Definitions for flat
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. flatnoun

   a level tract of land

   "the salt flats of Utah"

2. flatnoun

   a shallow box in which seedlings are started

3. flatnoun

   a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

4. flatcar, flatbed, flatnoun

   freight car without permanent sides or roof

5. flat, flat tirenoun

   a deflated pneumatic tire

6. flatnoun

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

7. apartment, flatadjective

   a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

8. flat, level, planeadjective

   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. flatadjective

   having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

   "flat computer monitors"

10. categoric, categorical, flat, unconditionaladjective

    not modified or restricted by reservations

    "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

11. flat, prostrateadjective

    stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

    "found himself lying flat on the floor"

12. flatadjective

    lacking contrast or shading between tones

13. flatadjective

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

    "B flat"

14. compressed, flatadjective

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

15. bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapidadjective

    lacking taste or flavor or tang

    "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

16. bland, flatadjective

    lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

    "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

17. flatadjective

    having lost effervescence

    "flat beer"; "a flat cola"

18. flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonousadjective

    sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

    "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"

19. flatadjective

    horizontally level

    "a flat roof"

20. two-dimensional, 2-dimensional, flatadjective

    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. flat, mat, matt, matte, mattedadjective

    not reflecting light; not glossy

    "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

22. flatadverb

    commercially inactive

    "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

23. flatadverb

    with flat sails

    "sail flat against the wind"

24. directly, flat, straightadverb

    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"

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1. Flatnoun

   (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself; an apartment taking up a whole floor. In this latter sense, the usage is more common in British English.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FLATadjective

   Etymology: plat, French.

   1. Horizontally level without inclination.

   Thou all-shaking thunder,
   Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

   The houses are flat roofed to walk upon, so that every bomb that fell on them would take effect. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   2. Smooth; without protuberances.

   In the dawning of the next day we might plainly discern it was a land flat to our sight, and full of boscage. Francis Bacon.

   3. Without elevation.

   Cease t’ admire, and beauty’s plumes
   Fall flat, and shrink into a trivial toy,
   At every sudden slighting quite abasht. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   4. Level with the ground.

   In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt,
   What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so,
   What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat. John Milton, Par. Reg.

   That Christ-church stands above ground, and that the church of Westminster lies not flat upon it, is your lordship’s commendation. South.

   5. Lying horizontally prostrate; lying along.

   The wood-born people fall before her flat,
   And worship her as goddess of the wood. Fairy Queen, b. i.

   That lamentable wound,
   Which laid that wretched prince flat on the ground. Daniel.

   6. [In painting.] Without relief; without prominence of the figures.7. Tasteless; insipid; dead.

   He, like a puling cuckold, would drink up
   The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece. William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cres.

   Taste so divine! that what of sweet before
   Hath touch’d my sense, flat seems to this and harsh. John Milton.

   The miry fields,
   Rejoicing in rich mold, most ample fruit
   Of beauteous form produce; pleasing to sight,
   But to the tongue inelegant and flat. Phillips.

   8. Dull; unanimated; frigid.

   Short speeches fly abroad like darts, and are thought to be shot out of secret intentions; but as for large discourses, they are flat things, and not so much noted. Francis Bacon, Essay 16.

   Some short excursions of a broken vow
   He made indeed, but flat insipid stuff. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

   9. Depressed; spiritless; dejected.

   My hopes all flat, nature within me seems
   In all her functions weary of herself. John Milton, Agonistes.

   10. Unpleasing; tasteless.

   How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
   Seem to me all the uses of this world! William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   To one firmly persuaded of the reality of heavenly happiness, and earnestly desirous of obtaining it, all earthly satisfactions must needs look little, and grow flat and unsavoury. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

   11. Peremptory; absolute; downright.

   His horse with flat tiring taught him, that discrete stays make speedy journeys. Philip Sidney.

   It is a flat wrong to punish the thought or purpose of any before it be enacted; for true justice punisheth nothing but the evil act or wicked word. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland.

   As it is in the nature of all men to love liberty, so they become flat libertines, and fall to all licentiousness. Edmund Spenser.

   You start away,
   And lend no ear unto my purposes;
   Those prisoners you shall keep:
   ———— I will, that’s flat. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p.i.

   Thus repuls’d, our final hope
   Is flat despair: we must exasperate
   Th’ Almighty Victor to spend all his rage,
   And that must end us. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

   If thou sin in wine or wantonness,
   Boast not thereof, nor make thy shame thy glory;
   Frailty gets pardon by submissiveness:
   But he that boasts, shuts that out of his story:
   He makes flat war with God, and doth defy
   With his meer clod of earth the spacious sky. George Herbert.

   You had broke and robb’d his house,
   And stole his talismanique louse;
   And all his new-found old inventions,
   With flat felonious intentions. Hudibras, p. iii. cant. 1.

