [adj] not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" [adj] (music) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [adj] not increasing as the amount taxed increases [adj] not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [adj] lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [adj] having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" [adj] lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [adj] (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) Synonyms | Synonyms for Flat: apartment | bland | categoric | categorical | compressed | deflated | directly | dull | even | fixed | flat tire | flatbed | flatcar | flavorless | flavourless | horizontal | insipid | level | mat | matt | matte | matted | multidimensional | noneffervescent | planar | plane | prostrate | regressive | savorless | savourless | straight | tasteless | thin | two-dimensional | unconditional | underdeveloped | unerect | unexciting | unfolded | unleavened | unpleated | unqualified | unraised | unshaded | unstimulating | vapid Related Terms | Find terms related to Flat: 3-D | abeyant | absolute | absolutely | absonant | accented | accidental | accommodation | accordant | accumbent | achromatic | achromic | act drop | admitting no exception | alabaster | alike | alkali 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downright | downs | downy | drab | draggy | draped | drawing room | drearisome | dreary | drop | drop curtain | dry | dryasdust | dull | dulled | duplex | duplex apartment | dusty | earth | effete | eggshell | eighth note | elephantine | empty | enharmonic | enharmonic note | entire | entresol | equable | equal | esplanade | etiolated | even | evenly | exact | exactly | explicit | express | exsanguinated | exsanguine | exsanguineous | fade | faded | faint | fallow | featureless | fell | fen | final | fire curtain | firm | first floor | fixed | flat | flat broke | flat country | flat out | flatcar | flat-chested | flatland | flatly | flat-out | flats | flattened | flatways | flatwise | flavorless | fleshless | flipper | floor | flush | ford | forthwith | foul | fourth-dimensional | front | gambling den | gambling hall | gambling hell | gambling house | gaming house | gangling | gangly | garden apartment | gaunt | gawky | ghastly | glabrate | glabrescent | glabrous | glass | glide | global | gloss | glossal | glottal | gondola | grass veld | grassland | grating | gray | groggy | ground | ground floor | groveling | gruelly | guttural | haggard | half note | hanging | hard | harsh | heath | heavy | hell | hell for leather | hemidemisemiquaver | high | ho-hum | hollow | homaloid | homaloidal | homogeneous | horizontal | horizontal axis | horizontal fault | horizontal line | horizontal parallax | horizontal plane | horizontal projection | horizontally | hueless | humdrum | hypochromic | ice | immediately | immelodious | immutable | implicit | in a line | in abeyance | in suspense | inactive | inane | inappealable | indifferent | indisputable | indubitable | inert | inexcitable | inharmonic | inharmonious | insipid | intonated | invariable | iridescent | irrevocable | irrevocably | ivory | jejune | joint | knee-high | knocked flat | labial | labiodental | labiovelar | lackluster | laid low | lande | languid | languorous | lank | lanky | latent | lateral | lax | leaden | lean | lean-fleshed | lean-looking | ledge | leiotrichous | lengthways | lengthwise | level | level line | level plane | lifeless | light | like a shot | like greased lightning | lineal | linear | lingual | liquid | livid | living quarters | llano | local | lodgings | logy | lolling | lounging | low | low-built | low-hung | lowland | lowlands | low-level | low-leveled | low-lying | low-set | low-spirited | low-statured | luggage van | lunar mare | lurid | lusterless | lying | lying down | mahogany | mail car | mail van | marble | mare | marsh | mat | matte | matter-of-fact | meager | mealy | mean sea level | measured | mechanical | mellow | mesa | mesilla | methodic | mezzanine | mezzanine floor | mid | mild | milk-and-water | minim | monolithic | monophthongal | monotonous | moor | moorland | mother-of-pearl | muddy | muffled | mundane | musical note | musicless | muted | nacreous | narrow | nasal | nasalized | natural | neap | neutral | nonmelodious | note | occlusive | of a piece | off | off-key | off-tone | on a level | on the run | oofless | opalescent | open | open country | openly | ordered | orderly | ordinary | out of pitch | out of tone | out of tune | out-and-out | outright | outspread | outstretched | overthrown | oxytone | palace car | palatal | palatalized | pale | pale as death | pale-faced | pallid | pampa | pampas | pappy | parlor car | parterre | passenger car | passive | pastel | pasty | patent note | patinaed | pearly | pedestrian | peneplain | penthouse | peremptory | perfect | persistent | pharyngeal | pharyngealized | phlegmatic | phonemic | phonetic | phonic | pitch | pitched | plain | plainly | plains | plane | plateau | platform | playa | plodding | poetryless | pointless | poky | ponderous | poolroom | positive | positively | posttonic | prairie | prairies | precise | precisely | procumbent | prone | proportional | prosaic | prosing | prostrate | prosy | Pullman | Pullman car | pulpy | punctured | quarter note | quaver | quickly | quiet | rag | railroad flat | railway car | rapidly | raucous | rawboned | reclining | rectilineal | rectilinear | recumbent | reef | reefer | refrigerator car | regular | rental | report | reposing | responding note | resupine | retroflex | rez-de-chaussee | right | robotlike | rolled | roomette | rooms | round | rounded | ruler-straight | runty | ruptured | sad | sallow | salt flat | salt marsh | salt pan | sandals | sandbank | sandbar | sapless | satin | savanna | savorless | scene | scenery | scraggy | scrawny | screen | sea level | sea of grass | sebkha | sedentary | semibreve | semigloss | semiquaver | semivowel | set of rooms | shallow | shallows | shaped note | sharp | shelf | shoal | shoal water | short | shrill | sickly | side scene | silk | simple | sixteenth note | sixty-fourth note | skeletal | skinny | slack | sleeper | sleeping | slide | slow | sluggish | slumbering | smoker | smoking car | smoldering | smooth | smoothed out | smoothened | smooth-shaven | smooth-textured | 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tallow-faced | tame | tank | tasteless | teaser | tedious | tender | tenement | tennis court | tense | tercet | terrace | thick | thin | thin-bellied | thin-fleshed | thirty-second note | three-dimensional | throaty | tidal flats | tired | tiresome | tonal | tone | toneless | tonic | tormentor | torpid | total | transformation | transformation scene | tree veld | triplet | triplex | trodden | trodden flat | truck | true | tundra | tuneless | twangy | twiggy | two-dimensional | unaccented | unambiguous | unaroused | unbending | unbent | unbowed | unbroken | unchangeable | unchanged | unchanging | uncircumscribed | uncolored | uncompromisingly | unconditional | unconditioned | uncurved | undeflected | undersized | underweight | undeviating | undifferentiated | undistorted | undiversified | undoubting | unelevated | unembellished | unequivocal | unexciting | unflavored | unhampered | unharmonious | unhesitating | unidealistic | uniform | unimaginative | unimpassioned | uninteresting | 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| champaign | cold-water flat | coulisse | duplex | duplex apartment | efficiency apartment | field | flatlet | freight car | housing | kitchenette | living accommodations | lodging | maisonette | maisonnette | mise en scene | musical notation | penthouse | plain | pneumatic tire | pneumatic tyre | railroad flat | rooms | salt flat | salt plain | scene | scenery | setting | stage setting | studio | studio apartment | suite | teaser | tormenter | tormentor | walk-up | walk-up apartment | wing flat Flat In Webster's Dictionary \Flat\, a. [Compar. {Flatter}; superl. {Flattest}.] [Akin
to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet
floor, G. fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without
inclination; plane.
Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
--Milton.
2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground;
level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat
on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton.
3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
points of prominence and striking interest.
A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
--Coleridge.
4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
flat to the taste.
5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me
all the uses of this world. --Shak.
6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.
Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
--Marston.
8. (Mus.)
(a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
flat.
(b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
{Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b).
{Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}.
{Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of
ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
{Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
{Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of
rectangular section. See {File}.
{Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
{Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded.
{Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
{Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
--Raymond.
{Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
wide, flat band. --Knight.
{Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}.
{Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
{To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell
half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
Erskine.
\Flat\, adv. 1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly. Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. --Herbert. 2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant] \Flat\, n. 1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. --Bacon. 2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. --Shak. 3. Something broad and flat in form; as: (a) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. (b) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. (c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car. (d) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions. 4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge. 5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself. 6. (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. --Raymond. 7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. --Holmes. 8. (Mus.) A character [[flat]] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. 9. (Geom.) A homaloid space or extension. \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flatted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flatting}.] 1. To make flat; to flatten; to level. 2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. --Barrow. 3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. \Flat\, v. i. 1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. --Sir W. Temple. 2. (Mus.) To fall form the pitch. {To flat out}, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.] \Flat\, a. 1. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club. 2. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix, or an infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic. 3. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits. |
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