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Definition of 'flat'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) flat
horizontally level.

2.  flat
level, even, or without unevenness of surface, as land or tabletops.

3.  flat
having a surface that is without marked projections or depressions.

4.  flat
lying horizontally and at full length.

5.  flat
lying wholly on or against something.

6.  flat
thrown down, laid low, or level with the ground, as fallen trees or buildings.

7.  flat
having a generally level shape or appearance; not deep or thick.

8.  flat
(of the heel of a shoe) low and broad.

9.  flat
spread out, as an unrolled map or the open hand.

10.  flat
deflated; collapsed:
a flat tire.

11.  flat
absolute, downright:
a flat denial.

12.  flat
not subject to modification or variation; fixed:
a flat rate with no additional charges.

13.  flat
lacking vitality or animation; lifeless; dull.

14.  flat
having lost its flavor, sharpness, or life, as wine or food; stale.

15.  flat
(of a beverage) having lost its effervescence.

16.  flat
lacking flavor or piquancy:
flat cooking.

17.  flat
pointless, as a remark or joke.

18.  flat
commercially inactive.

19.  flat
(of a painting) not having the illusion of volume or depth.

20.  flat
(of a photograph or painting) lacking contrast or gradations of tone or color.

21.  flat
(of paint) without gloss; not shiny; matte.

22.  flat
not clear, sharp, or ringing, as sound or a voice.

23.  flat
lacking resonance and variation in pitch; monotonous.

24.  flat
(of a tone) lowered a half step in pitch:
B flat.

25.  flat
below an intended pitch, as a note; too low

26.  flat
flat a, the a-sound (a) of glad, bat, or
act.

27. (n.) flat
something flat.

28.  flat
a shoe, esp. a woman's shoe, with a flat heel or no heel.

29.  flat
a flat surface, side, or part of anything.

30.  flat
flat or level ground; a flat area:
salt flats.

31.  flat
a marsh, shoal, or shallow.

32.  flat
(in musical notation) the symbol ♭, which when attached to a note or to a staff degree lowers its significance one chromatic half step.

33.  flat
a tone one chromatic half step below another.

34.  flat
a piece of stage scenery consisting of a wooden frame, usu. rectangular, covered with lightweight board or fabric.

35.  flat
a deflated automobile tire.

36.  flat
an iron or steel bar of rectangular cross section.

37.  flat
a shallow open box used for growing young plants or a closable one for shipping fruits and vegetables.

38.  flat
the area of a football field immediately inside of or outside of an offensive end, close behind or at the line of scrimmage.

39. (v.t.) flat
to make flat.

40.  flat
to lower (a pitch), esp. one half step.

41. (v.i.) flat
to become flat.

42. (adv.) flat
in a flat position; horizontally; levelly.

43.  flat
in a flat manner; positively; absolutely.

44.  flat
completely; utterly:
flat broke.

45.  flat
exactly; precisely:
in two minutes flat.

46.  flat
below the true pitch:
to sing flat.

47.  flat
without hesitation; directly or openly.

48.  flat
at full speed or with maximum effort.

49. (n.) flat
a residential apartment.

Etymology: (1795–1805; var. of obs. flet, OE: floor, house, hall; akin to flat¹)

Definition of 'flat'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) flat
a level tract of land
"the salt flats of Utah"

2. (noun) flat
a shallow box in which seedlings are started

3. (noun) flat
a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

4. (noun) flatcar, flatbed, flat
freight car without permanent sides or roof

5. (noun) flat, flat tire
a deflated pneumatic tire

6. (noun) flat
scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

7. (adj) apartment, flat
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

8. (adj) flat, level, plane
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
"a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

9. (adj) flat
having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
"flat computer monitors"

10. (adj) categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional
not modified or restricted by reservations
"a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

11. (adj) flat, prostrate
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
"found himself lying flat on the floor"

12. (adj) flat
lacking contrast or shading between tones

13. (adj) flat
(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
"B flat"

14. (adj) compressed, flat
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

15. (adj) bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
lacking taste or flavor or tang
"a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

16. (adj) bland, flat
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
"a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

17. (adj) flat
having lost effervescence
"flat beer"; "a flat cola"

18. (adj) flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
"the owl's faint monotonous hooting"

19. (adj) flat
horizontally level
"a flat roof"

20. (adj) two-dimensional, 2-dimensional, flat
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"

21. (adj) flat, mat, matt, matte, matted
not reflecting light; not glossy
"flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

22. (adverb) flat
commercially inactive
"flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

23. (adverb) flat
with flat sails
"sail flat against the wind"

24. (adverb) directly, flat, straight
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"

Definition of 'flat'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) flat
level and with no raised parts
a flat surface; Florida is one of the flattest states in the US.