   12. Not shrill; not acute; not sharp in sound.

   If you stop the holes of a hawk’s bell it will make no ring, but a flat noise or rattle. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   The upper end of the windpipe is endued with several cartilages and muscles to contract or dilate it, as we would have our voice flat or sharp. John Ray, on the Creation.

2. Flatnoun

   1. A level; an extended plane.

   The strings of a lute, viol, or virginals, give a far greater sound, by reason of the knot, board and concave underneath, than if there were nothing but only the flat of a board to let in the upper air into the lower. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   Because the air receiveth great tincture from the earth, expose flesh or fish, both upon a stake of wood some height above the earth, and upon the flat of the earth. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   It comes near an artificial miracle to make divers distinct eminences appear a flat by force of shadows, and yet the shadows themselves not to appear. Henry Wotton, Architecture.

   He has cut the side of the rock into a flat for a garden; and by laying on it the waste earth, that he has found in several of the neighbouring parts, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   2. Even ground; not mountainous.

   Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,
   ’Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
   T’ o’ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head
   Of blue Olympus. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   The way is ready and not long,
   Beyond a row of myrtles, on a flat,
   Fast by a mountain. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ix.

   3. A smooth low ground exposed to inundations.

   The ocean, overpeering of his list,
   Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste,
   Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
   O’erbears your officers. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   All the infections, that the sun sucks up
   From bogs, fens, flats, on Prospero fall. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   Half my pow’rs this night,
   Passing these flats, are taken by the tide;
   These Lincoln washes have devoured them. William Shakespeare, K. John.

   4. Shallow; strand; place in the sea where the water is not deep enough for ships.

   I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,
   But I should think of shallows and of flats. William Shakespeare.

   The difficulty is very great to bring them in or out through so many flats and sands, if wind and weather be not very favourable. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

   Having newly left these grammatick flats and shallows, where they stuck unreasonably, to learn a few words with lamentable constructions, we are now on the sudden turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy. John Milton, on Education.

   Full in the prince’s passage hills of sand,
   And dang’rous flats, in secret ambush lay,
   Where the false tides skim o’er the cover’d land,
   And seamen with dissembled depths betray. Dryden.

   The sea could not be narrower than it is, without a great loss to the world; and must we now have an ocean of mere flats and shallows, to the utter ruin of navigation? Richard Bentley.

   5. The broad side of a blade.

   A darted mandate came
   From that great will which moves this mighty frame,
   Bid me to thee, my royal charge, repair,
   To guard thee from the dæmons of the air;
   My flaming sword above ’em to display,
   All keen and ground upon the edge of day,
   The flat to sweep the visions from thy mind,
   The edge to cut ’em through that stay behind. Dryden.

   6. Depression of thought or language.

   John Milton’s Paradise Lost is admirable; but am I therefore bound to maintain, that there are no flats amongst his elevations, when ’tis evident he creeps along sometimes for above an hundred lines together? Dryden.

   7. A surface without relief, or prominences.

   Are there then such ravishing charms in a dull unvaried flat, to make a sufficient compensation for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

3. To Flatverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To level; to depress; to make broad and smooth.

   The ancients say, if you take two twigs of several fruit-trees, and flat them on the sides, and bind them close, and set them in the ground, they will come up in one stock. Francis Bacon.

   With horrid shapes she does her sons expose,
   Distends their swelling lips, and flats their nose. Thomas Creech.

   2. To make vapid.

   An orange, lemon and apple, wrapt in a linen cloth, being buried for a fortnight four foot deep within the earth, though in a moist place and rainy time, were become a little harder than they were; otherwise fresh in their colour, but their juice somewhat flatted. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 377.

4. To Flatverb

   1. To grow flat: opposed to swell.

   I burnt it the second time, and observed the skin shrink, and the swelling to flat yet more than at first. William Temple.

   2. To obstruct; retard; hinder; to render unanimated or evanid.

   Nor are constant forms of prayer more likely to flat and hinder the spirit of prayer and devotion, than unpremeditated and confused variety to distract and lose it. Charles I .

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flat

   A Flat is a Hindi thriller film, directed by Hemant Madhukar and produced by Anjum Rizvi.The film was released on 12 November 2010 under the Anjum Rizvi Film Company and Y.T Entertainment Ltd. banners.

