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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

... reconcile it with their conscience to allow their daughters to be educated in the cloisters. They proceed from the premises that an ignorant woman is more easy to lead than one who is posted. Conflicts and disappointment are inevitable. Laboulaye gives the flat-footed advice to keep woman in moderate ignorance, because "notre empire est detruit, si l'homme est reconnu" (our empire is over if ...

— Woman under socialism • August Bebel

... and lungs were again rebelling at the altitude and the exertion, and she was forced to lie flat for a long time. She lay with her face to the sky watching the roll of the murky clouds. Above her towered the crest of the mountain, below her stretched the abyss. It was a place where one might draw apart from all the world and contemplate the little thing that men call Life. Neither ecstasy ...

— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie

... country is all flat, the winds blow here more than in other parts. The oil which it produces comes from seeds sown and afterwards reaped, and they obtain it by means of machines which they make. This country wants water because it is very great and has few streams; they make lakes in which water ...

— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell

... high, according to the situation in which it is grown. The flowers are light purple, only 1/2in. across, arranged in neat umbels; the corolla is flat, having a bright yellow centre; leaves small, ovate-oblong, roundly toothed, bald, and powdery beneath; the flower scapes are round and quite ...

— Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood

... (bill and feet), enable it readily to form a beautiful receptacle for its eggs and young. Pigeons having heavy bodies and weak feet and bills (imperfect tools for forming a delicate structure) build rude, flat nests of sticks, laid across strong branches which will bear their weight and that of their bulky young. They can do no better. The Caprimulgidae have the most imperfect tools of all, feet that will not support them except ...

— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

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