flat
/flæt/
noun/flæt/
/flæt/
Meaning
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Meaning 1 · noun
An area of level ground.
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Meaning 2 · noun
A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
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Meaning 3 · noun
A flat tyre/tire.
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Meaning 4 · noun
(in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
“She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.”
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Meaning 5 · noun
(in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
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Meaning 6 · noun
A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
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Meaning 7 · noun
The flat part of something:
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Meaning 8 · noun
A wide, shallow container or pallet.
“a flat of strawberries”
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Meaning 9 · noun
(mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
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Meaning 10 · noun
A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
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Meaning 11 · noun
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
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Meaning 12 · noun
A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
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Meaning 13 · noun
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
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Meaning 14 · noun
A flat sheet for use on a bed.
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Meaning 15 · noun
A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
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Meaning 16 · noun
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
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Meaning 17 · noun
A dull fellow; a simpleton.
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Meaning 18 · noun
(technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.
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Meaning 19 · noun
Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
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Meaning 20 · noun
An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
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Meaning 21 · verb
To make a flat call; to call without raising.
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Meaning 22 · verb
To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
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Meaning 23 · verb
To fall from the pitch.
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Meaning 24 · verb
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
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Meaning 25 · verb
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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Meaning 26 · verb
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
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Meaning 27 · adjective
Having no variations in height.
“The land around here is flat.”
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Meaning 28 · adjective
(voice) Without variations in pitch.
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Meaning 29 · adjective
Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
“That girl is completely flat on both sides.”
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Meaning 30 · adjective
(note) Lowered by one semitone.
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Meaning 31 · adjective
Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
“Your A string is too flat.”
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Meaning 32 · adjective
(of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
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Meaning 33 · adjective
Uninteresting.
“The party was a bit flat.”
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Meaning 34 · adjective
(of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
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Meaning 35 · adjective
Lacking acidity without being sweet.
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Meaning 36 · adjective
(of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
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Meaning 37 · adjective
(of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
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Meaning 38 · adjective
Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring.
“The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting.”
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Meaning 39 · adjective
Absolute; downright; peremptory.
“His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.”
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Meaning 40 · adjective
(of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant
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Meaning 41 · adjective
(grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
“Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.”
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Meaning 42 · adjective
(of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
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Meaning 43 · adjective
(of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
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Meaning 44 · adjective
(authorship, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
“The author added a chapter to flesh out the books' flatter characters.”
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Meaning 45 · adjective
Fixed; unvarying.
“a flat fare on public transport”
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Meaning 46 · adverb
So as to be flat.
“Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.”
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Meaning 47 · adverb
Bluntly.
“I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.”
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Meaning 48 · adverb
(with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
“He can run a mile in four minutes flat.”
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Meaning 49 · adverb
Completely.
“I am flat broke this month.”
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Meaning 50 · adverb
Directly; flatly.
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Meaning 51 · adverb
Without allowance for accrued interest.
How this word is used
- General “She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.”
- General “a flat of strawberries”
- Everyday “The land around here is flat.”
- General “That girl is completely flat on both sides.”
- General “Your A string is too flat.”
- General “The party was a bit flat.”
- General “The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting.”
- General “His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.”
- General “Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.”
- General “The author added a chapter to flesh out the books' flatter characters.”
- General “a flat fare on public transport”
- Everyday “Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.”
- General “I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.”
- General “He can run a mile in four minutes flat.”
- General “I am flat broke this month.”
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