2.  flat
without emotion
He spoke in a flat voice.

3.  flat
fixed and not variable
a flat rate of interest

4.  flat
(of a tire) with no air
I got a flat tire on Route 1.

5.  flat
(of a battery) having run out of power
The battery was flat.

6.  flat
(of a drink) with no bubbles
The soda was flat.

7.  flat
(of a musical note) slightly lower than the correct pitch
The first note was slightly flat.

8. (adverb) flat
straight along a surface
Lay it out flat on the floor.

9.  flat
fall flat on your face
to fall forward onto your front
She tripped and fell flat on her face.

10.  flat
in 5 minutes/10 minutes etc. flat
completely done at a fast rate
Create your own website in ten minutes flat!

11.  flat
fall flat
to fail to have the intended effect
an advertising campaign that fell flat

12.  flat
lower than the correct musical pitch
She always sings flat.

13. (noun) flat
apartment
a two-bedroom flat; a new block of flats

Definition of 'flat'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adverb) flat
in a flat manner; directly; flatly

2. (adverb) flat
without allowance for accrued interest

3. (noun) flat
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

4. (noun) flat
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

5. (noun) flat
something broad and flat in form

6. (noun) flat
a flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught

7. (noun) flat
a straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned

8. (noun) flat
a car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car

9. (noun) flat
a platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions

10. (noun) flat
the flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge

11. (noun) flat
a floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself

12. (noun) flat
a horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal

13. (noun) flat
a dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull

14. (noun) flat
a character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower

15. (noun) flat
a homaloid space or extension

16.  flat
having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane

17.  flat
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

18.  flat
wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest

19.  flat
tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste

20.  flat
unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition

21.  flat
lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat

22.  flat
clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright

23.  flat
below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat

24.  flat
not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound

25.  flat
sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant

26. (verb) flat
to make flat; to flatten; to level

27. (verb) flat
to render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress

28. (verb) flat
to depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone

29. (verb) flat
to become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface

30. (verb) flat
to fall form the pitch

Definitions of 'flat'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. flat
1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure. “That bitty box has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one.” The verb form is flatten.

2. Said of a memory architecture (like that of the VAX or 680x0) that is one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique core address), as opposed to a segmented architecture (like that of the 80x86) in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair (segmented designs are generally considered cretinous).

Note that sense 1 (at least with respect to filesystems) is usually used pejoratively, while sense 2 is a Good Thing.

Translation of 'flat'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: level; without rise or fall a flat surface.
Afrikaans: plat	Arabic: مُسَطَّح، مُنْبَسِط	Bulgarian: равен
Brazilian: raso	Czech: plochý	German: flach
Danish: flad; jævn; plan; lige	Greek: επίπεδος, ομαλός	Spanish: llano, plano, liso
Estonian: tasane	Farsi: مسطح	Finnish: tasainen
French: plat	Hebrew: שָׁטוּח	Hindi: गिरा देना
Croatian: gladak, ravne površine	Hungarian: sík	Indonesian: datar
Icelandic: flatur	Italian: piatto	Japanese: 平らな
Korean: 수평인	Lithuanian: lygus, plokščias	Latvian: plakans; lēzens
Malay: mendatar	Dutch: vlak	Norwegian: flat, jevn
Polish: płaski	Persian: مسطح	Pashto: پوړ
Portuguese: raso	Romanian: plat	Russian: плоский
Slovak: plochý	Slovenian: raven	Serbian: ravan
Swedish: flat, flack, platt	Thai: ราบ (พื้นดิน)	Turkish: düz
Taiwanese: 平的	Ukrainian: плаский; рівний	Urdu: سپاٹ
Vietnamese: bằng phẳng	Chinese: 平的
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