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1. flat

   Flat generally refers to a surface or object that is level, smooth, and has no curvature or bumps. It can also describe a two-dimensional figure or a geographical area that is level without any significant inclination. In some contexts, such as British English, it can also refer to an apartment or suite of rooms on the same floor of a building.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Flat

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

2. 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

3. Flat

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

4. Flat

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

5. Flat

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

6. Flat

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

7. Flat

   clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright

8. Flat

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

9. Flat

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

10. Flat

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

11. Flatadverb

    in a flat manner; directly; flatly

12. Flatadverb

    without allowance for accrued interest

13. Flatnoun

    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

14. Flatnoun

    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

15. Flatnoun

    something broad and flat in form

16. Flatnoun

    a flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught

17. Flatnoun

    a straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned

18. Flatnoun

    a car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car

19. Flatnoun

    a platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions

20. Flatnoun

    the flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge

21. Flatnoun

    a floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself

22. Flatnoun

    a horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal

23. Flatnoun

    a dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull

24. Flatnoun

    a character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower

25. Flatnoun

    a homaloid space or extension

26. Flatverb

    to make flat; to flatten; to level

27. Flatverb

    to render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress

28. Flatverb

    to depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone

29. Flatverb

    to become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface

30. Flatverb

    to fall form the pitch

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1. Flat

   In music, flat, or Bemolle, means "lower in pitch"; the flat symbol lowers a note by a half step. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously. More specifically, in music notation, flat means, "lower in pitch by a semitone," and has an associated symbol, which is a stylised lowercase "b" that may be found in key signatures or as an accidental, as may sharps. The Unicode character ♭ is the flat sign. Its HTML entity is ♭. Under twelve tone equal temperament, C flat for instance is the same as, or enharmonically equivalent to, B natural, and G flat is the same as F sharp. In any other tuning system, such enharmonic equivalences in general do not exist. To allow extended just intonation, composer Ben Johnston uses a sharp as an accidental to indicate a note is raised 70.6 cents, or a flat to indicate a note is lowered 70.6 cents. Double flats also exist, which look like and lower a note by two semitones, or a whole step. Less often one will encounter half, or three-quarter, or otherwise altered flats. The Unicode character '

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Flat

   flat, adj. smooth: level: wanting points of prominence and interest: monotonous: vapid, insipid: dejected: unqualified, positive: (mus.) opposite of sharp.—n. a level plain: a tract covered by shallow water: something broad: a story or floor of a house, esp. when fitted up as a separate residence for a family: a simpleton, a gull: (mus.) a character (♭) which lowers a note a semitone.—ns. Flat′boat, a large flat-bottomed boat for floating goods down the Mississippi, &c.; Flat′-fish, a name applied to marine bony fishes that have a flat body, such as the flounder, turbot, &c.—adj. Flat′-foot′ed, having flat feet: resolute.—adj. and n. Flat′-head, having an artificially flattened head, as some American Indians of the Chinooks—the name is officially but incorrectly applied to the Selish Indians in particular.—n. Flat′-ī′ron, an iron for smoothing cloth.—advs. Flat′ling, Flat′long (Spens., Shak.), with the flat side down: not edgewise; Flat′ly.—ns. Flat′ness; Flat′-race, a race over open or clear ground.—v.t. Flat′ten, to make flat.—v.i. to become flat.—n. Flat′ting, a mode of house-painting in which the paint is left without gloss.—adj. Flat′tish, somewhat flat.—adj. or adv. Flat′wise, flatways, or with the flat side downward.—n. Flat′-worm, a tapeworm. [From a Teut. root found in Ice. flatr, flat, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, Old High Ger. flaz.]

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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.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FLAT

   A series of padded cells, commonly found in cities, in which are confined harmless monomaniacs who imagine Home to be a Sardine Box.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flat

   In ship-building, a straight part in a curve. In hydrography, a shallow over which the tide flows, and over the whole extent of which there is little or no variation of soundings. If less than three fathoms, it is called shoal or shallow.

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1. FLAT

   What does FLAT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FLAT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'flat' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2329

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'flat' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1460

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'flat' in Nouns Frequency: #715

4. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'flat' in Adjectives Frequency: #356

How to pronounce flat?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of flat in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of flat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of flat in a Sentence

1. Philip Blancato:

   The reality is that the energy sector continues to be a catalyst for concern. So for today's market, if oil gives us any modicum of stabilization, I think the overall market could be relatively flat to up today.

2. Giannis Antetokounmpo:

   We just came out in the third quarter flat.

3. Peter Zanoni:

   You can see the trend line is relatively flat until July, and this is where we have had that huge spike in cases, and this is why it's turned into a major problem for Nueces County.

4. James Grover Thurber:

   You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

5. Donald Trump on Thursday:

   So I have a belt: Somebody hits me with a belt, it's going in because the belt moves this way. It moves this way, it moves that way, he hit the belt buckle. Anybody have a knife? Want to try it on me? Believe me, it ain't gonna work. You're going to be successful, but he took the knife and went like this and he plunged it into the belt and, amazing, the belt stayed totally flat and the knife broke.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=flat
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=flat
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=flat
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flat
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=flat
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=flat
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Flat
10. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=flat
11. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=flat