Flat

[flæt]

Definition

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

(noun.) a deflated pneumatic tire.

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

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

(noun.) a level tract of land; 'the salt flats of Utah'.

(adj.) commercially inactive; 'flat sales for the month'; 'prices remained flat'; 'a flat market' .

(adj.) not reflecting light; not glossy; 'flat wall paint'; 'a photograph with a matte finish' .

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

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) lacking contrast or shading between tones .

(adj.) horizontally level; 'a flat roof' .

(adj.) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; 'found himself lying flat on the floor' .

(adj.) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; 'the owl's faint monotonous hooting' .

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

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

(adv.) with flat sails; 'sail flat against the wind'.

Checked by Justin--From WordNet

Definition

(superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

(superl.) 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.

(superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.

(superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

(superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.

(superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.

(superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.

(superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.

(superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

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

(adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.

(adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Something broad and flat in form

(n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

(n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.

(n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.

(n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.

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

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

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

(n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.

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

(n.) A homaloid space or extension.

(v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.

(v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

(v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

(v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

(v. i.) To fall form the pitch.

Edited by Jeremy

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Level, horizontal, CHAMPAIGN.[2]. Even, plane, smooth, CAMOUS, without prominences.[3]. Low, prostrate, level with the ground, laid low.[4]. Dull, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, frigid, tame, prosaic, uninteresting, pointless.[5]. Vapid, tasteless, insipid, stale, dead, flashy, mawkish.[6]. Peremptory, absolute, positive, downright.[7]. (Mus.) Not sharp, not shrill, not acute, lower by a semitone, below true pitch.

n. [1]. Shoal, shallow, strand, bar, sand-bank.[2]. [Colloquial.] Simpleton, ninny, DUNCE.[3]. [Scotland.] Floor, loft, story.

Inputed by Hubert

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Dull, tame, insipid, vapid, spiritless, level, horizontal, absolute, even,downright, mawkish, tasteless, lifeless

ANT:Exciting, animated, interesting, thrilling, sensational

Edited by Ahmed

Definition

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.

Typist: Rachel