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Flat

noun

1.

A level tract of land.

2.

A shallow box in which seedlings are started.

3.

A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named.

4.

Freight car without permanent sides or roof. Synonyms: flatbed, flatcar.

5.

A deflated pneumatic tire. Synonym: flat tire.

6.

Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting.

7.

A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house. Synonym: apartment.

adjective

(compar. flatter; superl. flattest)

1.

Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. Synonyms: level, plane. "Acres of level farmland" , "A plane surface" , "Skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

2.

Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness.

3.

Not modified or restricted by reservations. Synonyms: categoric, categorical, unconditional. "A flat refusal"

4.

Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground. Synonym: prostrate.

5.

Lacking contrast or shading between tones.

6.

(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone.

7.

Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes). Synonym: compressed.

8.

Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Synonyms: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid. "Insipid hospital food" , "Flavorless supermarket tomatoes" , "Vapid beer" , "Vapid tea"

9.

Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting. Synonym: bland. "A flat joke"

10.

Having lost effervescence. "A flat cola"

11.

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch. Synonyms: monotone, monotonic, monotonous.

12.

Horizontally level.

13.

Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth. Synonyms: 2-dimensional, two-dimensional. "A flat two-dimensional painting"

14.

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: mat, matt, matte, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

15.

Commercially inactive. "Prices remained flat" , "A flat market"

adverb

1.

With flat sails.

2.

In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly. Synonyms: directly, straight. "Told me straight out" , "Came out flat for less work and more pay"

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"Flat" Quotes from Famous Books

... sliding was with the feet foremost, but there are now various methods employed. Many runners now slide head foremost, throwing themselves flat on the breast and stomach. Some keep to the base-line and slide direct for the base, while others throw the body and legs out of the line and reach for the base with a hand or foot. Among those who always slide feet first and direct ...

— Base-Ball - How to Become a Player • John M. Ward

... the suburb of Allerton the ground is a dead flat, and here the flying lake had covered a space a mile broad, doing frightful damage to property but not much to life, because wherever it expanded it shallowed ...

— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade

... and came over to wipe out the post. It looked easy at the time, because there was less than two hundred men, but the major in command was a fighting fool and didn't know when he was whipped. The Apaches all gathered up on the top of those high cliffs—it's flat on the upper side—and one night when their signal fires had burned down the soldiers sneaked around behind them. And then, just at dawn, they fired a volley and made a rush for the camp; and before they knowed it about two hundred Indians ...

— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge

... reached full term and was a well-developed male, stillborn. Its head "exactly resembled a miniature cow's head;" the occipital bone was absent, the parietals only slightly developed, the eyes were placed at the top of the frontal bone, which was quite flat, with each of its superior angles twisted into a rudimentary horn. (J.T. Hislop, Tavistock, ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... are scattered over the first nine tables (1-9) in the room. They live on small animals and sea-weed. The varieties include a flat kind, vulgarly called sea-pancakes. The remaining cases of the room are loaded with varieties of the star-fish. The mouth of the star-fish is on its lower side, through which it takes its food. It has ...

— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold

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